Beal: what to know before moving day
Main Street runs through the village, with Hollygarth Lane, Broad Lane, Marsh Lane, Intake Lane and Manor Road off it and closes such as Riverdale, Craven Garth, Mill Garth and Village Farm Court. The Jenny Wren is the pub and there is a village hall. Beal Lane leads east towards Kellington.
By the river the map shows Beal Bridge, Beal Dam and Beal Cut, and nearby Beal Carrs, a wetland formed by the 1999 floods, is visited by birdwatchers. Fishing on this stretch of the Aire is controlled by the Leeds and District Amalgamated Society of Anglers. Beal was a township of Kellington parish until it became a parish of its own in 1866, and the parish now includes Kellingley.
How the van gets to Beal
From Bradford the M62 runs east to junction 33 at Ferrybridge, and Beal is 3.5 miles north-east of Knottingley. Common Lane, Broad Lane and Beal Lane are the roads around the village. Bus 476 links the village with Pontefract, Knottingley and Selby.
The drive from Bradford is roughly 45 to 55 minutes. That is an estimate from route data, not a timed run, and traffic changes it.
Services for Beal
Each service below links to its Castleford page, which covers how the job works in and around Castleford.
Beal: questions before you book
There is a Beal in Northumberland as well. Which is this?
This is Beal in North Yorkshire, DN14, on the River Aire. The Northumberland Beal is near Holy Island and once had a station on the East Coast Main Line. Give the full postcode so there is no mix-up.
Where the local details on this page come from
Checked on 28 September 2026 against:
- Postcode lookup (postcodes.io, ONS data): DN14 0SR is in Monk Fryston & South Milford ward, North Yorkshire, parish of Beal
- Beal: on the River Aire, 3.5 miles north-east of Knottingley and 8 miles south-west of Selby, parish includes Kellingley, 738 people in 2011, name meaning nook of land in a river bend, fishing controlled by Leeds and District Amalgamated Society of Anglers, bus 476, township of Kellington until 1866 (Wikipedia)
- Kellington: Beal Carrs formed in 1999 by flooding, popular with birdwatchers (Wikipedia)
- Beal railway station: Beal, Northumberland, on the East Coast Main Line near Holy Island (Wikipedia)
- M62: junction 33 serves the A162 and A1 and Ferrybridge (Wikipedia)
- OpenStreetMap map data (API extract around the village): Main Street, Hollygarth Lane, Broad Lane, Marsh Lane, Intake Lane, Manor Road, Riverdale, Craven Garth, Mill Garth, Village Farm Court, Common Lane, Beal Lane, The Jenny Wren, Beal Village Hall, Beal Bridge, Beal Dam, Beal Cut