Man with a Van Brotherton

Brotherton: what to know before moving day

The old village is around Church Street, High Street, Low Street and Gauk Street, with the parish church of St Edward the Confessor, the United Reformed Church and the war memorial. Hall Court, Vicars Croft, Ramsden Close, Norfolk Close, The Rise, Aire View and Foxcliff are the closes. The map also marks the railway's Brotherton Tunnel and Brotherton Tubular Bridge.

Brotherton was on the A1, 2 miles north of Knottingley, until the road was moved, and it was linked to Ferrybridge by the Grade I listed Ferry Bridge. Thomas of Brotherton, a son of Edward I, was born here. The village is now on the A162, south of Fairburn.

How the van gets to Brotherton

Junction 33 of the M62 serves the A162 and the A1, and Ferrybridge is where the Great North Road crossed the Aire. The A162 continues north past Brotherton; the Old Great North Road and the A1246 Great North Road are the other roads the van may use, with High Street and Church Street into the village.

The drive from Bradford is roughly 40 to 50 minutes. That is an estimate from route data, not a timed run, and traffic changes it.

Services for Brotherton

Each service below links to its Castleford page, which covers how the job works in and around Castleford.

Brotherton: questions before you book

Where the local details on this page come from

Checked on 28 September 2026 against:

• Postcode lookup (postcodes.io, ONS data): WF11 9LG is in Monk Fryston & South Milford ward, North Yorkshire, parish of Brotherton
• Brotherton: village and civil parish on the border with the City of Wakefield formed by the River Aire, on the A1 2 miles north of Knottingley before the road was relocated, linked to Ferrybridge by the Grade I Ferry Bridge, now on the A162 south of Fairburn, often mistaken as West Yorkshire, 728 people in 2011, Thomas of Brotherton, church dedicated to Edward the Confessor (Wikipedia)
• Ferrybridge: West Yorkshire village in the Knottingley ward of Wakefield, crossing of the Aire bordering Brotherton, where the Great North Road crosses the Aire (Wikipedia)
• M62: junction 33 serves the A162 and A1 (Wikipedia)
• OpenStreetMap map data (API extract around the village): Church Street, High Street, Low Street, Gauk Street, Hall Court, Vicars Croft, Ramsden Close, Norfolk Close, The Rise, Aire View, Foxcliff, St Edward the Confessor, United Reformed Church, Brotherton War Memorial, Brotherton Tunnel, Brotherton Tubular Bridge, Old Great North Road, Great North Road (A1246), A162, parish council noticeboard