Flanshaw: what to know before moving day
The estate streets around Flanshaw Road take their names from the Lake District: Windermere Road, Thirlmere Road, Wasdale Road and Wasdale Crescent, Rydal Drive and Rydal Crescent, Eskdale Road, Grasmere Road, Borrowdale Road, Ennerdale Road, Derwent Road and Keswick Drive. Several come in pairs (a road and a crescent of the same name), so check which one you are on before booking. Flanshaw Avenue, Grove, Crescent, Street and View are a second set of near-identical names.
Flanshaw Lane has a long history: a Presbyterian congregation met in a malt kiln on it from 1672. Today the area has two primary schools, Flanshaw Junior and Infant School and Flanshaw St Michael's, plus The Flanshaw Hotel pub, the Grasmere Road play area and football field, and the Flanshaw United Reformed Church. Morrisons on Dewsbury Road and an Aldi are close by.
How the van gets to Flanshaw
From Bradford the van can come down the M1 to junction 40 and head east on the A638 Dewsbury Road into Wakefield, turning north for Flanshaw. Flanshaw Lane, Flanshaw Road and Flanshaw Way are the roads to name for the driver, and Balne Lane and Batley Road are the other through roads nearby.
The drive from Bradford is roughly 30 to 45 minutes. That is an estimate from route data, not a timed run, and traffic changes it.
Also covered around Flanshaw
New Scarborough.
Services for Flanshaw
Each service below links to its Wakefield page, which covers how the job works in and around Wakefield.
Flanshaw: questions before you book
I live on Rydal Crescent. Is that near Rydal Drive?
Yes, both are on the Flanshaw estate, as are Wasdale Road and Wasdale Crescent. The postcode tells them apart, so send the full postcode for both ends of the move rather than just the street.
Where the local details on this page come from
Checked on 28 September 2026 against:
- Postcode lookup (postcodes.io, ONS data): WF2 9LF is in Wakefield North ward, Wakefield, unparished area
- Flanshaw (Wikipedia): suburb west of Wakefield city centre, partly a council estate, Flanshaw Junior and Infant School and Flanshaw St Michael's
- Wakefield (Wikipedia): Flanshaw among the council estates started after the First World War
- Alverthorpe (Wikipedia): the Presbyterian congregation in a malt kiln in Flanshaw Lane from 1672
- A638 road (Wikipedia): Dewsbury Road between Wakefield and M1 junction 40
- OpenStreetMap data (API extract around Flanshaw): Flanshaw Road, Lane, Way, Avenue, Grove, Crescent, Street and View, the Lake District-named streets, Balne Lane, Batley Road, Dewsbury Road A638, The Flanshaw Hotel, Grasmere Road play area and football field, Flanshaw United Reformed Church, Morrisons, Aldi, New Scarborough post office