Green Hammerton: what to know before moving day
The old village runs along The Green, Back Lane, New Lane and Harrogate Road, with Boroughbridge Road leaving to the north-west. St Thomas' Church and the Church of England primary school are both in the centre, the Bay Horse Inn is the pub, and the village hall opened in 2010. The former chapel, built for the Methodists in the late 1790s, became St Joseph's Roman Catholic church in 1961.
East of the centre, towards Kirk Hammerton Lane, the map shows Ambretone Park, an Avant Homes development whose streets are named after birds: Kestrel Drive, Oystercatcher Place, Redstart Close, Cormorant Mews and Mistle Thrush Road. (H)ambretone was the spelling of Hammerton in the Domesday Book. New estate roads can be missing from older satnavs, so give the postcode and the road you turn in from.
How the van gets to Green Hammerton
From Wetherby the A168 runs north beside the A1(M) to junction 47, where the A59 heads east towards York. Green Hammerton is on the A59, whose route from here to York follows an old Roman road. In the village, York Road, Harrogate Road and Kirk Hammerton Lane are the through roads.
The drive from Bradford is roughly 50 to 60 minutes. That is an estimate from route data, not a timed run, and traffic changes it.
Services for Green Hammerton
Each service below links to its Wetherby page, which covers how the job works in and around Wetherby.
Green Hammerton: questions before you book
Which station do I use for Green Hammerton?
Hammerton station, on the Harrogate line between York and Leeds. It serves both Hammertons and sits at the Kirk Hammerton end of Station Road, south of the A59.
Where the local details on this page come from
Checked on 28 September 2026 against:
- Postcode lookup (postcodes.io, ONS data): YO26 8WQ is in Ouseburn ward, North Yorkshire, parish of Green Hammerton
- Green Hammerton: on the A59, 8 miles west of York and 10 miles east of Harrogate, (H)ambretone in Domesday and 'Hammerton with the green', St Thomas' Church and the primary school in the centre, the late-1790s chapel that became St Joseph's in 1961, the Bay Horse Inn, village hall opened April 2010, John Hughlings Jackson, Hammerton station (Wikipedia)
- Kirk Hammerton: 1 mile south of Green Hammerton (Wikipedia)
- A59: meets the A1(M) at junction 47; from Green Hammerton to York it follows an old Roman road (Wikipedia)
- Hammerton station: on the Harrogate line, serves Green Hammerton and Kirk Hammerton (Wikipedia)
- OpenStreetMap map data (API extract around the village): The Green, Back Lane, New Lane, Harrogate Road, Boroughbridge Road, York Road (A59), Kirk Hammerton Lane, Ambretone Park (Avant Homes) with Kestrel Drive, Oystercatcher Place, Redstart Close, Cormorant Mews and Mistle Thrush Road, Hughlings Close