Half Acres: what to know before moving day
Beancroft Road is the local shopping street, with a post office, bakeries, a greengrocer and a Polish food shop, while Smawthorne Lane has the Henry Moore Clinic, a chemist and the Smawthorne Lane working men's club. Castleford Fire Station and the neighbourhood policing base are on Roundhill Road, beside the town's crown green bowling club. Quarry Park and Smawthorne Park are the green spaces nearby.
The house streets include Ridgefield Street, Ashton Street, Crowther Street, Smawthorne Grove and Smawthorne Avenue, and OpenStreetMap names several back lanes behind them, such as Longacre Backs, Smawthorne Grove Backs and Smawthorne Avenue Backs. Where your street has one, say whether the van can load from it. Half Acres Primary Academy is on Temple Street, and Smawthorne Henry Moore Academy is on Ashton Road.
How the van gets to Half Acres
The van comes off the M62 at junction 32 and into Castleford on the A656. Inside the district the through streets are Beancroft Road, Smawthorne Lane and Roundhill Road, with the A655 and the B6421 Aketon Road close by on the Hightown side.
The drive from Bradford is roughly 35 to 50 minutes. That is an estimate from route data, not a timed run, and traffic changes it.
Also covered around Half Acres
Round Hill.
Services for Half Acres
Each service below links to its Castleford page, which covers how the job works in and around Castleford.
Half Acres: questions before you book
Can the van stop on Beancroft Road?
Beancroft Road carries the district's shops, the post office and several takeaways, so the kerb there is shared with customers. If your address is on it, give the house number when you book and a legal loading spot nearby is worked out before the day.
Nearby areas
Where the local details on this page come from
Checked on 28 September 2026 against:
- Postcode lookup (postcodes.io, ONS data): WF10 5EH is in the Castleford Central & Glasshoughton ward of Wakefield, parish: Wakefield, unparished area
- Castleford (Wikipedia): Half Acres named among the suburbs of the former Municipal Borough; Half Acres primary school; the A656 and M62 junction 32
- OpenStreetMap map view (checked 2026-09-28): Beancroft Road shops and post office, Smawthorne Lane (Henry Moore Clinic, pharmacy, working men's club), Roundhill Road fire station, police base and bowling club, Quarry Park, Smawthorne Park, Round Hill, Ridgefield Street, Ashton Street, Crowther Street, the named back lanes, Half Acres Primary Academy, Smawthorne Henry Moore Academy, A655, B6421