Havercroft: what to know before moving day
Cow Lane, part of the B6428, is the main street, with the post office and the sports and social club, and the Living Hope Community Church, founded in 1960, is at the bottom of it. Outwood Primary Academy Newstead Green is also on Cow Lane, and Rycroft Primary Care Centre is on Madeley Road. The village can be traced back to charters of 1155 and was farmland for centuries before the pits.
The residential streets include Regina Crescent, Crescent Road, Hardie Road, Attlee Avenue, Madeley Road and Beachill Drive, and the village has grown from a small collection of homes over the last hundred years. Cold Hiendley, the hamlet on the west side of the parish, is south of Cold Hiendley Reservoir, which is connected to Wintersett Reservoir.
How the van gets to Havercroft
The B6428 carries through traffic: Newstead Lane climbs to Newstead and on to Fitzwilliam, and Cow Lane and Hall Field Lane lead into Ryhill. From Bradford, the van comes via Wakefield and joins the B6428 at Fitzwilliam or at Ryhill.
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.
Also covered around Havercroft
Newstead, Cold Hiendley.
Services for Havercroft
Each service below links to its Normanton page, which covers how the job works in and around Normanton.
Havercroft: questions before you book
Is Newstead a separate village from Havercroft?
No. Newstead is the upper part of Havercroft, on Newstead hill, in the same parish. OpenStreetMap marks Newstead Hall and Newstead Grange farm on its edge, and Newstead Lane carries the B6428 through it.
Where the local details on this page come from
Checked on 28 September 2026 against:
- Postcode lookup (postcodes.io, ONS data): WF4 2EX is in the Crofton, Ryhill & Walton ward of Wakefield, parish: Havercroft with Cold Hiendley
- Havercroft (Wikipedia): village on the B6428 in the parish of Havercroft with Cold Hiendley, 6.5 miles north-east of Barnsley, charters of 1155, Living Hope Community Church 1960 at the bottom of Cow Lane, Rycroft Primary Care Centre, Newstead on Newstead hill, Cold Hiendley and its reservoir connected to Wintersett Reservoir
- OpenStreetMap map view (checked 2026-09-28): B6428 Cow Lane, Newstead Lane and Hall Field Lane, post office, sports and social club, Outwood Primary Academy Newstead Green, Rycroft Primary Care Centre on Madeley Road, Regina Crescent, Crescent Road, Hardie Road, Attlee Avenue, Beachill Drive, Newstead, Newstead Hall, Newstead Grange