Lumby: what to know before moving day
Lumby is small. The LS25 5JA postcode covers the lanes at its heart, Butts Lane and Cass Lane, and postcodes.io finds only two other postcodes within 500 metres. Around it the map shows Rawfield Lane, Westfield Lane, Old Quarry Lane and the farm tracks Red Hill Lane and Long Heads Lane, and the farmland of Lumby Common. On a hamlet lane, a house name and a note of the gate or drive help the van find you. For a shop, the post office or the primary school, people go into South Milford, which lies to the north-east.
How the van gets to Lumby
Two main roads pass close to the hamlet: the A63, the Leeds to Selby road, and the A162 London Road. From the A1(M) at junction 42 the A63 heads east and meets the A162 at a roundabout before Monk Fryston. From Bradford, allow roughly 40 to 55 minutes as an estimate, by the M62 and A1(M).
The drive from Bradford is roughly 40 to 55 minutes. That is an estimate from route data, not a timed run, and traffic changes it.
Services for Lumby
Each service below links to its Castleford page, which covers how the job works in and around Castleford.
Lumby: questions before you book
Where do Lumby people go for a shop or a school?
Into South Milford, to the north-east. Lumby is a hamlet inside South Milford civil parish, and postcodes.io puts LS25 5JA in the South Milford parish and the Monk Fryston and South Milford ward of North Yorkshire.
Nearby areas
Where the local details on this page come from
Checked on 28 September 2026 against:
- LS25 5JA: South Milford parish, Monk Fryston & South Milford ward, North Yorkshire
- postcodes.io nearest postcodes: only LS25 5JA, 5PR and 5JB within 500 metres of the Lumby point
- Nominatim (OpenStreetMap) reverse lookup: Butts Lane and Cass Lane, Lumby, LS25 5JA
- South Milford: civil parish includes the hamlet of Lumby, south-west of the main village
- A63: crosses the A1(M) at junction 42 at South Milford and meets the A162 at a roundabout before Monk Fryston
- OpenStreetMap map view (checked 2026-09-28): Butts Lane, Cass Lane, Rawfield Lane, Westfield Lane, Old Quarry Lane, Red Hill Lane, Long Heads Lane, A63, A162 London Road, Lumby Common

