New Sharlston: what to know before moving day
The company built more than 150 back-to-back houses on three streets: Long Row, Crossley Street and High Street. A chapel and a day school stood on Crossley Street; both have since been demolished. The houses passed to the National Coal Board in 1947, and in 1961 twenty-eight back-to-backs were knocked through into fourteen through houses. A back-to-back has no back door, so everything comes and goes through the front; say which type of house yours is when you book.
Long Row is an unclassified road with a 10 mph limit, and Crossley Street is the through road. Other streets such as Colliery Street, Colliery Walk and Miners Court carry the pit name. The old colliery railway ran close to the houses, Warmfield Common, an area of heath, lies alongside, and there are allotments off High Street. The village declined after the 1984 to 1985 miners' strike, which hit Sharlston hard.
How the van gets to New Sharlston
Hell Lane and Cow Lane are the other lanes close to the village. The A655, as the Normanton Bypass and Wakefield Road, passes nearby at the Woodhouse Hill roundabout, and the same road leads to junction 31 of the M62, the motorway junction for Normanton and Castleford.
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.
Services for New Sharlston
Each service below links to its Normanton page, which covers how the job works in and around Normanton.
New Sharlston: questions before you book
Did New Sharlston have its own station?
Yes, from 1869 until 1958, built to serve the pit village. The nearest station now is Streethouse, on the Pontefract line, with trains to Leeds via Wakefield and to Knottingley.
Nearby areas
Where the local details on this page come from
Checked on 28 September 2026 against:
- Postcode lookup (postcodes.io, ONS data): WF4 1BQ is in Featherstone ward, parish of Sharlston, Wakefield district
- Sharlston (Wikipedia): New Sharlston model village from 1864, more than 150 back-to-back houses on Long Row, Crossley Street and High Street; chapel and school on Crossley Street, demolished; NCB 1947; 28 back-to-backs converted to 14 through houses in 1961; station 1869-1958, nearest now Streethouse; decline since the 1984-85 strike
- M62 motorway (Wikipedia): junction 31 is the A655 for Normanton and Castleford
- Streethouse railway station (Wikipedia): Pontefract Line; trains to Leeds via both Wakefield stations and to Knottingley
- OpenStreetMap map view (checked 2026-09-28): Long Row (unclassified, 10 mph), Crossley Street, High Street, Colliery Street, Colliery Walk, Miners Court, Hell Lane, Cow Lane, Warmfield Common (heath), High Street Allotments, the former Sharlston Colliery railway, A655 Normanton Bypass, Wakefield Road, Woodhouse Hill Roundabout