Pledwick: what to know before moving day
Pledwick Lane gives the area its street names: Pledwick Crescent, Drive, Rise and Grove are all close to it. Beside them is an estate where almost every road is named after a bird: Heron Drive, Kestrel Drive, Mallard Avenue, Kingfisher Grove, Linnet Grove, Wren Garth and Swallow Garth among them. With so many similar names close together, give the full street name and house number when you book, because Swift Way and Swallow Garth are only a few turns apart.
The Pledwick Well Inn and Pledwick Cricket Club are on the map near the A61, and Kettlethorpe High School and Wakefield Golf Club are close by. To the south, Newmillerdam Country Park surrounds the lake that gives the next village its name; the dam was made in the 15th century and the estate was bought by Wakefield Council in 1954. Woolgreaves and Woodthorpe are the neighbouring place names on the map to the north.
How the van gets to Pledwick
Everything here hangs off Barnsley Road, the A61, which runs south from Wakefield through Sandal and on to Newmillerdam and Barnsley. From Bradford the van comes into Wakefield first, by the A650 or the M1, then follows the A61 south. Pledwick Lane is the turning to name if you are unsure where to leave the main road.
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 Pledwick
Woodthorpe.
Services for Pledwick
Each service below links to its Wakefield page, which covers how the job works in and around Wakefield.
Pledwick: questions before you book
Does Pledwick come under Crigglestone parish, like Newmillerdam?
No. Newmillerdam, the village by the lake further south along the A61, is in the civil parish of Crigglestone. Pledwick is unparished and counted in the Wakefield South ward, though the country park is close by on the map.
What should I tell you about a bird-named street in Pledwick?
The exact name and whether it is a garth, grove or drive. If yours is a cul-de-sac, a photo of where the van can pull in and turn is useful along with the two postcodes.
Nearby areas
Where the local details on this page come from
Checked on 28 September 2026 against:
- Postcode lookup (postcodes.io, ONS data): WF2 6SA is in Wakefield South ward, Wakefield, unparished area
- OpenStreetMap data (API extract around Pledwick): Barnsley Road A61, Pledwick Lane and its crescent, drive, rise and grove, the bird-named streets, Swift Way, Slack Lane, Pledwick Well Inn, Pledwick Cricket Club, Kettlethorpe High School, Wakefield Golf Club, Newmillerdam Country Park, Woolgreaves and Woodthorpe
- Newmillerdam (Wikipedia): village on the A61 in Crigglestone parish, dam made in the 15th century, estate bought by Wakefield Council in 1954, country park
- Sandal Magna (Wikipedia): the A61 Wakefield to Barnsley road is the main road through Sandal
- A650 road (Wikipedia): the main road from Bradford via Drighlington and Tingley to M1 junction 41 and into Wakefield city centre
- M1 motorway (Wikipedia): passes Wakefield, with junction 42 at the interchange with the M62