Barkisland

Worth seeing in and around Barkisland

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Sowerby Bridge

   Sowerby Bridge is a market town in the Upper Calder Valley in Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England. The Calderdale Council ward population at the 2011 census was 11,703.

   2.6 km · market town in the Upper Calder Valley in Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Rochdale Canal

   The Rochdale Canal is in Northern England, between Manchester and Sowerby Bridge, part of the connected system of the canals of Great Britain. Its name refers to the town of Rochdale through which it passes.

   3.7 km · canal in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Tuel Lane Lock

   Tuel Lane Lock is a canal lock, situated on the Rochdale Canal in Sowerby Bridge, England. It was built in 1996 as part of the canal's restoration, and replaces two previous locks, locks 3 and 4, from the original canal system.

   3.7 km · canal lock on the Rochdale Canal in Sowerby Bridge, England · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Lloyds Bank

   Sowerby Bridge Town Hall is a former municipal building in Town Hall Street in Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, England. The building, which was initially used as the offices of the local board of health and as a public events venue, then as the home of the local Liberal Club and later as a bank branch, is a Grade II listed building.

   3.5 km · bank building in Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   St Stephen's Church, Copley

   St Stephen's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Copley, West Yorkshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

   3.7 km · church in Copley, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Slack Roman fort

   Slack Roman Fort was a castellum near Outlane, to the west of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England. Its site is a scheduled monument.

   4 km · archaeological site in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Field House

   Field House is a Grade II* listed privately owned historic house in Triangle, West Yorkshire, England.

   2.9 km · Grade II* listed privately owned historic house in Sowerby, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Scammonden Reservoir

   Scammonden Reservoir is a water reservoir in West Yorkshire, England. Its water surface area when full is 42 hectares.

   4 km · reservoir in West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Ryburn Reservoir

   Ryburn Reservoir is a supply reservoir operated by Yorkshire Water close to Ripponden in the Yorkshire Pennines, England. It lies in the valley of the River Ryburn and is the lower of two reservoirs built in the valley to supply Wakefield with water and was completed in 1933.

   3.6 km · reservoir in West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Scammonden Bridge

    Scammonden Bridge, also known locally as the Brown Cow Bridge, spans the Deanhead cutting carrying the B6114 Elland to Buckstones road over the M62 motorway in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. The bridge and Scammonden Reservoir to the west are named after Scammonden, the village that was flooded to accommodate the reservoir whose dam carries the motorway.

    3.4 km · bridge in Kirklees · Wikipedia

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Getting to Barkisland

Airports

Leeds Bradford (LBA), 27 km · Manchester (MAN), 44 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 72 km

Stations

Sowerby Bridge railway station, 3.5 km

• Manchester, Greater Manchester → Barkisland

  30 km · quickest by road, 58 min · £3.5–4.5
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• Liverpool → Barkisland

  76 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £8–10
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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Barkisland

  95 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £11–15
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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Barkisland. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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