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Batley

Batley is a market town in the Kirklees district, in West Yorkshire, England, south-west of Leeds, north-west of Wakefield and Dewsbury, south-east of Bradford and north-east of Huddersfield, in the Heavy Woollen District.

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The place

Batley is a market town in the Kirklees district, in West Yorkshire, England, south-west of Leeds, north-west of Wakefield and Dewsbury, south-east of Bradford and north-east of Huddersfield, in the Heavy Woollen District. In 2011, the population was 48,730.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Batley

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
    Markazi Mosque

    The Markazi Masjid, also known as the Dewsbury Markaz or Dar ul Ulum, is a mosque in the Savile Town area of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England. With a maximum capacity of 4,000, it is one of the largest mosques in Europe.

    3.9 km · Mosque in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Crown Flatt

    Crown Flatt, currently known as the FLAIR Stadium for sponsorship purposes, is a rugby league stadium on Owl Lane in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England. It is the home of the Dewsbury Rams, who play in the Championship, and the Huddersfield Giants who play in the Super League.

    2.9 km · rugby league stadium · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Red House Museum

    Red House Museum was a historic house museum, built in 1660 and renovated in the Georgian era. It closed to the public at the end of 2016 but remains as a Grade II* listed building in Gomersal, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England.

    3.8 km · historic house museum. in West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Fox's Biscuits Stadium

    Mount Pleasant Stadium, officially known for sponsorship purposes as Fox's Biscuits Stadium, is a rugby league stadium in Batley, West Yorkshire, England. It is the home of the Batley Bulldogs and amateur club Batley ARLFC. The Mount Pleasant pitch is sloped and is on a hill overlooking Batley.

    1.1 km · stadium · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Jaw Hill

    Jaw Hill is a hill in the City of Leeds district of West Yorkshire, England. It is near Kirkhamgate in the City of Wakefield district.

    5.3 km · hill in West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Oakwell Hall

    Oakwell Hall is an Elizabethan manor house in Birstall, West Yorkshire, England. The Grade I listed hall is set in period gardens surrounded by 110 acres of country park.

    3.5 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Dewsbury Bus Museum

    The Dewsbury Bus Museum is a museum in Ravensthorpe, West Yorkshire, England. Opened to the public in September 1989, it is owned and operated by the West Riding Omnibus Museum Trust, a registered charity, and is run entirely by volunteer effort.

    4.6 km · bus museum in Ravensthorpe, West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Dewsbury Minster

    Dewsbury Minster, the Minster Church of All Saints is the parish church in Dewsbury, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. It dates from the 13th century and was rebuilt in 1895.

    3 km · church in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    St Peter's Church

    St Peter's Church in Birstall, West Yorkshire, England, is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds.

    2.8 km · church in Birstall, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Morley War Memorial, Scatcherd Park

    The Morley War Memorial is a British national war memorial situated in Scatcherd Park, Morley, Leeds, England. It was sculpted by Walter Henry Gilbert and cast by H.H. Martyn & Co., it was unveiled 21 May 1927 by Alderman Joseph Kirk and accepted by Mayor Alderman Thomas Marshall.

    4 km · war memorial in Morley, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Batley

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 17 km · Manchester (MAN), 59 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 91 km
Stations
Morley railway station, 4.7 km · Batley railway station, 1.1 km · Ravensthorpe railway station, 4.7 km · Dewsbury railway station, 2.7 km · Cleckheaton bus station, 5.1 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Batley
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · £5–7
  • Liverpool → Batley
    95 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £9–13
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Batley
    89 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £10–13
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Batley

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 Batley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextOther easy day trips include Bradford, Saltaire, Haworth and Sheffield.

From Wikivoyage: Wakefield (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    306 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    338 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    340 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    349 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    367 km

If you know how people move in Batley – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Batley

Batley is 11 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Dewsburytown in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom3.7 km
  • Morleytown in the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom4.2 km
  • Ossetttown in the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England5.5 km
  • Mirfieldtown in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England5.3 km
  • Heckmondwiketown in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England2.5 km
  • Cleckheatontown in the Metropolitan borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England5.6 km