Birdsedge
Birdsedge is a small village in the borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England, on the edge of Yorkshire's Pennine Hills, standing just below 1,000 feet (305 m) above sea level.
Birdsedge is a small village in the borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England, on the edge of Yorkshire's Pennine Hills, standing just below 1,000 feet (305 m) above sea level. It is approximately 6 miles (10 km) south-east from Huddersfield and about 4 miles (6 km) north-west from Penistone, between the villages of Shepley and Upper Cumberworth and is linked with the neighbouring hamlet of High Flatts, a former Quaker settlement.
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Worth seeing in and around Birdsedge
One place 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.
- 01Denby Dale Railway Viaduct
Denby Dale Viaduct is a grade II listed railway viaduct in Denby Dale, West Yorkshire, England. The curving viaduct carries the Penistone line over the Dearne valley in Denby Dale.
2.3 km · railway viaduct in Denby Dale, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Birdsedge
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 33 km · Manchester (MAN), 46 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 81 km
- Stations
- Stocksmoor railway station, 3.4 km · Shepley railway station, 2.4 km · Denby Dale railway station, 2.3 km · Shelley railway station, 2.3 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Birdsedge37 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £4.5–6
- Liverpool → Birdsedge87 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £10–13
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Birdsedge77 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · £8–11
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Birdsedge
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 Birdsedge. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundthere's a local minibus service that provides journeys to various villages dotted about the valley.
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Next door to Birdsedge
Birdsedge is 25 km from Bradford, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Denby Dalevillage and civil parish in West Yorkshire, UK2.8 km
- Gunthwaite and Ingbirchworthcivil parish in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England2.7 km
- Hepworthvillage in West Yorkshire, UK4 km
- Upper Cumberworthvillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK1.3 km
- Shepleyvillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK2 km
- Upper Denbyvillage in Denby Dale, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom2.9 km