Calderdale

Worth seeing in and around Calderdale

5 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
   Hebden Bridge

   Hebden Bridge is a market town in the civil parish of Hebden Royd, in the Calderdale district of West Yorkshire, England. It is in the Upper Calder Valley, 8 miles west of Halifax and 14 miles north-east of Rochdale, at the confluence of the River Calder and Hebden Water.

   3.5 km · market town in Hebden Royd, West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Field House

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

   3 km · Grade II* listed privately owned historic house in Sowerby, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Friendly

   Friendly is a settlement near Sowerby Bridge in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England, lying on the A646 road in the valley of the River Calder. It was described in John Bartholomew's 1887 Gazetteer of the British Isles as a village 3 miles west of Halifax.

   3.2 km · area in Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Hebden Bridge Picture House

   Hebden Bridge Picture House in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, is one of the last remaining council-owned cinemas in Britain. Together with the adjacent shops, it forms a Grade II listed building.

   3.6 km · cinema in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Wood Lane Hall

   Wood Lane Hall is a Grade I listed building near Sowerby, West Yorkshire, England.

   2.5 km · Grade I listed house in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

Leeds: the Civic Quarter, great Victorian market hall, and new Victoria Arcade. Bradford: the National Science & Media Museum, and the nearby model mill town of Saltaire. Wakefield has the Hepworth Gallery and Sculpture Park. Pennine villages such as Haworth, Hebden Bridge and Heptonstall.

From Wikivoyage: Calderdale, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Things to do

Go down a coal mine at Wakefield's National Mining Museum. Watch football: Leeds United play in the Premier League and Huddersfield Town in the Championship. Bradford City play in League Two. Go to the races at Wetherby (mostly jumps, in winter) or at Pontefract (flat-racing in summer). Walk the moors, but on Ilka Moor baht 'at at your peril. The Pennine Way runs along the western border of the county.

From Wikivoyage: Calderdale, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Where to eat

Leeds has just about every cuisine you could wish for, in all price ranges. Bradford is famous for its curry houses - mostly little cafes, nothing grand.

From Wikivoyage: Calderdale, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Getting to Calderdale

Airports

Leeds Bradford (LBA), 26 km · Manchester (MAN), 46 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 72 km

Stations

Mytholmroyd railway station, 1.3 km · Hebden Bridge railway station, 3.2 km

• Manchester, Greater Manchester → Calderdale

  32 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £4–5
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• Liverpool → Calderdale

  75 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £8–11
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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Calderdale

  101 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £13–17
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