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Calverley

Calverley is a village in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England, on the A657 road, about ten miles (16 km) from Leeds city centre and four miles (7 km) from Bradford, and lying north of the town of Pudsey.

Calverley
Calverley · Mark Stevenson
The place

Calverley is a village in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England, on the A657 road, about ten miles (16 km) from Leeds city centre and four miles (7 km) from Bradford, and lying north of the town of Pudsey. The population of Calverley in 2011 was 4,328. It is part of the City's Calverley and Farsley ward, with a population of 22,594 at the 2011 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Calverley

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
    Leeds Trinity University

    Leeds Trinity University is a public university in Horsforth, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Originally established to provide qualified teachers to Catholic schools, it gradually expanded and now offers foundation, undergraduate, and postgraduate degrees in a range of humanities and social sciences.

    3.8 km · Public University in Leeds, West Yorkshire · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bradford Industrial Museum

    Bradford Industrial Museum, established 1974 and located in Moorside Mills, Eccleshill, Bradford, United Kingdom, specializes in relics of local industry, especially printing and textile machinery, kept in working condition for regular demonstrations to the public. It is owned and operated by Bradford Council.

    2.6 km · Industrial museum, mill museum, textile museum, in Eccleshill, Bradford, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Pudsey Town Hall

    Pudsey Town Hall is a municipal building in Robin Lane, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, England. The town hall was the headquarters of Pudsey Urban District Council from 1912 to 1974.

    3.8 km · town hall in Pudsey, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    The Citadel

    Throstle Nest is a football ground situated in Farsley, in the Metropolitan District of the City of Leeds in England, and is the current home of Yorkshire Amateur Association Football League Supreme Division club FC Farsley. It has a capacity of 3,900, 400 of which are seated.

    2.6 km · ground of Farsley Celtic F.C. · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Horsforth Hall Park

    Horsforth Hall Park is a 3.38 hectares community park in Horsforth, West Yorkshire, England, approximately six miles from Leeds city centre. The park takes its name from Horsforth Hall which was built in 1699 and demolished in 1953 because it had become structurally unsafe.

    3 km · park in Leeds, West Yorkshire · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Calverley Old Hall

    Calverley Old Hall is a medieval manor house with Grade I listed building status situated at Calverley, West Yorkshire, England.

    400 m · Grade I listed building in Leeds, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Bramley Park

    Bramley Park is a community park situated near the centre of Bramley, four miles west of Leeds city centre, West Yorkshire, England. The park contains open spaces, sports pitches, tennis courts, a bowling green, a playground, a war memorial, a formal garden and a parkrun route.

    4 km · park in Leeds · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Peel Park, Bradford

    Peel Park is a 22.6-hectare urban public park in the Bolton and Undercliffe area of Bradford, England, located about 0.75 miles north-east of the city centre, and named after Sir Robert Peel. Peel Park was Bradford's first public park and is on the English Heritage and National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens online databases.

    3.9 km · park in Bolton and Undercliffe, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Undercliffe Cemetery

    Undercliffe Cemetery is located between Otley Road and Undercliffe Lane in the Bolton and Undercliffe ward, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The cemetery stands atop a hillside overlooking the city and contains Victorian funerary monuments in a variety of styles.

    3.9 km · cemetery in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Church of the Holy Trinity

    Holy Trinity Church is the parish church of Idle, West Yorkshire, a village in England. A chapel of ease was built in Idle in 1630.

    2.9 km · church building in Idle, 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.

Go there

Getting to Calverley

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 5 km · Manchester (MAN), 66 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 94 km
Stations
New Pudsey railway station, 2.5 km · Apperley Bridge railway station, 1.8 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Calverley
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £6–8
  • Liverpool → Calverley
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · £10–14
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Calverley
    104 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £11–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Calverley

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFerries sail overnight from Rotterdam (Netherlands) to Kingston upon Hull.
  • Get inHull is an hour by train or car from Leeds, and the ferry port is 3 miles east of Hull city centre: buses run from there to the railway station.
  • Go nextLeeds is a major transport hub, so many outlying attractions can be done as day trips.

From Wikivoyage: Leeds, 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

    295 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    328 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    350 km
  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    356 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    357 km

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

Around it

Next door to Calverley

Calverley is 5 km from Bradford, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Horsforthsuburb and civil parish within the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England3.3 km
  • Pudseytown in the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England3.8 km
  • Farsleytown in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom2.1 km
  • Rawdonvillage in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England2.7 km
  • Apperley Bridgevillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK1.4 km
  • Bagleyvillage in West Yorkshire, UK2.1 km