Cleckheaton
Cleckheaton is a town in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England.
Cleckheaton is a town in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is situated south of Bradford, east of Brighouse, west of Batley and south-west of Leeds. It is at the centre of the Spen Valley and was the major town in the former borough of Spenborough.
Cleckheaton has a history as a mill town and forms part of the Heavy Woollen District.
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Worth seeing in and around Cleckheaton
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.
- 01Odsal Stadium
Odsal Stadium is a multipurpose stadium in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The stadium is currently the home of Bradford Bulls rugby league football club.
5.1 km · Sports Venue and Stadium · Wikipedia - 02Colne Bridge
Colne Bridge is an historic 18th-century bridge near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. A Grade II listed stone-built arch bridge, it spans the River Colne between Bradley and Kirkheaton.
5.4 km · grade II listed bridge in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Huddersfield Broad Canal
The Huddersfield Broad Canal or Sir John Ramsden's Canal, is a wide-locked navigable canal in West Yorkshire in northern England. The waterway is 3.75 miles long and has 9 wide locks.
4.7 km · canal in Northern England · Wikipedia - 04Brighouse Bridge
The Brighouse Bridge crosses the River Calder in Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England. It was built in 1825 as part of the Halifax and Huddersfield Turnpike.
4.9 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05Bowling Park
Bowling Park is a public urban park near Bolling Hall in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England about 1+1⁄2 miles south south east from the city centre. The park is irregularly shaped with an area of 50 acres and is bounded by Bowling Hall Road, Burras Road, Bowling Memorial Cemetery, Parkside Road, Avenue Road, Bowling Park Allotments and Bowling Park Drive.
6 km · park in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Kirklees Priory
Kirklees Priory was a Cistercian nunnery whose site is in the present-day Kirklees Park, Clifton near Brighouse, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England. It was originally in the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Dewsbury.
3.5 km · monastery in West Yorkshire, UK · Wikipedia - 07Blakeborough's Bridge
Blakeborough's Bridge crosses the River Calder in Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England. It was built in 1962 to link J. Blakeborough and Sons works and offices that were on different sides of the river.
4.5 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 08Robin Hood's Grave
Robin Hood's Grave is the name given to a monument in Kirklees Park Estate, West Yorkshire, England, near the now-ruined Kirklees Priory. It is alleged to be the burial place of English folk hero Robin Hood.
4.1 km · monument in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Horsfall Stadium
Horsfall Community Stadium is a sports stadium just off Halifax Road in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, 2.5 miles south-west of the city centre. It was built in 1931 as home for Airedale Harriers and is now also home for Bradford A.F.C., Albion Sports A.F.C. and West Bowling ARLFC The track was upgraded to a synthetic surface in 1994 and the stadium further upgraded for football in 1996 when Bradford moved to the stadium.
5.3 km · stadium in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10St 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.
3.3 km · church in Birstall, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Cleckheaton
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 16 km · Manchester (MAN), 56 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 86 km
- Stations
- Brighouse railway station, 5 km · Low Moor railway station, 3.4 km · Lightcliffe railway station, 5.3 km · Brighouse bus station, 4.8 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Cleckheaton44 km · quickest by road, 1h 10m · £5–7
- Liverpool → Cleckheaton91 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £9–12
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Cleckheaton93 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · £11–15
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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 Cleckheaton
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 Cleckheaton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Cleckheaton
Cleckheaton is 8 km from Bradford, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Batleytown in West Yorkshire, England, UK5.6 km
- Brighousetown in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England5.3 km
- Mirfieldtown in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England5.3 km
- Heckmondwiketown in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England3.7 km
- Birstallvillage in West Yorkshire, England4 km
- Drighlingtonvillage and civil parish in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK5.2 km