Drighlington
Drighlington is a village and civil parish in the City of Leeds metropolitan district, West Yorkshire, England.

Drighlington is a village and civil parish in the City of Leeds metropolitan district, West Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the village lies 5 miles (9 km) south-west of Leeds and 4 miles (6 km) south-east of Bradford. The name of the village is often shortened to Drig. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was 5,528.
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Worth seeing in and around Drighlington
7 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.
- 01St 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.
2.9 km · church in Birstall, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Oakwell 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.
2 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Red 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.
3.2 km · historic house museum. in West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia - 04Morley 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 - 05Fulneck Moravian Church
Fulneck Moravian Church and its associated settlement were established on the Fulneck estate, Pudsey, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, in 1744 by Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, a Moravian Bishop and Lutheran priest, following a donation of land by the evangelical Anglican clergyman, Benjamin Ingham. Fulneck is now part of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire.
3 km · church in Leeds, UK · Wikipedia - 06Bagshaw Museum
Bagshaw Museum is a local museum in the town of Batley, West Yorkshire. Situated in Wilton Park, the elaborate Gothic Revival mansion was converted into a museum by Walter Bagshaw in 1911.
3.4 km · Local museum in Batley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 07Birstall Shopping Park
Birstall Shopping Park is a shopping park located in Birstall, Batley, West Yorkshire, England. It contains a wide variety of retailers and includes the region's only IKEA store.
1.6 km · shopping mall in West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Drighlington
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 12 km · Manchester (MAN), 61 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 91 km
- Stations
- Pudsey bus station, 3.3 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Drighlington49 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £5–7
- Liverpool → Drighlington95 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £9–13
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Drighlington96 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £11–14
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Drighlington
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 Drighlington. 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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Drighlington is 7 km from Bradford, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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