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Drighlington

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

Drighlington
Drighlington · Mark Stevenson
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    St 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
  2. 02
    Oakwell 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
  3. 03
    Red 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
  4. 04
    Morley 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
  5. 05
    Fulneck 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
  6. 06
    Bagshaw 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
  7. 07
    Birstall 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

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 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 → Drighlington
    49 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £5–7
  • Liverpool → Drighlington
    95 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £9–13
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Drighlington
    96 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £11–14
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

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.

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

    301 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    335 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    342 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    352 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    363 km

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

Around it

Next door to Drighlington

Drighlington is 7 km from Bradford, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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