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Eccleshill, Bradford

Eccleshill is an area, former village, and ward within the Bradford district, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

Eccleshill, Bradford
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The place

Eccleshill is an area, former village, and ward within the Bradford district, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

The ward population of Eccleshill was 17,945 at the 2011 Census. Eccleshill is a more or less completely residential urban area with very little open space although there is substantial open land directly to the east.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Eccleshill, Bradford

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
    Valley Parade

    Valley Parade, currently known as Mbanq Valley Parade for sponsorship reasons, is an all-seater football stadium in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The stadium was built in 1886 as the home of Manningham Rugby Football Club; it remained so until 1903, when the club changed code from rugby league to association football, and became Bradford City A.F.C. Valley Parade has since been Bradford City's home ground, and is now owned by the pension fund of the club's former chairman Gordon Gibb.

    2.6 km · Football stadium in Bradford, home to Bradford City A.F.C. · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bradford Cathedral

    Bradford Cathedral, or the Cathedral Church of St Peter, is an Anglican cathedral in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, one of three co-equal cathedrals in the Diocese of Leeds alongside Ripon and Wakefield. Its site has been used for Christian worship since the 7th century, when missionaries based in Dewsbury evangelised the area.

    3.3 km · church in West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    National Science and Media Museum

    The National Science and Media Museum, located in Bradford, West Yorkshire, is part of the national Science Museum Group in the UK. The museum has seven floors of galleries with permanent exhibitions focusing on photography, television, animation, videogaming, the Internet and the scientific principles behind light and colour. It also hosts temporary exhibitions and maintains a collection of 3.5 million pieces in its research facility.

    3.9 km · media museum in Bradford, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Al-Mahdi Mosque

    The Al-Mahdi Mosque is a mosque in Bradford, England. The mosque was built at a cost £2.5 million entirely from voluntary donations of British Ahmadi Muslims.

    2.6 km · mosque in Bradford, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Bradford Lakshmi Narayan Hindu Temple

    The Shree Lakshmi Narayan Hindu Temple in Bradford, West Yorkshire is the largest Hindu temple in Northern England. The temple was designed by local Yorkshire architects and built by a local construction company.

    3.5 km · Hindu temple in Bradford, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Bradford Alhambra

    The Alhambra Theatre is a theatre in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, named after the Alhambra palace in Granada, Spain, which was the place of residence of the Emir of the Emirate of Granada. It was built in 1913 at a cost of £20,000 for theatre impresario Francis Laidler, and opened on Wednesday 18 March 1914.

    3.8 km · theatre in Bradford, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Baitul Hamd

    The Baitul Hamd is a mosque located on Leeds Road in Bradford, England. It is one of the oldest mosques of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the UK. It was formally inaugurated on 2 October 1980 by Mirza Nasir Ahmad, the third caliph of the community and can accommodate around 200 worshippers.

    3.5 km · mosque in Bradford, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    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.

    1.8 km · Industrial museum, mill museum, textile museum, in Eccleshill, Bradford, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Bradford Reform Synagogue

    The Bradford Synagogue, officially Bradford Reform Synagogue, is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 7 Bowland Street in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, in the United Kingdom. Established as a congregation in 1873, the synagogue building was completed in 1881.

    3 km · synagogue in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Cartwright Hall Art Gallery

    Cartwright Hall is the civic art gallery in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, situated about a mile from the city centre in the Manningham district. It was built on the former site of Manningham Hall using a gift of £40,000 donated by Samuel Lister and it is named after Edmund Cartwright.

    2.6 km · Art museum in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Eccleshill, Bradford

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 7 km · Manchester (MAN), 64 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 91 km
Stations
Bradford Forster Square railway station, 3.2 km · Shipley railway station, 2.6 km · Frizinghall railway station, 2.1 km · Saltaire railway station, 3.9 km · Baildon railway station, 3.1 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Eccleshill, Bradford
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · £6–8
  • Liverpool → Eccleshill, Bradford
    94 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £10–13
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Eccleshill, Bradford
    104 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £12–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Eccleshill, Bradford

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 Eccleshill, Bradford. 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
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    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    293 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    326 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

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  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    354 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    355 km

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

Around it

Next door to Eccleshill, Bradford

Eccleshill, Bradford is 3 km from Bradford, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Q22905city and largest settlement in the City of Bradford district, Yorkshire, England3.4 km
  • SaltaireVictorian model village located in Shipley, City of Bradford Metropolitan District, West Yorkshire, England, UK3.8 km
  • Bradfordmetropolitan borough with city status in West Yorkshire, England3.7 km
  • Shipleytown in the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England2.8 km
  • Baildontown and civil parish in Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom3.5 km
  • Calverleyvillage in West Yorkshire, UK3 km