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Farnley Tyas

Farnley Tyas is a village in the parish of Kirkburton, in the Kirklees district, in the county of West Yorkshire, England 3 miles (4.8 km) south east of Huddersfield.

Farnley Tyas
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The place

Farnley Tyas is a village in the parish of Kirkburton, in the Kirklees district, in the county of West Yorkshire, England 3 miles (4.8 km) south east of Huddersfield. It is located on a hilltop between Almondbury, Castle Hill, Thurstonland and Honley. It is mostly rural and farmland with private housing and some local authority social housing. In 1921 the parish had a population of 486.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Farnley Tyas

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
    Tolson Museum

    The Tolson Memorial Museum, also known as Tolson Museum, is housed in Ravensknowle Hall, a Victorian mansion in Ravensknowle Park on Wakefield Road in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. The museum was given to the town by Legh Tolson in memory of his two nephews who were killed in the First World War.

    3.8 km · Museum in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Thomas, Thurstonland

    The Church of St Thomas, Thurstonland, West Yorkshire, England, is an Anglican church. It is an Arts and Crafts building in Gothic Revival style, designed by James Mallinson and William Swinden Barber, and completed in 1870.

    2 km · Grade II listed church in the village of Thurstonland, in the parish of Kirkburton, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Castle Hill

    Castle Hill is a scheduled ancient monument in Almondbury overlooking Huddersfield in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. The hilltop has been settled for at least 4,000 years.

    1.9 km · hill near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Woodsome Hall

    Woodsome Hall is a 16th-century country house in the parish of Almondbury, near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. It is now the clubhouse of Woodsome Hall Golf Club and a Grade I listed building.

    2.2 km · Grade I listed building in Kirkburton, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Lockwood Viaduct

    Lockwood Viaduct is a stone railway bridge that carries the Huddersfield to Penistone Line across the River Holme, in West Yorkshire, England. The viaduct is noted for its height, high, but at its maximum, to the top of the parapet level, it is 136 feet ), leading one journalist to describe it as "One of the most stupendous structures of ancient or modern times." One local challenge has been to "lob" a cricket ball over the viaduct, with some claiming that they have.

    3.7 km · railway viaduct in West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    16A And 18, Swan Lane

    Lockwood Town Hall is a former municipal building in Swan Lane in Lockwood, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. The former town hall, which is currently used as an ice cream factory, is a Grade II listed building.

    4 km · building in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Town Hall

    Kirkburton Hall, formerly known as Kirkburton Town Hall, and before that, as Springfield House, is a former municipal building in Penistone Road in Kirkburton, a town in West Yorkshire in England. The building, which was previously the offices and meeting place of the Kirkburton Urban District Council and is now a private residence, is a grade II listed building.

    2.5 km · Grade II listed building in Kirkburton, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Farnley Tyas

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 29 km · Manchester (MAN), 45 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 79 km
Stations
Brockholes railway station, 2 km · Honley railway station, 2 km · Berry Brow railway station, 3 km · Stocksmoor railway station, 2.6 km · Shepley railway station, 3.9 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Farnley Tyas
    35 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · £4–6
  • Liverpool → Farnley Tyas
    84 km · quickest by road, 2h · £9–12
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Farnley Tyas
    83 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £9–13
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Farnley Tyas

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundthere's a local minibus service that provides journeys to various villages dotted about the valley.

From Wikivoyage: Holmfirth, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2023-04.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    309 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    326 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    335 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    343 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    370 km

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

Around it

Next door to Farnley Tyas

Farnley Tyas is 20 km from Bradford, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Kirkleesmetropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England3.9 km
  • Kirkburtonvillage and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England, UK3.2 km
  • Honleyvillage in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England2.9 km
  • Almondburysuburb of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom2.6 km
  • Armitage Bridgevillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK3.1 km
  • Berry Browvillage in West Yorkshire, UK2.2 km