Gildersome
Gildersome is a village and civil parish in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough 5 miles (7 km) south-west of Leeds city centre in West Yorkshire, England.
Gildersome is a village and civil parish in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough 5 miles (7 km) south-west of Leeds city centre in West Yorkshire, England. Glidersome forms part of the Heavy Woollen District.
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Worth seeing in and around Gildersome
9 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.
- 01Morley 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.
2.3 km · war memorial in Morley, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02St 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.
3.9 km · church in Birstall, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Oakwell 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.
3.4 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Fulneck 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.
3.5 km · church in Leeds, UK · Wikipedia - 05Church of St Mary In The Wood (Congregational)
St Mary's in the Wood Church was a United Reformed Church place of worship in Morley, West Yorkshire, England. The church, built in 1876-78 on the site of a medieval church, is grade II listed.
2.4 km · church building in Morley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Farnley Hall Park
Farnley Hall Park is a park in Farnley, Leeds, England, approximately four miles from the city centre. Sixteen hectares in size, it lies in the grounds of Farnley Hall and hosts the main base of Leeds City Parks.
3.2 km · park in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 07Bagshaw 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.
3.6 km · Local museum in Batley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 08Birstall 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.
1.7 km · shopping mall in West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia - 09White Rose Centre
The White Rose Centre is a shopping centre in the Beeston area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It spans two floors and is near the M621 motorway.
3.8 km · shopping mall in West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Gildersome
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 12 km · Manchester (MAN), 62 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 93 km
- Stations
- Morley railway station, 2.9 km · Cottingley railway station, 3.1 km · Pudsey bus station, 3.6 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Gildersome51 km · quickest by road, 1h 16m · £6–7
- Liverpool → Gildersome97 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £10–13
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Gildersome95 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £11–14
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Gildersome
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 Gildersome. 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 Gildersome
Gildersome is 7 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Morleytown in the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom2.2 km
- Birstallvillage in West Yorkshire, England3.3 km
- Drighlingtonvillage and civil parish in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK2 km
- Churwellsuburb in Morley, West Yorkshire, England, UK2.8 km
- Farnleyarea of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England3.4 km
- Adwaltonvillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK1.7 km