Greengates
Greengates is a small suburban area in the north-east of the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, in England.
Greengates is a small suburban area in the north-east of the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, in England. The area is bordered by Idle and Thackley to the north-west, whilst Thorpe Edge is to the west. To the south of Greengates is Ravenscliffe with the village of Eccleshill beyond that. Apperley Bridge is to the north. East of Greengates, in the Leeds Metropolitan District, is the village of Calverley.
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Worth seeing in and around Greengates
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.
- 01Al-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.
4 km · mosque in Bradford, England · Wikipedia - 02Bradford 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.
2.3 km · Industrial museum, mill museum, textile museum, in Eccleshill, Bradford, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Peel Park, Bradford
Peel Park is a 22.6-hectare urban public park in the Bolton and Undercliffe area of Bradford, England, located about 0.75 miles north-east of the city centre, and named after Sir Robert Peel. Peel Park was Bradford's first public park and is on the English Heritage and National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens online databases.
3.2 km · park in Bolton and Undercliffe, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Undercliffe Cemetery
Undercliffe Cemetery is located between Otley Road and Undercliffe Lane in the Bolton and Undercliffe ward, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The cemetery stands atop a hillside overlooking the city and contains Victorian funerary monuments in a variety of styles.
3.5 km · cemetery in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Calverley Old Hall
Calverley Old Hall is a medieval manor house with Grade I listed building status situated at Calverley, West Yorkshire, England.
1.8 km · Grade I listed building in Leeds, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 06The Citadel
Throstle Nest is a football ground situated in Farsley, in the Metropolitan District of the City of Leeds in England, and is the current home of Yorkshire Amateur Association Football League Supreme Division club FC Farsley. It has a capacity of 3,900, 400 of which are seated.
4 km · ground of Farsley Celtic F.C. · Wikipedia - 07Church of the Holy Trinity
Holy Trinity Church is the parish church of Idle, West Yorkshire, a village in England. A chapel of ease was built in Idle in 1630.
1.5 km · church building in Idle, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Greengates
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 5 km · Manchester (MAN), 65 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 93 km
- Stations
- New Pudsey railway station, 3.6 km · Frizinghall railway station, 3.9 km · Baildon railway station, 3.4 km · Apperley Bridge railway station, 1.3 km · Idle railway station, 2.6 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Greengates52 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · £6–8
- Liverpool → Greengates32 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · £5–7
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Greengates16 km · quickest by road, 39 min · £2–2.5
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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 Greengates
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 Greengates. 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 Greengates
Greengates is 5 km from Bradford, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Baildontown and civil parish in Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom4 km
- Farsleytown in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom3.4 km
- Calverleyvillage in West Yorkshire, UK1.5 km
- Wrosevillage and civil parish in Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK2.6 km
- Rawdonvillage in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England3.1 km
- Apperley Bridgevillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK700 m