Horsforth
Horsforth is a town and civil parish in the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, five miles north-west of Leeds city centre.
Horsforth is a town and civil parish in the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, five miles north-west of Leeds city centre. Historically a village within the West Riding of Yorkshire, it had a population of 18,895 at the 2011 Census. It became part of the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in 1974. In 1999, a civil parish was created for the area, and the parish council voted to rename itself a town council. The area is within the Horsforth ward of Leeds City Council, which also includes the southern part of Rawdon.
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Worth seeing in and around Horsforth
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.
- 01Headingley Stadium
Headingley Stadium is a stadium complex in Headingley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Linked by a two-sided stand housing common facilities, it comprises two separate grounds: Headingley Cricket Ground and Headingley Rugby Stadium.
4.5 km · sports ground in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia - 02Kirkstall Abbey
Kirkstall Abbey is a ruined Cistercian monastery in Kirkstall, north-west of Leeds city centre in West Yorkshire, England. It is set in a public park on the north bank of the River Aire.
2.9 km · Cistercian monastery in West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Headingley Cricket Ground
Headingley Cricket Ground is a cricket ground in the Headingley Stadium complex in Headingley, Leeds, England. It adjoins the Headingley Rugby Stadium through a shared main stand, although the main entrance to the cricket ground is at the opposite Kirkstall Lane end.
4.5 km · cricket ground · Wikipedia - 04Leeds Trinity University
Leeds Trinity University is a public university in Horsforth, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Originally established to provide qualified teachers to Catholic schools, it gradually expanded and now offers foundation, undergraduate, and postgraduate degrees in a range of humanities and social sciences.
1.3 km · Public University in Leeds, West Yorkshire · Wikipedia - 05Leeds Grand Mosque
Leeds Grand Mosque is a mosque in Leeds, England with a regular congregation of 3,000. It is located at 9 Woodsley Road, Hyde Park, Leeds, LS6 1SN West Yorkshire, England.
6 km · mosque in West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 06Leeds Industrial Museum
The Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills is a museum of industrial heritage located in Armley, near Leeds, in West Yorkshire, Northern England. The museum includes collections of textile machinery, railway equipment and heavy engineering amongst others.
5.5 km · museum in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Headingley Rugby Stadium
Headingley Rugby Stadium is a rugby league stadium in Headingley, Leeds and shares the same site as Headingley Cricket Ground. It is the home ground of the Leeds Rhinos, and is the fifth largest rugby league stadium in England.
4.6 km · stadium · Wikipedia - 08Church of St Oswald
St Oswald's Church in Guiseley, West Yorkshire, England, is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds.
5.9 km · church in Guiseley, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Bradford 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.
5.8 km · Industrial museum, mill museum, textile museum, in Eccleshill, Bradford, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 10Kirkstall Road Viaduct
Kirkstall Road Viaduct is a Grade II listed railway viaduct carrying the Harrogate line over the A65 Kirkstall Road, the River Aire, and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Burley, Leeds, West Yorkshire. It was built in 1849 by the engineer Thomas Grainger for the Leeds and Thirsk Railway.
5.7 km · railway viaduct in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Horsforth
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 3 km · Manchester (MAN), 69 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 97 km
- Stations
- Leeds Bradford Airport, 3.4 km · Headingley railway station, 3.8 km · Burley Park railway station, 5.1 km · Horsforth railway station, 1.4 km · Bramley railway station, 3.5 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Horsforth56 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · £6–8
- Liverpool → Horsforth101 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £10–14
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Horsforth104 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £11–15
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Horsforth
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 Horsforth. 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 Horsforth
Horsforth is 8 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Yeadontown in West Yorkshire, England4.6 km
- Headingleysuburb of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England4.6 km
- Guiseleytown in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England5.9 km
- Bramleyarea of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England2.9 km
- Bramhopevillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK5.6 km