Keighley

Worth seeing in and around Keighley

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
   Bingley

   Bingley is a market town and civil parish in the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. It is sited on the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

   5.4 km · market town in the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford, in West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Brontë Parsonage Museum

   The Brontë Parsonage Museum is a writer's house museum maintained by the Brontë Society in honour of the Brontë sisters – Charlotte, Emily and Anne. The museum is in the former Brontë family home, the parsonage in Haworth, West Yorkshire, England, where the sisters spent most of their lives and wrote their famous novels.

   5 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury, West Yorkshire, England,UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   St Michael and All Angels' Church, Haworth

   St Michael and All Angels' Church is the Church of England parish church of Haworth, West Yorkshire. The majority of the structure, which is the third church building on the site, was built between 1879 and 1881.

   5 km · church in Haworth, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Bingley Five Rise Locks

   Bingley Five-Rise Locks is a staircase lock on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Bingley. As the name implies, a boat passing through the lock is lifted or lowered in five stages.

   5 km · staircase lock on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Bingley · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Cougar Park

   Cougar Park is a rugby league stadium in Keighley, England, which is the home stadium of the Keighley Cougars. Its capacity is 7,800 people.

   1.1 km · rugby league stadium in Keighley, West Yorkshire · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Holden Park

   Holden Park is the only park in the village of Oakworth, West Yorkshire, England. The park is also known locally as Oakworth Park.

   3.4 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Oakworth Hall

   Oakworth Hall is located in Oakworth, West Yorkshire, England. The manor house was rebuilt in the 17th century, but has a history dating back to 1066.

   3.6 km · house in Keighley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Hewenden Reservoir

   Hewenden Reservoir is a fresh-water reservoir near to Cullingworth in West Yorkshire, England. The Bradford Corporation built the reservoir, which was flooded in 1845, and is now part of the Yorkshire Water portfolio.

   5.9 km · reservoir in West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Hewenden Viaduct

   Hewenden Viaduct, situated near Cullingworth, West Yorkshire, England, originally served as a railway viaduct along the Queensbury Lines. Being one of the highest viaducts in Britain, it has been recognised as a Grade II listed structure.

   5.6 km · Grade II listed bridge in Wilsden, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Cliffe Castle Museum

    Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley, West Yorkshire, England, is a local heritage museum which opened in the grand, Victorian, neo-Gothic Cliffe Castle in 1959. Originating as Cliffe Hall in 1828, the museum is the successor to Keighley Museum which opened in Eastwood House, Keighley, in c. 1892.

    900 m · Heritage centre, historic house museum. in West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

1. 01
   East Riddlesden Hall

   A629 relief road from Shipley and Skipton signed for East Riddlesden Hall), eastriddlesden@nationaltrust.org.uk.

2. 02
   Cliffe Castle Museum

   Built in the 1880s as the home of Victorian millionaire textile manufacturer, Henry Isaac Butterfield.

3. 03
   Keighley Bus Museum

From Wikivoyage: Keighley, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Things to do

Rugby: Keighley Cougars play rugby league (13-a-side) in the Championship, the second tier. This expanded in 2026 and took in clubs such as Cougars from the former third tier. Their home ground Cougar Park (capacity 7800) is along A650 half a mile north of the railway station. The playing season is Feb-Nov.

From Wikivoyage: Keighley, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Where to eat

1. 01
   Amicos

   105/107 East Parade, BD21 5HU,.

From Wikivoyage: Keighley, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Getting to Keighley

Airports

Leeds Bradford (LBA), 16 km · Manchester (MAN), 62 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 86 km

Stations

Bingley railway station, 5.3 km · Steeton and Silsden railway station, 4.3 km · Keighley railway station, 700 m · Crossflatts railway station, 4.4 km · Damems railway station, 2.5 km

• Manchester, Greater Manchester → Keighley

  48 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £7–9
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• Liverpool → Keighley

  87 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £10–14
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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Keighley

  113 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £13–17
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No local-transport research exists yet for Keighley

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

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