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Liversedge

Liversedge is an industrial town in the Kirklees district, in West Yorkshire, England.

Liversedge
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The place

Liversedge is an industrial town in the Kirklees district, in West Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Liversedge lies between Cleckheaton and Heckmondwike. The Kirklees ward is now called Liversedge and Gomersal with a population at the 2011 Census of 19,420. Liversedge forms part of the Heavy Woollen District and was historically part of the parish of Birstall. Spen Beck runs through Liversedge.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Liversedge

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
    Markazi Mosque

    The Markazi Masjid, also known as the Dewsbury Markaz or Dar ul Ulum, is a mosque in the Savile Town area of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England. With a maximum capacity of 4,000, it is one of the largest mosques in Europe.

    4.9 km · Mosque in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Crown Flatt

    Crown Flatt, currently known as the FLAIR Stadium for sponsorship purposes, is a rugby league stadium on Owl Lane in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England. It is the home of the Dewsbury Rams, who play in the Championship, and the Huddersfield Giants who play in the Super League.

    5.8 km · rugby league stadium · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Blakeborough's Bridge

    Blakeborough's Bridge crosses the River Calder in Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England. It was built in 1962 to link J. Blakeborough and Sons works and offices that were on different sides of the river.

    5.3 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Brighouse Bridge

    The Brighouse Bridge crosses the River Calder in Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England. It was built in 1825 as part of the Halifax and Huddersfield Turnpike.

    5.9 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Red House Museum

    Red House Museum was a historic house museum, built in 1660 and renovated in the Georgian era. It closed to the public at the end of 2016 but remains as a Grade II* listed building in Gomersal, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England.

    2.9 km · historic house museum. in West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Dewsbury Bus Museum

    The Dewsbury Bus Museum is a museum in Ravensthorpe, West Yorkshire, England. Opened to the public in September 1989, it is owned and operated by the West Riding Omnibus Museum Trust, a registered charity, and is run entirely by volunteer effort.

    3.5 km · bus museum in Ravensthorpe, West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Colne Bridge

    Colne Bridge is an historic 18th-century bridge near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. A Grade II listed stone-built arch bridge, it spans the River Colne between Bradley and Kirkheaton.

    4.3 km · grade II listed bridge in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Robin Hood's Grave

    Robin Hood's Grave is the name given to a monument in Kirklees Park Estate, West Yorkshire, England, near the now-ruined Kirklees Priory. It is alleged to be the burial place of English folk hero Robin Hood.

    3.6 km · monument in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Huddersfield Broad Canal

    The Huddersfield Broad Canal or Sir John Ramsden's Canal, is a wide-locked navigable canal in West Yorkshire in northern England. The waterway is 3.75 miles long and has 9 wide locks.

    3.9 km · canal in Northern England · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Kirklees Priory

    Kirklees Priory was a Cistercian nunnery whose site is in the present-day Kirklees Park, Clifton near Brighouse, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England. It was originally in the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Dewsbury.

    3.4 km · monastery in West Yorkshire, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Liversedge

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 18 km · Manchester (MAN), 56 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 87 km
Stations
Brighouse railway station, 5.9 km · Ravensthorpe railway station, 4.1 km · Batley railway station, 4.4 km · Mirfield railway station, 3.9 km · Dewsbury railway station, 4.1 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Liversedge
    44 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · £5–7
  • Liverpool → Liversedge
    91 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £9–12
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Liversedge
    91 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · £10–13
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Liversedge

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextOther easy day trips include Bradford, Saltaire, Haworth and Sheffield.

From Wikivoyage: Wakefield (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    304 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    337 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    338 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    346 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    365 km

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

Around it

Next door to Liversedge

Liversedge is 11 km from Bradford, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Dewsburytown in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom4.5 km
  • Batleytown in West Yorkshire, England, UK3.8 km
  • Mirfieldtown in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England2.9 km
  • Heckmondwiketown in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England1.3 km
  • Cleckheatontown in the Metropolitan borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England2.8 km
  • Birstallvillage in West Yorkshire, England3.6 km