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Midgley

Midgley is a hill-top village in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England.

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Midgley · Tim Green from Bradford
The place

Midgley is a hill-top village in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 12 miles (20 km) east from Burnley and 4 miles (6 km) west-north-west of Halifax, and just north of the A646 road. Nearby villages are Mytholmroyd 1 mile (1.6 km) to the west-south-west, and Hebden Bridge 2.5 miles (4.0 km) to the west-north-west.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Midgley

6 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
    Hebden Bridge

    Hebden Bridge is a market town in the civil parish of Hebden Royd, in the Calderdale district of West Yorkshire, England. It is in the Upper Calder Valley, 8 miles west of Halifax and 14 miles north-east of Rochdale, at the confluence of the River Calder and Hebden Water.

    3.6 km · market town in Hebden Royd, West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hebden Bridge Picture House

    Hebden Bridge Picture House in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, is one of the last remaining council-owned cinemas in Britain. Together with the adjacent shops, it forms a Grade II listed building.

    3.8 km · cinema in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Wheatley Viaduct

    Wheatley Viaduct is a former railway bridge straddling the Hebble Brook on the northern side of Halifax, in West Yorkshire, England. The ten-arch viaduct was built as part of the Halifax High Level Railway that connected with the Queensbury lines complex of the Great Northern Railway between Halifax, Keighley and Bradford.

    3.8 km · railway viaduct in Halifax, West Yorkshire, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Field House

    Field House is a Grade II* listed privately owned historic house in Triangle, West Yorkshire, England.

    3.9 km · Grade II* listed privately owned historic house in Sowerby, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Friendly

    Friendly is a settlement near Sowerby Bridge in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England, lying on the A646 road in the valley of the River Calder. It was described in John Bartholomew's 1887 Gazetteer of the British Isles as a village 3 miles west of Halifax.

    3.1 km · area in Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Wood Lane Hall

    Wood Lane Hall is a Grade I listed building near Sowerby, West Yorkshire, England.

    3.1 km · Grade I listed house in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England, 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 Midgley

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 24 km · Manchester (MAN), 48 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 74 km
Stations
Mytholmroyd railway station, 1.8 km · Hebden Bridge railway station, 3.5 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Midgley
    34 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · £4–5
  • Liverpool → Midgley
    76 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £8–11
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Midgley
    102 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Midgley

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

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    290 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    324 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    339 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    342 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    351 km

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

Around it

Next door to Midgley

Midgley is 15 km from Bradford, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Calderdalemetropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England, UK1.8 km
  • Mytholmroydtown in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England1.7 km
  • Hebden Roydcivil parish in West Yorkshire, England, UK3.9 km
  • Erringdencivil parish in West Yorkshire, England3.6 km
  • Wadsworthcivil parish in West Yorkshire, UK3.4 km
  • Luddenden Footvillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK2.2 km