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Mirfield

Mirfield is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England.

Mirfield
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The place

Mirfield is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is on the A644 road between Brighouse and Dewsbury. At the 2011 census it had a population of 19,563. Mirfield forms part of the Heavy Woollen District.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mirfield

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
    Leeds Road

    Leeds Road was a football stadium in Huddersfield, England. It operated from its construction in 1908 until the Kirklees Stadium was opened nearby for the 1994–95 season.

    5.8 km · football stadium in Huddersfield, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    3.9 km · Mosque in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Tolson Museum

    The Tolson Memorial Museum, also known as Tolson Museum, is housed in Ravensknowle Hall, a Victorian mansion in Ravensknowle Park on Wakefield Road in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. The museum was given to the town by Legh Tolson in memory of his two nephews who were killed in the First World War.

    5.9 km · Museum in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    3.1 km · canal in Northern England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    1.6 km · bus museum in Ravensthorpe, West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Fox's Biscuits Stadium

    Mount Pleasant Stadium, officially known for sponsorship purposes as Fox's Biscuits Stadium, is a rugby league stadium in Batley, West Yorkshire, England. It is the home of the Batley Bulldogs and amateur club Batley ARLFC. The Mount Pleasant pitch is sloped and is on a hill overlooking Batley.

    4.8 km · stadium · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Dewsbury Minster

    Dewsbury Minster, the Minster Church of All Saints is the parish church in Dewsbury, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. It dates from the 13th century and was rebuilt in 1895.

    4.1 km · church in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Peter's Church

    St Peter's Church in Birstall, West Yorkshire, England, is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds.

    5.8 km · church in Birstall, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    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.

    5.8 km · historic house museum. in West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    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.

    5.6 km · bridge in United Kingdom · 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 Mirfield

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 21 km · Manchester (MAN), 54 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 86 km
Stations
Mirfield railway station, 1.1 km · Ravensthorpe railway station, 2.3 km · Batley railway station, 5.4 km · Dewsbury railway station, 3.9 km · Deighton railway station, 4.4 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Mirfield
    42 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · £5–6
  • Liverpool → Mirfield
    90 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £9–12
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Mirfield
    88 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £10–13
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mirfield

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 Mirfield. 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

    306 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    334 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    340 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    344 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    368 km

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

Around it

Next door to Mirfield

Mirfield is 13 km from Bradford, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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