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Pudsey

Pudsey is a market town in the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England.

Pudsey
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The place

Pudsey is a market town in the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. It is located midway between Bradford city centre and Leeds city centre. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, it has a population of 25,393.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Pudsey

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
    Bradford Cathedral

    Bradford Cathedral, or the Cathedral Church of St Peter, is an Anglican cathedral in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, one of three co-equal cathedrals in the Diocese of Leeds alongside Ripon and Wakefield. Its site has been used for Christian worship since the 7th century, when missionaries based in Dewsbury evangelised the area.

    5.6 km · church in West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Headingley 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.

    5.8 km · sports ground in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Kirkstall 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.

    4.5 km · Cistercian monastery in West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Headingley 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.

    5.8 km · cricket ground · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Al-Mahdi Mosque

    The Al-Mahdi Mosque is a mosque in Bradford, England. The mosque was built at a cost £2.5 million entirely from voluntary donations of British Ahmadi Muslims.

    5.4 km · mosque in Bradford, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Leeds 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.

    5.9 km · Public University in Leeds, West Yorkshire · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Bradford Lakshmi Narayan Hindu Temple

    The Shree Lakshmi Narayan Hindu Temple in Bradford, West Yorkshire is the largest Hindu temple in Northern England. The temple was designed by local Yorkshire architects and built by a local construction company.

    4.8 km · Hindu temple in Bradford, England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Headingley 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.

    5.7 km · stadium · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Leeds 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.

    5.3 km · museum in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Bolling Hall Museum

    Bolling Hall is one of the oldest buildings in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. It is currently used as a museum and education centre.

    5.4 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, 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 Pudsey

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 8 km · Manchester (MAN), 64 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 94 km
Stations
Bradford Forster Square railway station, 5.9 km · Headingley railway station, 5.1 km · Burley Park railway station, 5.8 km · Bramley railway station, 1.9 km · Cottingley railway station, 5.9 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Pudsey
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · £6–8
  • Liverpool → Pudsey
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £10–14
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Pudsey
    100 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £11–15
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Pudsey

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Leeds, 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

    298 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    332 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    347 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    355 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    360 km

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

Around it

Next door to Pudsey

Pudsey is 6 km from Bradford, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Q22905city and largest settlement in the City of Bradford district, Yorkshire, England5.8 km
  • Horsforthsuburb and civil parish within the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England4.3 km
  • Bramleyarea of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England2.8 km
  • Drighlingtonvillage and civil parish in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK4.5 km
  • Gildersomevillage and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England4.7 km
  • Farsleytown in Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom1.7 km