Saltaire

Worth seeing in and around Saltaire

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.

   3.2 km · market town in the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford, in West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
2. 02
   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.

   3.7 km · staircase lock on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Bingley · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Cartwright Hall Art Gallery

   Cartwright Hall is the civic art gallery in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, situated about a mile from the city centre in the Manningham district. It was built on the former site of Manningham Hall using a gift of £40,000 donated by Samuel Lister and it is named after Edmund Cartwright.

   3 km · Art museum in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Shipley Town Hall

   Shipley Town Hall is a municipal structure in Kirkgate in Shipley, West Yorkshire, England. It was the headquarters of Shipley Urban District Council.

   800 m · municipal building in England · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Saltaire United Reformed Church

   Saltaire United Reformed Church is a church at Saltaire, West Yorkshire, England. Commissioned and paid for by Titus Salt in the mid 19th century, the church is a Grade I listed building and sits within the Saltaire World Heritage Site.

   200 m · Grade I listed building in Shipley, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Bracken Hall Countryside Centre and Museum

   Bracken Hall Countryside Centre and Museum is a children's museum, natural history education centre and nature centre established in 1989 at Bracken Hall on the edge of Baildon Moor, close to Shipley Glen in West Yorkshire, England. In 2013 the Bradford Council removed their funding of the museum.

   1.3 km · children's museum, natural history museum, local archaeology museum, interpretation centre in West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
7. 07
   The Peace Museum

   The Peace Museum in Saltaire, West Yorkshire is the only museum in the UK dedicated to the history and stories of peace, peacemakers and the peace movement. The initial idea of creating a peace museum arose in the mid-1980s from Gerald Drewett of the Give Peace a Chance Trust.

   200 m · museum in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Roberts Park

   Roberts Park is a 14 acres public urban park in Saltaire, West Yorkshire, England. Higher Coach Road, Baildon, is to the north and the park is bounded to the south by the River Aire.

   400 m · park in Saltaire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Shipley College

   Shipley College is a General Further Education college in West Yorkshire, England, The college is a small place mainly based in the village of Saltaire. Other Sites are used for Lifestyle and Adult Learning and include local schools and Community Centres.

   100 m · college in Bradford, UK · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Church of St Paul

    The Church of St Paul, Shipley is a parish church in the town of Shipley, West Yorkshire, England. It is the only Anglican church in the benefice of Shipley St Paul.

    600 m · church building in Shipley, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

1. 01
   Salts Mill

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

Things to do

Today the mill contains a large collection of art by David Hockney, a small local history exhibition and a number of independent shops. You can walk or cycle on the canal towpath, part of the national cycle network. The annual Saltaire Festival is during September.

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

Where to eat

Saltaire Sandwiches. Salts Village Bakery & Café, 8 Victoria Road,.

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

Getting to Saltaire

Airports

Leeds Bradford (LBA), 9 km · Manchester (MAN), 63 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 89 km

Stations

Shipley railway station, 1.2 km · Bingley railway station, 3.3 km · Saltaire railway station, 100 m · Frizinghall railway station, 2.4 km · Baildon railway station, 2.8 km

• Manchester, Greater Manchester → Saltaire

  49 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £6–8
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• Liverpool → Saltaire

  92 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · £10–14
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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Saltaire

  106 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £12–16
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