Scammonden

Worth seeing in and around Scammonden

7 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
   Old Town Hall, Slaithwaite

   Slaithwaite Town Hall, also known as Empire House, is a former municipal building in Lewisham Road in the town of Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire, England. The building, which served as the offices of Colne Valley Urban District Council, is now a business centre.

   3.4 km · municipal Building in England · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Slack Roman fort

   Slack Roman Fort was a castellum near Outlane, to the west of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England. Its site is a scheduled monument.

   2.7 km · archaeological site in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Booth Wood Reservoir

   Booth Wood Reservoir is a man-made upland reservoir that lies north of the M62 motorway and south of the A672 road near to Rishworth and Ripponden in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England. The reservoir was approved for construction in 1966 and completed in 1971.

   3.2 km · reservoir in West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Colne Valley Museum

   The Colne Valley Museum is in the Colne Valley at Golcar, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. The museum consists of four converted 19th-century weavers' cottages.

   3.8 km · historic house museum, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Deanhead Reservoir

   Deanhead Reservoir is a reservoir near Scammonden, in the metropolitan district of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. It is named after Dean Head, a village that was mostly submerged during construction of the dam.

   2.6 km · reservoir in West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Scammonden Reservoir

   Scammonden Reservoir is a water reservoir in West Yorkshire, England. Its water surface area when full is 42 hectares.

   1 km · reservoir in West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Scammonden Bridge

   Scammonden Bridge, also known locally as the Brown Cow Bridge, spans the Deanhead cutting carrying the B6114 Elland to Buckstones road over the M62 motorway in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. The bridge and Scammonden Reservoir to the west are named after Scammonden, the village that was flooded to accommodate the reservoir whose dam carries the motorway.

   1.3 km · bridge in Kirklees · Wikipedia

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Getting to Scammonden

Airports

Leeds Bradford (LBA), 29 km · Manchester (MAN), 41 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 71 km

Stations

Slaithwaite railway station, 3.3 km

• Manchester, Greater Manchester → Scammonden

  27 km · quickest by road, 57 min · £3.5–4.5
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• Liverpool → Scammonden

  74 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £8–10
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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Scammonden

  93 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £11–15
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