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Silsden

Silsden is a town and civil parish in the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England, on the River Aire and Leeds and Liverpool Canal between Keighley and Skipton, which had a population of 8,390 at the 2021 Census.

Silsden
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The place

Silsden is a town and civil parish in the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England, on the River Aire and Leeds and Liverpool Canal between Keighley and Skipton, which had a population of 8,390 at the 2021 Census. The parish includes the hamlet of Brunthwaite.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Silsden

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
    Cougar Park

    Cougar Park is a rugby league stadium in Keighley, England, which is the home stadium of the Keighley Cougars. Its capacity is 7,800 people.

    4.9 km · rugby league stadium in Keighley, West Yorkshire · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St John the Evangelist

    St John's Church is the parish church of Cononley, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. A National School was opened in Cononley in 1846, and it was also used to hold Anglican church services.

    5.6 km · church in Cononley, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Cononley Hall

    Cononley Hall is a historic building in Cononley, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. Cononley Hall was first recorded in the 1540s, at which point it appears to have been a farmhouse.

    5.4 km · house in Cononley, Craven, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Malsis Hall School

    Malsis Hall is a mansion in Glusburn, North Yorkshire, England. It was built in the 1860s by Bradford-based architect Samuel Jackson for the Keighley-based textile magnate James Lund.

    5.6 km · school building in Sutton, Craven, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Cliffe Castle Museum

    Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley, West Yorkshire, England, is a local heritage museum which opened in the grand, Victorian, neo-Gothic Cliffe Castle in 1959. Originating as Cliffe Hall in 1828, the museum is the successor to Keighley Museum which opened in Eastwood House, Keighley, in c. 1892.

    4.6 km · Heritage centre, historic house museum. in West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Andrew

    The Church of St Andrew is an Anglican parish church in the village of Kildwick, North Yorkshire, England. A church has been in Kildwick since at least 950 AD, though the current structure dates back to the 16th century, but in its oldest parts are c. 12th century.

    3.1 km · church in Kildwick, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Kildwick Bridge

    Kildwick Bridge is a road bridge over the River Aire in North Yorkshire, England. It is one of the oldest documented bridges in England, with a reference dating back to 1305.

    3.2 km · Grade I listed bridge in Craven, North Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Kildwick Hall with kitchen block to rear

    Kildwick Hall is a historic building in Kildwick, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The manor house was probably built in about 1650 for Henry Currer.

    3.1 km · Grade II* listed house in Kildwick, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Church of St Thomas

    St Thomas' Church is an Anglican church in Sutton-in-Craven, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. Sutton was long in the parish of St Andrew's Church, Kildwick.

    4.2 km · church building in Sutton-in-Craven, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Keighley College

    Keighley College is a further education college in Keighley, West Yorkshire, England. It traces its origins to Keighley Mechanics' Institute, founded in 1825.

    5.6 km · further education college in England · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Silsden

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 19 km · Manchester (MAN), 67 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 88 km
Stations
Cononley railway station, 4.9 km · Steeton and Silsden railway station, 1.6 km · Keighley railway station, 5.6 km · Addingham railway station, 4.8 km · Keighley bus station, 5.5 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Silsden
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £6–9
  • Liverpool → Silsden
    89 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £10–13
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Silsden
    120 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £14–19
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Silsden

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 Silsden. 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

    276 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    310 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    338 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    356 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    361 km

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

Around it

Next door to Silsden

Silsden is 18 km from Bradford, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Keighleytown and civil parish of the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England5.4 km
  • Addinghamvillage and civil parish in West Yorkshire, UK4.1 km
  • Cononleyvillage and civil parish in North Yorkshire, UK5.3 km
  • Farnhillvillage and civil parish in North Yorkshire, UK3.7 km
  • Steeton with Eastburncivil parish in West Yorkshire, England2.1 km
  • Kildwickvillage and civil parish in North Yorkshire, UK3.4 km