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Soyland

Soyland is a village in the civil parish of Ripponden, in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England.

Soyland
Soyland · Tim Green from Bradford
The place

Soyland is a village in the civil parish of Ripponden, in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England. It is just north of Ripponden off the A58 road and is 5 miles (8 km) south west of Halifax. The village referred to as Soyland Town, used to be the site of several textile mills, but these have closed down. The walking route Calderdale Way passes through the area. The name Soyland derives from the Middle English soghland meaning 'boggy land'.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Soyland

9 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
    Sowerby Bridge

    Sowerby Bridge is a market town in the Upper Calder Valley in Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England. The Calderdale Council ward population at the 2011 census was 11,703.

    3.1 km · market town in the Upper Calder Valley in Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Rochdale Canal

    The Rochdale Canal is in Northern England, between Manchester and Sowerby Bridge, part of the connected system of the canals of Great Britain. Its name refers to the town of Rochdale through which it passes.

    4 km · canal in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Tuel Lane Lock

    Tuel Lane Lock is a canal lock, situated on the Rochdale Canal in Sowerby Bridge, England. It was built in 1996 as part of the canal's restoration, and replaces two previous locks, locks 3 and 4, from the original canal system.

    4 km · canal lock on the Rochdale Canal in Sowerby Bridge, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Field House

    Field House is a Grade II* listed privately owned historic house in Triangle, West Yorkshire, England.

    2.2 km · Grade II* listed privately owned historic house in Sowerby, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Lloyds Bank

    Sowerby Bridge Town Hall is a former municipal building in Town Hall Street in Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, England. The building, which was initially used as the offices of the local board of health and as a public events venue, then as the home of the local Liberal Club and later as a bank branch, is a Grade II listed building.

    3.7 km · bank building in Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Baitings Reservoir

    Baitings Reservoir is a large water supply reservoir operated by Yorkshire Water close to Ripponden in the West Yorkshire Pennines, England. It lies in the valley of the River Ryburn, is the higher of two reservoirs built to supply Wakefield with water and was completed in 1956.

    3.5 km · reservoir in West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Ryburn Reservoir

    Ryburn Reservoir is a supply reservoir operated by Yorkshire Water close to Ripponden in the Yorkshire Pennines, England. It lies in the valley of the River Ryburn and is the lower of two reservoirs built in the valley to supply Wakefield with water and was completed in 1933.

    2.4 km · reservoir in West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    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.

    3.7 km · bridge in Kirklees · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Wood Lane Hall

    Wood Lane Hall is a Grade I listed building near Sowerby, West Yorkshire, England.

    3.3 km · Grade I listed house in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England, UK · 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 Soyland

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 28 km · Manchester (MAN), 43 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 71 km
Stations
Sowerby Bridge railway station, 3.9 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Soyland
    30 km · quickest by road, 58 min · £3.5–4.5
  • Liverpool → Soyland
    75 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £8–10
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Soyland
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £12–15
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Soyland

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 Soyland. 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

    294 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    329 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    334 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    336 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    356 km

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

Around it

Next door to Soyland

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

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  • Rishworthvillage in West Yorkshire, England2.1 km
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