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

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'.
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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.
- 01Sowerby 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 - 02Rochdale 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 - 03Tuel 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 - 04Field 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 - 05Lloyds 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 - 06Baitings 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 - 07Ryburn 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 - 08Scammonden 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 - 09Wood 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
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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 → Soyland30 km · quickest by road, 58 min · £3.5–4.5
- Liverpool → Soyland75 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £8–10
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Soyland97 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £12–15
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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.
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If you know how people move in Soyland – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Soyland
Soyland is 18 km from Bradford, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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