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Stanbury

Stanbury is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Haworth and Stanbury, in the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England.

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The place

Stanbury is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Haworth and Stanbury, in the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England. In 1931 the parish had a population of 453.

The name Stanbury translates as Stone Fort from Old English.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Stanbury

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
    Brontë Parsonage Museum

    The Brontë Parsonage Museum is a writer's house museum maintained by the Brontë Society in honour of the Brontë sisters – Charlotte, Emily and Anne. The museum is in the former Brontë family home, the parsonage in Haworth, West Yorkshire, England, where the sisters spent most of their lives and wrote their famous novels.

    1.9 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury, West Yorkshire, England,UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Brontë Waterfall

    Brontë Waterfall on the South Dean Beck is about a mile south-west of Stanbury, near Haworth in West Yorkshire, England. Beck is a dialect word for a stream.

    1.7 km · waterfall in West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Michael and All Angels' Church, Haworth

    St Michael and All Angels' Church is the Church of England parish church of Haworth, West Yorkshire. The majority of the structure, which is the third church building on the site, was built between 1879 and 1881.

    2 km · church in Haworth, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Oakworth Hall

    Oakworth Hall is located in Oakworth, West Yorkshire, England. The manor house was rebuilt in the 17th century, but has a history dating back to 1066.

    2.8 km · house in Keighley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Holden Park

    Holden Park is the only park in the village of Oakworth, West Yorkshire, England. The park is also known locally as Oakworth Park.

    3.1 km · park in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Lower Laithe Reservoir

    Lower Laithe Reservoir is a man-made upland reservoir that lies 1.2 miles west of Haworth, West Yorkshire, England. The reservoir was initially approved under the Keighley Waterworks Extension and Improvement Act 1869 (32 & 33 Vict.

    500 m · reservoir in West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Ponden Hall

    Ponden Hall is a farmhouse near Stanbury in West Yorkshire, England. It is famous for reputedly being the inspiration for Thrushcross Grange, the home of the Linton family, Edgar, Isabella, and Cathy, in Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights since Brontë was a frequent visitor.

    1.9 km · house in Scar Top, near Stanbury, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Ponden Reservoir

    Ponden Reservoir is an artificial upland lake in the Worth Valley, near Stanbury, West Yorkshire, England. Ponden was built as a compensation reservoir after the nearby Watersheddles Reservoir was used to divert water away from the River Worth.

    1.6 km · reservoir in West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Keighley Moor Reservoir

    Keighley Moor Reservoir is a freshwater reservoir west of Oakworth, in West Yorkshire, England. Although it was originally built to keep a constant supply of water to downstream mills, it is now used for freshwater supply within the Keighley and Bradford areas, with water overflowing the reservoir running via North Beck into the River Worth in Keighley.

    3.2 km · reservoir in 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 Stanbury

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 22 km · Manchester (MAN), 57 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 79 km
Stations
Haworth railway station, 2.5 km · Oakworth railway station, 3.2 km · Oxenhope railway station, 2.8 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Stanbury
    42 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £6–8
  • Liverpool → Stanbury
    80 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £10–13
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Stanbury
    112 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £13–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Stanbury

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 Stanbury. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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  2. 02
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  3. 03
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    LundyGB

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  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

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

Around it

Next door to Stanbury

Stanbury is 16 km from Bradford, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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