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Whitley Lower

Whitley Lower is a village near Thornhill in Kirklees, West Yorkshire England.

Whitley Lower
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The place

Whitley Lower is a village near Thornhill in Kirklees, West Yorkshire England. The parish church, dedicated to St Mary and St Michael, is part of the united benefice of Thornhill and Whitley which also includes Briestfield. The church was Grade II listed in 1985. In 1891 the civil parish had a population of 879.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Whitley Lower

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
    Markazi Mosque

    The Markazi Masjid, also known as the Dewsbury Markaz or Dar ul Ulum, is a mosque in the Savile Town area of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England. With a maximum capacity of 4,000, it is one of the largest mosques in Europe.

    3.8 km · Mosque in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    National Coal Mining Museum for England

    National Coal Mining Museum for England is based at the site of Caphouse Colliery in Overton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It opened in 1988 as the Yorkshire Mining Museum and was granted national status in 1995.

    3.4 km · coal mining museum in Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Dewsbury Bus Museum

    The Dewsbury Bus Museum is a museum in Ravensthorpe, West Yorkshire, England. Opened to the public in September 1989, it is owned and operated by the West Riding Omnibus Museum Trust, a registered charity, and is run entirely by volunteer effort.

    2.5 km · bus museum in Ravensthorpe, West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Crow Nest Park

    Crow Nest Park is a Green Flag awarded public park located in the Dewsbury Moor area of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England. Opened to the public in 1893, the park originated on the grounds on a country house estate dating from the 16th century.

    3.8 km · green Flag public park in Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Mirfield Town Hall

    Mirfield Town Hall is a former municipal building in Huddersfield Road in Mirfield, a town in West Yorkshire in England. The building, which was previously the offices and meeting place of the Mirfield Urban District Council, is now used as a worship hall by the Salvation Army.

    2.5 km · municipal building in England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Parish Church of St Mary, Mirfield

    St Mary's Church is the parish church of the town of Mirfield in West Yorkshire, England. The current building is a large Gothic Revival structure designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, replacing an older structure, the tower of which still survives a short distance from the present building.

    2.7 km · church in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Ledgard Bridge

    Ledgard Bridge crosses the River Calder in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, England. It was built in 1800 as a replacement for an earlier bridge in the same location and is a Grade II listed structure.

    2.6 km · grade II listed bridge in Mirfield, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Whitley Lower

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 23 km · Manchester (MAN), 53 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 86 km
Stations
Ravensthorpe railway station, 2.2 km · Mirfield railway station, 2.4 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Whitley Lower
    42 km · quickest by road, 1h 16m · £5–7
  • Liverpool → Whitley Lower
    29 km · quickest by road, 50 min · £3–4.5
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Whitley Lower
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Whitley Lower

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextOther easy day trips include Bradford, Saltaire, Haworth and Sheffield.

From Wikivoyage: Wakefield (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
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  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

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    LundyGB

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  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

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  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    370 km

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

Around it

Next door to Whitley Lower

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

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  • Mirfieldtown in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England3 km
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  • Flocktonvillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK3.7 km
  • Grange Moorvillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK1.9 km
  • Ravensthorpevillage in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, UK2.5 km