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City in West Yorkshire, England

Bradford

Bradford is a city in West Yorkshire, England.

Plan a trip to Bradford→From Manchester, Greater Manchester

It became a municipal borough in 1847, received a city charter in 1897 and, since the 1974 reform, the city status has belonged to the larger City of Bradford metropolitan borough. In the 2021 census, the city itself had a population of 352,317, making it the second-largest subdivision of the West Yorkshire Built-up Area after Leeds, which is approximately 9 mi (14 km) to the east. The wider metropolitan borough had a population of 546,976 at the same census, making it one of the most populous districts in England.

Get in

Getting to Bradford

  1. 01
    Leeds Bradford Airport LBA IATA
  2. 02
    Manchester Airport MAN IATA

    From there take any train towards Leeds, and change at Huddersfield for Bradford Interchange, journey time 1 hr 40 min.

  3. 03
    Bradford Interchange

    It has trains to Manchester Victoria and Chester, Preston and Blackpool North, Leeds (20 min) and York, and Huddersfield.

  4. 04
    Bradford Forster Square

    Has trains from Leeds (25 mins via Shipley), Ilkley, and (via Saltaire) to Skipton.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Little Germany

    An impressive collection of 85 buildings constructed between 1855 and 1890, during the heyday of Bradford's wool textile industry, now a residential and business district.

  2. 02
    National Science & Media Museum

    Little Horton Lane BD1 1NQ, +44 844 856 3797.

  3. 03
    Bradford Industrial Museum

    Moorside Mills, 235 Moorside Road, Eccleshill BD2 3HP (3 miles (5 km) NE of centre off Harrogate Rd; Bus 660),.

  4. 04
    Peace Museum

    Recounts the stories of those who tried to bring an end to extremism, conflict, violence, war and inequality; to create social justice, peace and cohesion.

  5. 05
    Bolling Hall Museum

    Bowling Hall Road (one mile (1,5 km) south of centre).

  6. 06
    Bradford Police Museum

    City Hall Bradford BD1 1HY, info@bradfordpolicemuseum.com.

Do

Things to do

Theatres are the

  1. 01
    Alhambra on Morley Street
  2. 02
    Theatre in the Mill on Shearbridge Road
  3. 03
    Bradford Playhouse on Chapel Street
  4. 04
    Cineworld on Vicar Lane
  5. 05
    St George's Hall

    Several pubs have live music of an evening.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Karachi Restaurant

    This cheap and cheerful Pakistani restaurant is a Bradford institution.

  2. 02
    The Kashmir

    Restaurant upstairs, cafe-style downstairs.

  3. 03
    Mumtaz

    386-410 Great Horton Road BD7 3HS, bradford@mumtaz.com.

  4. 04
    Omar's Balti House

    Mon-Thu 11AM-1AM, Fri Sat 5PM-3AM, Sun 5PM-1AM.

  5. 05
    Mamma Mia

    3 Upper Piccadilly (next to Forster Square Station),.

How locals move

Getting around Bradford the local way

  • Get inFerries sail overnight from Rotterdam (Netherlands) to Kingston upon Hull.
  • Get inHull is an hour by train or car from Leeds, and the ferry port is 3 miles east of Hull city centre: buses run from there to the railway station.
  • Go nextLeeds is a major transport hub, so many outlying attractions can be done as day trips.

From Wikivoyage: Leeds, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Jeevan Jose, Kerala, India (CC BY-SA 4.0), Wikimedia Commons.