Town in West Yorkshire, England
Cleckheaton
Cleckheaton is a town in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England.
Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is situated south of Bradford, east of Brighouse, west of Batley and south-west of Leeds. It is at the centre of the Spen Valley and was the major town in the former borough of Spenborough.
Cleckheaton has a history as a mill town and forms part of the Heavy Woollen District.
How locals move
Getting around Cleckheaton 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.
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Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Tim Green from Bradford (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.