Bradford
Bradford is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire in the north of England. With a population of about 550,000 to the east its built-up area runs into that of Leeds, while to the west are Pennine valleys, the "Bronte Country".| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bingley railway station and Bingley Five Rise Locks.
Bingley railway station
Railway station
Photo: Stanley Walker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bingley is a grade II listed railway station that serves the market town of Bingley in West Yorkshire, England. It is located 13.5 miles from Leeds and 5.5 miles away from Bradford Forster Square, on the Airedale line; services are operated by Northern Trains.
Bingley Five Rise Locks
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Bingley Five-Rise Locks is a staircase lock on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Bingley. As the name implies, a boat passing through the lock is lifted or lowered in five stages.
Shipley railway station
Railway station
Photo: Betty Longbottom, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Shipley railway station serves the market town of Shipley in West Yorkshire, England. It is 2+3⁄4 miles north of Bradford Forster Square and 10+3⁄4 miles north-west of Leeds.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saltaire and Bingley.
Saltaire
Saltaire is a Victorian model village near Shipley, West Yorkshire, England, situated between the River Aire, the railway, and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Salts Mill and the houses were built by Titus Salt between 1851 and 1871 to allow his workers to live in better conditions than the slums of Bradford.
Bingley
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Bingley is a town in the English county of West Yorkshire, located approximately 5 miles north-west of Bradford. it is now part of the Bradford Metropolitan District.
Keighley
Keighley is a town in the English county of West Yorkshire, north west of Bradford in the Aire Valley.
Bradford
Latitude
53.8333° or 53° 50′ northLongitude
-1.8333° or 1° 50′ westPopulation
547,000Elevation
459 feet (140 metres)Abbreviation
“BRD”Open location code
9C5WR5M8+8MGeoNames ID
3333131
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