West Scholes

West Scholes is a hamlet in Bradford, England. West Scholes is situated nearby to the hamlet Mountain, as well as near the village Thornton.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Thornton Viaduct and St Theresa of the Child Jesus, Queensbury.

Thornton Viaduct

Bridge

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Thornton Viaduct is a disused railway bridge in Thornton, in the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, in northern England. It opened in 1878, having been built for the Great Northern Railway, closed in 1966, and re-opened as part of a cycling route in 2008.

St Theresa of the Child Jesus, Queensbury

Church

Photo: Betty Longbottom, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St Theresa of the Child Jesus, Queensbury is a church.

Church of the Holy Trinity

Church

Photo: Tim Green, CC BY 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Thornton and Queensbury.

Thornton

Village

Photo: Tim Green, CC BY 2.0.

Thornton is a village and former civil parish, within the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford, in West Yorkshire, England. It lies 6 miles to the west of the city centre of Bradford, and together with neighbouring Allerton, had a total resident population in 2001 of 15,004, increasing to 17,276 in 2011 and 18,520 in 2021.

Queensbury

Village

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Queensbury is a village in the metropolitan borough and city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. Perched on a high vantage point above Halifax, Clayton and Thornton and overlooking Bradford, Queensbury is one of the highest parishes in England, with views beyond the West Yorkshire conurbation to the hills of Brontë Country and the Yorkshire Dales to the north and north west.