Laycock
Laycock is a small village in the Bradford District of West Yorkshire that overlooks the hamlet of Goose Eye. The village is 1.9 miles west of the town of Keighley and 1.2 miles north of Oakworth village. The village is in the council ward of Keighley West.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: village in West Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Laycock, West Yorkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Holden Park and St John.
Holden Park
Park
Photo: Betty Longbottom, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Holden Park is the only park in the village of Oakworth, West Yorkshire, England. The park is also known locally as Oakworth Park.
Brontë Parsonage Museum
Museum
Photo: SpaceMonkey, Public domain.
The Brontë Parsonage Museum is a writer's house museum maintained by the Brontë Society in honour of the Brontë sisters – Charlotte, Emily and Anne. The museum is in the former Brontë family home, the parsonage in Haworth, West Yorkshire, England, where the sisters spent most of their lives and wrote their famous novels. Brontë Parsonage Museum is situated 2½ miles south of Laycock.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Braithwaite and Bogthorn.
Bogthorn
Suburb
Photo: Betty Longbottom, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bogthorn is a hamlet which forms part of Keighley in the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. It lies between Exley Head and Oakworth on Keighley Road which is part of the B6143 road. A Wesleyan chapel was built at the corner of Goose Cote Lane in 1882.
Oakworth
Village
Photo: SpaceMonkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Oakworth is a village in the civil parish of Keighley, in the Bradford district, in West Yorkshire, England, near Keighley, by the River Worth. The name "Oakworth" indicates that the village was first established in a heavily wooded area. Oakworth railway station is on the route of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway and was a location in the 1968 TV series and 1970 film The Railway Children.
Laycock
- Category: locality
- Location: Keighley, Bradford, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.86497° or 53° 51′ 54″ northLongitude
-1.95289° or 1° 57′ 10″ westElevation
810 feet (247 metres)Open location code
9C5WV27W+XROpenStreetMap ID
node 6037068422OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Japanese to Russian—“Laycock” goes by many names.
- Japanese: “レイコック”
- Russian: “Лейкок”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Laycock Village Hall and Laycock Primary School.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Laycock”. Photo: Tim Green, CC BY 2.0.