Sowerby
Sowerby is a village in the Calderdale district, in West Yorkshire, England. It lies in the Pennines, contiguous with Sowerby Bridge, 3.7 miles west-southwest of Halifax.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: village in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Sowerby, West Yorkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ryburn Valley High School and Wood Lane Hall.
Ryburn Valley High School
School
Photo: Betty Longbottom, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ryburn Valley High School is a secondary school and sixth form located in the town of Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, England. Originally built in the 1950s, it moved into a new building in 2005.
Wood Lane Hall
Building
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wood Lane Hall is a Grade I listed building near Sowerby, West Yorkshire, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Triangle and Boulderclough.
Triangle
Village
Triangle is a village in the Calderdale borough of West Yorkshire, England. It is located in the valley of the River Ryburn, on the A58 road over the South Pennines, between Sowerby Bridge and Ripponden.
Boulderclough
Hamlet
Photo: Mark Anderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Boulderclough is a small village in the Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire, England. The village is situated between Sowerby at the south and Mytholmroyd at the north, and is approximately 3 miles west from the centre of the town of Halifax.
Friendly
Suburb
Friendly is a settlement near Sowerby Bridge in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England, lying on the A646 road in the valley of the River Calder. It was described in Bartholomew's 1887 Gazetteer of the British Isles as a village 3 miles west of Halifax.
Sowerby
- Category: locality
- Location: Calderdale, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.70546° or 53° 42′ 20″ northLongitude
-1.93244° or 1° 55′ 57″ westOpen location code
9C5WP349+52OpenStreetMap ID
node 29620549OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageWikidata ID
Q7571869
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Sowerby” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Sowerby, West Yorkshire”
- French: “Sowerby”
- Irish: “Sowerby”
- Italian: “Sowerby”
- Japanese: “サワービー”
- Polish: “Sowerby (West Yorkshire)”
- Polish: “Sowerby”
- Swedish: “Sowerby, West Yorkshire”
- Swedish: “Sowerby”
- Welsh: “Sowerby, Gorllewin Swydd Efrog”
- Welsh: “Sowerby”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sowerby St Peter’s Cricket Club and Sowerby Tennis & Cricket Club.
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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 “Sowerby”. Photo: TheMightyGrog, CC BY-SA 4.0.