Airedale Academy

Airedale Academy is a secondary school and sixth form on Crewe Road in a suburb of Castleford in West Yorkshire, England. Castleford Academy Trust recently merged with Northern Ambition Academies Trust.

Email: info@airedaleacademy.com
Type: School
Description: school in Wakefield, UK
Address: Crewe Road, Airedale, Castleford, WF10 3JU

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include The Holy Cross and Pontefract Castle.

The Holy Cross

Church

Photo: Jonathan Thacker, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Holy Cross is a church, which is situated 1,800 feet northwest of Airedale Academy.

Pontefract Castle

Castle

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Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Pontefract Castle is a castle ruin in the town of Pontefract, in West Yorkshire, England. King Richard II is thought to have died there. It was the site of a series of sieges during the 17th-century English Civil War. Pontefract Castle is situated 2 miles south of Airedale Academy.

Wheldon Road

Stadium

Photo: Me677, Public domain.

Wheldon Road is the home ground of Castleford Tigers rugby league club in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England. It is on Wheldon Road, just outside Castleford town centre. The record attendance of 25,449 was for a Challenge Cup match in 1935. Wheldon Road is situated 1½ miles northwest of Airedale Academy.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Airedale and New Fryston.

Airedale

Suburb

Airedale is a suburb in the town of Castleford, West Yorkshire, England. It consists mainly of Local Authority Housing. It borders with Ferry Fryston. The ward of the City of Wakefield called Airedale and Ferry Fryston had a population of 14,811 at the 2011 Census.

New Fryston

Village

Photo: David Pickersgill, CC BY-SA 2.0.

New Fryston is a small former coal mining village in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England, located in a river bend on the south bank of the River Aire. The colliery opened in the 1870s in the grounds of the now-demolished Fryston Hall and was named Fryston, and the village was built in the 1880s to house some of the miners.

Glasshoughton

Suburb

Photo: David Pickersgill, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Glasshoughton is a neighbourhood of Castleford in the Wakefield district of West Yorkshire, England. The area is next to Junction 32 of the M62 motorway and the Glasshoughton railway station, and borders Pontefract.