Places to explore near Bradford

A grand Victorian cemetery of obelisks and mausolea laid out by Bradford wool merchants.

1.7 km NE

The longest single canal in Britain, crossing the Pennines by Bingley's Five Rise Locks and the moors above Burnley.

4.5 km N · spans 5 counties

Titus Salt's model mill village of 1851 on the Aire, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with Salts Mill's Hockney galleries.

5 km NW · West Yorkshire

Titus Salt's vast 1853 mill, now home to David Hockney galleries, bookshops and a cafe in the World Heritage village.

5.1 km N

The steepest staircase of locks in Britain — five chambers lifting the Leeds & Liverpool Canal about 60 feet in a single flight.

8.4 km NW

Complete Cistercian ruin beside the Aire.

10.4 km E

The world's only surviving Georgian cloth hall, a grand colonnaded courtyard of shops and events in Halifax.

10.5 km SW

A country park in West Yorkshire.

11.3 km N

The taproom and kitchen of Timothy Taylor's, Keighley brewers of Landlord, Britain's classic cask ale.

12.5 km NW

A quiet Yorkshire dale of reservoirs, gritstone rocks and wooded gorges, next door to the Dales but with room to breathe

12.9 km N

Heritage steam line from Keighley to Oxenhope through Bronte country, star of The Railway Children.

12.9 km W

Steep cobbled Main Street climbing to the parsonage where the Brontes wrote, the moors of Wuthering Heights beginning at the top.

13 km W · West Yorkshire

Heather moor of the famous song, scattered with the Twelve Apostles stone circle and prehistoric rock carvings.

13.7 km N

Millstone-grit outcrops on the edge of Ilkley Moor, a climbers' and walkers' magnet with wide Wharfedale views.

13.8 km N

Restored 18th-century spa bath-house on Ilkley Moor with a plunge pool and a moorland cafe.

14.1 km N

Refined moor-edge spa town on the Wharfe, gateway to Ilkley Moor and the Cow and Calf, with a Bettys on the Grove.

14.9 km N · West Yorkshire

A Grade II-listed 1935 lido with a round, mushroom-shaped pool on the grass below Ilkley Moor.

15.6 km N

Moorland cascade and clapper bridge on the walk from Haworth out to Top Withens.

16.3 km W

The first and toughest of them all — 268 miles along England's rocky spine from the Peak to the Cheviots.

16.4 km W · spans 8 counties

Secluded waterfall and packhorse bridge in the wooded Crimsworth Dean above Hebden Bridge.

16.8 km W

Bohemian mill town in the Calder gorge, its double-decker houses stacked above the Rochdale Canal and independent shops.

17.5 km W · West Yorkshire

Ruined moorland farmhouse widely linked to Wuthering Heights, high on the Pennine watershed above Haworth.

17.9 km W

Grand house with Capability Brown parkland.

18.9 km NE

National Trust wooded gorge of the Hebden Water, threaded with paths past the old Gibson Mill.

18.9 km W

Hilltop weavers' village of gritstone cottages, a ruined medieval church beside its Georgian replacement and Sylvia Plath's grave.

18.9 km W · West Yorkshire

Gritstone crag standing alone above lower Wharfedale, a landmark scramble with panoramic views.

19 km NE

Limestone country of dry-stone walls, field barns, waterfalls and the Three Peaks.

19.1 km N

The Pennines for horse and bike — old packhorse trails and drovers' roads.

19.2 km SW · spans 6 counties

A 121-foot peace monument of 1856 crowning the moor above the Calder Valley.

20.7 km SW

A Pennine hamlet of old stone bridges and a ruined hall in a wooded valley on the Brontë Way near Colne

22.1 km W

Priory ruin on a bend of the Wharfe.

22.5 km N

Britain's first national park: gritstone edges in the Dark Peak, limestone dales in the White.

23.5 km S

The RHS’s northern flagship garden at Harrogate, 58 acres of streamside plantings, woodland and kitchen gardens with a Bettys tea room.

24 km NE

Five hundred acres of Bretton Hall parkland dotted with Moore, Hepworth and Goldsworthy sculpture, plus formal gardens and galleries.

24.1 km SE

A wooded side valley on the Bolton Abbey estate with a slender waterfall, on the path to Simon's Seat.

24.6 km N

The full River Wharfe squeezed into a channel a stride wide at Bolton Abbey — beautiful, hypnotic, and reckoned unsurvivable if you go in.

24.9 km N

Bradford's first public park, opened in 1853 with mill-owners' money.

1.8 km NE

A green-belt circuit of Leeds that never strays more than seven miles from the city centre, yet spends most of its time in farmland.

3.9 km NE · West Yorkshire

Oakwell Hall to Gawthorpe Hall across the Pennine edge — Haworth, Top Withens and the moors behind Wuthering Heights.

4.9 km SW · West Yorkshire & Lancashire

The Dales Way's high-level companion, crossing Ingleborough and the Howgill Fells on its way from Saltaire to Appleby.

5.1 km NW · Cumbria, North Yorkshire & West Yorkshire

Titus Salt's Italianate church of 1859 facing Salts Mill, a Grade I centrepiece of the model village.

5.2 km NW

The original recreational-route circuit of 1978 — a fifty-mile loop of Calderdale's moor edges, packhorse ways and mill towns.

6 km SW · West Yorkshire

A dramatic hillside cemetery of 1872 with twin Gothic chapels by William Gay.

6 km E