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The BD postcode area, also known as the Bradford postcode area, [2] is a group of 24 postcode districts in England, within seven post towns.These cover northwestern West Yorkshire (including Bradford, Bingley, Shipley, Cleckheaton and Keighley) and southwestern North Yorkshire (including Skipton and Settle), plus very small parts of Lancashire.
Wyke Methodist Church is located at Laverack Field in Wyke. [2] The South Bradford Local History Alliance reports that "the Wesleyan movement held meetings in Wyke in the mid-19th century at a property in Wyke Lane known as Bink’s Cottage, and later at the home of Joseph Clark near the Temperance Hall. The original chapel was built in 1869 ...
Wyke is a ward in the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. It contains 63 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The ward contains the village of Wyke and parts of Low Moor and Oakenshaw. It is mainly ...
The most dominant landmark in Low Moor is arguably the most dominant landmark in the entire village, Low Moor Iron Works. The iron works stand in the central part of Low Moor. Royds Hall, a Grade II* listed building west of Low Moor, was begun in 1640 and substantially extended in 1770. It was the seat of the Rookes family until 1788 when it ...
The Low Moor company bought the Bierley Ironworks in 1854. [34] By 1855 Low Moor was producing 21,840 tons of iron per year, and was the largest ironworks in Yorkshire. The foundries at Low Moor produced quantities of guns, shells and shot for troops fighting in the Crimean War (1853–56) and the Indian Mutiny (1857–58). [35]
Successive chairmen of the Low Moor Iron Company occupied the property until the 1920s. Finally in 1932 Royds Hall was purchased by a private owner who stayed until 1975. Two further owners since lovingly maintained and improved Royds Hall, [ 2 ] including millionaire businessman Sir Earnest Hall who was responsible for much of the restoration ...
Appleton Academy is a mixed all-through school for pupils aged 3 to 16. It is located in Wyke in the City of Bradford, in the English county of West Yorkshire. [1] The school is named after Sir Edward Victor Appleton, a physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947.
Bierley housing estate is situated about 2.3 miles (3.7 km) south-east of the centre of Bradford, south of the A650 road and the A6036 road.Neighbouring places are in clockwise order: Oakenshaw in the south, Low Moor, Odsal, Bankfoot, West Bowling, East Bowling, Dudley Hill, Holme Wood, Westgate Hill and Tong Village in the City of Bradford and East Bierley in Kirklees in the south-east.