Shipley (West Yorkshire)

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Shipley
Coordinates 53 ° 50 ′  N , 1 ° 47 ′  W Coordinates: 53 ° 50 ′  N , 1 ° 47 ′  W
Shipley (England)
Shipley
Shipley
Residents 28,162 (as of: 2001)
administration
Post town SHIPLEY
ZIP code section BD 17.18
prefix 01274
Part of the country England
region Yorkshire and the Humber
Shire county West Yorkshire
District City of Bradford
British Parliament Shipley

Shipley is a middle town in the Metropolitan Borough City of Bradford in the English county of West Yorkshire . According to the 2001 census, it had a total of 28,162 inhabitants.

geography

The city sits on the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal , just north of Bradford and northwest of Leeds . The city is within the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford. Until 1974 it formed its own urban district , today it forms a single metropolitan area with Bradford.

Attractions

Saltaire

To the north of Shipley, across the Aire , is a wooded ridge, the Shipley Glen . It has long been considered a particularly beautiful lookout point and in 1895 the Shipley Glen Tramway was built to take visitors to the top of the mountain. The tramway runs most weekends and is run by volunteers, but operations are occasionally interrupted due to bad weather.

Shipley has a UNESCO World Heritage Site with the village of Saltaire , which was designed and built in the Victorian era to house the workers of the industrial cloth manufacturer Titus Salt . Salt built its factory (Salts Mill) directly on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and participated in the production of alpaca and woolen fabrics. Salts Mill is now used for the 1853 Gallery, which is dedicated to the work of David Hockney . It also includes some shops, restaurants and offices.

traffic

A rail connection is given via Shipley Station on the Airedale Line on the Leeds – Morecambe railway line .

Personalities

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