How to get to Saltaire

"Saltaire is best approached by train, from which you get a feel of the valleys cutting through the Pennines, enclosing the railway, roads and Leeds-Liverpool canal with the eighteenth- and nineteenth century industrial villages and towns threaded along them. Saltaire is by far the most handsome of the West Riding industrial towns and, unlike many of the others, is spankingly kept up."
John Martin Robinson The Architecture of Northern England, 1986

Aw wor pratty weel tired an sooin fell asleep, an' when aw wakened we wor on us way to Saltaire. It wor a grand mornin an'as we wor sailin bi one horse pair, it seemed to me as if it worn't impossible to get to Saltaire befoor winter set in
John Hartley Seets I' Yorkshire and Lancashire or Grimes' Comical Trip from Leeds to Liverpool by Canal

Saltaire is:

10 miles/15 km north-west of Leeds. 15miles/24 km south-west of Harrogate. 3.5miles/5.5 km north of Bradford. 30miles/50 km south-west of York ( and about the same NE of Manchester and NW of Sheffield) 60miles/95km west of the port of Hull It is only 6miles/10km south-west of Leeds-Bradford Airport These are straight line distances not travel distances. Road distances may be found below

UK Online Transport link

Public Transport Information
All Shops are within two minutes walk of the station
Station Master - Bus and Train timetable information
Railtrack - Train timetable information

Leeds/Bradford Airport
ManchesterAirport

First Bradford now has its own website ( including a customised link to Stationmaster)

Traveling by Car
Saltaire is west of Shipley near junction of A650 and A657.

Road Distances to Saltaire based on the AA A to B Route Planner but simplified. to Saltaire from: Bradford 4 miles/6.5 kilometers (10 minutes) Leeds 14.5 miles / 23km (30 minutes) Harrogate 19 miles / 30km (30 minutes) York 35 miles /57km (1 hr) Manchester 42 miles /68km (1 hr) Hull 72.5 miles/ 116km (1.5 hrs) Sheffield 48.5m/ 78km (1hr) Newcastle-upon-Tyne 100 miles/161km (2 hrs) London 211 miles/ 339km (3.5 hrs) Edinburgh 204 miles/328km (4 hrs) Glasgow 202miles/325 km (4 hrs) The above distances and times, given in good faith, are by AA approved routes as used in AA A to B v2.0 (1997). I have rounded out the figures for ease of use. Obviously the exact distance depends on your exact route and the time on traffic conditions etc. Please check current road conditions with the links provided below.

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RAC route planner.

RAC live traffic news
There is a car park at the junction of Victoria Rd and Caroline St (opposite the shops and within sight of the mill) and another next to Shipley College on Exhibition Rd. The Mill has a large car park of its own (access from Otley Rd, Shipley via Salts Mill Rd)
The main car-parks are now pay-and-display(16th June 1999)

Parking Charges
20p for 1hr
40p for 2hrs
60p for 3hrs
80p for 4hrs
£1.00 for 5hrs
£3.00 for more than 5hrs

Parking Map of Saltaire

Remember that Saltaire is a living community
- so please take parking restrictions seriously.
Remember there are plenty of parking places
both on street and in car parks

Saltaire location Map
Shipley College's location map

Bronte Country map link

Link to Shipley Street map

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Main Page
(with constantly updated news of Saltaire)
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* Getting to Saltaire* Pictures of Saltaire * Books at Saltaire* Tourist information
* Victoria Hall - Saltaire's unique international and community venue
* Events at Victoria Hall August, September, October 1999*
History of Salt and his times to 1853*History 1853 -1876*Books about Saltaire
*a walk along Albert Terrace * Maps of Saltaire Region
* The Marble Likeness of their Liberal Master *Links
Northern Tourist Links(Bradford)