Farsley

Sunny Bank Mills is a former textile mill, which specialised in worsted cloth, set in 10 acres of land located on Town Street, Farsley, Leeds, England. Since 2010, it has been developed as a business and artistic community, with an exhibitions gallery selling fine art by local artists; a textile and local history archive; shops, cafés, artist studios; as well as outdoor spaces. It is run by the Gaunt family who took ownership in 1943. The archive was awarded Archive Community Accreditation by West Yorkshire Archive Service in January 2021.

Stanningley is a district of Pudsey, West Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 5 miles (8 km) west of Leeds city centre on the A647 road, the original main road from Leeds to Bradford. The appropriate Leeds Metropolitan Ward is Bramley and Stanningley. The parish is part of the Anglican Diocese of Leeds.

AW Hainsworth & Sons, Ltd., formerly known as Abimelech Hainsworth are an English textile manufacturing company based in Pudsey, West Yorkshire. They are known for producing heavily milled wool fabrics such as melton and doeskin,: 153  and for supplying these to the British Army, most notably for the Red coat (military uniform) still worn ceremonially by certain British Army units, especially the Grenadier Guards, for whom Hainsworth are the exclusive supplier of scarlet wool cloth for grenadier tunics, navy blue for trousers, and grey for winter greatcoats.

The Citadel, previously known as Throstle Nest, is a football ground situated in Farsley, in the Metropolitan District of the City of Leeds in England, and is the current home of Farsley Celtic. It has a capacity of 3,900, 400 of which are seated. For the 2007–08 season Farsley Celtic agreed to let Leeds Met Carnegie also play at the ground.

Stanningley railway station, also called Stanningley for Farsley, is a closed railway station in Stanningley, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, England, located about 5 mi (8 km) west of Leeds station. It also served Farsley and Pudsey, the latter namely until the Pudsey Loop was built. It was opened on 1 August 1854 as a station on the Leeds, Bradford and Halifax Junction Railway, later part of the GNR, from Leeds Central station to Bradford Adolphus Street. On 1 April 1878 a branch from Stanningley to Pudsey Greenside was opened which eventually evolved into the Pudsey loop line railway. Having been renamed into Stanningley for Farsley, the station name reverted to Stanningley in 1961. Stanningley railway station closed on 1 January 1968, while the line itself has remained open, with trains of the Calder Valley Line passing the site of the former station. The station had a sizeable goods yard. The goods shed has survived almost intact and is used by a builders’ merchant, while the station building is used as business premises. In its function as a railway station for Farsley, it has been replaced by New Pudsey railway station which is situated about 1 mile further west.

Bagley is a village in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire, England, once in the township of Farsley. The remains of the village (or hamlet) are on Bagley Lane, on the section between the A657 road in Rodley and the junction with Coalhill Lane.

New Pudsey railway station is in Farsley, West Yorkshire, England, on the Calder Valley line from Leeds to Bradford Interchange, Halifax, Huddersfield, Manchester Victoria, and Blackpool North. Lying 5.75 miles (9.25 km) west of Leeds, it serves as a commuter station for the western edge of the Leeds conurbation.

The Municipal Borough of Brighouse was a local government district in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1873 to 1974 around the town of Brighouse, covering Clifton, Hipperholme, Hove Edge, Lightcliffe, Rastrick and Southowram. Brighouse was historically part of the township of Hipperholme with Brighouse in the large ancient parish of Halifax. A local board formed for the parish of Brighouse in 1865. It incorporated as a municipal borough by amalgamating the local boards of Brighouse, Rastrick, and Hove Edge on 30 September 1893. Its first mayor was Alderman William Smith.Brighouse Town Hall was opened on 16 March 1887 as the seat of local government and was taken over by the Borough upon its creation. The Neoclassical sandstone building was designed by John Lord and is Grade II listed. Arms were granted to the Borough Council in 1895, which can be seen on a plaque Brighouse Bridge and as the logo of Brighouse Town F.C. The arms are derived from the crests of the Brighouse and Rastrick families who lived in the district in the seventeenth century. The gold lion and the black crescents come from the Brighouse family and the red roses are from the crest of the Rastrick family. It is unusual to see the inclusion of red roses on the arms of a Yorkshire borough.In 1937 Brighouse MB expanded by absorbing part of the abolished Halifax Rural District - Norwood Green & Coley civil parish and parts of the parishes of Clifton, Fixby and Hartshead (2,811 acres); Hipperholme Urban District (1,196 acres); and Southowram Urban District (1,642 acres).The borough was abolished under the Local Government Act 1972, and created the eastern portion of the new Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale in West Yorkshire by a merger with the County Borough of Halifax, the Municipal Borough of Todmorden, Elland, Hebden Royd, Ripponden, and Sowerby Bridge urban districts, part of Queensbury and Shelf UD and Hepton Rural District. The mayor's mace was removed in 1974 to the Town Hall, Halifax, where it is displayed in the mayor's parlour to denote the authority of the Halifax mayor.

The Municipal Borough of Castleford was a local government district in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1955 to 1974 around the town of Castleford, covering Airedale, New Fryston, Whitwood, Cutsyke, Glasshoughton and Whitwood. The Castleford Urban District administered the town from 1894 to 1955.

Pudsey was a local government district in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1872 to 1974 around the town of Pudsey, covering Farsley, Calverley, Stanningley, Swinnow and Rodley. A local board formed for the parish of Pudsey in 1872. It became an urban district in 1894 and gained the status of municipal borough in 1900.In 1937 it absorbed Calverley Urban District (2106 acres) and Farsley Urban District (821 acres). It was abolished in 1974 and its former area became part of the City of Leeds, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire.

Co-op Academy Priesthorpe is a secondary school, academy and sixth form in Pudsey, West Yorkshire, England.

Pudsey Grammar School is a secondary school with a sixth form in Pudsey, West Yorkshire, England. It serves over 1300 pupils from the town and surrounding area. The school has a large Sixth Form of over 260 students offering 20 A level courses and 6 Applied General courses.