Museum · Halifax · West Yorkshire

Bankfield Museum

Bankfield Museum is a textiles gallery, historic house museum, regimental museum.. The built-up area of Halifax includes it. It is a Grade II listed building.

Photo: Bankfield Museum, Linda Spashett Storye_book (CC BY 3.0)

Where

In Halifax

inside the built-up area

How well known

Top 35%

#2,958 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

Jun–Aug

highs of 18–20°C

In brief

Museum in Halifax

Inside Halifax

Bankfield Museum is inside Halifax’s built-up area, with 7 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓

Grade II listed building

On the official list of protected heritage; Halifax has 337 listed buildings in all, on its History page. About ↓

Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

When to go

The best months to visit

In Halifax the warm season is June to August, with highs of 18–20°C.

Jan6° / 1°96 mm

Feb7° / 1°89 mm

Mar9° / 2°77 mm

Apr12° / 4°65 mm

May15° / 7°62 mm

Jun18° / 9°75 mm

Jul20° / 12°79 mm

Aug19° / 11°84 mm

Sep17° / 9°84 mm

Oct13° / 7°100 mm

Nov9° / 4°106 mm

Dec7° / 2°119 mm

Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Halifax, and rain in a month. Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for Halifax. Opening times change through the year: check before you go. Halifax’s full climate →

About

Bankfield Museum

Readers can find it on Wikipedia in 2 languages. A short trip away is National Science and Media Museum, 9.6 km off, the first of 47 within 15 km.

Halifax’s listed buildings and monuments →

Type: Museum
Listed: Grade II listed building
Wikipedias: Covered in 2 languages
Town: in Halifax
Official site: museums.calderdale.gov.uk/visit/bankfield-museum

Facts: Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).

The map

Getting to Bankfield Museum

Use the numbers to match each place near Bankfield Museum with the list.

Towns near it

Towns within reach of Bankfield Museum

Among the 8, Bradford is the biggest, home to 333,968 people. The towns are in order of distance, its own town first.

1 · It’s in town

Halifax

88,111 people · 11 places to visit

2 · 1.2 km northeast of it

Shelf and Northowram

9,191 people · 15 places to visit

3 · 2 km southeast of it

Brighouse

33,159 people · 13 places to visit

4 · 2.7 km north of it

Queensbury

9,707 people · 6 places to visit

Compare the 8 towns

Town	Where Bankfield Museum is	People	Places to visit
Halifax	It’s in town	88,111	11
Shelf and Northowram	1.2 km northeast of it	9,191	15
Brighouse	2 km southeast of it	33,159	13
Queensbury	2.7 km north of it	9,707	6
Sowerby Bridge	3.3 km southwest of it	4,483	10
Norwood Green	4.3 km east of it	481	8
Elland	4.4 km south of it	15,788	14
Bradford	4.4 km northeast of it	333,968	34

Make a day of it

While you are near Bankfield Museum

Also close at hand are 7 museums and a cathedral, among 47 within 15 km.

MuseumNational Science and Media Museum9.6 km away · 442K visitors a year (2015)2

CathedralBradford Cathedral10 km away 3

MuseumShibden Hall1.6 km away 4

MuseumCalderdale Industrial Museum1.2 km away 5

MuseumEureka! The National Children's Museum1.5 km away 6

MuseumBronte Parsonage Museum13 km away 7

MuseumTolson Museum12 km away 8

MuseumBolling Hall Museum9.7 km away

Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.

Questions about Bankfield Museum

Where is Bankfield Museum?

Bankfield Museum is in Halifax, West Yorkshire, inside the town’s built-up area.

What is Bankfield Museum?

Textiles gallery, historic house museum, regimental museum. in West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.

When is the best time to visit Bankfield Museum?

June to August are the warmest months in Halifax, with afternoon highs of 18–20°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

Is Bankfield Museum a listed building?

Yes: Grade II listed building.

What else is there to see near Bankfield Museum?

Within 15 km: National Science and Media Museum (9.6 km), Bradford Cathedral (10 km), Shibden Hall (1.6 km) and Calderdale Industrial Museum (1.2 km).

Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.

Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (9)

Bankfield Museum: Linda Spashett Storye_book, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
National Science and Media Museum: Chemical Engineer, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Bradford Cathedral: Mick Melvin, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Shibden Hall: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Calderdale Industrial Museum: Chris Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Eureka! The National Children's Museum: Sospot, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Bronte Parsonage Museum: SpaceMonkey at en.wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Tolson Museum: Charlesdrakew, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Bolling Hall Museum: StuartBurrows, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

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