Museum · near Baildon · West Yorkshire

Bracken Hall Countryside Centre

Bracken Hall Countryside Centre is a children's museum, natural history museum, local archaeology museum, interpretation centre. On the map, it sits 200 m west of Baildon. Top of the 52 other places within 15 km is National Science and Media Museum, 7 km off.

Photo: Bracken Hall Countryside Centre, Linda Spashett Storye book (CC BY 3.0)

Where

200 m

west of Baildon

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 near Baildon

Just outside Baildon

Bracken Hall Countryside Centre is 200 m west of Baildon. Towns near it ↓

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

When to go

How the seasons run

Afternoons in Baildon peak at 18–20°C, June to August.

Jan7° / 2°78 mm

Feb7° / 2°71 mm

Mar9° / 3°61 mm

Apr12° / 4°56 mm

May15° / 7°56 mm

Jun18° / 10°71 mm

Jul20° / 12°67 mm

Aug20° / 12°73 mm

Sep17° / 10°72 mm

Oct13° / 7°84 mm

Nov9° / 4°90 mm

Dec7° / 2°90 mm

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

About

Bracken Hall Countryside Centre

Readers can find it on Wikipedia in 2 languages.

Type: Museum
Wikipedias: Covered in 2 languages
Town: 200 m west of Baildon
Official site: bradfordmuseums.org/brackenhall/index.htm

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

The map

Map of Bracken Hall Countryside Centre and nearby

Each numbered point is one of the places listed below; Bracken Hall Countryside Centre is the orange one.

Towns near it

Which town is nearest

Bradford is the biggest of the 8 bases nearby (333,968 people). Each of these towns lists it on its own page of things to do.

1 · 200 m east of it

Baildon

17,056 people · 15 places to visit

2 · 600 m west of it

Bingley

21,334 people · 14 places to visit

3 · 900 m southeast of it

Shipley

29,228 people · 19 places to visit

4 · 2.9 km southeast of it

Bradford

333,968 people · 34 places to visit

Compare the 8 towns

Town	Where Bracken Hall Countryside Centre is	People	Places to visit
Baildon	200 m east of it	17,056	15
Bingley	600 m west of it	21,334	14
Shipley	900 m southeast of it	29,228	19
Bradford	2.9 km southeast of it	333,968	34
Keighley	4 km west of it	48,754	12
East Morton	4.1 km northwest of it	1,227	13
Harden	4.2 km west of it	1,602	13
Wilsden	4.3 km southwest of it	3,749	12

Make a day of it

Nearby, too

Within 15 km are 52 places, among them 3 museums, a cathedral and a castle.

MuseumNational Science and Media Museum7 km away · 442K visitors a year (2015)2

CathedralBradford Cathedral6.8 km away 3

CastleCliffe Castle8 km away · 65K visitors a year 4

Abbey or prioryKirkstall Abbey (Ruins)13 km away 5

MuseumBronte Parsonage Museum10 km away 6

MuseumThe Peace Museum1.3 km away 7

Art galleryCartwright Hall Art Gallery4.4 km away 8

Historic house · National TrustEast Riddlesden Hall6.1 km away

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

Visiting Bracken Hall Countryside Centre

Where is Bracken Hall Countryside Centre?

Bracken Hall Countryside Centre is 200 m west of Baildon, West Yorkshire.

What is Bracken Hall Countryside Centre?

Children's museum, natural history museum, local archaeology museum, interpretation centre in West Yorkshire, England.

When is the best time to visit Bracken Hall Countryside Centre?

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

What else is there to see near Bracken Hall Countryside Centre?

Within 15 km: National Science and Media Museum (7 km), Bradford Cathedral (6.8 km), Cliffe Castle (8 km) and Kirkstall Abbey (Ruins) (13 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)

Bracken Hall Countryside Centre: 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
Cliffe Castle: Tim Green from Bradford, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Kirkstall Abbey (Ruins): JohnArmagh, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Bronte Parsonage Museum: SpaceMonkey at en.wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
The Peace Museum: The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery: Flickr user:Tim Green aka atouch, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
East Riddlesden Hall: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

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