Castle · Keighley · West Yorkshire

Cliffe Castle

Cliffe Castle is a heritage centre, historic house museum.. Its place is inside Keighley’s built-up area. Visitors run to about 65K a year.

Photo: Cliffe Castle, Tim Green from Bradford (CC BY 2.0)

Where

In Keighley

inside the built-up area

Visitors a year

65K

Wikidata

How well known

Top 10%

#788 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

Jun–Sep

highs of 17–20°C

In brief

Castle in Keighley

One of the best-known places to visit in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

#788 of the 8,556 museums, castles, gardens and other attractions we list, by how widely it is covered (2 Wikipedias). About ↓

Inside Keighley

Cliffe Castle is inside Keighley’s built-up area, with 6 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓

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

When to go

A month-by-month guide

Warm weather in Keighley runs June to September, with highs of 17–20°C.

Jan6° / 2°100 mm

Feb7° / 2°78 mm

Mar9° / 3°68 mm

Apr12° / 5°53 mm

May16° / 7°57 mm

Jun18° / 10°63 mm

Jul20° / 12°77 mm

Aug20° / 12°77 mm

Sep17° / 10°71 mm

Oct13° / 7°95 mm

Nov10° / 4°99 mm

Dec7° / 2°100 mm

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

About

Cliffe Castle

It is written up in 2 Wikipedias. Look also at Bronte Parsonage Museum, 5.7 km away, first of 41 more within 15 km.

Type: Castle
Visitors: 65K visitors a year
Wikipedias: Covered in 2 languages
Town: in Keighley
Official site: bradfordmuseums.org/cliffe-castle

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

The map

Its place on the map

Orange is Cliffe Castle; numbered in green, the places near it.

Towns near it

Where to base yourself

The 8 towns are led in size by Keighley, with 48,754 people. All of these towns include it on their pages.

1 · It’s in town

Keighley

48,754 people · 12 places to visit

2 · 2.8 km northwest of it

Steeton

5,019 people · 6 places to visit

3 · 3.4 km southwest of it

Oakworth

3,688 people · 7 places to visit

4 · 3.5 km north of it

Silsden

8,392 people · 4 places to visit

Compare the 8 towns

Town	Where Cliffe Castle is	People	Places to visit
Keighley	It’s in town	48,754	12
Steeton	2.8 km northwest of it	5,019	6
Oakworth	3.4 km southwest of it	3,688	7
Silsden	3.5 km north of it	8,392	4
East Morton	3.7 km east of it	1,227	13
Haworth	4 km southwest of it	5,680	8
Bingley	4 km southeast of it	21,334	14
Harden	4.3 km southeast of it	1,602	13

Make a day of it

Places to add to Cliffe Castle

A visit can add 3 museums, 2 abbeys or priories and a castle, from 41 places within 15 km.

MuseumBronte Parsonage Museum5.7 km away 2

MuseumNational Science and Media Museum14 km away · 442K visitors a year (2015)3

CastleSkipton Castle12 km away 4

Historic house · National TrustEast Riddlesden Hall2.1 km away 5

CathedralBradford Cathedral14 km away 6

MuseumMuseum of Rail Travel2.2 km away 7

Abbey or prioryBolton Abbey12 km away 8

Abbey or prioryBolton Priory12 km away

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

What people ask about Cliffe Castle

Where is Cliffe Castle?

Cliffe Castle is in Keighley, West Yorkshire, inside the town’s built-up area.

What is Cliffe Castle?

Heritage centre, historic house museum. in West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom.

How many people visit Cliffe Castle?

About 65K visitors a year.

When is the best time to visit Cliffe Castle?

June to September are the warmest months in Keighley, with afternoon highs of 17–20°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

What else is there to see near Cliffe Castle?

Within 15 km: Bronte Parsonage Museum (5.7 km), National Science and Media Museum (14 km), Skipton Castle (12 km) and East Riddlesden Hall (2.1 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)

Cliffe Castle: Tim Green from Bradford, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Bronte Parsonage Museum: SpaceMonkey at en.wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
National Science and Media Museum: Chemical Engineer, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Skipton Castle: Davegill70, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
East Riddlesden Hall: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Bradford Cathedral: Mick Melvin, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Museum of Rail Travel: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Bolton Abbey: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Bolton Priory: Ian Greig, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

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