Historic house · Gomersal and Birkenshaw · West Yorkshire

Red House Museum

Red House Museum is a historic house museum.. It stands inside Gomersal and Birkenshaw’s built-up area. Top of the 70 other places within 15 km is National Science and Media Museum, 7.9 km off.

Photo: Red House Museum, Storye book (CC BY 4.0)

Where

In Gomersal and Birkenshaw

inside the built-up area

How well known

Top 28%

#2,392 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

Jun–Sep

highs of 18–21°C

In brief

Historic house in Gomersal and Birkenshaw

Inside Gomersal and Birkenshaw

Red House Museum is inside Gomersal and Birkenshaw’s built-up area, with 4 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

Warm months and wet ones

Warm weather in Gomersal and Birkenshaw runs June to September, with highs of 18–21°C.

Jan6° / 1°72 mm

Feb8° / 2°60 mm

Mar10° / 3°56 mm

Apr13° / 4°53 mm

May16° / 7°51 mm

Jun19° / 10°69 mm

Jul21° / 12°64 mm

Aug20° / 12°70 mm

Sep18° / 10°64 mm

Oct14° / 7°73 mm

Nov10° / 4°77 mm

Dec7° / 2°80 mm

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

About

Red House Museum

Readers can find it on Wikipedia in 3 languages.

Type: Historic house
Wikipedias: Covered in 3 languages
Town: in Gomersal and Birkenshaw
Official site: kirklees.gov.uk/leisure/museumsGalleries/redHouse/index.aspx

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

The map

Where Red House Museum is

Orange: Red House Museum.

Towns near it

Towns within reach of Red House Museum

By population, Dewsbury leads the 8 with 63,730. These are the towns that list it, beginning with its own.

1 · It’s in town

Gomersal and Birkenshaw

13,948 people · 16 places to visit

2 · 500 m southeast of it

Batley

44,494 people · 8 places to visit

3 · 1 km west of it

Cleckheaton

11,607 people · 8 places to visit

4 · 1.5 km southeast of it

Heckmondwike

13,368 people · 6 places to visit

Compare the 8 towns

Town	Where Red House Museum is	People	Places to visit
Gomersal and Birkenshaw	It’s in town	13,948	16
Batley	500 m southeast of it	44,494	8
Cleckheaton	1 km west of it	11,607	8
Heckmondwike	1.5 km southeast of it	13,368	6
Liversedge	1.6 km southwest of it	17,519	7
Drighlington	2.1 km northeast of it	5,280	6
Scholes (near Cleckheaton)	3.1 km west of it	2,896	4
Dewsbury	3.2 km southeast of it	63,730	7

Make a day of it

Nearby, too

Choose from 70 places within 15 km, such as 3 cathedrals, 2 museums and a historic house.

MuseumNational Science and Media Museum7.9 km away · 442K visitors a year (2015)2

CathedralBradford Cathedral8.1 km away 3

CathedralLeeds Cathedral12 km away 4

CathedralWakefield Cathedral14 km away 5

Historic houseOakwell Hall1.3 km away 6

Abbey or prioryKirkstall Abbey (Ruins)11 km away 7

Art galleryLeeds Art Gallery12 km away 8

MuseumRoyal Armouries12 km away

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

Visiting Red House Museum: the answers

Where is Red House Museum?

Red House Museum is in Gomersal and Birkenshaw, West Yorkshire, inside the town’s built-up area.

What is Red House Museum?

Historic house museum. in West Yorkshire, England.

When is the best time to visit Red House Museum?

June to September are the warmest months in Gomersal and Birkenshaw, with afternoon highs of 18–21°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

What else is there to see near Red House Museum?

Within 15 km: National Science and Media Museum (7.9 km), Bradford Cathedral (8.1 km), Leeds Cathedral (12 km) and Wakefield Cathedral (14 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)

Red House Museum: Storye book, CC BY 4.0, 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
Leeds Cathedral: Jungpionier, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Wakefield Cathedral: Mike Kirby, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Oakwell Hall: Nigel Homer, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Kirkstall Abbey (Ruins): JohnArmagh, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Leeds Art Gallery: Frank Watkins, British (fl.1859–94) (ILN staff illustrator), by T.D. Nettleton, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Royal Armouries: Tim Marchant, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

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