Bradley
Bradley is to the west of the River Colne at the end of the Colne Valley and south of the River Calder.
Bradley expanded rapidly as a residential area and with new business sites in the mid to late 20th century.
It has housing built as a model early council estate with wide grass verges and also estates of modern housing, Victorian homes and parts of the original village of Bradley.
The area has large industrial units, small business and office parks, a farm shop and farmland used for grazing cattle, sports fields, woods, a waste tip, a municipal golf course and Kirklees Council's horticultural nursery.
Bradley's original Anglican Church, built in 1863, is in Station Road, Bradley, the road leading to the village station which closed in 1950. The old church building has been used as gymnasium since 1979 and is the home of the Greenhead Gymnastics Club.
The present St Thomas' Church is a multifunctional building built in 1974 in St Thomas Gardens, off Bradley Road.
Bradley Wood is the location of a Scout campsite, although the wood was dissected from Bradley by the opening of the M62 in 1970 and can now only be reached from Bradley by footbridge. Road access is from the Brighouse end of Shepherds Thorn Lane.
Bradley used to have a hospital, which was known as Bradley Wood Sanitorium through much of its life from 1917 to 1978. For many years it accommodated tuberculosis patients. The hospital was in the area surrounded by Screamer Wood, Dyson Wood and Bradley Gate Wood. Like several other hospitals in the Huddersfield area it was closed so that its site could be used for housing development.
Around Bradley
Development in Bradley over the years has left it without any distinct centre. There are various shops around the area, including clusters around the junction of Leeds Road and Bradley Road, around the Tesco Express store in Leeds Road and a row of shops at Copthorne Gardens in Keldregate. There is a farm shop in Bradley Road near Bradley Bar, the roundabout junction with Bradford Road.
Bradley has a pharmacy at Copthorne Gardens in Keldregate.
Bradley post office is now in Leeds Road.
The High Park is in Bradley Road, opposite the Bradley Park golf course entrance. The White Cross Inn is in Bradley Road, near the junction with Leeds Road. Bradley and Colnebridge WMC is in Colne Bridge Road.
Bradley has takeaways offering, fish and chips, pizzas, balti, fried chicken, chinese meals and sandwiches.
Bradley Park Golf Course is an 18-hole municipal course off Bradley Road operated by Kirklees Active Leisure. 
KAL - Bradley Park Golf Course
All Saints Catholic College is in Bradley Road near Bradley Bar. All Saints Catholic CollegeSt Thomas CE (VC) Primary School is in Sherwood Avenue.
St Thomas CE (VC) Primary School
St Thomas Church is in St Thomas Gardens. St Thomas BradleyBradley Methodist Church is in Bradley Road.
Huddersfield Methodist Circuit - Bradley
Local government
Civil parish council
There is no civil parish council for this area, which prior to 1974 was in the Huddersfield County Borough.Metropolitan district council
Bradley is in the Ashbrow ward of Kirklees Council Kirklees Council website
Kirklees Council
Travel
Although at the junction of two rail routes, there is no railway station at Bradley. The nearest station is at Bus Travel
Buses below operate via Leeds Road, Bradley
202 Daily
Mirfield
Ravensthorpe
Woodkirk - Tingley
White Rose Centre - Beeston Hill
Timetable at
Metro Arriva Yorkshire 203
Mirfield
Ravensthorpe
Dewsbury - Earlsheaton - Shaw Cross -
Woodkirk - Tingley
White Rose Centre - Beeston Hill
Timetable at
Metro Arriva Yorkshire 229
Timetable at
Metro Arriva Yorkshire Buses below operate via Alandale Road/Keldregate, Bradley
328
Timetable at
Metro First Bus
Road travel
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