Whitley Bridge Homepage


Car boot sale and Sunday market on land between the M62 and the strip of woodland. Looking West. Ferrybridge power station can be seen in the distance.
©Paul Allison
Dist:0.2km<br/>The opposite direction from http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2743587. This was the old A19 before the building of the first replacement bridge in the 1960s/70s. Now it is simply a backwater with no through traffic. Now renamed Templar Close
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.2km<br/>Moorings on the Knottingley & Goole Canal stretch of the Aire & Calder Navigation at Whitley Bridge. The cooling towers at Ferrybridge power station can be seen in the distance.
©David Rogers
Dist:0.2km<br/>The gate in front goes to the Aire and Calder Canal, to the left is the entrance to Cherry Tree farm.
©martin dawes
Dist:0.3km<br/>In the garden of Milestone Cottage and obviously cared for. This road is blocked off to the south by the huge embankment carrying the M62, there is a footpath to Whitley across the motorway as this is Junction 34. M62/ A19.
©martin dawes
Dist:0.3km<br/>The 'Old' bridge on the left is clearly a replacement for an earlier bridge, and was replaced by the newer bridge to the right sometime in the 60s or 70s, carrying the trunk A19. Now the latter bypasses both these bridges a few hundred metres further east.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.3km<br/>In fact there is a pair of bridges side by side here. The nearer one now carries no traffic.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking west along the Aire and Calder Navigation.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.3km<br/>Have we got an error on the OS map, Whitely? Aire and Calder Canal looking its best.
©martin dawes
Dist:0.3km<br/>
©JThomas
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking along the Aire and Calder Navigation towards Kellingley Colliery and Ferrybridge Power Station.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.3km<br/>The industries alongside the canal are witness to its reason for existence, although they no longer use it.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.3km<br/>Beyond is the bridge carrying the A19 Eggborough by-pass opened in 1986.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.3km<br/>
©Ian S
Dist:0.4km<br/>
©Glyn Drury

Creative Commons Licence [Some Rights Reserved]

Members Nearby

Whitley Bridge Discussion Forum


Places Near Whitley Bridge

Balne • Beal • Birkin • Broomhill • Chapel Haddlesey • Cridling Stubbs • Eggborough • Fernley Green • Gateforth • Great Heck • Hensall • High Eggborough • Hirst Courtney • Hut Green • Kellingley • Kellington • Knottingley • Little Heck • Little Smeaton • Pollington • Racca Green • Stapleton • Sutton • Temple Hirst • Walden Stubbs • West Haddlesey • Whitley • Whitley Bridge • Whitley Thorpe • Womersley •