Canal bridges, Kirkgate, and the long run down Airedale

The Leeds and Liverpool Canal runs straight through the middle of town and its road bridges are narrow pinch points, which decides the way a loaded van leaves more than any map does. Kirkgate is parked both sides and tight for a 3.4m load, and Briggate and Elliott Street are worse. The weavers' cottages and through-terraces in the old core have no rear access, so everything comes out of the front door onto a narrow pavement.

The newer estate housing off Howden Road and Hawber Lane is a different day's work: a drive at the door and room to turn the van round. Either way the load goes on once. One driver takes it from here to Bristol, Brighton or Glasgow and unloads it there, with nothing tipped into a depot, nothing split across lorries and no sharing a load with three other households. Even after a long Airedale start, the delivery time is still agreed to the hour.

What Silsden long distance & nationwide usually involves

No motorway in Airedale: it is the A6034 to the A629 bypass, then the A650 down through Keighley, Bingley and Shipley, so the first forty minutes are A-road at A-road speeds
The canal road bridges are narrow pinch points and they decide which way a loaded van gets out of town
Bridge Street and Wesley Place are the two small council pay-and-display car parks, Monday to Saturday and free on Sundays, so a town-centre collection works in planned trips rather than a van standing all morning
Brunthwaite and High Brunthwaite are reached by single-track lanes with passing places only and no turning space for a long wheelbase van, so those jobs get walked before anything is carried
A Transit LWB holds 3.4m by 1.3m by 1.7m, and anything larger than a small house is quoted from photos and a room-by-room list before a long-distance date is agreed

Where in Silsden we work

Kirkgate and Briggateweavers' cottages and terraces with no rear access, loaded out of the front door onto a narrow pavement
Howden Road and Hawber Lanerecent estate housing with drives and turning room, the quickest starts for a long day
Brunthwaite and High Brunthwaitesingle-track lanes climbing towards Rombalds Moor, passing places only and nowhere to turn a long van
Bolton Roadstone semis and bungalows, usually with somewhere legal to stand the van at the door
Swartha and Cringlesoutlying addresses up narrow lanes, where the van gets placed before anything is carried
Ryefield Business Park, Belton Roadbusiness stock and equipment heading out of the valley to another region

If your street isn't listed it's almost certainly still covered, Silsden and the surrounding BD20 postcodes are all inside our normal working area.

Common Silsden runs

Silsden to Londonthe A650 down Airedale to Bradford and the M606, then the M62 and M1, one day from an early load
Silsden to Scotlandthe A629 and A65 north-west through Skipton to the M6, straightforward once out of the valley
Silsden to Bradfordfourteen miles through Keighley, Bingley and Shipley, and the first leg of most southbound runs

What it costs

Distance, the size of the load and whether it works as one long day or a collect-and-deliver-next-morning set the price, and the A-road miles down Airedale are in the quote, not on top of it. There's no travel surcharge for coming to Silsden from Bradford, and you get the price before we set off, not after. See how we quote for the full breakdown.

Frequently asked questions: long distance & nationwide in Silsden

How long is it before we are actually on a motorway?

About forty minutes. From Silsden it is the A6034, the A629 Aire Valley bypass and then the A650 through Keighley, Bingley and Shipley to Bradford. It is not slow driving so much as steady driving, and it is the reason a long-distance collection here is booked for first thing.

Can you get a big van to a cottage at Brunthwaite?

Usually, with a plan. The lanes up there are single track with passing places and no turning space for a long wheelbase van, so we decide in advance where it stops and turns, and carry the last stretch if we have to. Send the address and we will look at it properly first.

We are moving a three-bedroom off Howden Road to Cornwall. One load?

Probably, if the garage is not coming with you. Those newer houses load well because there is a drive and room to turn. The van takes 3.4m by 1.3m by 1.7m, so send photos and a list and we will confirm it is one trip before you book a date that far away.