Battyeford: what to know before moving day
Battyeford had its own station from 1900 to 1953 on the Leeds New Line, with platforms that reached out over Huddersfield Road on a viaduct. That structure has been demolished and only the embankment north of the A644 survives; the old goods yard is now housing. Christ the King church dates from 1973, built on the site of Christ Church of 1841, which burned down in 1971.
Up the hill, the College of the Resurrection, an Anglican theological college, is on Stocks Bank Road, and its Romanesque church by Walter Tapper, begun in 1911, is Grade II listed. Battyeford CofE Primary School is on Nab Lane. Streets run from Wilson Terrace and Francis Street to closes on Lady Heton Drive, Priory Way and Farrar Avenue, and the Pear Tree Inn, garages and trade units line Huddersfield Road, with the South Pennine Boat Club on the water.
How the van gets to Battyeford
Battyeford is close to the motorway: OSRM takes the M606 and M62, then goes straight onto Stocks Bank Road, roughly 20 to 35 minutes from Bradford in all. Streets by the river are reached from Huddersfield Road (A644), and Nab Lane, Helme Lane and Wood Lane are the smaller roads through the area.
The drive from Bradford is roughly 20 to 35 minutes. That is an estimate from route data, not a timed run, and traffic changes it.
Also covered around Battyeford
Nab, Stocks Bank.
Services for Battyeford
Each service below links to its Mirfield page, which covers how the job works in and around Mirfield.
Battyeford: questions before you book
Is Battyeford still counted as a village?
It is now part of the town of Mirfield. It sits in Mirfield civil parish and the Mirfield ward of Kirklees, and Battyeford is also one of the five parish wards of Mirfield Town Council, so the name is still used for local elections as well as addresses.
Where the local details on this page come from
Checked on 28 September 2026 against:
- Postcode lookup (postcodes.io, ONS data): WF14 9QA is in Mirfield ward and Mirfield parish, Kirklees
- Battyeford (Wikipedia): village now part of Mirfield, station 1900-1953 on the Leeds New Line, Mirfield parish and ward, Christ the King church 1973 on the site of Christ Church (1841, fire 1971)
- Battyeford railway station (Wikipedia): platforms over Huddersfield Road on the viaduct, demolished, embankment north of the A644 remains, goods yard now housing
- Listed buildings in Mirfield: Church of the College of the Resurrection, Walter Tapper, Romanesque, 1911, Grade II
- Kirklees (Wikipedia): Mirfield Town Council parish wards include Battyeford
- OpenStreetMap map data: Stocks Bank Road, College of the Resurrection, Battyeford CofE Primary (Nab Lane), The Nab, Wilson Terrace, Francis Street, Lady Heton Drive, Priory Way, Farrar Avenue, Helme Lane, Wood Lane, Pear Tree Inn, South Pennine Boat Club
- OSRM route estimate from Bradford city centre (OpenStreetMap road data, checked 2026-09-28): M606, M62, Stocks Bank Road