Ferniehirst: what to know before moving day
Baildon Road is the through road, rising from the A6038 at the valley bottom towards the town centre, with bus stops by Rockcliffe Avenue and St Aidan's Road and St Aidan's Church beside it. Off it are residential roads and crescents such as Temple Rhydding Drive, Welwyn Drive, Maude Avenue, Cliffe Avenue and The Crescent, several with 20 mph limits. Ferniehurst Crown Green Bowls Club is on Temple Rhydding Drive, and the wooded strip of Ferniehurst Dell runs close by.
Ferniehurst Farm is a listed small model farm from the 1860s and 1870s: single-storey sandstone ranges at right angles, with a detached cattle pen and piggery. Baildon had a Ferniehurst First School before the 1998 change to two-tier schools, and the 1997 drama Where the Heart Is filmed there and on Cliffe Lane West. Baildon Bank, the old quarry face where Ian Clough and Chris Bonington practised before their climbs, is mapped on this side of town.
How the van gets to Ferniehirst
From Shipley, the A6038 Otley Road runs north-east along the valley and the B6151 Baildon Road leaves it to climb through Ferniehirst. The side streets lie either side of Baildon Road, and the lower ones are signed at 20 mph. Give the street name as well as the postcode, because two close roads here can share very similar names, like Cliffe Avenue and Cliffe Lane West.
The drive from Bradford is roughly 15 to 30 minutes. That is an estimate from route data, not a timed run, and traffic changes it.
Services for Ferniehirst
Each service below links to its Baildon page, which covers how the job works in and around Baildon.
Ferniehirst: questions before you book
Is it Ferniehirst or Ferniehurst?
On the ground it is mostly Ferniehurst: the dell, the farm, the bowls club and Baildon's old first school all use that spelling. Either spelling is fine on a booking, because the street name and full postcode are what the van needs.
Who handles bins and council tax in Ferniehirst, Baildon or Bradford?
Two layers: Baildon Town Council, the parish council that took town status in 2013, and Bradford Council for council tax and bins. The area is in the Baildon ward.
Nearby areas
Where the local details on this page come from
Checked on 28 September 2026 against:
- Postcode lookup (postcodes.io, ONS data): BD17 6JA (the research postcode) is in Baildon ward, Bradford, parish of Baildon
- Postcode lookup (postcodes.io, ONS data): BD17 5PX, Temple Rhydding Drive, is in Baildon ward and parish
- Nominatim search: Ferniehurst Dell (wood) and Ferniehurst Crown Green Bowls Club on Temple Rhydding Drive, Baildon, BD17 5PX
- OpenStreetMap map data (API extract): B6151 Baildon Road, A6038 Otley Road, Temple Rhydding Drive, Welwyn Drive, Maude Avenue, Cliffe Avenue, Cliffe Lane West, The Crescent (20 mph roads), St Aidan's church, bus stops at Rockcliffe Avenue and St Aidan's Road, Baildon Bank
- Listed buildings in Baildon (Wikipedia, from the National Heritage List for England): Ferniehurst Farm, a small model farm of the 1860s to 1870s with a detached cattle pen and piggery
- Baildon (Wikipedia): Ferniehurst First School before the 1998 reorganisation, Where the Heart Is (1997) filmed at Ferniehurst First School and Cliffe Lane West, Baildon Bank and Ian Clough and Chris Bonington, B6151 and A6038, town council 2013