Long Lee: what to know before moving day
Long Lee has a good spread of its own services: a primary school, a doctor's surgery, a pharmacy, a convenience store, a Methodist chapel, St Barnabas church, a village hall, a cricket club and a bar. The housing is mixed, from bungalows to very large houses, on streets such as Spring Avenue, Royd House Road, Royd House Way, Moss Carr Road, Calton Road and Dale View Road. On the map, the shop, surgery, village hall and chapel sit together near Long Lee Lane.
Long Lee lies on the busy but unclassified road between Keighley and Harden, part of an alternative route to Bradford, so a house on Harden Road is on a through road. For a detached house with a drive, say whether the van can pull on to it; for a bungalow or a house on a close, the parking spot outside is what matters. Hog Holes Beck and Park Wood are close by.
How the van gets to Long Lee
The route data from Bradford follows the A650 to the edge of Keighley, then turns off by Wenning Street and Thwaites Bridge, takes Thwaites Brow Road and joins Long Lee Lane. From the Harden side, the unclassified Harden Road leads in. The K5 bus links Long Lee with Keighley bus station at least once an hour, seven days a week.
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.
Services for Long Lee
Each service below links to its Keighley page, which covers how the job works in and around Keighley.
Long Lee: questions before you book
Why are Long Lee and Thwaites Brow always named together?
They are usually named together as one suburb, and they share the Long Lee and Parkwood ward of Keighley Town Council, but OpenStreetMap marks Thwaites Brow as a separate neighbourhood about half a kilometre away. Use the street name and postcode and the driver will find either.
Nearby areas
Where the local details on this page come from
Checked on 28 September 2026 against:
- Postcode lookup (postcodes.io, ONS data): BD21 4TT is in Keighley East ward, Bradford, parish of Keighley
- Long Lee (Wikipedia): Long Lee and Thwaites Brow, suburb about a mile south-east of Keighley centre, partly rural, primary school, pub, church, chapel, doctor's surgery, pharmacy, cricket club, convenience store, Scouts, bungalows to mansions, Keighley East ward, Long Lee and Parkwood ward of Keighley Town Council, K5 bus to Keighley bus station, the unclassified Keighley to Harden road as an alternative route to Bradford
- Keighley (Wikipedia): the town ends in the east at Long Lee and Thwaites Brow
- OpenStreetMap: Long Lee Lane (tertiary); Spring Avenue, Royd House Road and Way, Harden Road, Thwaites Brow Road, Moss Carr Road, Calton Road, Dale View Road, Long Lee Village Hall, Southams, Long Lee surgery, Methodist chapel, St Barnabas, Long Lee Primary School, Long Lee Cricket Club, The Dickie Bird, Hog Holes Beck, Park Wood, Thwaites Brow (neighbourhood)
- OSRM route estimate from Bradford (OpenStreetMap road data, checked 2026-09-28): A650, Wenning Street, Thwaites Bridge, Thwaites Brow Road, Long Lee Lane