Lower Wellhouse: what to know before moving day
Wellhouse Junior and Infant School, whose address is Lower Wellhouse, is the landmark here, with Low Westwood Lane and Oak Drive beside it. Lower Wellhouse Road and Upper Wellhouse Road are the two named roads, Copley Bank Road and Fernlea Grove lie a little further off, and the Wellhouse Methodist graveyard is about 200 metres away.
The Huddersfield Line, the Huddersfield Narrow Canal and the River Colne all pass within about 120 to 300 metres, with Scarwood Bridge and the Golcar Viaduct nearby, and Titanic Mill is about 400 metres away. The Golcar ward's listed buildings include many weavers' cottages; if yours is an older cottage, measure the doorways before the day.
How the van gets to Lower Wellhouse
Radcliffe Road, which also runs through Slaithwaite, passes the hamlet, with a bus stop at Lower Wellhouse Road. Share Hill and Brook Lane lead towards Golcar, and the A62 Manchester Road at Linthwaite is about half a kilometre away across the valley.
The drive from Bradford is roughly 30 to 45 minutes. That is an estimate from route data, not a timed run, and traffic changes it.
Services for Lower Wellhouse
Each service below links to its Huddersfield page, which covers how the job works in and around Huddersfield.
Lower Wellhouse: questions before you book
Is Lower Wellhouse in Golcar?
Historically yes: Wellhouse is one of the settlements of the Golcar township. For council purposes postcode records put HD7 4HQ in the Colne Valley West ward, while Golcar village itself is in Colne Valley East.
Is there a station near Lower Wellhouse?
The railway passes just below on the valley floor, but the stations nearby are at Slaithwaite and Huddersfield. For a move it makes no difference: the van comes by road along Radcliffe Road.
Where the local details on this page come from
Checked on 28 September 2026 against:
- Postcode lookup (postcodes.io, ONS data): HD7 4HQ is in Colne Valley West ward, Kirklees, parish: Kirklees, unparished area; Kirklees, HD7
- Postcode lookup (postcodes.io, ONS data): HD7 4QD is in Colne Valley East ward, Kirklees, parish: Kirklees, unparished area; Golcar village postcode HD7 4QD for comparison
- Golcar (Wikipedia): the township of Golcar consists of Bolster Moor, Golcar, Wellhouse, Pole Moor and Scapegoat Hill; Wellhouse Junior and Infant School, Lower Wellhouse, HD7 4ES
- Listed buildings in Golcar (Wikipedia, from the National Heritage List): Golcar ward has 165 listed buildings, many mills and weavers' cottages, covering Golcar, Cowlersley, Longwood and Milnsbridge
- Slaithwaite railway station (Wikipedia): on the Huddersfield Line, 4 miles west of Huddersfield station
- OpenStreetMap map data (API extract around the research coordinates): Low Westwood Lane, Oak Drive, Lower Wellhouse Road (with bus stop on Radcliffe Road), Upper Wellhouse Road, Radcliffe Road, Copley Bank Road, Fernlea Grove, Share Hill, Brook Lane, Manchester Road (A62) about 480 m, Wellhouse Junior and Infant School, Wellhouse Methodist Graveyard, Huddersfield Line, Huddersfield Narrow Canal, River Colne, Scarwood Bridge, Golcar Viaduct, Titanic Mill
- OpenStreetMap map data (API extract around the research coordinates): Radcliffe Road in Slaithwaite