Thwaites Brow: what to know before moving day
Thwaites Brow Road is the spine of the area, a 30 mph road with short residential streets branching off it: Calton Road, Golden View Drive, Highcroft Gardens, Moss Carr Road, Bank Top Way, Sunnydale Grove and a run of Spring streets, from Spring Avenue and Spring Rise to High Spring Road and Low Spring Road. St Barnabas, the Anglican church, and The Dickie Bird bar on Thwaites Brow Road are both clear markers to give the driver.
Wikipedia calls the suburb partly rural, with homes ranging from bungalows to mansions. Farmland is never far off: Jack Fields, a 17th-century stone farmhouse with mullioned windows and a stone slate roof, is Grade II listed and stands a few hundred metres from the estate roads. Long Lee Primary School on Cherry Tree Rise, Long Lee Cricket Club, and the village hall and Methodist chapel on Long Lee Lane are all just up the hill.
The Midland Railway once ran a second Keighley station at Thwaites, open from 1892 to 1909, and nothing of it survives, so trains today go from Keighley station in the town centre. The K5 bus links Long Lee and Thwaites Brow with Keighley bus station.
How the van gets to Thwaites Brow
From the valley floor, Thwaites Brow Road climbs away from Thwaites Bridge, the junction with Dalton Lane, Valley Road and Parkwood Street, so a van coming through Keighley crosses there and heads uphill. From the top, Long Lee Lane joins Thwaites Brow Road and carries on to Harden Road; Wikipedia describes the Keighley to Harden road through Long Lee as a busy unclassified road that doubles as an alternative route towards Bradford. Thwaites Brow is roughly 20 to 35 minutes from Bradford by road.
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 Thwaites Brow
Each service below links to its Keighley page, which covers how the job works in and around Keighley.
Thwaites Brow: questions before you book
Do I say Thwaites Brow or Long Lee?
Either will do. They run into each other and are usually named together: Wikipedia treats Long Lee and Thwaites Brow as one suburb south-east of Keighley. For the van, the street and house number matter more than the area name, so send both with the postcode.
Does Keighley Town Council cover Thwaites Brow as well as Bradford Council?
Yes. Thwaites Brow is in the civil parish of Keighley, which has a town council, and in the Keighley East ward of Bradford Council. Wikipedia places the area in the Long Lee and Parkwood ward of the town council, while bins and council tax are Bradford Council matters.
Where the local details on this page come from
Checked on 28 September 2026 against:
- Postcode lookup (postcodes.io, ONS data): BD21 4UZ 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, bungalows to mansions, Keighley East ward, Long Lee and Parkwood town council ward, K5 bus, Keighley to Harden road
- Keighley railway station (Wikipedia): the Midland Railway's second station at Thwaites, 1892 to 1909, no visible trace
- Listed buildings in Keighley (Wikipedia, from the National Heritage List): Jack Fields, 17th-century farmhouse, Grade II
- OpenStreetMap map view (checked 2026-09-28): Thwaites Brow Road (30 mph) and its side streets, Thwaites Bridge junction with Dalton Lane, Valley Road and Parkwood Street, Long Lee Lane to Harden Road, St Barnabas, The Dickie Bird, Long Lee Primary School on Cherry Tree Rise, Long Lee Cricket Club, village hall and Methodist chapel on Long Lee Lane