West End (Thruscross): what to know before moving day
What stands here now is a handful of houses and farms along West End Lane and Whit Moor Road: West End Outdoor Centre, Breaks Fold Farm with its campsite, Whinny Hill and Breaks Lane Head. The map also marks the ruins of Holy Trinity Church, Gibb House and Whistle House, and the sites of Patrick's Mill and Little Mill, left from the flax mills that once worked the Washburn and its becks.
Listed houses in the west of the parish show the local type: Dukes Hill Cottage of 1765, Brae House of 1771 and Cop Hurst Farmhouse, gritstone with stone slate roofs, and a clapper bridge of flat stones over Capelshaw Beck. Peter Robinson's crime novel In a Dry Season based its drowned village of Hobb's End on the flooded West End.
How the van gets to West End (Thruscross)
From the A59 the route data runs north on Meagill Lane and Hardisty Hill, along Greenhow Hill Road and Reservoir Road across towards the dam, then down West End Lane to finish on Whit Moor Road. North Moor Road also reaches the hamlet. All are national speed limit moorland lanes, so describe your gate or track when you book.
The drive from Bradford is roughly 45 to 55 minutes. That is an estimate from route data, not a timed run, and traffic changes it.
Services for West End (Thruscross)
Each service below links to its Ilkley page, which covers how the job works in and around Ilkley.
West End (Thruscross): questions before you book
Does the van come through Pateley Bridge to reach West End?
No. West End shares the Pateley Bridge & Nidderdale ward, but on the ground it is in Thruscross parish on the Washburn, and the van reaches it from the A59 rather than through Pateley.
Where the local details on this page come from
Checked on 28 September 2026 against:
- Postcode lookup (postcodes.io, ONS data): HG3 4BA is in Pateley Bridge & Nidderdale ward, parish of Thruscross
- Thruscross Reservoir (Wikipedia): completed 1966, flooded the village of West End, another hamlet near the reservoir keeps the name, In a Dry Season and Hobb's End
- Thruscross (Wikipedia): the township included West End; flax mills in the 19th century
- Listed buildings in Thruscross (Wikipedia, from the National Heritage List): Dukes Hill Cottage 1765, Brae House 1771, Cop Hurst Farmhouse, clapper bridge over Capelshaw Beck
- OpenStreetMap: West End Lane, Whit Moor Road and North Moor Road (60 mph), West End Outdoor Centre, Breaks Fold Farm campsite, Holy Trinity Church ruins, Patrick's Mill and Little Mill sites
- OSRM route estimate from Bradford (OpenStreetMap road data, checked 2026-09-28): A59, Meagill Lane, Hardisty Hill, Greenhow Hill Road, Reservoir Road, West End Lane, Whit Moor Road