Friendly, West Yorkshire

The Friendly Inn, one of the two pubs in Friendly
The Friendly Band's headquarters

Friendly is a settlement near Sowerby Bridge in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England, lying on the A646 road in the valley of the River Calder. It was described in Bartholomew's 1887 Gazetteer of the British Isles as a village 3 miles north west of Halifax.[1]

It is the home of The Friendly Band, a brass band founded in 1868,[2] and has two pubs, the White Horse[3] and The Friendly Inn.[4]

Government

The settlement straddles the boundary of the Sowerby Bridge, Warley and Luddenden wards of the Metropolitan borough of Calderdale, part of the Metropolitan county of West Yorkshire.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Friendly". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
  2. ↑ "History 1868 to 1993". The Friendly Band. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
  3. ↑ Taylor, Arthur (12 December 2012). "Pint to pint: The White Horse, Friendly, West Yorkshire". The Daily Telegraph (London). Retrieved 14 December 2012.
  4. ↑ "Public Houses". Sowerby Bridge.org. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
  5. ↑ "Sowerby Bridge". 2010. Retrieved 20 January 2014.

Coordinates: 53°42′52″N 1°55′18″W / 53.71444°N 1.92167°W / 53.71444; -1.92167

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, April 14, 2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.