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Hi,
We are relocating due to my partners new job up North near Manchester. We had some great areas recommended on the forum but since selling our house this week (whether lockdown will now effect this is anyones guess) we have started looking in our favourite areas and have realised that our budget will not get us all our tick boxes and not having a large garage is non negotiable with the other half!
So we have extended our search area into West Yorkshire and made our first trip up today for a drive around.
We have viewed a house in Kirk Burton (Huddersfield) and Crigglestone (Wakefield) today and wondered what peoples views were of these areas and surroundings. Any thoughts, knowledge or recommendations would be much appreciated xx
What are all the boxes you need to tick?
Went to school in Kirkburton, Parents still live in the next village (Shelley). Its a really nice area, there's a fairly big housing development in both Shelley and Fenay Bridge nearby. so should be plenty of stock to choose from.
Commuting to Manchester might not be ideal though, Stepdad used to drive to green fields station and train from there, can't remember how long it took though
due to my partners new job up North near Manchester
How near Manchester? I’d be stating where before I would advise where to live. The M62 is the biggest traffic jam/horrible road.
Heywood near Rochdale is where he is based.
Ideal tick boxes are Detached at least 3 bedrooms, large or double garage with driveway and garage max budget 325k.
Thanks Tom Howard we thought Kirkburton was lovely driving through it
Have you looked north of the work area, even up towards Todmorden way?
Personally I would avoid the M62 like the plague
Yep, we love Ramsbottom upto Helmshore and Rawstenstall and went as far up as Clitheroe which we love just need a bigger budget or to knock the garage space off the list. You never know a property could come on anytime but thought it would be worth widening the search area.
If you’re working in Lancashire/Greater Manchester you really don’t want to be living in Yorkshire. The major routes across the Pennines are awful.
However, you could look at the far northwest of West Yorkshire - Cross Hills/Glusburn, Steeton, Silsden, Sutton In Craven, maybe even Skipton. Avoid Keighley though.
You’d be looking at cross country roads & pick up the M65 at Colne/Clitheroe. Bear in mind the winter weather, these are not high traffic roads
Ramsbottom would be better, as long as you avoid binners 🙂
Your budget ok for Crigg side of Wakefield and some villages Walton crofton etc riding locally is tpt towpaths etc travel to mcr is hateful on 62 train from wakey to Leeds then mcr not much better def look a lot closer to mcr to avoid 62 Good luck
If you're relocating for work then relocate near work! Norden,Bamford, are the decent parts of Rochdale and don't rule out the more rural bits of Heywood/Bury.Further afield, more villagey feel and upmarket then look in Saddleworth decent riding too.Rural areas south of Burnley are decent too.As others have said commuting on the M62 will destroy you.
If you’re working in Lancashire/Greater Manchester you really don’t want to be living in Yorkshire. The major routes across the Pennines are awful.
However, you could look at the far northwest of West Yorkshire – Cross Hills/Glusburn, Steeton, Silsden, Sutton In Craven, maybe even Skipton. Avoid Keighley though.
You’d be looking at cross country roads & pick up the M65 at Colne/Clitheroe. Bear in mind the winter weather, these are not high traffic road
It'd not be very nice to commute from there to Heywood even though they're decent places to live. The bottleneck at Colne makes it unpleasant. I'm originally from Rochdale and have lived in Cross Hills so would possibly suggest Whitworth or Love Clough. Everywhere between Whitworth and Rawtenstall is a shithole. Norden or Shawclough (only at the top though) on the edge of Rochdale are also worth a look.
CleckHuddersFax is Yorkshires second golden triangle
Will your partner be commuting via car or train?
Will your partner be commuting via car or train?
There's not a proper station at Heywood so unless they're intending to move within cycling distance then a car/motorbike is the only realistic option.
Morning all, he will be commuting via car. Quite a few people said his current commute would be a nightmare but he flies up the motorway in 2 hours and has only got stuck a few times when there has been an accident, so he has said he is not fussed about a small commute
I'm Saddleworth based and would expect you'd be able to find something to meet spec or tick most boxes around here for that. Or perhaps just over the hill in Marsden, Slaithwaite or Meltham. The housing market has been pretty keen around here though, so perhaps getting in touch with estate agents directly for properties before they hit Rightmove etc would be worthwhile.
Plenty of good riding around here too, and the commute from Saddleworth to Heywood would be about 40-45mins I'd guess if doing a rush hour commute.
Edit... just rightmoved the local stuff: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-96104384.html
This house would be a "project" I'd imagine, the outside looked negelected for years until it went up for sale, but it shows there's stuff out there.
Also: Marsden: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-73675504.html with seemingly all boxes ticked
The bottleneck at Colne makes it unpleasant.
Tell me about it. I live in Baildon, West Yorkshire and from 1998-2000 I worked in Haslingden. This was before the Bingley bypass was built so I had bottlenecks at Bingley, Keighley & Colne, the latter being the worst of the three. That M65 really needs extending to Cross Hills & join up with the Aire valley trunk road. Small nuke on Keighley. Then somehow deal with the section from Saltaire to Leeds...
Quite a few people said his current commute would be a nightmare but he flies up the motorway in 2 hours
He's prepared to drive 2 hours each way?