Staithgate, also called Staygate, is a

community A community is a social unit (a group of people) with a shared socially-significant characteristic, such as place, set of norms, culture, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given g ...

in the

City of Bradford Bradford (), also known as the City of Bradford, is a metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. It is named after its largest settlement, Bradford, but covers a larger area which includes the towns and villages of Keighley, Shipley, Wes ...

West Yorkshire West Yorkshire is a Metropolitan counties of England, metropolitan and Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and east, South Yorkshire and De ...

, England. The postcode serving Staithgate: BD6. The community is near the

M606 motorway The M606 is a stretch of motorway in West Yorkshire, England. Called the Bradford Spur motorway, the M606 leaves the M62 motorway at junction 26, near Cleckheaton, and heads into Bradford, to join the A6177 road, A6177 Bradford Ring Road. It is ...

Commerce

There are now more than forty registered businesses in the industrial estate, There is a high number of home businesses.

Geography

Staithgate is located at . (2.0 mi²) of it is land and (0.14 mi²) of it (5%) is water. The

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is above

sea level Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an mean, average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal Body of water, bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured. The global MSL is a type of vertical ...

. The boundaries on Rooley Avenue to the north,

to the east, Low Moor to the south, village of

Odsal Odsal is an area of the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire. Odsal Stadium is currently the home of Bradford rugby league club and YorStox F1 and F2 stock cars. The Richard Dunn Sports Centre is named after the boxer who lived in Bradford at th ...

to the west.

Demographics

Often, many of the people who live in this sort of postcode will be middle income, older couples. These are known as type 33 in the

ACORN The acorn is the nut (fruit), nut of the oaks and their close relatives (genera ''Quercus'', ''Notholithocarpus'' and ''Lithocarpus'', in the family Fagaceae). It usually contains a seedling surrounded by two cotyledons (seedling leaves), en ...

classification and 3.14% of the UK's population live in this type.

Transport

Distances to major travel hubs are: *Railway station:

Bradford Interchange Bradford Interchange is a transport interchange in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, which consists of a railway station and bus station adjacent. The Interchange, which was designed in 1962, was hailed as a showpiece of European design and wa ...

– 1.74 miles *Coach station: Bradford Interchange – 1.62 miles *Airport:

Leeds Bradford Airport Leeds Bradford Airport is located in Yeadon, West Yorkshire, Yeadon, in the City of Leeds, City of Leeds Metropolitan District in West Yorkshire, England, about northwest of Leeds city centre, and about northeast from Bradford city centre. ...

– 7.95 miles *Ferry port: Heysham Port – 50.86 miles Access to the motorway network is provided at the roundabout of A6036 road and A6177 road, where the

starts.

References

{{City of Bradford Areas of Bradford