Cliffe Castle Museum

Cliffe Castle Museum
Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley
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Establishedc. 1892 as Keighley Museum at Eastwood House, Keighley. Reopened in 1959 at the former Cliffe Hall as Cliffe Castle Museum.
LocationSpring Gardens Lane, Keighley, West Yorkshire, England BD20 6LH
TypeHeritage centre, Historic house museum.
Visitors65,000 (2010)
Public transit accessKeighley railway station; bus information from Bradford Interchange
Websitewww.bradfordmuseums.org

Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley, West Yorkshire, England, is a local heritage museum which opened in the grand, Victorian, neo-Gothic Cliffe Castle in 1959. Originating as Cliffe Hall in 1828, the museum is the successor to Keighley Museum which opened in Eastwood House, Keighley, in c. 1892. There is a series of galleries dedicated to various aspects of local heritage, and to displaying the house itself, which is a Grade II listed building.[1]

  1. ^ Historic England. "Cliffe Castle (Museum) (1200609)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 April 2017.