Keighley Road, Oakworth | |
Location within West Yorkshire | |
OS grid reference | SE0338 |
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Civil parish | |
Metropolitan borough | |
Metropolitan county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Keighley |
Postcode district | BD22 |
Police | West Yorkshire |
Fire | West Yorkshire |
Ambulance | Yorkshire |
Oakworth is a village in the civil parish of Keighley, in the Bradford district, in West Yorkshire, England, near Keighley, by the River Worth. The name "Oakworth" indicates that the village was first established in a heavily wooded area.
Oakworth railway station is on the route of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway and was a location in the 1968 TV series and 1970 film The Railway Children.[1]