Friendly, West Yorkshire

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 west of Halifax.[1]

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

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]

See also

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. Archived from the original on 30 September 2012. 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.

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