Cliffe Castle Museum

The garden are lovely and there is a play area for the children. The café is a bit disappointing though. It’s not very clean and a bit pricey, it could be a little gold mine with the right person running it. However, the young lady was friendly and helpful despite being on her own and rushed off her feet.

I lived in Keighley for 3 years before I bothered to visit Cliffe Castle and wish I’d gone sooner! It’s great for a walk around the grounds, including kids playground, houses for rabbits, guinea pigs and birds to look at, a cactus greenhouse to walk through that leads to a cute little café that does full meals or snacks all very nice. I went with 4 other women and 6 babies and the guy on duty couldn’t do enough for us! Really nice (In here is a really good clean toilet to change babies nappies — which are usually hard to find) The castle itself feels more like a stately home with its two floors filled with weird and wonderful things to look at!
Yes it’s all a bit old and run down in places, the loos haven’t been redone since the 70’s and the playground could do with a lick of paint but it’s all FREE! Including parking at the back! you can’t take the family out to many places now-​a-​days without it costing a bomb, so this is brill!

Great local museum. Go and visit

This is a lovely place within walking distance of Keighley bus and train station. The museum is bigger than it looks, with some exhibits that are there for a short period and some, like the stuffed birds and small mammals, have been there as long as I can remember. They have child friendly exhibitions and there is plenty of room to push a buggy or wheelchair around.
Once you’ve been in the museum, you can spend hours in the lovely grounds. There’s also a playground nearby.

A great little museum that I remember fondly from being young and visiting on school tours. They have a teaching room at the back of the building that they use for school events. They have a huge collection of stuffed animals and birds and often bring these out for the kids to draw at such events. They have an area for speciality displays and give part of the year over to the local art clubs so they can sell and display their works. The last time I went they had a great display on the eart and its animal and how it was created. The building is beautiful and is surrounded by lovely grounds with some outdoor aviaries and large cages with rabbits and Guinea pigs. They used to have a gorgeous green house section and coffee shop but I think these are now a bit run down.

This is actually quite a hidden gem in Keighley. Beautiful grounds that you can walk round. Lovely on an autumn day with all the leaves on the trees being golden brown.
There’s good exhibitions — some that change regularly but others that are interesting to see time and time again. Definitely worth a visit