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2 unusual facts about Cross Gates


Barnbow

A governing board was organized to oversee construction on the new site, which was earmaked for Barnbow, situated between Cross Gates and Garforth.

Cross Gates

The bus manufacturer Optare, formerly "Charles H. Roe Ltd", also had a factory on Manston Lane before it also closed in 2011 when they moved to Sherburn in Elmet, and the haulage company J Long & Sons are based on Sandleas Way.


Kippax, West Yorkshire

One reason for the partial decline of Kippax' village centre is shoppers going to larger centres such as Garforth, Cross Gates and Castleford as well as the building of a retail park in Colton.

Pendas Fields

Penda's Way railway station on the Cross Gates to Wetherby Line was in the area, but closed in 1964 before the Pendas Fields estate was built in the 1980s.


see also

Cross Gates railway station

Until 1963, passenger services existed between Cross Gates and Wetherby railway station.