Tickets

Tickets for Burley Summer Festival go on sale at the Burley Summer Fete at Burley Oaks on Saturday 4th July, when the full programme will also be available.

Car Boot Sales

Dates for this year: Sundays
05 July, 16 & 30 August.
Burley Cricket Club is situated on Grange Road.
Stallholders are charged £5 per car - just turn up and pay on the day.

Local Weather

John Livesley of Menston has created a superb new weather site, giving online updates to the weather in our region. There is also a 2 day forecast and a selection of webcams
- take a look here.

Burley Library

The library is now open during the following hours:

• Mondays & Thursdays:
  9:30 am to 7 pm
  (Scrabble on Monday mornings)
• Tuesdays & Fridays:
  2:30 pm to 5 pm
  (Village Archives open)
• Saturdays: 9:30 am to 4 pm

Councillors' Surgeries

Meet your local councillors and get help with any issues or concerns about the village, or with Bradford Council.

No appointment necessary — just drop in.

The dates and venues are to be found on the village diary.

Neighbourhood
Policing Team

Police reports on recent crimes, a news update and various policing initiatives for the Burley area, along with contact details. Regular updates.
To access the NPT site, click here.

Community Trust

Minutes of the BWCT, held on Tuesday 12 May, can be viewed from this page.

The Trust needs your support to continue to be able to hold village assets independently for the whole community and to work with the Parish Council to build on the success of BCC over the last 30 years. Click here for an application form – (membership is only £5 per year).

The Burley Forum

With the addition of the new "Forum" button into the main menu you are now able to go directly to the Burley Forum, a utility operated outside this website.

Apart from viewing some interesting topics there are now a number of polls which you can access. If you take a couple of minutes to register then you can also express your opinions, or open up a new topic.

Burley Summer Festival

Outline details of the events planned for the Festival (from Friday 21 August to Sunday 30 August) can now be viewed on the Village Diary.
The full list of events will be published on this website as soon as they are finalised, along with more detailed information and any entrance fees that may be involved.

New Chair of Burley Parish Council

The Annual Meeting of Burley Parish Council took place on Thursday 7th May. Cllr Keith Dale was elected Chair of the Parish Council for the forthcoming year and Cllr Mike Walker was elected to the post of Vice-Chair. Cllr Dale expressed thanks to Cllr Sylvia Tilford for her work as Chair during the past year.

The Parish Plan

The whole plan is in the process of being revised with more substantial amendments considered. A first consultation with residents was carried out at the Neighbourhood Forum in January. There was some excellent feedback and the Parish Council was able to gain insight into the aspects of life in Burley that are important to residents to preserve and those where change is needed.

The Parish Council would like to widen this consultation, and invite all residents to offer responses to the questions on a form, which can be found on the Parish Council "News" page on this site.

The responses will be compiled and used to update the Parish Plan to ensure that it accurately reflects your priorities and concerns.

A New Exhibition in the Library

EDWARDIAN BURLEY AND ITS PEOPLE

In the first decade of the twentieth century, Burley was dominated by the textile mills of William Fison. The population stood at 3500, and over half the households were in some way involved in worsted production. Local government was in the hands of the Burley Urban District Council. The people’s social, religious and leisure needs were met by the Churches, clubs, associations and the public houses. For the majority of children schooling was entirely local and for many it was a prelude to employment at the mill.

Our photographs are selected from those that are stored in our archives here in the Library. Unfortunately we have none for this period showing events at the local churches, which nevertheless marked very important aspects of village life.

If you have any we would be delighted to see them. Bring them to the Library with a note explaining them and your name, and leave them with the Librarian.