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Manningham, Bradford — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Manningham is a council ward of Bradford in West Yorkshire, an industrial workers' quarter whose park holds Cartwright Hall Art Gallery.
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Where to stay in Manningham
Where the beds are, and what that means for the visit.
Lister Park is the reason to look here. Manningham is housing first, and the rooms a visitor books sit in Bradford's centre, which leaves Cartwright Hall Art Gallery and the Keighley Road Memorial Gatehouse as a trip out rather than a doorstep. Few beds sit inside the ward itself.
Anyone with business at the Parish Church of St Chad or an afternoon planned in Lister Park can work from the centre without trouble.
Few places to stay in Manningham — most visitors book in Bradford nearby.
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Things to do in and around Bradford
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Museums & Galleries
1- Cartwright Hall Art Gallery Heritage
Churches & Religious Sites
7- Church of St Paul And St Jude Heritage
- Church of St John (Methodist) Heritage
- Church of St Luke Heritage
- Church of St Mary Magdalene Heritage
- Church of St Cuthbert (Roman Catholic) Heritage
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- Parish Church of St Chad Heritage
- First Church of Christ, Scientist Heritage
Landmarks & Notable Places
7- 10, 11 and 12 Ashdowne Place Heritage
- 21 and 21A Rosebery Road Heritage
- 8 and 9 Ashdowne Place Heritage
- Clifton House Heritage
- Manningham Old Manor House Heritage
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- Parkfield House Heritage
- Wilton House Heritage
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About Manningham
What are the main landmarks in Manningham?
Churches, and plenty of them. The Parish Church of St Chad, the Church of St Luke, the Church of St Mary Magdalene, the Church of St Cuthbert and the Church of St John all carry listings, with the First Church of Christ, Scientist added to the same roll. Cartwright Hall Art Gallery is the one address a visitor is likely to have come for.
Wilton House and the pair at 21 and 21A Rosebery Road round out the domestic entries.
What is the history of Manningham?
Work built this ward. Manningham reaches the record as an industrial workers' area of Bradford, and the buildings that survive from that period run from Manningham Old Manor House through Wilton House, Parkfield House and Clifton House to the listed numbers at 8 and 9 Ashdowne Place. The Lister Memorial stands in Lister Park, and the Keighley Road Memorial Gatehouse, the Norman Arch, marks a way in.
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery is the ward's public collection.
Where is Manningham?
Manningham covers a built-up stretch of Bradford in West Yorkshire, with Lister Park and its Keighley Road gatehouse the open ground inside the ward.
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What is the best area to stay in Manningham?
Manningham: days spent in Lister Park and at Cartwright Hall Art Gallery. Bradford: travellers who want the city centre and a short run up Keighley Road.
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Updated October 2026