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Sowerby Bridge

Sowerby Bridge is home to wide variety of Shops, Restaurants, Pubs, Cafes, Hairdressers, Opticians, Chemists, a Post Office, and an open market, amongst much more. Sowerby Bridge Business Network is a group of independent business owners who feel passionately about the area. We have created this website to keep you up to date with information about Sowerby Bridge and upcoming events as well as being a general guide for those that wish to visit the area. Sowerby Bridge is Intoxicatingly Different you will be back time and time again.

The canal in Sowerby Bridge

Recent News

  • Sowerby Bridge Railway Station granted two awards

    • Sowerby Bridge Railway Station has been granted two awards in this years Yorkshire in Bloom. They received a Platinum Award in the open Spaces Category. They also received a discretionary Yorkshire Rose Award which was the Yorkshire Rose Community Award. ![Yorshire in bloom](../images/5736.jpg) Congratulations to all the volunteers for the hard work that has been put in over the last year to make the Railway Station a pleasant place to visit. **Related Links** [www.yorkshireinbloom.co.uk](http://www.yorkshireinbloom.co.uk/) [www.friendsofsbrs.org.uk](http://www.friendsofsbrs.org.uk/)

  • Autonomous Continious Integration for the delivery of News and Events

    • Time has been invested in researching the best platform for this website. It has the ability to deploy new information to our live site at the click of the button whilst still allowing us to continually develop new features. This is known as continuous integration and allows us to deploy new static builds of the website whenever we create additional content so whilst the site may look pretty basic, this is down to the functionality and so we can spend less time on site maintenance and more time on content. It also provides a fast page load speed so you do not have to use your buffer face. The site is optimised for mobile phones which should make it useful for when people are visiting and need quick snippets of information. The whole aim is to publicise Sowerby Bridge as a wonderful place to visit in order keep those businesses within Sowerby Bridge flourishing.

  • Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

    • Thank you for following our website and Facebook feeds this year. We hope that some of the information has been of use to you. All posts, listings and promotion is done so on a voluntary basis if or when when we have free available time, so apologies that we cannot supply you with more content and information. Hopefully in the new year we will be adding more businesses that we have not got round to listing this year as well as making some general improvements. **Our roadmap for the website in the year ahead is as follows:** Add photos Add more business listings Add more useful community information List appropriate Events that we find beneficial to the community Promote Sowerby Bridge as a good Place to Live, Work, Visit and do Business Try to include articles from local people into the site to generate more content for people to read. Make the site cover its own costs through ad revenue All that is left to say is ### We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

  • New Business Listings Have been Added

    • We have added some new Business listings in our Business Directory. These include Squid Shock Tattoo, Larder Delicatessen, Albion Barbers, Moonbeam Cafe, Identity Hair Salon, Phillip Fearnley Photography to name but a few. We will be adding many more in the weeks and months ahead as well as poulating existing ones with more content as we receive it.

  • Sowerby Bridge Bank Robbery

    • Sowerby Bridge is to be left without a bank after the last remaining branch ran by the Halifax announced its closure. The branch is set to close on 11th July 2018 The local post office offers banking services and a cash machine so it may be worth letting your feet do the talking and boycotting the banks that have let you down.

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