Cross Roads, West Yorkshire

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Cross Roads with Lees or Cross Roads cum Lees, is a small village which lies on the main A629 road between the village of Haworth and the town of Keighley in West Yorkshire's England.

Cross Roads is named after the 'Crossroads' which leads in the directions of, Keighley, Haworth, Denholme and further afield. Lees is a small village which is claimed to be part of the Cross Roads village with the 'Cross Roads Park' for example being in Lees, however officially Lees is recognised as a small village, separate but connected to 'Cross Roads' under the 'Cross Roads cum Lees' name. When entering from Haworth Brow, it is signposted Lees-cum-Crossroads.

1 Nightlife
2 Sport
3 Unsolved Name Mystery
4 External links

[edit] Nightlife

Cross Roads has two pubs and a club. The Cross Roads Inn is a pub located at the 'Crossroads', to the 'Bocking' area, there are two other pubs, 'The New Inn' and 'The Bocking Working Mens Club' which is reserved to members only.

[edit] Sport

Crossroads has produced several sporting teams in the past, these include 'football', 'cricket' and 'bowling'. Only the bowling team, Cross Roads Bowling Club exists to date and they play their home matches on the bowling green in Cross Roads Park.

[edit] Unsolved Name Mystery

Most who live in the village know its name as 'Crossroads', however many outsiders automatically spell 'Cross Roads' and this is seen as its official name, this may be incorrect however.