Barkerend

Coordinates: 53°47′40″N 1°44′15″W / 53.79453°N 1.73742°W / 53.79453; -1.73742

Barkerend is an inner-city area in the Bowling and Barkerend ward of the Bradford District, in the English county of West Yorkshire. Barkerend is located to the east of Bradford city centre. The Barkerend area is not easy to define but it is surrounded by Undercliffe, and Undercliffe Cemetery, Bradford Moor, Laisterdyke, Bowling, Broomfields, Little Germany and the Shipley Airedale Road, and Wapping but includes an area of new and modern housing known as Pollard Park.

History

Off Barkerend roundabout was the now partially demolished Barkerend Mills.^* These mills were established in 1815 as a steam powered worsted spinning mill. The street front buildings being warehouses with an arched gateway into the mill complex behind. More mills were added in 1852 and the last block (seen on the image left with chimney) still remains today, disused and minus the chimney.

The area had a number of cinemas including The Hippodrome Picturehouse / Roxy on Barkerend Road.