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THE BULL ON THE BRIDGE

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A bedroom with a bed, a window with curtains, a fireplace, and a mirror on the wall.
A street scene with a pub named 'Bull Bridge' and another establishment with 'Rooms' signage. There are outdoor seating areas and a parked car.
A room with a wooden floor, a radiator, and a green wall hanging.
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A bar area with a counter, various bottles, and a stone wall.

Reviews

6.6 out of 10

Popular amenities

  • Bar
  • Laundry
The current price is $83
$69 nightly
$83 total
Total with taxes and fees
Nov 24 - Nov 25

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17 Town Hall St, Sowerby Bridge, England, HX6 2EA
  • Place, Rochdale Canal
    ‪1 min walk‬
  • Place, Wainhouse Tower
    ‪5 min drive‬
  • Place, Halifax Piece Hall
    ‪11 min drive‬
  • Airport, Leeds (LBA-Leeds Bradford)
    ‪59 min drive‬

Room options

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A bedroom with a bed, a fireplace, a nightstand, and a wall-mounted light fixture.

Comfort Double Room, 1 Bedroom

  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

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A single bed with a dark blue bedspread, two pillows, a folded towel, a mounted television, and a wooden panel wall.

Business Single Room

  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 1
  • 1 Twin Bed

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A bedroom with a bed, a window with curtains, a fireplace, and a mirror on the wall.

Family Double Room

  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Double Bed

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About the neighborhood

Sowerby Bridge

Located in Sowerby Bridge, THE BULL ON THE BRIDGE is connected to the convention center, a 1-minute drive from Rochdale Canal and 7 minutes from Halifax Piece Hall. .This hotel is 3.1 mi (5 km) from Eureka The National Children’s Museum and 3.8 mi (6.2 km) from Shibden Hall.

What's nearby

  • Rochdale Canal - 1 min walk - 0.1 miles
  • Wainhouse Tower - 5 min drive - 1.9 miles
  • Halifax Piece Hall - 11 min drive - 3.5 miles
  • Alhambra Theatre - 33 min drive - 13.6 miles
  • Bronte Parsonage Museum - 37 min drive - 16.9 miles

Getting around

  • Sowerby Bridge Station - 6 min walk
  • Leeds (LBA-Leeds Bradford) - 55 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪The Commercial Inn (Wetherspoon) - ‬3 min walk
  • ‪Willow Tree Cafe No 5 - ‬2 min walk
  • ‪Puzzle Hall Inn - ‬3 min walk
  • ‪The Turks Head - ‬2 min walk
  • ‪The Copper Cow - ‬14 min walk

About this property

THE BULL ON THE BRIDGE

THE BULL ON THE BRIDGE offers 10 accommodations. Bathrooms include showers and complimentary toiletries. Change of towels and change of bedsheets can be requested. Housekeeping is provided on request.
Make yourself at home in one of the 10 guestrooms. Bathrooms have showers and complimentary toiletries. Conveniences include electric kettles and free tea bags/instant coffee, and housekeeping is provided on request.
This hotel offers designated smoking areas.
Wrap up your day with a drink at the bar/lounge.
The front desk is staffed during limited hours.
Onsite venue - pub. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. Open select days.

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and transportation

  • No onsite parking available

Food and drink

  • A bar/lounge

Family friendly

  • Laundry facilities

Conveniences

  • Laundry facilities
  • Limited-hour front desk

Guest services

  • Change of bedsheets (on request)
  • Change of towels on request
  • Housekeeping (on request)

Outdoors

  • In a nature reserve

Accessibility

  • Hardwood flooring in room
  • No elevator

More

  • Designated smoking areas

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Bedsheets provided

Bathroom

  • Free toiletries
  • Private bathroom
  • Shampoo
  • Shower
  • Soap
  • Toilet paper
  • Towels provided

Food and drink

  • Electric kettle
  • Tea bags/instant coffee

More

  • Heating

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 3:00 PM; Check-in end time: 9:00 PM
Late check-in subject to availability
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 10:00 AM

Special check-in instructions

The front desk is open daily from 3:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Front desk staffed during limited hours
If you are planning to arrive after 3:00 PM please contact the property in advance using the information on the booking confirmation
Information provided by the property may be translated using automated translation tools

Access methods

Front desk (limited hours)

Pets

Pets not allowed

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome
Rollaway/extra beds are not available

Property payment types

  • Mastercard
  • Visa

Important information

Fees

You'll be asked to pay the following charges at the property. Fees may include applicable taxes:

  • Cash Breakage deposit: GBP 20.00

We have included all charges provided to us by the property.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards, debit cards, and cash
This property features an on-site pub that operates on Friday and Saturday evenings until 3 AM. Guests in certain rooms may experience noise during these hours

We should mention

This property does not have elevators

Property is also known as

THE BULL ON THE BRIDGE Hotel
THE BULL ON THE BRIDGE Sowerby Bridge
THE BULL ON THE BRIDGE Hotel Sowerby Bridge

THE BULL ON THE BRIDGE Reviews

Reviews

6.6
Rating 10 - Excellent. 14 out of 47 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 8 out of 47 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 7 out of 47 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 10 out of 47 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 8 out of 47 reviews

7.2/10

Cleanliness

8.0/10

Staff & service

6.6/10

Amenities

6.4/10

Property conditions & facilities

Reviews

Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Staff was very friendly and very welcoming nothing to much trouble. The room was really nice great place to stay.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2026
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
GOOD TRIP TO HALIFAX, STAYED AT THE BULL, WHILE IT WAS SLIGHTLY RUN DOWN, THE FACILITES WERE GOOD AND THE MANAGER AND STAFF WERE FANTASTIC, I WOULD STAY AGAIN.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2026
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10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great location, lovely room, great communication with staff and good price
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2026
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10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Staff helpful and friendly, great price. Smallish room but was no problem, clean, everything you need.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2026
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8/10 Good

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
A convenient location, easy to get to the piece hall theater by taxi . Don't expect the Ritz for the price but the staff are excellent and very friendly.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2026
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2/10 Terrible

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Bed wa
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2026
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8/10 Good

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Its a really well appointed clean room over a pub so on the Saturday night can be a bit noisy until about 3am. However for us it was perfect for the concert we were attending at the Piece Hall and the bus was a convenient way to get to and from the concert. The staff were really helpful and friendly so was great value for money.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2026
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6/10 Okay

Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Rooms are separate to the pub. Up 2 flight of old stairs with varnish worn off, cleaner still in room and did apologise but room needed a thorough clean, didn't dare look behind besides, no parking. I finally found a side road.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2026
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8/10 Good

Liked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
you get what you pay for..... Paul was brilliant
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2026
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4/10 Poor

Liked: Staff & service
There was no TV to drown out the noise from the bar until 3am.No parking anywhere close.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2026
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2/10 Terrible

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Room was directly over the very noisy late bar. Sofa bed was seriously uncomfortable. Corridors were dark and dirty. Staff were lovely though
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2026
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8/10 Good

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
A little confused as we arrived about 2pm all shut up ! But they opened at 2:45 all good ! Rooms ok, not a 5 star luxury pad by any stretch ! But clean and adequate. Great for the Piece Hall, £10 uber good Wetherspoons and restaurants close Parking round the corner ! A little TLC and this would be fantastic instead of just good!
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2026
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities

Convenient location

Pleasant stay in a beautiful old building. The bed felt like it was missing a mattress but otherwise all very clean and comfortable.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Craig the host was very friendly and arranged taxi transport to & from Piece Hall to his new hotel as The Bull on the Bridge was overbooked. Excellent customer service & both hotels were v nice!
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2024
Verified review

10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Fantastic value for money

Great hosts and a warm welcome. Fantastic communication throughout and we will definitely book again for our next event at Piece Hall
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2024
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4/10 Poor

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
NO TV, NO WI-FI, VERY NOISY made for a disappointing stay… This is a public house with rooms not a hotel lets make that clear, situated in the heart of the town centre so convenient for retail and leisure but very noisy all day and into until the small hours of the morning. Check in at the pubs bar was pleasant and friendly then via a separate external door came the long climb to the room on the second floor via two sets of steep wooden stairs. The room at first seemed to be excellent nicely decorated and clean with en suite shower room but then matters started to go downhill; there was NO TELEVISION in the room, the bracket and socket was present but no screen, I could not believe that in this modern era there was no television, the staff response was that the manager had told them to say that a television was not promised on the website so one should not expect one. To make matters worse there was NO WI-FI connection despite numerous attempts to connect and no it was not my laptop that was the issue, as the manager insinuated, as it has worked without a problem since. If staying at the weekend expect noise from the adjacent streets and from the music in the pub given that the pub has a late music licence. The customer service was excellent, super friendly and would do all that they could to make your stay a happy one. Location is good being right in the centre of town, ten minute walk from that rail station and a few steps to a bus stop.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2026
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10/10 Excellent

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Excellent for the price I paid. Rooms have recently been renovated and it showed. The only niggles were that the extractor fan in the bathroom was very noisy and probably needs replacing (room 10) and there was no hot water: I tried to have a shower but couldn't: No matter how long you ran the tap for or in which position the water never got warm. Would definitely stay there again. Big thank you to Jamie who so very kindly let me check in early.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025
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6/10 Okay

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Need big for rubbish bin
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025
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4/10 Poor

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Amenities
Moved from the bull to the shepherds rest as an upgrade prior to arrival. Out of 4 rooms (party of 4), rooms 10 and room 4 no heating. The bull may have better but I’d avoid the shepherds rest. Also none of the TVs worked in any of the 4 rooms and Wi-Fi password not shared. A shame as the rooms were fine even if the showers are a little small. Place was clean and obviously has been invested in.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2025
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Room comfort
Really nice place, but the double bed was shocking. No support in the mattress soft and spring sticking in to your body. It was a shame the bed was so poor and let the experience down.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2025
Verified review

6/10 Okay

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Amenities
Really basic room. The shower is in the corner of the room and it's shared toilet. No wardrobe. Just a few kitchen cupboards. Location is excellent and the staff are lovely.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2024
Verified review

2/10 Terrible

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
I had a 2night stay booked at this property over the weekend. I checked in the room , dropped my bags off and left the property. Unfortunately 30 minutes later I had to checked out after I received a phone call about an unexpected death in my family. I went back to the property and explained the situation, all the staff were pleasant and evan comforting about the situation, at the time. I was put on a call to the property manager who ensured me not worry about anything and she would contact me in a couple of days to sort things out. This was on Friday, it came to Tuesday and as I had not been contacted at all I reached out and contacted them myself. I was then told there was nothing that could be done, not evan a partial refund or a stay at a later date. Just nothing, evan after contacting the booking site and going through them. So I have now paid money for a place I have not stayed. I wasn't in the property very long but I can say getting around was a nightmare especially if you got small children as I did. I had to go up a flight of stairs across a corridoor through multiple doors then more stairs, evan the staff got confused. The corridors were dirty and didn't look like they had been hooved or cleaned in months. When it came to the room there were cobwebs, staff didn't know how to fold the sofa bed away and asked us to do it. The bathroom was nowhere evan similar to the picture on the website, looking old and dirty.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2026
Verified review

8/10 Good

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
The property is above/next to a pub. The pub in itself is a great atmosphere and everyone there is friendly and welcoming and they have a sister property at the Shepherds rest which I have stayed at previously. The rooms at the Bull on the Bridge are decorated really stylishly and they have blackout curtains. I got put into a room and one thing I noticed was the available plug socket was mid wall without a shelf, originally placed so In reach of the TV, I managed to balance my chargers. I also couldn't seem to make the hot water work in the shower, I messaged the accomodation account and later in the day Jamie kindly moved me to a different room quickly without fuss. The new room was 10/10, very spacious, and cosy with a fireplace and I managed to get a good night's sleep and a hot shower. the place overall Very accomodating and a great place to stay.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2025
Verified review

4/10 Poor

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

beware

the bed was rock hard , the access to the room which wasn't very clean and had cardboard blocking off the open fire place ,was up two narrow flights of stairs . You could hear all the road noise through the single pane windows. parking was on the street behind the hotel ,on a fist come first serve basis . when i first looked at the hotel im sure it was £ 83 . but when i went through all the confirming stages, paid and then got a reciept it was £100. I wont be using Hotels. com again !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024
Verified review

2/10 Terrible

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Absolutely the worst experience

It was the worse’s experience I have ever had. Very loud, Karaoke u could hear in your room. A drunken customer smashed the fire alarm, going off 1am in the morning. My granddaughter was staying with me who was very distressed!. After that People drunk then outside very loud to the point i told the to be quiet then go get abuse. Windows not safe as they were old sash so dangerous and could hear even the busy road even when they were closed. Contacted the management who would not answer my call or move us to another room. Got a txt message to say he had told them to move. The room was disgusting bathroom so small you couldn’t get dryed without opening the sliding door. The room was unsafe Peice of wood put under side table to stop from falling which had a kettle on for tea and coffee!! No tv but a bracket on the wall which I banged my head. I could go on. It should be shut down I am absolutely devastated and spoiled my break away. Do not book!!!
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2025