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Get matched →This exhibition, titled 'Lady’s Slipper and Bees – Pressed Orchids and their collectors', showcases a selection of Bradford District Museums & Galleries’ rare and extinct orchid specimens. These pressed flowers are part of the nationally important herbarium held at Cliffe Castle, which contains over 60,000 specimens collected by Leeds-born botanists F. A. Lees (1847-1921) and W. A. Sledge (1904-1991). The display explores local collectors and how specimens collected during the Victorian plant-collecting craze, Orchidomania, are now being used around the world in plant conservation research.
There is a small amount of free parking on Spring Gardens Lane and within the museum car park, allowing for 3 hours parking with no return within 2 hours. These parking places are managed by Bradford Council Parking Services. There are also two Blue Badge parking spaces down the slope from the museum car park, offered on a first-come, first-served basis. The gates to these car park spaces close at 4:30pm.
Cliffe Castle Museum is approximately a 12-25 minute walk from the railway station and a 6-15 minute walk from the bus station. Buses (for example, Bradford to Skipton) pass the lower main gates. The 903 bus service operates from Keighley Bus Station and serves Cliffe Castle on a limited basis.
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