Egypt, Bradford

Egypt is a hamlet near Thornton, in the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.

Egypt is situated about one mile (1.6 km) north-west of Thornton on a hairpin bend of a road between Well Heads and a junction with the B6144 road near Wilsden, and at the top (western) end of the marked valley of Bell Dean in which a stream runs roughly in an eastern direction.

[1] High walls that were erected to hold back the waste rock from the local quarries flank the road, giving rise to the nickname "The Walls of Jericho".

[2] The hamlet was established in the first half of the 19th century and is named on maps surveyed in the late 1840s.

[5] The names of other hamlets in the area such as Jericho, Jerusalem, and World's End are also of biblical origin.