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Cross Hills is home to the Old White Bear pub/restaurant on Keighley Road which had its own real ale brewery producing Naylor's Pinnacle beers. Due to the need to increase capacity, the brewery was moved in the 2000s to the nearby Midland Mill complex off Station Road. Other eating places include Tams Cantonese restaurant and the Bella Napoli Italian restaurant.
The village has several small retail outlets. The largest retailer is the Co-op store, a small supermarket just off Main Street. The Co-op has one of the two public car parks in Cross Hills. There is a SPAR store towards the western end of Main Street.
The village post office is on Keighley Road opposite the junction with Station Road. It used to be in one of the buildings opposite (now a private house) and the old lettering can still be seen on the lintel above this house's front door. There is now only one bank in Cross Hills and this is at the end of Main Street on the junction with Park Road and Station Road.
The village has a large health centre on Holme Lane and is only a mile or so from the Airedale NHS Trust hospital at Steeton. There is a public library and a police station.
The largest secondary and sixth form college in the area, South Craven School, is located in Cross Hills off Holme Lane, which is the road from Cross Hills to Sutton-in-Craven. The local primary schools are in Sutton-in-Craven, Glusburn, Malsis (Private) and Kildwick.
Cross Hills has no Church of England parish church of its own and is part of the parish of St Andrew's Church across the Aire in Kildwick. St Peter's Methodist Church, whose hall has an additional function as the local polling station, is just off Main Street in the centre of the village. St Joseph's Catholic Church is on Aire Street, off Keighley Road. South Craven Evangelical Church is on Back Colne Road.
Cricket and football are played at Park Fields where Cross Hills adjoins both Glusburn and Sutton-in-Craven. The clubs are Cross Hills FC and Glusburn CC. The Cross Hills tennis and bowling club is located off Keighley Road with three tennis courts and one bowling green.
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