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Rodley Bottom

Leeds (233 Pictures) in the county of West Yorkshire

(2.0 miles, 3.2 km, direction N of Beeston)

In the middle ages Leeds was a wool centre and it flourished. The sheep on the Yorkshire moors providing the wool for the cottage craft industry of spinning and weaving. The.....

Wakefield High Street, West Yorkshire

Wakefield (43 Pictures) in the county of West Yorkshire

(6.7 miles, 10.8 km, direction S of Beeston)

Wakefield was the capital of Yorkshire's woollen industry for more than 700 years, it was an important weaving and dying centre as far back as the 13th century...

Saltaire Mills on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Saltaire.

Saltaire (54 Pictures) a Picturesque Village in the county of West Yorkshire

(10.0 miles, 16.1 km, direction NW of Beeston)

This perfectly preserved village originated as an answer to Bradford's 'dark satanic mills', it was the brain-child of industrialist Sir Titus Salt, who in the early 19th-century.....

River Wharfe and Weir, Otley, West Yorkshire

Otley (45 Pictures) in the county of West Yorkshire

(10.5 miles, 16.9 km, direction NW of Beeston)

Otley is a beautiful old town with attractive buildings in medieval courts and alleyways and a lovely parish church that dates back to Norman times...

Went Valley in Winter 2008

Pontefract (181 Pictures) a Historic Market Town in the county of West Yorkshire

(12.0 miles, 19.2 km, direction SE of Beeston)

Pontefract has a ruined castle which has seen many tragedies, Richard II was murdered there in 1400, and later it was the scene of bitter, bloody battles between Roundheads and Royalists...

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1998. Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, Outside Display

Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds (20 Pictures)

(1.7 miles, 2.8 km, direction NE)

The Royal Armouries Museum occupies a dazzling modern building set beside the river. At nightfall it becomes one of the town's.....

Armley Mills Industrial Museum near Leeds.

Armley Mills Industrial Museum (4 Pictures)

(2.1 miles, 3.4 km, direction N)

Formerly the largest woolen mill in the world, Armley Mills is now a museum that explores the rich industrial past of.....

Kirkstall Abbey near Leeds, West Yorkshire

Kirkstall Abbey (14 Pictures)

(3.8 miles, 6.1 km, direction NW)

Kirkstall Abbey is one of Yorkshire's finest ruined Cistercian abbey's. It was founded in the 12th-century from which much of.....

Temple Newsam, Leeds. Lovely entrance

Temple Newsam (2 Pictures)

(4.4 miles, 7.1 km, direction E)

This is a stunning house set in magical grounds. It began life hundreds of years ago but the oldest part of the house we see.....

Dewsbury Museum in Crow Nest Park, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.

Dewsbury Museum (1 Pictures)

(6.8 miles, 10.9 km, direction SW)

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Wakefield Cathedral, West Yorkshire. Viewed from Westgate

Wakefield Cathedral (2 Pictures)

(7.0 miles, 11.2 km, direction SE)

This was formerly the parish church of All Saints, it only became a cathedral at the end of the 19th century. With its.....

Bradford Cathedral, West Yorkshire

Bradford Cathedral (3 Pictures)

(7.8 miles, 12.5 km, direction W)

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