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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 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...
Almondbury is one of the oldest and prettiest of the villages dominating the edge of the Pennine moors...
Huddersfield is a lively and interesting town that offers a rich cultural experience...
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.....
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Formerly the largest woolen mill in the world, Armley Mills is now a museum that explores the rich industrial past of.....
The Royal Armouries Museum occupies a dazzling modern building set beside the river. At nightfall it becomes one of the town's.....
This was formerly the parish church of All Saints, it only became a cathedral at the end of the 19th century. With its.....
Kirkstall Abbey is one of Yorkshire's finest ruined Cistercian abbey's. It was founded in the 12th-century from which much of.....
Home of the wicked Prioress who bled the unsuspecting Robin Hood to death. All that remains today is the Priory Gatehouse and.....
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