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...
Featherstone is a large town lying between Wakefield and Pontefract in West Yorkshire. For the past couple of centuries the town was known chiefly for its coal mines...
This is a large Northern town with roots stretching back to the Romans and beyond, as proven by the recent finding of a Bronze Age male skeleton and his chariot...
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...
This is an attractive town laid out along the River Dearne, it is enclosed by spectacular Pennine scenery and is an ideal place from which to discover the limestone hills and fresh green valley's of the Yorkshire Dales...
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.....
Mirfield is a residential town situated between Huddersfield and Dewsbury. It has a long history, and associations with Robin Hood, the Luddites, and the Bronte sisters. More.....
Almondbury is one of the oldest and prettiest of the villages dominating the edge of the Pennine moors...
This is a typical Yorkshire village settled close to the meeting point of North and South Yorkshire...
Huddersfield is a lively and interesting town that offers a rich cultural experience...
This is a place that will forever be associated with the gentle, romantic comedy "Last of the Summer Wine" which has graced our TV screens for more than a quarter of a century...
Sprotbrough lies in the valley of the River Don, it is a lovely rural location with fertile fields and meadows leading from leafy lanes whose hedgerows are full of wild plants and flowers...
Sturdily built of stone, this small hill town is perched north of the River Colne and the now restored Huddersfield Narrow Canal...
Tadcaster has been at the centre of the Brewing industry since the 18th century, and today breweries remain conspicuous on its landscape...
Halifax is an industrial city close to the famous Pennines and the route of the Pennine Way in what is known as Yorkshire's "Bronte" country...
Thrybergh is a pretty South Yorkshire village with a history stretching back to the time of the Doomsday Book, for centuries it was little more than a small rural village with scattered housing and farms...
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.....
Doncaster lies in what was once a great sweep of Yorkshire coalfields. It is home to one of the finest racecourses in the country where the classic St.Leger Stakes has been run each September since 1776, making the race four years older than the Derby...
This town was formerly a Saxon market town which remained largely unaltered until the Industrial Revolution...
This small town appears to be almost surrounded by water, it developed along the banks of the River Aire and to the east is the Ouse...
This was formerly the parish church of All Saints, it only became a cathedral at the end of the 19th century. With its.....
The crumbling, naked ruins of Sandal Castle are now owned by Wakefield council, and what an inspired choice of centre-piece they.....
This attractive country park offers a rich and varied country landscape, it is dominated by a large lake ringed by numerous trees.....
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This is an exciting, fascinating tourist attraction that is both fun and thought provoking for all the family. It has fast.....
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.....
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The Royal Armouries Museum occupies a dazzling modern building set beside the river. At nightfall it becomes one of the town's.....
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Outstanding country park originally landscaped in the 1760's by Richard Woods. The park surrounds a magnificent hall designed by.....
Formerly the largest woolen mill in the world, Armley Mills is now a museum that explores the rich industrial past of.....
Wentworth Castle Gardens have been the subject of an ambitious plan to restore the magnificent estate, once home to the Earls of.....
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Home of the wicked Prioress who bled the unsuspecting Robin Hood to death. All that remains today is the Priory Gatehouse and.....
Kirkstall Abbey is one of Yorkshire's finest ruined Cistercian abbey's. It was founded in the 12th-century from which much of.....
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