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Almondbury
Manorial village, medieval church; Castle Hill Iron Age Fort & Jubilee Tower.
Batley
Victorian town; art gallery; market & cobbled square; Bagshaw Museum - fine Egyptian & Oriental collection.
Birstall
Birthplace of Joseph Priestley; Oakwell Hall & Country Park - Tudor architecture linked to Charlotte Bronte; Medieval church & graveyard.
Bradford
National Museum of Film, Television & Photography; Alhambra Theatre - home of the Royal Ballet.
Brighouse
Canal basin; Smith Art Gallery.
Cawthorpe
Historic village; Cannon Hall & Country Park - museum, large ground & gardens; Jubilee Memorial Museum.
Cleckheaton
Strong Luddite & Bronte connections
Gomersal
Red House Museum - “Briarmains” in the Bronte novel ‘Shirley’
Denby Dale
Historic giant pork pies; railway viaduct
Dewsbury
Victorian textile town; Dewsbury museum; historic church; Children At Work Museum.
Golcar
Historic weavers village; Colne Valley Museum.
Halifax
Historic Victorian textile town; fine Victorian architecture; Piece Hall & Pre-Industrial Museum and Gallery; Calderdale Industrial Museum; Working Horse Museum; Museum of West Yorkshire; Bankfield Museum; Wainhouse Tower; Halifax Gibbet - the last execution took place in 1650, the last place in England to behead thieves; Shibden Hall & Folk Museum; Eureka - children’s museum.
Harrogate
Spa town famous for its gardens & specialist shops
Haworth
Bronte Parsonage Museum; historic main street; Worth Valley Railway.
Heckmondwike/ Liversedge
Textile town with Bronte & Luddite connections.
Hebden Bridge
Dolls tots & miniatures; Maude Walkey’s Clog Mills; World of the Honey Bee
Heptonstall
Historic hill top village with historic church & graveyard; Octagonal chapel; Old Grammar School.
Holmfirth
BBC’s Last of the Summer Wine setting; Postcard Museum, Automobilla; Georgian Church; Annual Folk Festival.
Huddersfield
Victorian textile town; Art Gallery; Tolson Museum.
Kirklees
Miniature railway.
Leeds
The Grand Theatre - home of the Opera North; The West Yorkshire Playhouse; The City Varieties; The Butterfly House & Botanical Gardens; City Museum & Art Gallery; Temple Newsome House; Harewood House & Bird Gardens; Kirkstall Museum.
Luddenden
Historic unspoiled village - Branwell Bronte connection.
Marsden
Colne Valley mill town; important Luddite connection; Historic packhorse bridges; village stocks; fine church; tunnel end canal & countryside centre.
Midgley
Ancient township - village stocks & wells
Otley
Market town; river; Emmerdale filmed in and around the area.
Ripponden
Historic village, Ryeburn Farm museum
York
Britain’s finest medieval city with Minster, city wall, museums – National Railway Musuem & Yorvic Centre; York Racecourse.