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The Dumb Steeple

Mirfield

(4.2 miles, 6.8 km, direction S)

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.....

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Leeds, Civic Hall.

Leeds

(6.5 miles, 10.4 km, direction NE)

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.....

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Wakefield Cathedral, West Yorkshire. Viewed from Westgate

Wakefield

(7.7 miles, 12.3 km, direction SE)

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...

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Halifax Town Hall from Princess St, designed by Sir Charles Barry in 1859

Halifax

(7.8 miles, 12.6 km, direction W)

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...

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St George's Square, Huddersfield, from the station car park.

Huddersfield

(8.1 miles, 13.0 km, direction SW)

Huddersfield is a lively and interesting town that offers a rich cultural experience...

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Saltaire Mills on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Saltaire.

Saltaire

(8.3 miles, 13.4 km, direction NW)

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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ALL HALLOWS CHURCH, ALMONDBURY, HUDDERSFIELD

Almondbury

(8.5 miles, 13.6 km, direction SW)

Almondbury is one of the oldest and prettiest of the villages dominating the edge of the Pennine moors...

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Golcar

Golcar

(10.1 miles, 16.3 km, direction SW)

Sturdily built of stone, this small hill town is perched north of the River Colne and the now restored Huddersfield Narrow Canal...

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Sowerby bridge basin, West Yorkshire.

Sowerby Bridge

(10.3 miles, 16.6 km, direction W)

Surrounded by the dramatic scenery of the South Pennines, with the town's gentle scenery being enhanced by the River Calder and the River Ryburn on which the town stands...

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Harden Beck, Harden, West Yorkshire

Harden

(11.0 miles, 17.6 km, direction NW)

Harden lies in the famous countryside area between Cullingworth and Bingley surrounded by rivers and meadows. It is a favoured commuter base for those working in nearby Bradford...

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

Dewsbury Museum

(3.6 miles, 5.8 km, direction S)

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Kirklees Priory Gatehouse, West Yorkshire

Kirklees Priory

(4.3 miles, 6.9 km, direction SW)

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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Robin Hoods Grave, Kirklees Priory, West Yorkshire

Robin Hood's Grave

(4.5 miles, 7.3 km, direction SW)

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National Museum of Photography, Film and TV. Bradford.

National Museum of Photography, Film & Television

(5.1 miles, 8.2 km, direction NW)

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Bradford Cathedral, West Yorkshire

Bradford Cathedral

(5.4 miles, 8.7 km, direction NW)

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Armley Mills Industrial Museum near Leeds.

Armley Mills Industrial Museum

(5.6 miles, 9.0 km, direction NE)

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

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Kirkstall Abbey near Leeds, West Yorkshire

Kirkstall Abbey

(6.1 miles, 9.9 km, direction N)

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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Pyjama Cricket

Headingley Cricket Ground

(6.3 miles, 10.2 km, direction NE)

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1998. Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, Outside Display

Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds

(6.6 miles, 10.6 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.....

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Shibden Valley

Shibden Valley

(6.6 miles, 10.6 km, direction W)

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