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Recommended Towns & Villages near Huddersfield

ALMONDBURY CONSERVATIVE CLUB, ALMONDBURY, HUDDERSFIELD, WEST YORKSHIRE

Almondbury (6 Pictures)

a Picturesque Village in the county of West Yorkshire (2.0 miles, 3.2 km, direction SE)

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

Golcar

Golcar (2 Pictures)

in the county of West Yorkshire (2.6 miles, 4.1 km, direction W)

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

The Dumb Steeple

Mirfield (8 Pictures)

in the county of West Yorkshire (4.3 miles, 7.0 km, direction NE)

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.....

Holmfirth Last of the Summer Wine

Holmfirth (40 Pictures)

in the county of West Yorkshire (5.1 miles, 8.2 km, direction S)

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...

Town of Halifax

Halifax (83 Pictures)

in the county of West Yorkshire (6.4 miles, 10.2 km, direction NW)

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...

Sowerby bridge basin, West Yorkshire.

Sowerby Bridge (11 Pictures)

in the county of West Yorkshire (6.7 miles, 10.9 km, direction NW)

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...

The Stocks.

Marsden (33 Pictures)

in the county of West Yorkshire (6.8 miles, 10.9 km, direction SW)

Marsden offers visitors a wealth of heritage, particularly in association with the town's expansion which came about during the heady days of the Industrial Revolution...

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Hebden Bridge (43 Pictures)

a Historic Market Town in the county of West Yorkshire (11.5 miles, 18.6 km, direction NW)

This beautiful old town grew up close to the River Hebden at the point where a stone bridge was built as part of a pack-horse route in the 16th century...

Wakefield Cathedral, West Yorkshire. Viewed from Westgate

Wakefield (43 Pictures)

in the county of West Yorkshire (11.8 miles, 18.9 km, direction E)

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 the Mill Town

Saltaire (54 Pictures)

a Picturesque Village in the county of West Yorkshire (13.2 miles, 21.2 km, direction N)

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.....

A picture of Todmorden

Todmorden (12 Pictures)

in the county of West Yorkshire (13.8 miles, 22.2 km, direction W)

Todmorden lies on the historic border between Yorkshire and Lancashire in an area of the Calder Valley ringed by the hills of the Pennines...

Harden Waterfall, Harden, West Yorkshire

Harden (4 Pictures)

in the county of West Yorkshire (14.1 miles, 22.6 km, direction N)

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...

Barnsley, South Yorkshire. Town hall in the full bloom of summer.

Barnsley (161 Pictures)

in the county of South Yorkshire (14.1 miles, 22.7 km, direction SE)

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...

Haworth, West Yorkshire - Home of the Bronte sisters

Haworth (227 Pictures)

a Picturesque Village in the county of West Yorkshire (14.4 miles, 23.2 km, direction NW)

Haworth is famous the world over for its connections with the Bronte sisters, the famous novelists...

Final approach to Leeds Bradford Airport

Leeds (233 Pictures)

in the county of West Yorkshire (14.5 miles, 23.3 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.....

Damems station, a part of Keighley

Keighley (48 Pictures)

in the county of West Yorkshire (16.2 miles, 26.1 km, direction N)

This is an industrial town in West Yorkshire. It lies in a fold between the fine countryside of Airdale and Keighley Moors...

Countryside 5 minutes out of Featherstone, West Yorkshire

Featherstone (2 Pictures)

in the county of West Yorkshire (17.7 miles, 28.5 km, direction E)

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 St Stephens Church, which is in Audenshaw.

Audenshaw (2 Pictures)

in the county of Greater Manchester (18.4 miles, 29.6 km, direction SW)

Audenshaw is a suburb of Greater Manchester. It is probably best known for its reservoirs and the busy waters of the Ashton canal, beside which visitors can see clusters of delightful canal-side properties...

River Wharfe and Weir, Otley, West Yorkshire

Otley (45 Pictures)

in the county of West Yorkshire (18.4 miles, 29.6 km, direction N)

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...

Castleford

Castleford (34 Pictures)

in the county of West Yorkshire (18.8 miles, 30.3 km, direction E)

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...

Recommended attractions near Huddersfield

Robin Hoods Grave, Kirklees Priory, West Yorkshire

Robin Hood's Grave (4 Pictures)

(3.5 miles, 5.7 km, direction NE)

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Kirklees Priory Gatehouse, West Yorkshire

Kirklees Priory (2 Pictures)

(3.8 miles, 6.2 km, direction NE)

Home of the wicked Prioress who bled the unsuspecting Robin Hood to death. All that remains today is the Priory Gatehouse and.....

Eureka Science Museum  - Yorkshire - 1996

Eureka! Museum for Children (3 Pictures)

(5.8 miles, 9.3 km, direction NW)

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Shibden Hall, Halifax, West Yorkshire

Shibden Hall (36 Pictures)

(6.0 miles, 9.6 km, direction N)

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

Dewsbury Museum (1 Pictures)

(6.4 miles, 10.3 km, direction NE)

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Pit head gear at Caphouse Colliery

National Coal Mining Museum (33 Pictures)

(6.5 miles, 10.5 km, direction E)

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Marsden Moor, Yorkshire

Marsden Moor Estate (2 Pictures)

(6.7 miles, 10.7 km, direction SW)

Marsden Moor was gifted to the National Trust in 1955 by Captain Sir Joseph Benedict Everard Henry Radcliffe in lieu of death.....

Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, West Yorkshire

Yorkshire Sculpture Park (35 Pictures)

(9.1 miles, 14.7 km, direction E)

This is an exciting, fascinating tourist attraction that is both fun and thought provoking for all the family. It has fast.....

Cannon Hall park

Cannon Hall Country Park (24 Pictures)

(9.5 miles, 15.3 km, direction SE)

Outstanding country park originally landscaped in the 1760's by Richard Woods. The park surrounds a magnificent hall designed by.....

National Museum of Photography, Film and TV. Bradford.

National Museum of Photography, Film & Television (3 Pictures)

(10.1 miles, 16.2 km, direction N)

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Bradford Cathedral, West Yorkshire

Bradford Cathedral (3 Pictures)

(10.7 miles, 17.3 km, direction N)

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A view of Newmillerdam taken near the memorial, West Yorkshire.

Newmillerdam Country Park (20 Pictures)

(12.0 miles, 19.3 km, direction E)

This attractive country park offers a rich and varied country landscape, it is dominated by a large lake ringed by numerous trees.....

Wakefield Cathedral, West Yorkshire. Viewed from Westgate

Wakefield Cathedral (2 Pictures)

(12.1 miles, 19.4 km, direction E)

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

Outline of Sandal

Sandal Castle (12 Pictures)

(12.1 miles, 19.5 km, direction E)

The crumbling, naked ruins of Sandal Castle are now owned by Wakefield council, and what an inspired choice of centre-piece they.....

Gibson Mill in Hardcastle Crags, Hebden Bridge, West Yorks.

Hardcastle Crags & Gibson Mill (6 Pictures)

(12.8 miles, 20.6 km, direction NW)

Beautiful wooded valley with 19th-century Gibson Mill at its heart, an exemplar of sustainable energy. This is the flagship.....

Armley Mills Industrial Museum near Leeds.

Armley Mills Industrial Museum (4 Pictures)

(13.7 miles, 22.0 km, direction NE)

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

A good view of Stainborough Castle at Wentworth Castle Gardens near Barnsley

Wentworth Castle (50 Pictures)

(13.8 miles, 22.2 km, direction SE)

Wentworth Castle Gardens have been the subject of an ambitious plan to restore the magnificent estate, once home to the Earls of.....

Kirkstall Abbey near Leeds, West Yorkshire

Kirkstall Abbey (14 Pictures)

(14.1 miles, 22.6 km, direction NE)

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

1998. Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, Outside Display

Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds (20 Pictures)

(14.4 miles, 23.2 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.....

at Monk Bretton Priory, Cudworth, South Yorkshire

Monk Bretton Priory (8 Pictures)

(15.8 miles, 25.4 km, direction SE)

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