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No.1 City Square, Leeds

Leeds

(3.6 miles, 5.8 km, direction SW)

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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Chevin Woods near Otley, West Yorkshire

Otley

(8.9 miles, 14.3 km, direction NW)

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...

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A view of the Entrance to the Main Hall at Hazlewood Castle Nr Tadcaster, North Yorkshire

Tadcaster

(10.1 miles, 16.3 km, direction E)

Tadcaster has been at the centre of the Brewing industry since the 18th century, and today breweries remain conspicuous on its landscape...

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Harrogate, North Yorkshire

Harrogate

(10.3 miles, 16.6 km, direction N)

One of the chief town's in Yorkshire's old West Riding, Harrogate acheived early fame as a Spa resort...

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Castleford

Castleford

(10.5 miles, 16.9 km, direction SE)

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...

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Wakefield High Street, West Yorkshire

Wakefield

(11.2 miles, 18.0 km, direction S)

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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Market Plase, statue of John Metcalf (Blind Jack)

Knaresborough

(11.5 miles, 18.6 km, direction N)

This attractive market town lies in the high reaches of Yorkshire above Harrogate. It is overlooked by the peaceful waters of the River Nidd which is spanned by a magnificent.....

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Saltaire the Mill Town

Saltaire

(11.7 miles, 18.9 km, direction W)

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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Scotton

(12.7 miles, 20.4 km, direction N)

Home to the infamous Guy Fawkes whos residence still stands at the end of the village. On bonfire night or 'Guy Fawkes' night, unlike other areas of England where an effigy of Guy.....

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Countryside 5 minutes out of Featherstone, West Yorkshire

Featherstone

(13.1 miles, 21.1 km, direction SE)

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...

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Recommended attractions near Roundhay Park

Harewood House in West Yorkshire - Terrace Gardens, June 2005

Harewood House

(3.8 miles, 6.2 km, direction N)

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Pyjama Cricket

Headingley Cricket Ground

(3.9 miles, 6.3 km, direction SW)

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1998. Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, Outside Display

Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds

(4.0 miles, 6.4 km, direction S)

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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Temple Newsam, Leeds. Lovely entrance

Temple Newsam

(4.4 miles, 7.1 km, direction SE)

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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Armley Mills Industrial Museum near Leeds.

Armley Mills Industrial Museum

(4.5 miles, 7.2 km, direction SW)

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

(4.9 miles, 7.9 km, direction W)

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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Lotherton Hall

(7.7 miles, 12.4 km, direction E)

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Spofforth Castle

(7.8 miles, 12.6 km, direction N)

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From Surprise View, Otley Chevin Forest Park, West Yorkshire

Chevin Forest Park

(8.8 miles, 14.2 km, direction NW)

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River Aire, Fairburn Ings

RSPB Fairburn Ings

(9.9 miles, 15.9 km, direction SE)

With pond dipping, regular fun events and walks, RSPB Fairburn Ings is the ideal place for the whole family to find out more.....

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