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Dawn

Leeds

(1.0 miles, 1.6 km)

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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Dawn in Secker Wood

Wakefield

(7.5 miles, 12.1 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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Castleford

Castleford

(9.0 miles, 14.4 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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Mirfield (west yorkshire), showing the mirfield church (st mary's)

Mirfield

(10.2 miles, 16.4 km, direction SW)

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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Bridge Avenue, Otley, West Yorkshire

Otley

(10.3 miles, 16.5 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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Countryside 5 minutes out of Featherstone, West Yorkshire

Featherstone

(10.8 miles, 17.3 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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Saltaire the Mill Town

Saltaire

(10.8 miles, 17.4 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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The Park Lake Spring 2009

Pontefract

(11.5 miles, 18.4 km, direction SE)

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...

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

Tadcaster

(12.9 miles, 20.7 km, direction NE)

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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Crescent Gardens, Harrogate

Harrogate

(13.9 miles, 22.4 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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Recommended attractions near Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds

Armley Mills Industrial Museum near Leeds.

Armley Mills Industrial Museum

(2.2 miles, 3.5 km, direction W)

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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Pyjama Cricket

Headingley Cricket Ground

(2.6 miles, 4.2 km, direction NW)

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Temple Newsam, Leeds. Lovely entrance

Temple Newsam

(3.1 miles, 4.9 km, direction E)

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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Kirkstall Abbey near Leeds, West Yorkshire

Kirkstall Abbey

(3.9 miles, 6.3 km, direction NW)

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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Roundhay park.

Roundhay Park

(4.0 miles, 6.4 km, direction N)

700 acres of parkland, lakes, woodland and gardens which are owned by Leeds City Council, and is one of the biggest city parks in.....

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Harewood House in West Yorkshire - Terrace Gardens, June 2005

Harewood House

(7.4 miles, 11.9 km, direction N)

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Wakefield Cathedral, West Yorkshire. Viewed from Westgate

Wakefield Cathedral

(7.7 miles, 12.4 km, direction S)

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

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

Dewsbury Museum

(8.5 miles, 13.6 km, direction SW)

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Bradford Cathedral, West Yorkshire

Bradford Cathedral

(8.9 miles, 14.4 km, direction W)

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I am watching you

Lotherton Hall

(9.0 miles, 14.5 km, direction E)

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