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