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Standedge Tunnel
At three and a half miles, this is the
longest, deepest,
and highest canal tunnel in the country. The
Visitor Centre has a video presentation by Mikron
Theatre, which brings to life the people who built the
tunnel and worked on the canal. Short trips into
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Royal Armouries
Galleries show the history of
fighting, weapons and armour. The tournament gallery
takes you back to the age of chivalry, and if you pick
the right day you can see real jousting. There is also a
gallery of Peace.... |
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East Riddlesden Hall
NT 17th-century
West Riding manor house with formal and wild gardens, duckpond and
grounds. The house is small enough to imagine real people living
there, and has fascinating associations with Yorkshire's
Civil War past. Location for Wuthering Heights
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Skipton Castle
Over 900 years old, this is one of the
best preserved castles in England, complete with
dungeon, keep and sheer drop into the Springs Branch
below. It withstood a three-year siege during the Civil
War. It was home to the Cliffords, a powerful family at
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Walks
Our canals are surrounded by renowned walking country.
The
Pennine Way &
Calderdale Way
cross the canal, and can be picked up from link paths.
Hebden Bridge was one of the first Walker Friendly
towns. There are fantastic views from the tops,
reachable from anywhere along the canal. Marsden Moor NT
rises above Standedge. |
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Hardcastle Crags
NT Beautiful wooded valley with
waterfalls, wildlife and the biggest anthills you've
ever seen. The perfect place for hide-and-seek. The
recently restored 19th-century Gibson Mill is powered by
sustainable energy (with sustaining tearoom). Location
for
Nicholas Nickleby and
Sharpe. |
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Grand Designs Ever wanted really to be in
control? Then envy Sir Titus Salt, who built a complete Victorian
model town beside his mills, to provide excellent housing - but
strictly no pub - for his staff. He called it
Saltaire. The houses
are still much sought-after, and the mills are thriving with new
uses including the
Hockney Gallery. |
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Gordon Rigg's Garden Centres
People drive from all over the North to pick up bargains at these
incredible centres: you just moor outside and bring your trophies
home on the boat. Canalside at Walsden and
Rochdale. |
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Film trails
Discover locations for
Last of the Summer
Wine and
Where the Heart Is in the Colne Valley above
Huddersfield, plus
Stay Lucky and
True Tilda filmed in Sowerby Bridge,
Emmerdale at Esholt; and lots of other films and
TV shows. |
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A train or bus ride away |
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Eureka!
The Museum for Children in
Halifax is the first and foremost
hands-on children's museum in the UK and is designed
especially for 0-11 year olds. You can walk there along
the line of the old Halifax Arm, or get the bus from
Salterhebble or Sowerby Bridge. |
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The
Brontė Parsonage
Museum,
Haworth, was the home of the Brontė
sisters. It is full of
intriguing stuff about their life and times, as well as
being a centre for academic study. The West Riding is
also dotted with houses used as locations in their
stories - and films. |
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National Media Museum,
Bradford
See dinosaurs larger than life and three times as natural on
the 5-storey Imax screen at this centre devoted to film,
photography, television, radio and the web. |
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York
Easily worth a day, by train from
anywhere on the waterways. Seethe view from the tower of
York Minster.
Go underground to discover life with the Vikings at
Yorvik. See Mallard and the Flying Scotsman at the
National Railway Museum. |
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Imperial War Museum,
Salford Quays
The building, designed by Daniel Libeskind, represents a fractured
world. Permanent and changing exhibitions include the gun which
fired the first British shell in the First World War. |
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The Lowry Centre,
Salford Quays
Three theatres for all kinds of performing arts, and
galleries with a permanent exhibition of the works of
local hero LS Lowry, plus changing shows of other
artists. |
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The National Coal Mining Museum
A unique opportunity to travel 140 metres
underground down one of Britain's oldest working mines, where models
and machinery depict methods and conditions of mining from the early
1800s to the present. |
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Harewood House
The home of Lord Harewood. Worth the long bus ride from Leeds.
House built by John Carr of York and Robert Adam, financed by the
sugar trade. Chippendale furniture, extensive park, rare birds, adventure
playground. Hosts many special shows such as Eric Clapton |
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Railway journeys Step back
in time and enjoy a train ride through the heart of
Brontė country on the
Keighley & Worth Valley Railway.
Or pick up the
Settle & Carlisle Railway
from Skipton, and fulfil that dream to travel across
Ribblehead Viaduct. Or try the
Embsay
and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway; or
Kirklees Light Railway.... |
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MORE THINGS TO DO... |
CULTURE,
MUSEUMS, STATELY HOMES
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester (concerts)
Leeds
Opera
&
Playhouse
Henry Moore Sculpture Gallery
Kirkstall Abbey & museum
Nostell Priory NT
Selby Abbey
Towneley Hall, Burnley |
INDUSTRIAL MUSEUMS
Manchester Museum of Science & Industry
Thwaite Mills
&
Armley Mills - industrial museums
Portland Basin Museum: street scenes, local
industrial history. |
PLUS
Swimming baths, cinemas, pubs, takeaways, sports
centres, playgrounds.
Public Transport is easily accessible from all the
waterways - click for
Yorkshire Journey Planner. |
PLUS MORE
Click for things to do throughout
Calderdale or the whole of
Yorkshire. |
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