Manchester Airport 1 hr 3
Eureka! The National Children's Museum (23 min) Interactive museum for kids aged 0-11, offering learning through play, with a nursery and a cafe. Harewood House (39 min) 18th-century stately home with Robert Adam-designed interiors, priceless art and landscaped garden. Royal Armouries Museum (27 min) Modern building for displays including Henry VIII's armour, war histories and experimental weaponry. Shibden Hall (21 min) Timber-framed manor with period rooms, restored gardens, a mini-railway, a boating lake and woods. The Piece Hall Halifax (25 min) This sprawling 18th-century cloth hall now houses history exhibits, shops, bars & restaurants. Bingley Five-Rise Locks (20 min) 18th-century, canal lock staircase with 5 fixed chambers making a total rise of 18 metres. Abbey House Museum (21 min) Family-friendly site opening a window onto 19th-century life in Leeds with shops, houses and an inn. Kirkstall Abbey (22 min) Atmospheric, well preserved 12th-century abbey ruins with a visitor centre and tree-filled parkland. Leeds Art Gallery (25 min) Large collection of 20th-century art with Craft Centre and Design Gallery for mixed media displays. Roundhay Park (35 min) Spacious nature area with gardens, walking trails & lakes, plus 2 playgrounds & sports fields. Brontë Parsonage Museum (29 min) The Brontë family home, displaying personal items, manuscripts and letters by the literary sisters. Salts Mill (13 min) Imposing and elegant former mill housing art galleries, select shopping outlets, a cafe and a diner. Keighley & Worth Valley Railway (26 min) Preserved railway station & train line offering a museum & rides on vintage steam locomotives. Leeds City Museum (27 min) Imposing home for natural and community history and the city collection of archeological items. National Science and Media Museum (7 min) Modern museum of TV, radio, film and photography, with IMAX cinema, themed exhibitions and cafe-bar. |