Manchester Airport 1 hr 5
The Piece Hall Halifax (22 min) This sprawling 18th-century cloth hall now houses history exhibits, shops, bars & restaurants. Brontë Parsonage Museum (22 min) The Brontë family home, displaying personal items, manuscripts and letters by the literary sisters. Shibden Hall (23 min) Timber-framed manor with period rooms, restored gardens, a mini-railway, a boating lake and woods. Salts Mill (39 min) Imposing and elegant former mill housing art galleries, select shopping outlets, a cafe and a diner. Top Withins (26 min) Historic, isolated farmhouse said to have been the inspiration for Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. National Trust - Marsden Moor Estate (46 min) Trails across an expanse of moors & craggy peaks, home to birds like red grouse & golden plovers. National Trust, East Riddlesden Hall (34 min) Restored manor house with period furnishings and formal gardens, plus a tearoom. National Trust. Hardcastle Crags (7 min) Scenic woodland valley with 15 miles of paths and and a visitor centre in a 19th-century mill. Keighley & Worth Valley Railway (19 min) Preserved railway station & train line offering a museum & rides on vintage steam locomotives. National Science and Media Museum (39 min) Modern museum of TV, radio, film and photography, with IMAX cinema, themed exhibitions and cafe-bar. Bingley Five-Rise Locks (34 min) 18th-century, canal lock staircase with 5 fixed chambers making a total rise of 18 metres. Eureka! The National Children's Museum (24 min) Interactive museum for kids aged 0-11, offering learning through play, with a nursery and a cafe. Bronte Waterfall (25 min) Picturesque waterfall amidst greenery with a flow that varies depending on weather conditions. Hollingworth Lake (34 min) 130-acre recreational lake for swimming, boating & fishing, with an educational visitor center. Cliffe Castle (30 min) Victorian millionaire's former home, with furnished rooms, costumes, fossils and domestic artefacts. |