Manchester Airport 1 hr 7
Top Withins (31 min) Historic, isolated farmhouse said to have been the inspiration for Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. The Piece Hall Halifax (26 min) This sprawling 18th-century cloth hall now houses history exhibits, shops, bars & restaurants. National Science and Media Museum (43 min) Modern museum of TV, radio, film and photography, with IMAX cinema, themed exhibitions and cafe-bar. National Trust, East Riddlesden Hall (39 min) Restored manor house with period furnishings and formal gardens, plus a tearoom. National Trust. Towneley Hall. (25 min) Victorian and pre-Raphaelite art, local history, furniture and pottery in a stately home museum. Hollingworth Lake (36 min) 130-acre recreational lake for swimming, boating & fishing, with an educational visitor center. Bingley Five-Rise Locks (39 min) 18th-century, canal lock staircase with 5 fixed chambers making a total rise of 18 metres. Eureka! The National Children's Museum (28 min) Interactive museum for kids aged 0-11, offering learning through play, with a nursery and a cafe. Brontë Parsonage Museum (27 min) The Brontë family home, displaying personal items, manuscripts and letters by the literary sisters. Hardcastle Crags (12 min) Scenic woodland valley with 15 miles of paths and and a visitor centre in a 19th-century mill. Bronte Waterfall (30 min) Picturesque waterfall amidst greenery with a flow that varies depending on weather conditions. Keighley & Worth Valley Railway (24 min) Preserved railway station & train line offering a museum & rides on vintage steam locomotives. Salts Mill (44 min) Imposing and elegant former mill housing art galleries, select shopping outlets, a cafe and a diner. Shibden Hall (26 min) Timber-framed manor with period rooms, restored gardens, a mini-railway, a boating lake and woods. Cliffe Castle (35 min) Victorian millionaire's former home, with furnished rooms, costumes, fossils and domestic artefacts. |