Manchester Airport 56 min
The Piece Hall Halifax (2 min) This sprawling 18th-century cloth hall now houses history exhibits, shops, bars & restaurants. National Coal Mining Museum for England (32 min) Coal mining museum with a restored colliery, underground tours, pit ponies, a cafe and gift shop. National Trust, East Riddlesden Hall (33 min) Restored manor house with period furnishings and formal gardens, plus a tearoom. National Trust. Hardcastle Crags (27 min) Scenic woodland valley with 15 miles of paths and and a visitor centre in a 19th-century mill. Salts Mill (30 min) Imposing and elegant former mill housing art galleries, select shopping outlets, a cafe and a diner. Hollingworth Lake (39 min) 130-acre recreational lake for swimming, boating & fishing, with an educational visitor center. Kirkstall Abbey (36 min) Atmospheric, well preserved 12th-century abbey ruins with a visitor centre and tree-filled parkland. Brontë Parsonage Museum (29 min) The Brontë family home, displaying personal items, manuscripts and letters by the literary sisters. Bronte Waterfall (34 min) Picturesque waterfall amidst greenery with a flow that varies depending on weather conditions. Bingley Five-Rise Locks (32 min) 18th-century, canal lock staircase with 5 fixed chambers making a total rise of 18 metres. Keighley & Worth Valley Railway (26 min) Preserved railway station & train line offering a museum & rides on vintage steam locomotives. Eureka! The National Children's Museum (8 min) Interactive museum for kids aged 0-11, offering learning through play, with a nursery and a cafe. National Science and Media Museum (22 min) Modern museum of TV, radio, film and photography, with IMAX cinema, themed exhibitions and cafe-bar. Cliffe Castle (34 min) Victorian millionaire's former home, with furnished rooms, costumes, fossils and domestic artefacts. Shibden Hall (5 min) Timber-framed manor with period rooms, restored gardens, a mini-railway, a boating lake and woods. |