Manchester Airport 1 hr 4
National Science and Media Museum (38 min) Modern museum of TV, radio, film and photography, with IMAX cinema, themed exhibitions and cafe-bar. Cliffe Castle (28 min) Victorian millionaire's former home, with furnished rooms, costumes, fossils and domestic artefacts. Shibden Hall (22 min) Timber-framed manor with period rooms, restored gardens, a mini-railway, a boating lake and woods. Keighley & Worth Valley Railway (18 min) Preserved railway station & train line offering a museum & rides on vintage steam locomotives. National Trust - Marsden Moor Estate (45 min) Trails across an expanse of moors & craggy peaks, home to birds like red grouse & golden plovers. Top Withins (24 min) Historic, isolated farmhouse said to have been the inspiration for Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. Hollingworth Lake (33 min) 130-acre recreational lake for swimming, boating & fishing, with an educational visitor center. Bingley Five-Rise Locks (32 min) 18th-century, canal lock staircase with 5 fixed chambers making a total rise of 18 metres. Bronte Waterfall (23 min) Picturesque waterfall amidst greenery with a flow that varies depending on weather conditions. Salts Mill (38 min) Imposing and elegant former mill housing art galleries, select shopping outlets, a cafe and a diner. 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. The Piece Hall Halifax (21 min) This sprawling 18th-century cloth hall now houses history exhibits, shops, bars & restaurants. National Trust, East Riddlesden Hall (32 min) Restored manor house with period furnishings and formal gardens, plus a tearoom. National Trust. Hardcastle Crags (6 min) Scenic woodland valley with 15 miles of paths and and a visitor centre in a 19th-century mill. Brontë Parsonage Museum (20 min) The Brontë family home, displaying personal items, manuscripts and letters by the literary sisters. |