Manchester Airport 1 hr 11
Eureka! The National Children's Museum (21 min) Interactive museum for kids aged 0-11, offering learning through play, with a nursery and a cafe. National Trust, East Riddlesden Hall (12 min) Restored manor house with period furnishings and formal gardens, plus a tearoom. National Trust. Hardcastle Crags (31 min) Scenic woodland valley with 15 miles of paths and and a visitor centre in a 19th-century mill. Bolton Priory (33 min) Augustinian Priory church ruins, dating from the 12th century, in picturesque, riverside surrounds. Keighley & Worth Valley Railway (14 min) Preserved railway station & train line offering a museum & rides on vintage steam locomotives. Brontë Parsonage Museum (17 min) The Brontë family home, displaying personal items, manuscripts and letters by the literary sisters. Cliffe Castle (15 min) Victorian millionaire's former home, with furnished rooms, costumes, fossils and domestic artefacts. Salts Mill (8 min) Imposing and elegant former mill housing art galleries, select shopping outlets, a cafe and a diner. Royal Armouries Museum (35 min) Modern building for displays including Henry VIII's armour, war histories and experimental weaponry. Bingley Five-Rise Locks (10 min) 18th-century, canal lock staircase with 5 fixed chambers making a total rise of 18 metres. Shibden Hall (19 min) Timber-framed manor with period rooms, restored gardens, a mini-railway, a boating lake and woods. National Science and Media Museum (13 min) Modern museum of TV, radio, film and photography, with IMAX cinema, themed exhibitions and cafe-bar. The Piece Hall Halifax (23 min) This sprawling 18th-century cloth hall now houses history exhibits, shops, bars & restaurants. Ilkley Moor (21 min) Upland moorland & conservation area with a notable bird population, walking trails & tranquil views. Kirkstall Abbey (30 min) Atmospheric, well preserved 12th-century abbey ruins with a visitor centre and tree-filled parkland. |