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Leeds Travel Guide Edit This The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and see City Centre City Centre www.w-renner.com Leeds is the principal city of the north of England. It is a centre of commerce, finance and industry situated at the crossroads where the main north-south and east-west motorways and railways cross. It is Britain’s greenest city with more parkland in ratio to its population than any other lying second in Europe only to Vienna. Its two major parks are at Temple Newsam which at 1000 acres is Europe’s largest urban park and Roundhay with its two lakes that covers 750 acres. |
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music and amongst its many museums are two of international status – the
Royal Armouries and the Thackray Museum of Medicine. There are important
historic houses: Bramham Park, Harewood House, Lotherton Hall and Temple
Newsam House – the last two being owned by the city council. There are four
theatres and many other entertainment venues of all types. It is a great
sporting city and is frequently the venue for international events. Leeds City Centre is a thriving area with some of the finest Victorian architecture in the world, outstanding shopping, particularly around the beautiful Victoria Quarter, on pedestrian Briggate and in the Corn Exchange. There is an enormous wealth of bars, restaurants, cafés, pubs and nightclubs in Leeds as well as many interesting attractions: Leeds City Art Gallery has the best selection of c.20th British Art outside London, the Town Hall is a stunning monument to Civic Pride, Millennium Square with its many events, restaurants, theatre, museum, gardens is a great place to visit and the Exchange Quarter with its trendy bars, bohemian shops and cobbled streets has a fantastic atmosphere. western flatts park in wortley leeds12 is also a lovely quiet spot to enjoy, with a walled rose garden, tennis and bowls and football playing areas, and walking on to cabbage hill beyond the leysholmes estate gives one of the best views over leeds. the park itself looks out over green hills, a jewish cemetery, and morley, farnley, and pudsey on the horizon to the west and south. if there is a match on at elland road and the wind is in the right direction the roars of the crowd can be heard. i live nearby, and can vouch that owls, bats, as well as many bird species inhabit the area, although there are perhaps a few too many magpies. in spring the cherry blossom is georgeous, and cherries can be picked in july. it can be reached from the city centre - 4km away - on the 43 and 42 and 66 buses. ___________Sights Edit This x Town Hall and Civic Hall Barrie Pepper [Add Sight] Tropical World Edit This Please do not hijack Copyright photos belonging to a third party when submitting listings - see the COPYRIGHT POLICY. type: Hotspots World66 rating: [rate it] address: Canal Gardens, Roundhay Park tel: 0113 2661850 url: www.vrleeds.co.uk Harewood House and Bird Garden Edit This Historical house with a lovely garden located just outside Leeds. type: Parks & Gardens World66 rating: [rate it] address: Harewood tel: 0113 2886331 Kirkstall Abbey Edit This One of the best-preserved abbeys in the area. type: Hotspots World66 rating: [rate it] address: Abbey Road, Kirkstall tel: 0113 230 5492 Temple Newsam Edit This Tudor-Jacobean mansion in one of Europe’s largest parks. type: Historical Sights World66 rating: [rate it] address: Temple Newsam Road tel: 0113 2647321 Thwaite Mills Edit This Mill dating back from 1641. type: Historical Sights World66 rating: [rate it] address: Thwaite Lane tel: 0113 2496453 Middleton Railway Edit This type: Historical Sights World66 rating: [rate it] address: The Station, Moor Road tel: 0113 2710320 Royal Armouries Edit This Famous collection of arms and amour and an exhibition. type: Museums World66 rating: [rate it] address: The waterfront tel: 0113 2201996 Thackray Medical Museum Edit This Permanent exhibition on the history of medicine and public health. type: Streets World66 rating: [rate it] address: Beckett Street tel: 0113 2444343 ____________Getting Around Edit This Leeds Railway Station Leeds Railway Station Here are a few ways to get around the City of Leeds. Contributors April 03, 2006 change by nathanjmassey (1 point) [Add Local transport mode] Leeds Bus Station Edit This Leeds Bus Station Leeds Bus Station Shuttle buses run to and from Leeds Bus Station and The Carling Leeds Festival 2006 for £5. World66 rating: [rate it] Leeds Railway Station Edit This Leeds Railway Station Leeds Railway Station Leeds station has just undergone a £245m modernisation which allows more trains to travel through and caters for faster trains. Key improvements include a new roof, three customer information points, a passenger footbridge, escalators to all platforms and lifts. A new taxi rank and bus interchange have been built and are located on New Station Street. This provides a fully integrated transport service. World66 rating: [rate it] address: New Station Street, Leeds Leeds Railway Station Bus Interchange Edit This Leeds Railway Station Bus Interchange Leeds Railway Station Bus Interchange Leeds Station Interchange, located in the one way New Station Street, Leeds has 5 bus stands directly outside the entrance to Leeds rail station. The taxi waiting area is on the other side of the road from the bus stands on the left of the above photograph under the new circular glass roof. World66 rating: [rate it] address: New Station Street, Leeds ___________Getting There Edit This Leeds Bradford International Airport Leeds Bradford International Airport [Add Global transport mode] Leeds Bradford International Airport Edit This Leeds Bradford International Airport Leeds Bradford International Airport With it's increased number of flights and improved check in facilities Leeds/Bradford airport is again the fastest growing airport in the UK. The airport has a selection of restaurants, cafes and bars. There is only 1 terminal. Arriving by the one way road the terminal stretches along the road, you reach the departure area first, arrivals being further along the building. Leeds and Bradford International Airport has flights to and from a wide range of UK and European cities. Leeds and Bradford International Airport (LBA) is approximatly 11 more.. type: By Air World66 rating: [rate it] tel: 0113 2509696 url: www.lbia.co.uk __________Getting There Edit This Leeds Bradford International Airport Leeds Bradford International Airport [Add Global transport mode] Leeds Bradford International Airport Edit This Leeds Bradford International Airport Leeds Bradford International Airport With it's increased number of flights and improved check in facilities Leeds/Bradford airport is again the fastest growing airport in the UK. The airport has a selection of restaurants, cafes and bars. There is only 1 terminal. Arriving by the one way road the terminal stretches along the road, you reach the departure area first, arrivals being further along the building. Leeds and Bradford International Airport has flights to and from a wide range of UK and European cities. Leeds and Bradford International Airport (LBA) is approximatly 11 more.. type: By Air World66 rating: [rate it] tel: 0113 2509696 url: www.lbia.co.uk ____________Nightlife and Entertainment Edit This 19 Feb 2005 19 Feb 2005 Joe Nixon - http://www.flickr.com/photos/joe/tags/thecockpit/ Display all or display just: Bars Casinos Clubs and dancing Concerts Dancing Show best rated on top | Show in alphabetical order [Add Entertainment place] Nato Edit This Home DJ's and sparking, energetic and funky dancing nights, especially in the weekends. type: Dancing World66 rating: [rate it] address: Boar Lane tel: 0113 2675388 The Fruit Cupboard Edit This Two bars, big dancing floor and DJ's in the weekends. Often theme nights. type: Dancing World66 rating: [rate it] address: 52-54 Call Lane tel: 0113 2987356 The Glasshouse Edit This Can get absolutely packed and stays open very late. Hip crowd. type: Dancing World66 rating: [rate it] address: 72 Wellington Street tel: 0113 2887923 Club Uropa Edit This type: Dancing World66 rating: [rate it] address: 54 New Briggate tel: 0113 2422224 Normans Edit This Popular place and certainly not the cheapest. type: Bars World66 rating: [rate it] address: Call Lane tel: 0113 2673647 The Cockpit Edit This 19 Feb 2005 19 Feb 2005 photo by: Joe Nixon - http://www.flickr.com/photos/joe/tags/thecockpit/ Three rooms of music and occassionaly live bands as well. type: Concerts World66 rating: [rate it] address: Swinegate tel: 0113 2443446 zipcode: LS1 4AG email: info@thecockpit.co.uk url: www.thecockpit.co.uk Bar 38 Edit This Good meals during daytime and as soon as the sun sets packed with a young crowd. type: Bars World66 rating: [rate it] address: Headrow tel: 1113 2456781 Trash Edit This Cracking city centre bar that’s dedicated to cocktails and rock music. It attracts a lot of regulars in the week and is always rammed at the weekend where there’s a great atmosphere making it an essential stop-off on a boozy night out. Regular cocktail competitions let the bar staff show off their tricks, and it’s as good an excuse to get trashed as you’ll need. They also serve great fresh home cooked food that’s too tempting for most office workers who nip in at lunchtime, then stumble back half cut to afternoon meetings with hilarious consequences for the Leeds more.. type: Clubs and dancing World66 rating: [rate it] ClosingTime: 11pm tel: 01132468899 address: 14 Albion Arcade, Leeds, LS1 5AA Delaney's Bar Edit This Great place for a night out! type: Casinos World66 rating: [rate it] address: Karnac Road tel: 0113 249 6565 Evolution Nightclub Edit This Student disco. type: Dancing World66 rating: [rate it] address: 9 Cardigan Fields Road tel: 0113 2632632 Majestyk and Jumpin Jacks Edit This Very popular and busy venue. Disco and funky beats music. type: Dancing World66 rating: [rate it] address: City Sqyare tel: 0113 2424333 Mint Club Edit This type: Dancing World66 rating: [rate it] address: 8 Harrison Street tel: 0113 2443168 After Hours Edit This For those who still want to part on, go here and dance the early morning away until 9am. type: Dancing World66 rating: [rate it] address: Bacchus 11 The Tunnel Club Edit This type: Dancing World66 rating: [rate it] address: 13a Wade Lane tel: 0113 2285380 Bar Phono Edit This Small but nice atmosphere. Occasional music theme nights. type: Bars World66 rating: [rate it] address: 15 Merrion Centre tel: 0113 2429222 Liquid Bar Edit This type: Bars World66 rating: [rate it] address: 2 Central Road tel: 0113 2427353 Po Na Na Souk Bar Edit This Funky musc and salsa on Tuesday evenings. type: Bars World66 rating: [rate it] address: Assembly Street tel: 0113 2433247 Roses Bar Edit This type: Bars World66 rating: [rate it] address: 7 Cardigan's Fields Road tel: 0113 2633595 The Rocket Edit This Small but two floors and occasionally live music. type: Bars World66 rating: [rate it] address: Dark Neville Street tel: 0113 2441573 ________________Nightlife and Entertainment Edit This 19 Feb 2005 19 Feb 2005 Joe Nixon - http://www.flickr.com/photos/joe/tags/thecockpit/ Display all or display just: Bars Casinos Clubs and dancing Concerts Dancing Show best rated on top | Show in alphabetical order [Add Entertainment place] Nato Edit This Home DJ's and sparking, energetic and funky dancing nights, especially in the weekends. type: Dancing World66 rating: [rate it] address: Boar Lane tel: 0113 2675388 The Fruit Cupboard Edit This Two bars, big dancing floor and DJ's in the weekends. Often theme nights. type: Dancing World66 rating: [rate it] address: 52-54 Call Lane tel: 0113 2987356 The Glasshouse Edit This Can get absolutely packed and stays open very late. Hip crowd. type: Dancing World66 rating: [rate it] address: 72 Wellington Street tel: 0113 2887923 Club Uropa Edit This type: Dancing World66 rating: [rate it] address: 54 New Briggate tel: 0113 2422224 Normans Edit This Popular place and certainly not the cheapest. type: Bars World66 rating: [rate it] address: Call Lane tel: 0113 2673647 The Cockpit Edit This 19 Feb 2005 19 Feb 2005 photo by: Joe Nixon - http://www.flickr.com/photos/joe/tags/thecockpit/ Three rooms of music and occassionaly live bands as well. type: Concerts World66 rating: [rate it] address: Swinegate tel: 0113 2443446 zipcode: LS1 4AG email: info@thecockpit.co.uk url: www.thecockpit.co.uk Bar 38 Edit This Good meals during daytime and as soon as the sun sets packed with a young crowd. type: Bars World66 rating: [rate it] address: Headrow tel: 1113 2456781 Trash Edit This Cracking city centre bar that’s dedicated to cocktails and rock music. It attracts a lot of regulars in the week and is always rammed at the weekend where there’s a great atmosphere making it an essential stop-off on a boozy night out. Regular cocktail competitions let the bar staff show off their tricks, and it’s as good an excuse to get trashed as you’ll need. They also serve great fresh home cooked food that’s too tempting for most office workers who nip in at lunchtime, then stumble back half cut to afternoon meetings with hilarious consequences for the Leeds more.. type: Clubs and dancing World66 rating: [rate it] ClosingTime: 11pm tel: 01132468899 address: 14 Albion Arcade, Leeds, LS1 5AA Delaney's Bar Edit This Great place for a night out! type: Casinos World66 rating: [rate it] address: Karnac Road tel: 0113 249 6565 Evolution Nightclub Edit This Student disco. type: Dancing World66 rating: [rate it] address: 9 Cardigan Fields Road tel: 0113 2632632 Majestyk and Jumpin Jacks Edit This Very popular and busy venue. Disco and funky beats music. type: Dancing World66 rating: [rate it] address: City Sqyare tel: 0113 2424333 Mint Club Edit This type: Dancing World66 rating: [rate it] address: 8 Harrison Street tel: 0113 2443168 After Hours Edit This For those who still want to part on, go here and dance the early morning away until 9am. type: Dancing World66 rating: [rate it] address: Bacchus 11 The Tunnel Club Edit This type: Dancing World66 rating: [rate it] address: 13a Wade Lane tel: 0113 2285380 Bar Phono Edit This Small but nice atmosphere. Occasional music theme nights. type: Bars World66 rating: [rate it] address: 15 Merrion Centre tel: 0113 2429222 Liquid Bar Edit This type: Bars World66 rating: [rate it] address: 2 Central Road tel: 0113 2427353 Po Na Na Souk Bar Edit This Funky musc and salsa on Tuesday evenings. type: Bars World66 rating: [rate it] address: Assembly Street tel: 0113 2433247 Roses Bar Edit This type: Bars World66 rating: [rate it] address: 7 Cardigan's Fields Road tel: 0113 2633595 The Rocket Edit This Small but two floors and occasionally live music. type: Bars World66 rating: [rate it] address: Dark Neville Street tel: 0113 2441573 :::::::Huddersfield Travel Guide Edit This The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and see Huddersfield is located in the northern part of England, close to Manchester. It's a nice town with a few goof sights and worth a visit. Dominating the Huddersfield skyline, Castle Hill is the main sight. It has been occupied since the Stone Age. The Victoria Tower was built in 1898/9 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s coronation. Visitors can take in the panoramic views across Huddersfield and the surrounding countryside. Other sights include the Kirklee gallery(paintings by Francis Bacon, LS Lowry, Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, and members of the Camden Town group).a ride on Kirklees Light Railway a Steam Train, which will carry you through the lovely South Pennines on an old country branch line and Tolson Memorial Museum. Finally you can see if you can take a boat trip on the canals, the broad canal and the narrow canal which boasts Standedge Tunnel, the longest and highest in the country, standing 654ft (196m) above sea level and 3 miles 135yrds (4950m) long. What was once busy docks and warehouses is now home to moorings and a popular canalside restaurant and pubs. ::::::::Hull Travel Guide Edit This The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and see The Deep, Hull The Deep, Hull Michael Askin Hull is a major port in England. Many people just get off the boat here and immediately move on. It would be a pity. Hull has quite a few things to offer to travelers. Officially known as Kingston-upon-Hull, Hull - as it is better known - is a city and port in Humberside, England, situated at the junction of the Hull and Humber rivers. It is linked to the south bank of the estuary by a bridge completed in 1981. Hull was the birthplace of the English philanthropist William Wilberforce. The city centre has spacious pedestrianised shopping streets; distinguished public buildings, many recently refurbished; the Old Town, where Hull began about 800 years ago, offers narrow, cobbled lanes and quays; Holy Trinity Church, founded 700 years ago; 18th and 19th Century architecture; old waterside inns and a wide range of museums to which entrance is entirely free. New leisure attractions in out historic dockland include an elegant yacht harbour, and Olympic-standard Ice Arena, a 34-lane 10-pin Bowling Centre and an extensive range of shopping facilities complementary to those in the heart of the City. There is also a satisfying variety of entertainment, theatrical and musical choice to meet the most demanding tastes - all brought together by many special and 'festive' events throughout the year and the ever present aroma of fish. :::::::::::Humber Bridge Travel Guide Edit This The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and see i Thomas Adamus(Poland) The River Humber estuary is the second largest water barrier in England [The Wash is wider.] The bridge spans the estuary a few miles west of Hulland has a main span of over 1,400 meters and the side spans combined add a further 800 meters. This makes it England's biggest bridge and it sometimes has to close because of high side winds. It is very scenic and there are viewing areas with extensive car parks on both sides. It might seem surprising the number of people who view the bridge or even cross it and never see the Saxon part of the church tower at very nearby Barton-on-Humber. A considerable amount of interest can be found on http://www.humberbridge.co.uk/techspec.htm ::::::::Ingleton Travel Guide Edit This The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and see Ingleton is on the west side of the Yorkshire Dales and has a small national park information office in the main carpark. It is located among some great limestone scenery. It is noted for its waterfalls walk [private land – admission charge] on the rivers Twiss and Doe which join near the village. Thornton Force is one of the best known of the falls and it is possible to follow the path and stand behind it. Between the two rivers there is access to the fine and uncluttered limestone pavements of Twistleton Scars, lying immediately below the highest hill in the Dales, Whernside. However a far more spectacular hill, Ingleborough, rises directly from the village. This has an Iron Age hillfort at the top. http://www.ingleton.co.uk/ Another much frequented [private – admission charge] place is the White Scar Caverns on the road to Hawes and Gayle :::::::::..Keighley Travel Guide Edit This The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and see Cliffe Castle Cliffe Castle David Alcock Keighley, once a proud borough in the west Riding of Yorkshire is now part of Bradford Metropolitan District. Keighley retains a separate College but the main things of appeal to Tourists are its preserved steam railway, which shares a station with the main line and the Cliffe castle Museum with fascinating permanent and visiting exhibitions as well as a small arboretum in the grounds. :::::::::::North York Moors Travel Guide Edit This The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and see i_7 Thomas Adamus (Poland) There are two national parks in Yorkshire, this being one and the Yorkshire Dales the other. Although it would be difficult to distinguish between them, based on their names, they are quite different. One difference is that the North York Moors embrace some of the most scenic places on the Yorkshire Coast. Inland both contain dales and both contain moors but the dales here are smaller and more intimate than the largest in the Yorkshire Dales Near to the North York Moors is Rievaulx Abbey, perhaps rivalling Fountains Abbey nearer to the Dales. One area in which it certainly beats the Dales is that of preserved railways, the NYM Railway rivalling that of the Dart Valley in Devon to be considered England's most scenic. Useful websites are http://www.moors.uk.net/ for the National Park and http://www.nymr.demon.co.uk/ for the railway. :::::::::Richmond, [Yorks] Travel Guide Edit This The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and see Richmond, North Yorkshire Richmond, North Yorkshire Moonburst Richmond, Yorkshire [be careful to distinguish it from RichmondSurrey] is a lovely historic town in Swaledale, one of the most fascinating of the Yorkshire Dales Its history goes back a long way and among its places of interest are a functional Georgian theatre, the castle which was commenced by William Rufus in 1071 and Easby Abbey, a short walk along the river, founded in 1152. There is also a fascinating cobbled market square where an open market is held on Saturdays as well as the closed market. http://www.richmond.org.uk/ dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/ parade/hq69/Pages/easby_abbey.html :::::::::Ripon Travel Guide Edit This The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and see Ripon is a small city near to the YorkshireDales. Its main glory is the Cathedral, started in the 7th century and still retaining a crypt from that time whereas most of what is currently seen dates from the 13th century or later. It is one of England's lower cathedrals, not having wished to advertise its presence to raiders from Scotland. Ripon also has a Wakeman's house and the wakeman's horn is still sounded every evening in the market square. ___________Sights Edit This Only a short distance from Ripon is what may well be the most scenic of all Yorkshire's ruined abbeys and a world class site. This is Fountains Abbey. Its setting is wonderful and its grounds meet with the estate of Studeley Royal, also in National Trust ownership. The remains are far more extensive than those of most abbeys and it is easy to imagine it as a place of lay monastic life as well as a religious site. http://www.fountainsabbey.org.uk/ is an excellent site From here if you continue along the main road to Pateley bridge you will be able to turn off on signed minor roads to the south and reach Brimham rocks, an extraordinary array of rocks of convoluted shapes, again owned by the NT. :::::::::::Scarborough Travel Guide Edit This The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and see i_1 Thomas Adamus Scarborough is a major resort on the east coast of Yorkshire. The town still has a spa, though i think it is now used just as much as ever it was.The old town is built around a massive headland which jutts out into the North Sea, and divides the town in two, a north side and a south side. The North Bay is still unspoiled (relatively), and is popular with surfers and other water sports afficianados. A good walk is to walk the Marine Drive and out along to Scalby Mills where you can see the Sea Life Centre. The South bay is more commercialised and full of amusement arcades and ice cream parlours, which, along with the fish and chips keep most people happy. At the top of the headland is Scarborough Castle, a stiff climb but well worth it for the wonderful views over the town and sea. :::::::::::Sheffield Travel Guide Edit This The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and see photo Sheffield is one of those industrial cities of England where one can still see the impact of the steel making industry that made Sheffield into what it is these days. Although some people consider it an uncharming and depressing city, others love this city at the heart of Britain because of the combination of a thriving steel making industry with a modern pulse, set in hilly surroundings with the moors and the famous Peak district only a few miles away. These days, Sheffield has about half of a million inhabitants and attracts visitors from all over the world, not in the least because of its rapid and fairly short (approximately 2,5 hours) connection with London. There are several good museums, most of them dedicated to the city’s industrial past, subsequent growth and prosperity, and the present. Besides that, Sheffield has two universities and offers excellent sport facilities and an active nightlife scene. The Yorkshire countryside lends itself perfectly for a walking trip. :::::::::Skipton Travel Guide Edit This The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and see Skipton, just outside the Yorkshire Dales to the south, prides itself on being 'the Gateway to the Dales.' It is an attractive town with an ancient castle and, on market days, market stalls on both sides of the very wide main street. The town lies on the Leeds-Liverpool Canal and good boat trips are available. :::::::::::South Pennines Travel Guide Edit This The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and see Gibson Mill, Hardcastle Crags Gibson Mill, Hardcastle Crags davidx The South Pennines is an area where the remains of the once predominant textile industry, [cotton in and around Todmorden and mainly wool elsewhere,] merge into the attractive hilly landscape. The area is located within the municipal boroughs of Bradford, Calderdale and Kirklees in what was, for a short time, the county of West Yorkshire [far smaller than the historic West Riding of Yorkshire. The Rochdale Canal, newly reopened a few years ago, goes through the area and it is split up by various roads from Lancashire to Yorkshire. Todmorden, Hebden Bridge, Hawarth and Ripponden all provide a choice of walks and there are mill ruins along all the smaller valleys, often of what started as water mills. An example is what is now the tiny hamlet of Lumbutts above Todmorden, where there is a tower [unsafe and no public entrance] which contained three waterwheels arranged horizontally. The best museum is possibly just out of the area, being the Industrial Museum in Halifax. The area known as Hardcastle Crags, near Hebden Bridge, where two minor rivers meet, is one of the very best for walks. Much of the land area belongs to the National Trust, who are carrying out work on a visitor centre at the old Gibson Mill, an early watermill which changed to steam early and unfortunately ceased production early as well. Haworth is the town of the Bronte sisters and might now be considered a tourist trap although the Parsonage Museum is still worth a look for Bronte enthusiasts. davidx - login keeps vanishing today. __________Practical Information Edit This Youth Hostels Youth Hostels in the South Pennines are located at Earby, Haworth and Mankinholes [Todmorden.] Visit http://www.yha.org.uk/Stay_at_YHA/Regional/The_Yorkshire_Dales_and_South_Pennines.html then click on the hostel you want. :::::::::..Todmorden Travel Guide Edit This The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and see Todmorden is to the far west of West Yorkshire. In fact the border between Yorkshire and Lancashire was once a brook running under its large Italianate town hall. It is now part of Calderdale in Yorkshire. Todmorden's industrial history owes more to the cotton of Lancashire than to Yorkshire wool. However Todmorden was connected by both canal and rail with Yorkshire first as the stretches of the Rochdale Canal, recently reopened, and the original trans-Pennine railway between Todmorden and Littleborough, now in Greater Manchester and Rochdale were the last to be built and represented a triumph at the time. __________Getting Around Edit This There are a number of local buses [T1 to T8]. T6 and T8 run a circular service in opposite directions which some come a distance to travel. It passes through some fine countryside including moors and a small wood and the villages of Lumbutts and Mankinholes, an old industrial village and a farming village still visibly based on the 16th century respectively. __________Getting There Edit This There is no difficulty about getting to Todmorden. In spite of numerous threats over time the subsidiary rail line from Manchester Victoria Station to Rochdale, Bradford and Leeds still provides trains every half hour in both directions during the working day [one an hour evenings and weekends]. There are buses to and from Burnley, Rochdale and Halifax every half hour during the working day. :::::::::::Wakefield Travel Guide Edit This The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and see :::::::York Travel Guide Edit This The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and see City Wall of York City Wall of York K. Reinhardt You’ll love York. On the one hand, it’s a thriving modern city with modern shopping areas and two universities. On the other hand, you'll find constant reminders of its Roman, Viking and Medieval past. The city is surrounded by walls that have a Roman base. They were rebuilt by the Saxons, destroyed by William the Conqueror and rebuilt, first by the Normans and then in the 14th century in much the same form as today. One of the four impressive gateways, Monk Bar, has a small museum where you can trace the impact of one of York’s famous citizens, Richard III. Besides the Medieval walls, the Museum Gardens with its ruins, the Clifford’s Tower and the museums, York is especially known for its cathedral: the York Minster. It will take you at least half a day to see the inside and to climb your way up to the top to have some astonishing views of the surroundings. Nearby the Minster, you can lose your way in the winding cobbled alleys of the Shambles with the little shops and beetling timber-framed houses. When you’ve walked upon the longest intact city walls in the UK, take a rest at one of the many pubs or sit at one of the many terraces along the Ouse (that is, when the adjoining building aren’t flooded by the river, which does normally happen at least once a year) or enjoy a boat trip on the river. York has excellent connections with other big cities in the UK and serves as an ideal base for visiting the nearby National Parks, such as the Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors, and the heritage coastline towns, such as Scarborough and Whitby. The city of York, steeped in history, is an absolute must when you’re visiting Yorkshire. Now enough of the tourist guide ramblings lets get a real view of York. As a local I can maybe point out some of the things not thought of. Lets start with Castle Museum, a gem amongst museums of the older school. Here you can find an amazing reconstruction of a complete street from Victorian times called Kirkgate. It also has artifacts found from battlesites nearby such as Stamford Bridge. You will find the museum next to Clifford's Tower. York is the home to the National Railway Museum. Here you can find a real train enthusiast's dream with trains of all eras on display including several royal carriages, and a Japanese bullet train. The Jorvik Museum has become something of a cult recently apparently accurately recreating the smells of Viking times. Enough of Museums. What about Pubs. York had at last count over 200 pubs. These can be split fairly accurately into two categories modern and traditional. The modern cater for the young lager and alcopop drinkers and the traditional for everyone including the real ale enthusiast. Nearly all of these serve food and most of it is very good. Possibly the best can be found at the Spread Eagle in Walmgate. For real ale try the Maltings at one end of Lendal Bridge. What about Dick Turpin and Guy Fawkes both lived of York. Dick Turpin was hung at the Tyburn which is now York Racecourse and his burial stone can be found at St. Georges Church in York with memorial plaques on houses near the minster. Guy Fawkes was born in York and educated at St Peter's School in York. After leaving England for Spain and converting to Catholic he was convicted of Treason and hanged, drawn and quartered - a particularly unpleasant way of killing someone. Memorial Plaques to Guy Fawkes and a pub in his name can be found in York. Walking around York on a Saturday is a challenge for anyone not local to York. To those in the know York is criss-crossed with many small alleyways. These were described in a book called Snickleways of York. They allow the local to avoid the masses and cross York in relative peace. Tea shops are a very popular haunt in York with many very fine examples including Betty's and Taylors Tea Rooms (now called Betty's) and talking of haunts York is reputedly very haunted. In fact the Castle Museum lays claim to be the most haunted museum in the UK. Why not go shopping in the Shambles or just go to look at the shops. Look up and you will see that people living there could actually pass things across out of the windows to their neighbours on the opposite sides of the street. The Shambles was the place to buy meat in days gone by and you can still see the hooks in the shops there from which the meat was hung. It was also the home of Margaret Clitherow who was crushed to death for practising catholocism in the Ouse Bridge Prison. Her right hand is on display at the Bar Convent museum... And at the end of the Shambles Whip-Ma-Whop-Whap-Ma Gate can be found. Despite the long name the street is the shortest in York and once was the shortest in the country. The bars - York has four bars, Micklegate Bar, Walmgate Bar, Bootham Bar, Monkgate Bar. These were the entrances into the city built in the 12th and 13th century and a place where the traitors of the city had their heads placed on public display -on spikes outside the walls of course... Today these heads can be found in Micklegate Bar. :::::::::::Yorkshire Dales Travel Guide Edit This The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and see Janet's Foss near Malham Janet's Foss near Malham Merv Stapleton The Yorkshire Dales National Park is in one of the most popular and beautiful regions of England. It is easily accessible and has plenty of reasonably priced accommodation and other facilities. But it is the beauty of the area with its river valleys - the dales - and delightful villages and small market towns that give it its appeal. It is an inexcusable omission that the National Park does not include lovely Nidderdale which remains outside it to the east. This omission should not be seen as a reason to avoid Nidderdale. ::::::::::Leeds Travel Guide Edit This The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and see City Centre City Centre www.w-renner.com Leeds is the principal city of the north of England. It is a centre of commerce, finance and industry situated at the crossroads where the main north-south and east-west motorways and railways cross. It is Britain’s greenest city with more parkland in ratio to its population than any other lying second in Europe only to Vienna. Its two major parks are at Temple Newsam which at 1000 acres is Europe’s largest urban park and Roundhay with its two lakes that covers 750 acres. The city has two universities, schools of medicine and dentistry, of art and music and amongst its many museums are two of international status – the Royal Armouries and the Thackray Museum of Medicine. There are important historic houses: Bramham Park, Harewood House, Lotherton Hall and Temple Newsam House – the last two being owned by the city council. There are four theatres and many other entertainment venues of all types. It is a great sporting city and is frequently the venue for international events. Leeds City Centre is a thriving area with some of the finest Victorian architecture in the world, outstanding shopping, particularly around the beautiful Victoria Quarter, on pedestrian Briggate and in the Corn Exchange. There is an enormous wealth of bars, restaurants, cafés, pubs and nightclubs in Leeds as well as many interesting attractions: Leeds City Art Gallery has the best selection of c.20th British Art outside London, the Town Hall is a stunning monument to Civic Pride, Millennium Square with its many events, restaurants, theatre, museum, gardens is a great place to visit and the Exchange Quarter with its trendy bars, bohemian shops and cobbled streets has a fantastic atmosphere. western flatts park in wortley leeds12 is also a lovely quiet spot to enjoy, with a walled rose garden, tennis and bowls and football playing areas, and walking on to cabbage hill beyond the leysholmes estate gives one of the best views over leeds. the park itself looks out over green hills, a jewish cemetery, and morley, farnley, and pudsey on the horizon to the west and south. if there is a match on at elland road and the wind is in the right direction the roars of the crowd can be heard. i live nearby, and can vouch that owls, bats, as well as many bird species inhabit the area, although there are perhaps a few too many magpies. in spring the cherry blossom is georgeous, and cherries can be picked in july. it can be reached from the city centre - 4km away - on the 43 and 42 and 66 buses. |
