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West Yorkshire was formed in 1974, and corresponds roughly to the core of the historic West Riding of Yorkshire and the county boroughs of Bradford, Dewsbury, Halifax, Huddersfield, Leeds, and Wakefield. The industrial heritage is different from most of the rest of the county in that coal-mining was a large employer whilst textiles was not particularly large

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WEST YORKSHIRE: Batley, Bradford, Bramhope, Brighouse, Halifax, Haworth, Hebden Bridge, Huddersfield, Ilkley, Leeds, Pontefract, Shipley, Wakefield, Wetherby, Yeadon,

BATLEY Hotels & Accommodation The name Batley is derived from Danish, meaning either valley or homestead of bats, or more likely, the locally prominent Batte family. It is recorded in the Domesday Book as 'Bateleia'. After the Norman Conquest, the manor was granted to Ilbert de Lacy. It subsequently passed into the ownership of the de Batleys ...

BRADFORD Hotels & Accommodation Bradford is a city in Yorkshire, England. Bradford is one of the ten largest cities in Britain with a population of over 450,000 people. Unusually for a major city, Bradford is not built on any substantial body of water. The ford from which it takes its name (Broad-Ford) was a crossing of the stream called Bradford Beck ...

BRAMHOPE Hotels & Accommodation Bramhope is a village and civil parish in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire, England, north of Holt Park and north east of Cookridge. The village is 9 miles north of Leeds city centre. It is predominantly made up of large, privately-owned houses which tend to be above the average value for properties in West Yorkshire ...

BRIGHOUSE Hotels & Accommodation Brighouse is the second largest town in the metropolitan district of Calderdale in the county of West Yorkshire, England. The name Brighouse (or "Bridge House") originates from a building on (or close to) the bridge over the River Calder. In its early history, it was a hamlet of the nearby town of Rastrick ...

HALIFAX Hotels & Accommodation Halifax is a minster town in West Yorkshire, England. It is well-known as a centre of England's woollen manufacture from the 15th century onward, originally dealing through the Halifax Piece Hall. Halifax is internationally famous for its Mackintosh chocolate and toffee, the Halifax Bank, and the nearby Shibden Hall....

HAWORTH Hotels & Accommodation Haworth is a rural village within the metropolitan district of Keighley, in West Yorkshire. It is located amongst the Pennines, 3 miles southwest of Keighley and 10 miles west of Bradford. Nearby villages include Cross Roads, Stanbury and Lumbfoot. Haworth is a tourist attraction, best known for its association with the Brontė sisters ...

HEBDEN BRIDGE Hotels & Accommodation The original settlement was the hilltop village of Heptonstall. Hebden Bridge (orig Heptenbryge) started as a settlement where the Halifax to Burnley hilltop packhorse route dropped down into the valley. The route crossed the River Hebden at the spot where the old bridge (from where Hebden Bridge gets its name) stands

HUDDERSFIELD Hotels & Accommodation Huddersfield is the largest town in Europe and it is situated in the county of West Yorkshire in England, near the confluence of the River Colne and the River Holme. Historically a textile town, the area is now in the process of re-inventing itself as a residential and tourist center ...

ILKLEY Hotels & Accommodation Ilkley is a spa town and civil parish in West Yorkshire, in the north of England. Ilkley civil parish includes the adjacent village of Ben Rhydding and is a ward within the metropolitan borough of Bradford. Approximately 12 miles north of Bradford, the town lies mainly on the south bank of the River Wharfe in Wharfedale, one of the Yorkshire Dales ...

LEEDS Hotels & Accommodation Leeds is an industrial city in Yorkshire with round and about half a million inhabitants. Although it bears the industrial-city-character, Leeds has managed to recover from the industrial setbacks and media companies and government departments employ most of its residents ...

PONTEFRACT Hotels & Accommodation Pontefract is market town in West Yorkshire, England, traditionally in West Riding, near the A1, the M62 motorway, and Castleford. It is one of the five towns in the metropolitan borough of the City of Wakefield. Pontefract's motto is Post mortem patris pro filio, Latin for 'After the death of the father, support the son', a reference to English Civil War Royalist sympathies ...

SHIPLEY Hotels & Accommodation Shipley is a town in West Yorkshire, by the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, north of Bradford and north-west of Leeds. In Shipley is a World Heritage Site: the village of Saltaire, which was planned by the industrialist Sir Titus Salt to house the workforce at his mill. Salt built the mill beside the Leeds and Liverpool Canal for the manufacture of alpaca and woollen cloth ...

WAKEFIELD Hotels & Accommodation Wakefield is a city in the county of West Yorkshire, England, south of Leeds, and by the River Calder. Wakefield has a very large range of cultural attractions: one of Europe's foremost sculpture parks, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, what was to have been the Duke of York's stronghold in the North, Sandal Castle ...

WETHERBY Hotels & Accommodation Wetherby is a market town and civil parish within the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, in West Yorkshire, England. It stands on the River Wharfe, and has been for centuries a crossing place and staging post on the Great North Road, being mid-way between London and Edinburgh ...

YEADON Hotels & Accommodation Yeadon is a town within the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, in West Yorkshire, England. It is home to Leeds Bradford International Airport. Yeadon has a developed town centre and most of the businesses are situated around the High Street. There is a Morrisons supermarket as well as several other chain shops, banks and public houses....

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