Visit West Yorkshire Places

Welcome to Visit West Yorkshire Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in West Yorkshire

  

West Yorkshire Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about West Yorkshire

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West Yorkshire history

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West Yorkshire was formed as a metropolitan county in 1974, by the Local Government Act 1972. The county initially had a two-tier structure of local government with a strategic-level county council and five districts providing most services. The functions of the county council were devolved to the boroughs; joint-boards covering fire, police and public transport.

West Yorkshire economy & business

Industries

Two of the big four supermarkets are from West Yorkshire. Wakefield, Castleford, Pontefract and South and East Leeds were traditional coal mining areas. The Rhubarb Triangle is wholly in West Yorkshire and still produces the vegetable in considerable quantities.

Film and television productions

Several films and television series have been filmed in West Yorkshire’s historic areas, particularly around the town of Halifax. For example, portions of the BBC television series Happy Valley were filmed in Huddersfield. Some of the studio filming was done at North Light Film Studios at Brookes Mill.

Tourism

National interest features include sporting stadia, museums, theatre and galleries. The First Direct Arena in Leeds seats around 15,000 people. Leeds is the most popular shopping destination in West Yorkshire, probably Yorkshire and rivals Manchester.

West Yorkshire geography / climate

The county lies anticlockwise from the west: Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Derbyshire, South Yorkshire and North Yorkshire. Geologically, it lies almost entirely on rocks of carboniferous age which form the inner Southern Pennine fringes in the west and the Yorkshire coalfield further eastwards. A small section of West Yorkshire forms scattered settlements into Rochdale in Greater Manchester.

You can visit West Yorkshire places with Walkfo West Yorkshire to hear history at West Yorkshire’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo West Yorkshire has 27 places to visit in our interactive West Yorkshire map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout West Yorkshire, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at West Yorkshire places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to West Yorkshire & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 27 audio facts unique to West Yorkshire places in an interactive West Yorkshire map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit West Yorkshire Places Map
27 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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West Yorkshire historic spots	West Yorkshire tourist destinations	West Yorkshire plaques	West Yorkshire geographic features
Walkfo West Yorkshire tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in West Yorkshire

  

Best West Yorkshire places to visit

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West Yorkshire has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied West Yorkshire’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo West Yorkshire’s information audio spots:

Fulneck Moravian Settlement Fulneck Moravian Settlement is a village in Pudsey in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire. The village lies on a hillside overlooking a deep valley.

Holme Beck Holme Beck is a watercourse in Tong ward of the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire. It drains a shallow valley east of the watershed between Bradford and Leeds. It runs beneath the West Coast Main Line and then through the large marsh area of Holme Moss before joining the River Bela.

Tyersal Beck Tyersal Beck is a watercourse in West Yorkshire, England, named after the village in which it runs. It runs a waterway named after its name and is named for the village of Tyeral in its vicinity.

St Peter’s Church, Birstall St. Peter’s Church in Birstall, West Yorkshire, is an active Anglican parish church. It is in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds.

Red House Museum Red House Museum was a historic house museum, built in 1660 and renovated in the Georgian era. It closed to the public at the end of 2016 but remains as a Grade II* listed building.

Birstall, West Yorkshire Birstall is a large village in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire. It is situated between Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield and Wakefield. The town is approximately 6 miles (10 km) south-west of Leeds and situated close to M62 motorway.

Gomersal Gomersal is a town in Kirklees in the metropolitan county of West Yorkshire. It is south of Bradford, east of Cleckheaton, north of Heckmondwike and close to the River Spen.

Oakwell Hall Oakwell Hall is an Elizabethan manor house in Birstall, West Yorkshire. The Grade I listed hall is set in period gardens surrounded by 110 acres of country park. It was immortalised in literature as “Fieldhead” by Charlotte Brontë, in her novel Shirley.

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