West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a county in Yorkshire in the north of England. It's largely urban, but with a surprising amount of countryside, especially in the Pennine hills to the west.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Leeds and Bradford.
Leeds
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Leeds is the largest city in the county of West Yorkshire and the third largest city in Britain, though its urban area size falls behind that of Manchester.
Bradford
Bradford is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire in the north of England. With a population of about 550,000 to the east its built-up area runs into that of Leeds, while to the west are Pennine valleys, the "Bronte Country".
Huddersfield
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Huddersfield is in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire in England. This article covers the town of Huddersfield, and the district around it including the Colne and Holme valleys.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Wakefield and Halifax.
Wakefield
Wakefield is a city in West Yorkshire, 12 miles south of Leeds. Its chief attractions are the Hepworth Gallery and the National Mining Museum for England.
Halifax
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Halifax is a large market town within the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England, with a population of around 90,000 in 2021. It is well known as a centre of England's woollen manufacture from the 15th century onward, which dealt through the Halifax Piece Hall.
Saltaire
Saltaire is a Victorian model village near Shipley, West Yorkshire, England, situated between the River Aire, the railway, and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Salts Mill and the houses were built by Titus Salt between 1851 and 1871 to allow his workers to live in better conditions than the slums of Bradford.
Keighley
Keighley is a town in the English county of West Yorkshire, north west of Bradford in the Aire Valley.
Wetherby
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Wetherby is a market town in West Yorkshire, best known for its racecourse. It's 13 miles northeast of Leeds, so it's a commuter town and part of that metropolis, as West Yorkshire is no longer a unit of governance. In 2021 its population was 11,700.
Ilkley
Ilkley is a town in West Yorkshire, part of the metropolitan borough of Bradford, with a population in 2021 of 15,000. It had a 19th-century heyday as a spa town, but the main reason to visit today is to walk the nearby countryside, especially Ilkley Moor.
Pontefract
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Pontefract is a market town in West Yorkshire. It's one of the "Five Towns" east of the city of Wakefield, and a commuter town for Leeds. in 2021 its population was 40,000.
Todmorden
Todmorden is a pleasant town in Calderdale in West Yorkshire; it is considerably less visited than its better known neighbour, Hebden Bridge. 'Tod' is at the far west of Calderdale, bordering on Greater Manchester and Lancashire.
Bingley
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Bingley is a town in the English county of West Yorkshire, located approximately 5 miles north-west of Bradford. it is now part of the Bradford Metropolitan District.
Otley
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Otley is a market town and civil parish at a bridging point on the River Wharfe, in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the population was 13,668 at the 2011 census.
Haworth
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Haworth is a village of 6,700 people in the county of West Yorkshire in the north of England, about 7.5 km away from Bradford. It's famous as the place where the Brontë sisters grew up and wrote their novels, and all too soon died.
Hebden Bridge
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Hebden Bridge is an old mill town in West Yorkshire. It is set in the deep cleft of a heavily wooded steep-sided valley, with a river, Hebden Water, running through it, crossed by the packhorse bridge that gives the town its name.
Holmfirth
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Holmfirth is a small rural town in West Yorkshire, about 5 miles south of Huddersfield. Pronounced "Home-firth", it is at the heart of the beautiful Holme Valley.
Marsden
Marsden is a large village in the Colne Valley, in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. It is in the South Pennines close to the Peak District which lies to the south.
West Yorkshire
- Type: Region with 2,300,000 residents
- Description: metropolitan and ceremonial county in England, UK
- Also known as: “Ceremonial County West Yorkshire”
- Neighbors: Derbyshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, North Yorkshire, and South Yorkshire
- Categories: metropolitan county and ceremonial county of England
- Location: Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“West Yorkshire” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Wes-Yorkshire”
- Arabic: “غرب يوركشاير”
- Arabic: “غرب يوركشير”
- Arabic: “ويست يوركشاير”
- Arabic: “ويست يوركشير”
- Arabic: “يوركشير الغربي”
- Arabic: “يوركشير الغربية”
- Aragonese: “Yorkshire de l’Ueste”
- Armenian: “Արևմտյան Յորքշիր”
- Asturian: “Yorkshire del Oeste”
- Azerbaijani: “Qərbi Yorkşir”
- Balinese: “Yorkshire Kauh”
- Basque: “Mendebaldeko Yorkshire”
- Bavarian: “West Yorkshire”
- Belarusian: “Графства Заходні Іаркшыр”
- Belarusian: “Заходні Ёркшыр”
- Bengali: “পশ্চিম ইয়র্কশায়ার”
- Breton: “Kornôg Yorkshire”
- Bulgarian: “Западен Йоркшър”
- Catalan: “West Yorkshire”
- Cebuano: “West Yorkshire”
- Chinese: “West Yorkshire”
- Chinese: “西約克郡”
- Chinese: “西約郡”
- Chinese: “西约克郡”
- Chinese: “西约郡”
- Corsican: “West Yorkshire”
- Czech: “West Yorkshire”
- Czech: “Západní Yorkshire”
- Danish: “West Yorkshire”
- Dutch: “West Yorkshire”
- Esperanto: “Okcidenta Jorkŝiro”
- Estonian: “Lääne-Yorkshire”
- Finnish: “West Yorkshire”
- French: “Yorkshire de l’Ouest”
- French: “Yorkshire occidental”
- Georgian: “დასავლეთ იორკშირი”
- German: “West Yorkshire”
- Gujarati: “પશ્ચિમ યોર્કશાયર”
- Hebrew: “מערב יורקשייר”
- Hindi: “वेस्ट यॉर्कशायर”
- Hungarian: “Nyugat-Yorkshire”
- Hungarian: “West Yorkshire”
- Icelandic: “Vestur-Jórvíkurskíri”
- Icelandic: “Vestur-Yorkshire”
- Indonesian: “Yorkshire Barat”
- Irish: “Sír Eabhraic Thiar”
- Irish: “Yorkshire Thiar”
- Italian: “West Yorkshire”
- Italian: “Yorkshire occidentale”
- Japanese: “ウェスト・ヨークシャー”
- Japanese: “西ヨークシャー”
- Kannada: “ವೆಸ್ಟ್ ಯಾರ್ಕ್ಷೈರ್”
- Korean: “웨스트요크셔주”
- Ladin: “West Yorkshire”
- Latin: “Isuria Occidentalis”
- Latvian: “Rietumjorkšīra”
- Latvian: “Vestjorkšīra”
- Lithuanian: “Vakarų Jorkšyras”
- Luxembourgish: “West Yorkshire”
- Macedonian: “Западен Јоркшир”
- Manx: “Yorkshire Heear”
- Marathi: “वेस्ट यॉर्कशायर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “West Yorkshire”
- Northern Frisian: “West Yorkshire”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “West Yorkshire”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “West Yorkshire”
- Norwegian: “West Yorkshire”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Yorkshire de l’Oèst”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “West Þriðing”
- Ossetian: “Ныгуылæн Йоркшир”
- Persian: “یورکشایر غربی”
- Persian: “یورکشر غربی”
- Polish: “West Yorkshire”
- Portuguese: “West Yorkshire”
- Quechua: “West Yorkshire”
- Romanian: “West Yorkshire”
- Russian: “Вест-Йоркшир”
- Russian: “Западный Йоркшир”
- Russian: “Уэст-Йоркшир”
- Scots: “Wast Yorkshire”
- Serbian: “Западни Јоркшир”
- Serbo-Croatian: “West Yorkshire”
- Sicilian: “West Yorkshire”
- Slovak: “West Yorkshire”
- Slovenian: “West Yorkshire”
- Slovenian: “Zahodni Yorkshire”
- Spanish: “Yorkshire del Oeste”
- Swedish: “West Yorkshire”
- Tajik: “Йоркшири Ғарбӣ”
- Tamil: “தெற்கு யோர்கஷீர்”
- Tatar: “Көнбатыш Йоркшир”
- Telugu: “పశ్చిమ యార్క్ షైర్”
- Thai: “เวสต์ยอร์กเชอร์”
- Turkish: “Batı Yorkshire”
- Turkish: “Törensel Batı Yorkshire Kontluğu”
- Ukrainian: “Західний Йоркшир”
- Urdu: “مغربی یارکشائر”
- Urdu: “ویسٹ یارکشائر”
- Venetian: “contea de West York”
- Vietnamese: “Tây Yorkshire”
- Vietnamese: “West Yorkshire”
- Volapük: “West Yorkshire”
- Waray (Philippines): “West Yorkshire”
- Welsh: “Gorllewin Swydd Efrog”
- Western Panjabi: “لہندا یارکشائر”
- Western Panjabi: “لیندا یارکشائر”
- Wu Chinese: “西约克郡”
- Yiddish: “מערב יארקשיר”
- Yue Chinese: “西約郡”
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