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Cleckheaton lies in Yorkshire, the
largest of all England's counties. In the northwest of the county
lies the Yorkshire Dales National Park, a lovely patchwork of
limestone hills, gentle valleys and the high peaks of Whernside,
Pen-y-ghent and Ingleborough. The classical Yorkshire Dales spread
to the north from the market and spa towns of Settle, Skipton,
Ilkley and Harrogate in North Yorkshire, with most of the larger
southern dales such as Ribblesdale, Malhamdale and Airedale,
Wharfedale and Nidderdale running roughly parallel from north
to south, and the more northerly dales including Wensleydale,
Swaledale and Teesdale running generally from west to east. The
North York Moors is the county's other national park, with bleak
upland moors and a magnificent rugged coastline. To the southeast
of the region lie the Yorkshire Wolds, formed from chalk hills
that arc from the Humber estuary west of Kingston upon Hull up
to the North Sea coast between Bridlington and Scarborough. |
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Oakwell Hall Country Park, Nutter Lane, Birstall,
Batley WF17 9LG Tel: 01924 326240 - Charlotte Brontë visited
Oakwell Hall in Batley, West Yorkshire in the 1830s and immortalised
the house as "Fieldhead" in her novel Shirley. The
house is set in over 100 acres of country park, and there are
a range of visitor facilities including visitor centre, shop,
cafe. oakwellhallcountrypark.co.uk. About 2 miles east of Cleckheaton.
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