Visitor attractions and information - Hebden
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Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth, Keighley BD22 8DR Tel: 01535
642323 The Parsonage in Haworth is where the Bronte Sisters grew
up and wrote most of their famous novels, while their father
was incumbent at Haworth's adjacent church. It is now a museum
owned and maintained by the Bronte Society; lovingly preserved,
it is the principal attraction for Bronte enthusiasts visiting
Haworth. About 7 miles
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Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, The Railway
Station, Haworth, KEIGHLEY BD22 8NJ Tel: 01535 645214 The line
runs 5 miles from Keighley to Oxenhope, the original terminus.
The beautifully preserved KWVR has featured in many TV and film
productions and was the setting for the well known "Railway
Children". www.kwvr.co.uk.
About 8 miles north of Hebden Bridge. |
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Bingley
Five Rise lock. The 5-rise is the steepest flight of lock in
the UK. When it opened on March 21 1774, a major feat of engineering
at the time, a crowd of 30,000 people turned out to celebrate
it. The flight is a major tourist attraction in the area. About 10 miles northeast of Hebden
Bridge. |
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Shibden Hall, Lister’s Road, Halifax
HX3 6XG Tel: 01422 352246 First built in about 1420, Shibden
Hall, a splendid half-timbered manor house, was the home of the
Lister family for over 300 hundred years. Each of the owners
have left their mark on the property with furniture, decoration
and personal belongings. The house is open to the public and
is set in beautiful landscaped gardens and parkland.
About 7 miles east of
Hebden Bridge. |
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Eureka!
The Museum for Children, Discovery Road, Halifax Tel: 01422 330012
Britain's first and only interactive museum designed especially
for children aged 3-12 years. More than 400 larger than life
exhibits and exciting activities. www.eureka.org.uk.
About 7 miles east of
Hebden Bridge. |
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Heptonstall is a small remote village, 1 mile
from Hebden Bridge. Many visitors come to the churchyard across
the Back Lane, for it is here that Sylvia Plath is buried, whose
husband was Ted Hughes. About
1 mile west of Hebden Bridge. |
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Hebden Bridge 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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