Places To Visit Bradford

Oakwell Hall is a Grade I Listed Elizabethan manor house, furnished as a family home of the 1690s. It offers visitors a real insight into a post-English Civil War household.

Explore Batley and beyond at Bagshaw Museum, housed in a magnificent Victorian Gothic former mill owner’s house set in 36 acres of park and ancient woodland.

Eureka! The National Children’s Museum is an extraordinary fun-packed day out for families. We are the only fully interactive museum totally dedicated to children aged 0-11 anywhere in the UK. Nothing is behind a glass cabinet!

Don’t rein in your excitement and thrill. Find a bouncy outlet to pour out inhibitions and go on an ecstasy ride. Energetic trampolines are calling you for moments of unbound joy and spontaneous revelry. Take your family to a park that brims with prospects of dodgeball, free jumping, basketball hoops, foam pits etc.

Part of the University Library, the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery is a hidden gem at the heart of the University of Leeds campus. The Gallery offers innovative contemporary exhibitions and displays treasures from the University Art Collection and the University Library Special Collections.

The Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery is a public exhibition space housed by the University of Leeds, rooted in Yorkshire and open to the world. The Gallery is the public face of the exceptional Special Collections held at the University of Leeds.

The Marks in Time Exhibition at the M&S Company Archive celebrates the role that Marks & Spencer has played in peoples’ lives for 130 years. Here, you can explore the development and impact M&S has had on the social history of Britain.

National Trust property: East Riddlesden Hall - open to the public. Please see National Trust website for details.

World class collections paint a vivid and intriguing picture of the local area and people. You will find amazing objects charting Huddersfield’s history from earliest settlers to the boom in the textile industry and modern day collections from local people.

See a selection of stunning paintings and sculptures by internationally renowned artists including L.S. Lowry, Stanley Spencer and Henry Moore alongside work by some of the most significant British artists of the twentieth century.

Wakefield Cathedral exists in order to worship God and point others to him.We seek to help people live as disciples of Jesus Christ, and to share his love with the world.We are set in the heart of the city of Wakefield, and endeavour to offer a warm welcome to all who enter or pass by our doors.

Travel along behind Hawk, Owl, Fox, Badger, Katie or Jay, our six friendly little engines here at the Kirklees Light Railway the home of Yorkshire’s Great Little Steam Trains.

Standedge Tunnel is known as one of the Seven Wonders of the Waterways. Explore deep into this marvelous Yorkshire attraction on one of our underground boat trips, stop for a bite to eat in Watersedge cafe, and let kids jump, climb and explore our playground, wildlife garden and nature trail.

Ashley Jackson, has had an extremely distinctive and illustrious life in the world of art. Since opening his first gallery back in 1963, he has become one of the country’s leading and most successful landscape watercolourists.

Standedge Tunnel occupies a unique spot in the heart of the Pennine countryside. More importantly, it is the longest canal tunnel in Britain and makes a perfect family day out in Yorkshire.

Diggerland is The Ultimate Adventure Theme Park Experience where children and adults alike can ride, drive and operate REAL diggers, dumpers and other full- size construction machinery.

National Trust property: Nostell Priory and Parkland - open to the public. Please see National Trust website for details.

Keelham Farm Shop at Skipton is home to the Keelham Kitchen - our very own cafe/restaurant. Everything is made from scratch each day and we only use local produce that is found in our shop.

If you are looking for a free but quality day out and need fun activities to entertain the family, then you will love Castleford Forum Museum and Library! Have fun learning about an Iron Chariot; the Romans in Castleford; rugby, marbles, mining and the glass and ceramics industries.

National Trust property: Brimham Rocks - open to the public. Please see National Trust website for details.