Leeds Town Hall is one of the largest town halls in the United Kingdom. It was completed in 1858. It was built as a symbol of civic pride and confidence in the new prosperous industrial city.
The Victoria Quarter is a restored area of Victorian covered shopping arcades close to the Town Hall.
Leeds Museum
Kirkstall Abbey
University of Leeds
Clarence Dock was the main docks in Leeds and was built by the River Aire. It mainly brought coal to factories in the days when they were driven by steam power. It is now a shopping and leisure centre.
Leeds Corn Exchange, built 1854. It has now been converted into a speciality shopping centre. The shops are behind the arches.
Cartwright Hall, Lister Park, Bradford. This is an art gallery named after Edward Cartwright, the inventor of the power loom that was the foundation of the textile industry of Bradford.
Titus Salt's Factory, Saltaire, Bradford. Saltaire is a Victorian model village within the City of Bradford founded in 1851 by Sir Titus Salt, a leading industrialist in the Yorkshire woollen industry. The name of the village is a combination of the founder's surname and the name of the river.
Bradford Town Hall
The Yorkshire Dales National Park is mainly in North Yorkshire.
Swaledale showing the dry-stone walls
Swaledale
Goredale Scar, Malham
Malham Tarn
The River Wharfe mainly marks the boundary between North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire
Bolton Abbey ruins. Monks often chose remote locations such as the Dales in which to build their homes and churches.
View from Ingleborough, the highest peak in the Dales
The Pennine Way is a long-distance footpath that goes through the Dales houses
Gaping Ghyll, the biggest pothole in Britain, is situated in the Dales near Clapham
Lifeboat in Whitby harbour
Whitby Abbey
Whitby is built around the mouth of the River Esk
Whitby
Whitby
Whitby
View of Whitby from the East Cliff
Before he was an explorer, Captain Cook was a merchant navy apprentice in Whitby.
Whitby East Cliff
Whitby West Cliff
York City walls and gate
A view over York to the Minster
York Minster
River Ouse, York
York Minster at night
Richmond, North Yorkshire
Knaresborough with steam train running over the famous viaduct