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Hull
Leeds
The Dales
Whitby
York

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Bridlington 1890

Filey

Old and new lighthouses on Spurn Head

Humber Bridge

Skegness 1890

Robin Hood's Bay

Scarborough

Sewerby Hall, Bridlington

Flamborough Head

Beverley Minster

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

The medieval area known as the Shambles, York

Ripley Castle, Harrogate, North Yorkshire

Helmsley, North Yorkshire