Places to explore in West YorkshireEngland · Yorkshire and the Humber

Grand house with Capability Brown parkland.

Britain's first national park: gritstone edges in the Dark Peak, limestone dales in the White.

1,438 km²

Titus Salt's model mill village of 1851 on the Aire, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with Salts Mill's Hockney galleries.

West Yorkshire

Steep cobbled Main Street climbing to the parsonage where the Brontes wrote, the moors of Wuthering Heights beginning at the top.

West Yorkshire

The steepest staircase of locks in Britain — five chambers lifting the Leeds & Liverpool Canal about 60 feet in a single flight.

Heather moor of the famous song, scattered with the Twelve Apostles stone circle and prehistoric rock carvings.

The Pennines for horse and bike — old packhorse trails and drovers' roads.

330 km · spans 6 counties

The first and toughest of them all — 268 miles along England's rocky spine from the Peak to the Cheviots.

431 km · spans 8 counties

Moorland cascade and clapper bridge on the walk from Haworth out to Top Withens.

Secluded waterfall and packhorse bridge in the wooded Crimsworth Dean above Hebden Bridge.

Millstone-grit outcrops on the edge of Ilkley Moor, a climbers' and walkers' magnet with wide Wharfedale views.

National Trust wooded gorge of the Hebden Water, threaded with paths past the old Gibson Mill.