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Wakefield The Five Minute Spare Guide
Your quick guide to one of Yorkshire’s proudest cathedral cities. Wakefield holds the seat of West Riding County Council and has done so for two hundred years and counting. This makes it one of the most important cities in the area. We can’t wait to get stuck into the history for this city. If it…
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Pudsey The Five Minutes Spare Guide
Pudsey In Five Minutes Cricket masters, marketing gurus, and yet still out-shone by a bear, what’s inside this thriving Yorkshire town? Arguably more famous as a bear with a patch over his eye than an actual place, the intrepid explorer will find this market town near Leeds is sometimes sunny West Yorkshire. Formally famous for…
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Pontefract The Five Minute Spare Guide
Visit the home of a treasured English candy when you travel to Pontefract to explore. Pontefract is a West Riding town whose population tops 30,000 people on a good day. A large town respected for its castle; Pontefract also has a long history in coal mining. It is also a market town, has its own…
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Ilkley The Five Minute Spare Guide
Is this picturesque town in the West Ridings the ideal staycation destination? Ilkley is one of those Yorkshire towns that has the entire spirit of the county captured within its walls. Over the many thousands of years this area has seen settlement, Ilkley has been one of the most consistently settled areas of land in…
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Keighley The Five Minute Spare Guide
Keighley is a township and parish in West Yorkshire which is just to the north west of Bradford. You will find it near the misty Keighley Moors, named after the town, which is named after the founding family from a long time ago.. Henry de Keighley was a Lancashire knight who first received permission to…
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Dewsbury The Five Minutes Spare Guide
This former textile town with a historic market and professional Rugby League team is the ideal place to spend a weekend. Known for its massive outdoor market and its steady stream of spenders, Dewsbury is a large town in the borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire. It lies on the River Calder and although it may…