Ben Rhydding is a village adjacent to Ilkley, located between Ilkley Moor and the River Wharfe. It was originally named Wheatley (a name...

Burley in Wharfedale is close to the south bank of the River Wharfe, and is an old village that is named in the Domesday Book under...

Menston was originally a small farming community, which today has become a commuter village with modern housing estates for people...

Our final stop on the Airedale Line in the City of Bradford is at Steeton & Silsden, which serves both those places but is closer to the...

Crossflatts is a small village on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal close to Bingley; largely residential, it boasts a pub, but few historic...

The Victorian model village of Saltaire is one of Yorkshire’s most fascinating tourist destinations, at least for anyone interested in...

The small village of Apperley Bridge is located on the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, roughly halfway between Leeds and...

Low Moor is one of Bradford’s most southerly suburbs, technically a village that prior to 1790 was merely a hamlet. Change and...

Pudsey is the penultimate stop on our tour of the City of Leeds, and a market town that, in spite of merging into adjacent suburbs of...

Our next stop in the City of Leeds is at Bramley, another medieval village turned suburb. It is named in the Domesday Book as Brameleia...

The Leeds-Bradford line splits into two as it runs between the two cities for which it is named; we first take the northernmost branch to...

Horsforth, like Headingley, is a former village turned leafy suburb of Leeds; unlike Headingly, it hasn’t been overrun by students, and...

Headingley is a large and leafy suburb of Leeds, which like most suburbs started out as a village and is mentioned in the Domesday Book...

Burley is just a stone’s throw from Leeds City Centre, less than hour’s walk along the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Like most suburbs, it...

Our final stop on the Selby Line (for now, at least) is Micklefield, a former mining village that is fast becoming another detached...

Cross Gates is a suburb of Leeds, but unlike many it isn’t an ancient village. Instead, it seems to have largely been a cross roads...

Woodlesford is located about six miles from Leeds city centre. It has existed since at least the twelfth century, and was originally...

Outwood is a former pit village that remained tiny until the nineteen seventies, when urban sprawl caused by the building of new houses...

Glasshoughton is just to the south of Castleford, of which it is effectively a suburb. Before that, it was a separate village called...

Featherstone is a town located between Wakefield and Pontefract, a pair of more famous neighbours both of which tourists are far more...