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Bygone days
With over 1660 listed buildings in the area, you'll soon see why the Guardian dubbed Huddersfield 'the Athens of
the North'. Even the 330m high Emley Moor television mast - which you can see for miles around Kirklees - is listed.
Quaint weavers' cottages contrast sharply with our titanic mills and grand Victorian architecture - all legacies from
our textile industrial past. You can get a feel for life as a nineteenth century textile worker at the Colne Valley
Museum, or visit the National Coal Mining Museum for a genuine insight into the hard-working lives of miners through
the ages.
Walk around the cobbled Batley Market Square for Victorian inspiration, or seek Gothic gargoyles in a guided tour of
Huddersfield Town Centre. Step back in time to the Elizabethan era at Longley Old Hall and Oakwell Hall, or further
still to Castle Hill - which has evidence of human occupation since the Iron Age.
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