Huddersfield



Colne Valley Museum
Kirklees Light Railway
Marsden Moor Estate
Standedge Tunnel and Visitor Centre
Tolson Museum

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Colne Valley Museum

Wander through Colne Valley Museum's period living room and wash kitchen to admire the Yorkshire range, flagstone floor and rag rugs.
Visit the Loom Chamber, Spinning and Cropping rooms to delve into textile history, and venture into the clog-mak...




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Kirklees Light Railway

Steam along behind Hawk, Owl, Fox or Badger, our four friendly steam engines on an enchanting 50 minute return trip. Travel along 3¾ miles of 15' narrow-gauge rail through the superb scenery of the lovely South Pennine foothills.
Arrive at our s...




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Marsden Moor Estate

Huge area of peak and moorland. The estate, covering nearly 2,429ha (5,685 acres) of unenclosed common moorland and almost surrounding the village of Marsden, takes in the northern part of the Peak District National Park, with valleys, reservoirs, pe...




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Standedge Tunnel and Visitor Centre

Standedge Tunnel is the highest, longest and deepest canal tunnel in the UK, stretching for 5,029 metres (3.25 miles) through hard millstone grit. An engineering marvel worked on by Thomas Telford, the tunnel runs from Marsden in Yorkshire through to...




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Tolson Museum

Victorian mansion house with collections including: local history, Roman, archaeological, textile, bird, insect, plant, scientific, transport, toys and dolls. Vibrant community exhibition programme.
With collections in archaeology, archives, natu...