Yorkshire is packed with interesting places. Here's nine you definitely should not miss ...
5. Heptonstall Abandoned Church
Mysterious and magical is the sight of the dead church. Only the walls stand at the abandoned church of St Thomas a Beckett built in 1260. The church fell in the great storm of 1847 when the west face of the tower gave way. Danny Boyle used it as a location for his TV adaptation of the book Mr Wroe’s Virgins.
6. Knaresborough town window trails
Many of the blank Georgian windows have been filled with public works of art depicting local events and characters.
There is one of Knaresborough Castle, local figure Blind Jack and a giraffe recalls the town’s short-lived 20th century zoo.
7. Luddite Memorial
This is the only memorial in the country dedicated to the Luddites. These were a group of political activists who brought havoc to the new factories of the Industrial Revolution by wrecking new machines. The statue depicts a cropper brandishing shears – a traditional job threatened by late 18th-century mechanisation. It can be found in Halifax Road, Liversedge.
8. Freddie Gilroy and Belsen Stragglers
Freddie Gilroy sits on a bench facing the North Sea in Scarborough’s North Bay. He is wrapped up in an overcoat, a cloth cap pulled down, a walking stick in one hand and the other arm draped across the bench.
He is a giant steel sculpture created by Ray Lonsdale. Freddie Gilroy was a 23-year old miner and one of the first soldier to relieve the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the end of the Second World War.