Best places: Museums in Shipley, United Kingdom

Coal mining museum with a restored colliery, underground tours, pit ponies, a cafe and gift shop.

Timber-framed manor with period rooms, restored gardens, a mini-railway, a boating lake and woods.

Modern building for displays including Henry VIII's armour, war histories and experimental weaponry.

Victorian millionaire's former home, with furnished rooms, costumes, fossils and domestic artefacts.

Atmospheric, well preserved 12th-century abbey ruins with a visitor centre & tree-filled parkland.

Grand residence filled with priceless art & antiques set on parkland with a working farm.

Romantic ruined fortress from 1300s with Norman heritage, on a green clifftop with river views.

The Brontë family home, displaying personal items, manuscripts and letters by the literary sisters.

Grand Victorian villa with permanent displays of costume and textiles, plus temporary exhibitions.

Manorial hall re-creating a 17th-century household plus restored gardens and a country park.

Engaging venue depicting mill life in the 1870s through various displays and steam demonstrations.

👍👍 Great walks around the free bridlepaths through Harewood House skirting the Emmerdale locations. Saw back of Woolpack, cricket pavilion, Sharma's and Eric's house.

Civic art gallery in a grand building specializing in 19th- & 20th-century British art.

👍👍 Nice quirky little place. Friendly staff with quiet relaxed atmosphere. Full Batty breakfast is highly recommended. Unlimited tea/coffee included, fresh orange juice and toast/jam.

Interactive museum for kids aged 0-11, offering learning through play, with a nursery and a cafe.

Family-friendly site opening a window onto 19th-century life in Leeds with shops, houses and an inn.

Family-friendly regional-history museum with exhibits on the Industrial Revolution, open Saturdays.

Grand manor house filled with artefacts and furniture, tracing local history over time (haunted!).

Series of 11 rooms displaying local history through recreations of heritage workplaces and homes.

👍👍 For £3 the Queen Street Mill Textile Museum is a must visit place especially if you have children. This place is the only steam powered weaving mill left in the world and is so interesting for young and old alike, I believe the mill is in threat of closure, so, please do not allow this place to clos...