West Yorkshire

Click the map for tourism ideas The landscape of West Yorkshire is dominated by the Pennine Chain, but lowland areas occur in the east of the county. Leeds is the chief commercial and industrial centre of the metropolitan county. Since the 19th century, Yorkshire has been known for wool manufacturing, and the industry's impact on the region's industrial architecture is reflected in the stone- built weavers' cottages and soaring chimneys of the mill towns. The solitude of the bleak Pennine moorlands was vividly captured in the novels and poems of the Brontë sisters, who lived in Haworth.

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