Yorkshire history

Most Victorian country houses that survive today have been restored, redecorated, or converted into something else entirely. Brodsworth Hall wasn't. When English Heritage took the building on in 1990, it made a deliberate decision...

A chocolate manufacturer handed two architects 150 acres of fields north of York and told them to build something no Victorian landlord had tried before. Joseph Rowntree could have built cheap terraces and called it...

Every day, thousands of commuters cross a river without knowing it, because the River Aire runs in tunnels directly beneath their platform. Dark Arches Leeds is neither a metaphor nor a nickname for something ordinary....

A property developer found a forgotten network of tunnels beneath Bradford city centre by chance in 2006, taking photographs on his phone in the dark, unsure who even owned what he was looking at. Sunbridge...

Fewer than a hundred people live inside the walls of what was once one of the richest monasteries in England. Rievaulx Yorkshire is a village most people drive past without realising they are already standing...

Two churches share one graveyard here, and one of them holds the grave of an American poet who never lived to see her most famous book succeed. Most visitors arrive in Heptonstall, Yorkshire for one...

Beneath the cobblestones and the Brontë pilgrimage lies a record of death, contamination, and a village that science tried to warn about decades before the sisters ever picked up a pen. The average visitor to...

The man who ended the British slave trade was born here. The ships that mapped Australia were built here. Two of the most read novels in the English language were written on a Yorkshire...