West Yorkshire
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West Yorkshire is a county in Yorkshire in England, in the United Kingdom. The city of Leeds dominates the West Yorkshire economy, tourism and infrastructure. Leeds has won a string of awards, including UK Visitor City of the Year, UK's Favourite City, Most Female Friendly City and Best Nightlife.
To the west of Leeds is Bradford (for the National Media Museum and Saltaire)
[edit] Cities and towns
[edit] Cities
- Bradford
- Leeds - West Yorkshire's biggest city, great base for exploring Yorkshire, shopping, dining and drinking
- Wakefield
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- Bingley
- Calderdale
- Dewsbury
- Halifax
- Holmfirth - small but charming rural town
- Huddersfield
- Keighley
- Kirklees
- Pontefract
- Shipley
- Todmorden
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West Yorkshire is one of traditional Yorkshire's four modern administrative counties along with East Yorkshire, North Yorkshire and South Yorkshire. (Note that 'South Riding' is a fictional county, subject of a novel by Winifred Holtby before South Yorkshire was thought of!)
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[edit] Get in
- By air: Leeds-Bradford International Airport.
- By rail: National Express, Arriva Trains CrossCountry or First Transpennine Express.
- By coach: National Express.
- By bus: Yorkshire Coastliner for services between Leeds and the coast including Scarborough and Whitby.
[edit] Get around
West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive provide rail and local bus information on their website, and offers the innovative "My Next Bus" service of real-time bus information online or by text message. This real-time information is also displayed in certain bus shelters.
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