Leeds & Bradford
recommended by Tina Walsh
If any city has turned the old maxim that ‘it’s grim up north’ on its head, it has to be Leeds. What was once a grimy Yorkshire...
recommended by Simon Heptinstall
Why Leeds? That's probably what a refugee from Europe called Michael Marks thought when he hired a stall in Leeds market in 1884. But like many...
3. 42 The Calls
recommended by Jane Anderson
A former mill, 42 The Calls is the hotel that began Leeds’ gradual transformation into a hip northern city when it opened in 1991. Since then...
recommended by Emma Sturgess
It takes a stunning lack of imagination to dub Leeds’s shopping arcades the Knightsbridge of the north, yet for a city so overloaded with...
recommended by The Weekender
If I were to say to you, how about a weekend in Bradford, you’d probably look down, politely change the subject, then, oh, leave the...
recommended by Simon Heptinstall
Here's an easy way to avoid Florence’s queues - head instead for West Yorkshire. The 220ft clock tower of Bradford City Hall is a perfect...
7. Titanic Spa
recommended by Emma Sturgess
Titanic is the UK’s first eco-spa, but it wears its credentials lightly; unless you ask you might never know that the staff uniforms are made of...
recommended by Andy Mossack
Mention bed and breakfast in the north of England and you instantly conjure up classic images of lacy windows, flocked wallpaper, nylon sheets and...

