West Yorkshire

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 www.nmfpt.co.uk and Saltaire)

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!)

• Bradford
• Leeds - West Yorkshire's biggest city, great base for exploring Yorkshire, shopping, dining and drinking
• Wakefield

• Bingley
• Calderdale
• Dewsbury
• Halifax
• Hebden Bridge
• Holmfirth - small but charming rural town
• Huddersfield
• Keighley
• Kirklees
• Pontefract
• Shipley
• Todmorden

• Heptonstall
• Otley
• Saltaire
• Brighouse

• By air: Leeds-Bradford International Airport www.lbia.co.uk.
• By rail: East Coast www.eastcoast.co.uk, Arriva Trains CrossCountry www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk or First Transpennine Express www.tpexpress.co.uk.
• By coach: National Express www.nationalexpress.com.
• By bus: Yorkshire Coastliner www.yorkshirecoastliner.co.uk for services between Leeds and the coast including Scarborough and Whitby.

West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive www.wymetro.com 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.

• Lake District National Park
• Liverpool
• London
• Manchester
• Yorkshire

• A small place situated on the northeast of Leeds with a small shopping centre and an outlet located just up the road (colton). Easy to reach from Leeds, York and Selby via train • Stephen S.