Attractions in Eastwood & Things to Do in Eastwood
(and nearby)

Hardcastle Crags (3 Miles)*
Walkers, naturalists and those interested in spotting the rare northern hairy wood ant will enjoy the 400 acres of unspoilt woodland which makes up the National Trust property of Hardcastle Crags.
Bankfield Museum (7 Miles)*
For half a century from 1837-1886, Bankfield House was the home of Edward Akroyd, the largest wool manufacturer in Britain.
Eureka! The National Children's Museum (8 Miles)*
Eureka! has a fun-packed programme of events every holiday and half term.
Rochdale Art Gallery (8 Miles)*
Touchstones is an exciting arts and heritage centre that has something special for everyone. The site consists of Art Galleries, Museum, Local Studies Centre and Tourist Information Centre.
Shibden Hall (8 Miles)*
Built in 1420, Shibden Hall with it's oak panelled interiors and atmospheric room settings is Halifax's Historic Home. The Folk Museum and Barn also offer you a world without electricity, where craftsmen worked in wood and iron.
Bronte Parsonage Museum (8 Miles)*
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte, were the authors of some of the greatest books in the English language. Haworth Parsonage was their much-loved home and Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall were all written here.
Queen Street Mill Textile Museum (9 Miles)*
Steam Powered Weaving is brought to Life at Queen Street Mill Textile Museum, the world's last 19th century steam powered weaving mill.
Marsden Moor (9 Miles)*
Straddling the well-known Pennine Way Marsden Moor offers pre Roman archaeology.
Rossendale Museum (10 Miles)*
Rossendale Museum is housed in a 19th century mill owner's residence built in 1840 for the Hardman family, overlooking their woollen mill at New Hall Hey
Gawthorpe Hall (11 Miles)*
Gawthorpe Hall was built between 1600 and 1605 for the Shuttleworth family who had already been at Gawthorpe for over 200 years.
Saddleworth Museum & Art Gallery (11 Miles)*
Saddleworth Museum and Art Gallery is full of intriguing objects from the past and tells the story of the people who have created Saddleworth's landscape and character
Haworth Art Gallery (12 Miles)*
Originally called Hollins Hill, the Gallery is a Tudor-style Edwardian house designed and built for William Haworth and his sister Anne in 1909 by Walter Brierley, FSA of York. It is now Accrington's art gallery.
East Riddlesden Hall (12 Miles)*
East Riddlesden Hall was a thoroughly Yorkshire stately home of the Murgatroyd family with a medieval barn and fish pond.
National Media Museum (13 Miles)*
Consistently the most visited museum outside London with an average of 750,000 people coming each year, the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television has amazing interactive galleries to explore.
Bolling Hall (13 Miles)*
Tucked away in a leafy garden, less than a mile from the city centre. Bolling Hall is one of Bradford's most precious jewels.
Yorkshire Dales Mining Museum (14 Miles)*
The small town of Earby, on the Lancashire/Yorkshire border, was associated with cotton weaving until the 1960's and has no mining background at all. But it is home to an unrivalled collection of mining relics from the Yorkshire Dales.
Bradford Industrial Museum & Horses At Work (14 Miles)*
Think of industry in Bradford and you think of wool. Think of mills and you think of machinery, steam engines and horses, all of which can be found at Bradford Industrial Museum!
Heaton Hall (14 Miles)*
A magnificent neo-classical country house with beautifully restored 18th century interiors, set in 650 acres of rolling parkland.
Oakwell Hall (16 Miles)*
This beautiful, Elizabethan manor house has delighted visitors for centuries. Built in 1583, the hall is now set out as it would have been in the 1690s, when it was the home of the Batt family.
Portland Basin Museum (16 Miles)*
Portland Basin Museum is the centrepiece of the recently rebuilt Ashton Canal Warehouse, now looking much as it did in 1834 when it was first built.
Bagshaw Museum (16 Miles)*
This stunning Victorian Gothic former mill owner's house is set in 36 aces of parkland and ancient woodland. The home of George Sheard from 1875-1902, the house became a museum in 1911 and was named after its first curator, Walter Bagshaw.
Skipton Castle (17 Miles)*
Skipton Castle is one of the most complete and well preserved mediaeval castles in England - over 900 years old…
Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery (17 Miles)*
Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery is housed in a beautiful Arts and Crafts style building, it offers a lively programme of exhibitions and events for all the family.
Manchester Art Gallery (18 Miles)*
The gallery's amazing collection of art is displayed in an innovative and imaginative way. An undoubted highlight is the outstanding collection of 19th century Pre-Raphaelite paintings.
People's History Museum (18 Miles)*
The People's History Museum tells the dramatic story of the British working classes struggle for democracy and social justice - told at the only national museum in Manchester city centre, the radical city where it belongs.
* Distances shown are in a direct line. Distances by road will be longer.



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