West Yorkshire · Places to Stay
Shire Cruisers
Cast off from Sowerby Bridge and drift the Pennine waterways aboard your own narrowboat — a slow, soul-soothing escape.
3.5 miles away
West Yorkshire · Garden centres
Dove Cottage Nursery & Garden
A naturalistic garden and grasses nursery above the Shibden valley that goes down each autumn in a blaze of seed heads and light.
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Dove Cottage Nursery, Shibden Hall Road, Shibden, Halifax, West Yorkshire HX3 9XA
Opening times aren’t listed here — worth checking ahead before you travel.
- Autumn Colour
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Shire Cruisers
Lancashire · Villages & scenic spots
Wycoller
A car-free hamlet of ancient bridges and a ruined hall that Charlotte Brontë reimagined as Ferndean Manor in Jane Eyre.
14 miles away
Lancashire · Attractions & days out
Cronkshaw Fold Farm
A West Pennine hill farm above Rossendale where the goats have their own diary and visitors join them for the day.
21 miles away
North Yorkshire · Country pubs
Craven Arms Pub & Cruck Barn
A riverside Dales inn with a rare heather-thatched cruck barn — the kind of pub you daydream about afterwards.
21 miles away