Normanton - West Yorkshire
Normanton - West Yorkshire is a Town in the county of West Yorkshire.
Retail in Normanton - West Yorkshire
There are great places to visit near Normanton - West Yorkshire including some great cities, villages, woodlands, parks, historic buildings, museums, gardens, country parks, hiking areas, towns, lakes, historic monuments, hills, ancient sites, nature reserves, shopping centres, airports, bluebell woods, ruins, rivers and streams, castles, waterfalls and boroughs.
Normanton - West Yorkshire has some unmissable cities nearby like Bradford, Leeds, and Wakefield.
Wyke, Haworth, Oxenhope, Thornton, Manningham, Saltaire, and Ripponden are great places to visit near Normanton - West Yorkshire if you like villages.
Normanton - West Yorkshire has some unmissable woodlands nearby like Judy Woods, Chevin Forest Park, Middleton Park, and Hardcastle Crags.
Don't miss Lister Park, Cartwright Hall Gardens, Peel Park, Shibden Park, Roundhay Park, Middleton Park, and Park Square's parks if visiting the area around Normanton - West Yorkshire.
The area around Normanton - West Yorkshire features a number of interesting historic buildings including Cartwright Hall, Hewenden Viaduct, Halifax Town Hall, North Bridge - Halifax, Halifax Minister, Wainhouse Tower, and Shibden Park.
Don't miss Cartwright Hall, and Yorkshire Sculpture Park's museums if visiting the area around Normanton - West Yorkshire.
Places near Normanton - West Yorkshire feature a number of interesting gardens including Cartwright Hall Gardens.
There are a several good country parks in the Normanton - West Yorkshire area like Penistone Hill Country Park, Ogden Water Country Park, Shibden Country Park, Chevin Forest Park, Golden Acre Park, Bretton Country Park, and Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
There are a several good hiking areas in the Normanton - West Yorkshire area like Penistone Hill Country Park, Colden, The Chevin, Hardcastle Crags, and Withens Clough.
There are a number of towns near Normanton - West Yorkshire including Ilkley, Sowerby Bridge, Halifax, Todmorden, Huddersfield, Bradley, and Otley.
Boothwood Reservoir, Ogden Water Country Park, Ogden Water, Shibden Park, Light Hazzles Reservoir, Warland Reservoir, and Gaddings Dam are some of Normanton - West Yorkshire best lakes to visit near Normanton - West Yorkshire.
The area around Normanton - West Yorkshire boasts some of the best historic monuments including Wainhouse Tower, and Centre Hill Beacon Site.
Hills to visit near Normanton - West Yorkshire include Centre Hill, Stoodley Pike, and The Chevin.
There are a several good ancient sites in the Normanton - West Yorkshire area like Stones Lane Standing Stones, and Centre Hill Beacon Site.
The area around Normanton - West Yorkshire features a number of interesting nature reserves including Rodley Nature Reserve, RSPB St Aidan's, and Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
The area around Normanton - West Yorkshire boasts some of the best shopping centres including Trinity Leeds, White Rose Shopping Centre, The Merrion Centre, County Arcade, and Leeds Kirkgate Market.
Leeds Bradford Airport is a great place to visit close to Normanton - West Yorkshire if you like airports.
Middleton Park is a great place to visit close to Normanton - West Yorkshire if you like bluebell woods.
The area around Normanton - West Yorkshire boasts some of the best ruins including Kirkstall Abbey, and Sandal Castle.
There are a several good rivers and streams in the Normanton - West Yorkshire area like River Dearne at Bretton, Hebden Water, and Hebden Beck.
Don't miss Sandal Castle's castles if visiting the area around Normanton - West Yorkshire.
Normanton - West Yorkshire is near some unmissable waterfalls like Greenwood Lee Clough Waterfall,
Normanton - West Yorkshire is near some unmissable boroughs like Kirklees,
Normanton - West Yorkshire History
There are some historic monuments around Normanton - West Yorkshire:
Places to see near Normanton - West Yorkshire
History of Normanton - West Yorkshire
At the time the Domesday Book was compiled in 1086, the colonisation of Yorkshire by the Normans was well underway. Archaeological evidence at today’s Normanton points to Haw Hill (or How Hill), an eminence that was probably a Norman defensive strategic mound once reinforced by a wooden palisade. The evidence of a Norman motte-and-bailey fortification at the town, and the name, is likely evidence that Normanton’s name derived from the substantial Anglo-Norman presence in the area. Nearby, after all, were Tickhill, the fortress of Norman magnate Roger de Busli, as well as other new Norman power centres. Although the area had once been part of the Scandinavian Danelaw, William the Conqueror’s scorched earth northern campaign had left the area ripe for exploitation by his Lords. By all measures, Normanton likely owes its name to these new aggressive warriors. One of the earliest buildings to survive within the village is Hanson House. This is set back from the church and has a timber frame construction. The building was constructed in the mid-15th century, with a later wing added in the 18th century. A fire has damaged the building, which is being restored and modernised. A grammar school was founded in Normanton by John Freeston (now the ‘Parish Rooms’..later moved to the site of the, Normanton Junior School on Church Lane) in 1592, but the town remained very small until it became the focus of several railway lines in the mid-19th century. Work began in 1837 under the supervision of George Stephenson on the construction of the North Midland Railway from Derby to Leeds. This was soon followed by an addition to the York and North Midland Railway from York and then the Manchester and Leeds Railway from Manchester which all extended to Normanton thereby giving the town access to much of the country. The Leeds and Manchester lines crossed a 51-mile (82 km) stretch across the Pennines and at the time had the world’s longest railway station platform at Normanton, a quarter of a mile long. The station was, for the next ten years or so, the most important in England, employing over 700 people who looked after the station’s 700,000 passengers a year.
