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Yorkshire’s Industrial Village
By Linda Tancs
Taking its name from founder Sir Titus Salt and the River Aire which runs through it, Saltaire is an industrial village built in the 1800s by textile magnate Sir Titus Salt for his workers. Located in Shipley, England, the UNESCO World Heritage Site boasted about 4,000 inhabitants at its peak, housed in 850 dwellings. The visitor’s center is in Salts Mill, a Grade II-listed historic mill building that’s home to one of the largest collections of art of David Hockney, a central figure in British Pop Art. In addition to a walking tour of the village, consider a ride on Shipley Glen Tramway. A short walk from the village, this unique tramway was built in 1895 and operates narrow-gauge ‘toastrack’ cable-hauled trams with canopy tops that travel through scenic woods down the glen.
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