Saltaire is a model village built between 1851 and 1876 by the mill owner Titus Salt, who moved his woollen works out of polluted Bradford to a site on the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Around his huge Italianate mill he built neat stone terraces for the workers, with a school, almshouses, a hospital, a park and a church, but no pub. It is so complete that it was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001.
Salts Mill now holds galleries of work by David Hockney, who was born in Bradford, along with bookshops and cafés. Across the river, Roberts Park leads to the Shipley Glen Tramway, a little Victorian cable tramway that climbs to the woods above. Saltaire is about fifteen minutes by train from Leeds or Bradford.