South And West Yorkshire Curiosities

Follies and strange buildings, curious tales and unusual people. A comprehensive illustrated guide to all that is most remarkable or curious in South and West Yorkshire. Where are ‘Pie Hall’ and ‘Shoddy Temple’? Who was killed by a falling gravestone? Where was tea drinking forbidden? Where are England’s tallest maypole and oldest railway? What happened to the ‘Running Man’ and Egypt in Yorkshire? More than 80 extraordinary places to visit; instructions on how to find each ‘curiosity’; map and photographs; other places of local interest.