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England Guide

Yorkshire

National Coal Mining Museum

Opening time: Daily 10am–5pm (last tour 3.15pm)

Price: Free

Address: 10 miles south of Leeds at Overton (on A642)

Website: www.ncm.org.uk

While the gentry enjoyed the comforts of life in grand houses like Harewood, generations of Yorkshiremen sweated out a living underground just a few miles distant. Mining is now little more than a memory in most parts of Yorkshire but visitors can get all too vivid an idea of pit life through the ages at the excellent National Coal Mining Museum. Based in a former pit, Caphouse Colliery, the highlight is an underground mine tour (90min, warm clothes required) with a former miner as your guide.