This authoritative guide the companion to Yorkshire West Riding Leeds Bradford & the North covers a vast area marked by tremendous diversity of both landscape & buildings The territory is rich in medieval churches & castles 17th-century houses & 18th-century mansions yet it is also deservedly famous for its outstanding 19th- & 20th-century ecclesiastical civic commercial & industrial buildings Major examples of every period of English architecture are represented from Selby Abbey to the palatial country house of the Earls Fitzwilliam at Wentworth Woodhouse & from Halifax Town Hall to Sheffield's Park Hill flats & the Yorkshire Sculpture Park near Wakefield In the fine Pevsner tradition this book situates the region's full array of buildings within geological local national & international contexts