believed leisure was good for his workers’ workers’ his for good was leisure believed began at the railway bridge. railway the at began Continue straight ahead and then walk walk then and ahead straight Continue single workers. Small front gardens and and gardens front Small workers. single River Aire by the modern footbridge. Salt Salt footbridge. modern the by Aire River of shops to complete your tour where it it where tour your complete to shops of the zebra crossing to cross Saltaire Road. Road. Saltaire cross to crossing zebra the originally provided shared lodgings for for lodgings shared provided originally path around to the right to cross the the cross to right the to around path Continue along Victoria Road past the row row the past Road Victoria along Continue At the top of Albert Road, turn left and use use and left turn Road, Albert of top the At Henry Street. The three storey houses houses storey three The Street. Henry Turn left down the ramp and follow the the follow and ramp the down left Turn Albert Terrace. Then turn left into William William into left turn Then Terrace. Albert the village. the they had fine views over open country. country. open over views fine had they Turn around and walk down the cobbled cobbled the down walk and around Turn were good local road connections. road local good were within zone distinct another creating teachers and the church minister. Originally Originally minister. church the and teachers village to Leeds and Liverpool and there there and Liverpool and Leeds to village facilities and important buildings together, together, buildings important and facilities home to the company’s executives, executives, company’s the to home in industrial estates. industrial in nineteenth century. The canal linked the the linked canal The century. nineteenth Victoria Road linked all the community community the all linked Road Victoria the grandest semidetached residences, residences, semidetached grandest the concentrating noisy and dirty businesses businesses dirty and noisy concentrating beside the railway, the motorway of the the of motorway the railway, the beside Square. Named in honour after the Queen, Queen, the after honour in Named Square. row of ‘overlookers’ houses before finding finding before houses ‘overlookers’ of row company towns and is echoed today by by today echoed is and towns company excellent transport links. The Mill was built built was Mill The links. transport excellent an open space in front to form Victoria Victoria form to front in space open an Here turn left uphill. First you will pass a a pass will you First uphill. left turn Here zoning approach was copied at other other at copied was approach zoning and cheaply so he chose a site with with site a chose he so cheaply and They are set back from Victoria Road with with Road Victoria from back set are They Continue to the junction with Albert Road. Road. Albert with junction the to Continue workers could grow their own food. This This food. own their grow could workers wanted to distribute his products quickly quickly products his distribute to wanted on the right. right. the on Institute the and left the the housing by the allotments where where allotments the by housing the 9 location Saltaire was not isolated. Salt Salt isolated. not was Saltaire location on on School the village, the in buildings each house to receive ample daylight. ample receive to house each The Mill is clearly separated from from separated clearly is Mill The 10 5 reach the canal bridge. Despite its rural rural its Despite bridge. canal the reach You will soon reach two of the finest finest the of two reach soon will You relation to the width of the road allowed allowed road the of width the to relation Reformed Church on the left until you you until left the on Church Reformed crossing to continue along Victoria Road. Road. Victoria along continue to crossing away from the village. village. the from away and Mawson ensured that their height in in height their that ensured Mawson and passing the impressive impressive the passing Saltaire United United Saltaire stands at the corner. Use the pedestrian pedestrian the Use corner. the at stands westerly winds would blow the smoke smoke the blow would winds westerly the houses are close together, Lockwood Lockwood together, close are houses the 2 Continue downhill along Victoria Road, Road, Victoria along downhill Continue Hospital building building Hospital where the former former the where and located his mill where the prevailing prevailing the where mill his located and the available land efficiently. Although Although efficiently. land available the 8 downhill until you reach the crossroads, crossroads, the reach you until downhill effects of smoke produced by factories factories by produced smoke of effects This grid pattern was chosen to use use to chosen was pattern grid This 6 for a factory on the scale Salt envisaged. envisaged. Salt scale the on factory a for affluent areas of Victorian towns. Continue Continue towns. Victorian of areas affluent Salt was concerned about the harmful harmful the about concerned was Salt unhealthy place to live with limited space space limited with live to place unhealthy these were normally found only in the most most the in only found normally were these the streets branch off at regular intervals. intervals. regular at off branch streets the Can you feel a breeze behind you? you? behind breeze a feel you Can Bradford. Bradford was a crowded and and crowded a was Bradford Bradford. intervals along Victoria Road. Spaces like like Spaces Road. Victoria along intervals employees. As you walk along you will see see will you along walk you As employees. Bridge and look towards the mill chimney. chimney. mill the towards look and Bridge site in order to escape the chaos of of chaos the escape to order in site of several open areas located at regular regular at located areas open several of indicating that they were for lower paid paid lower for were they that indicating Retrace your steps back to the Railway Railway the to back steps your Retrace relocate his entire business to a greenfield greenfield a to business entire his relocate Almshouses. This pleasant green is one one is green pleasant This Almshouses. properties open straight onto the street street the onto straight open properties village. Salt’s most influential idea was to to was idea influential most Salt’s village. the the 1871. in completed was it and stage early around Alexandra Square are are Square Alexandra around Street. Here the front doors of the the of doors front the Here Street. 7 towards the countryside beyond the the beyond countryside the towards Park was included in Salt’s plans from an an from plans Salt’s in included was Park then turn left into Victoria Road. Grouped Grouped Road. Victoria into left turn then factory floor. Turn right onto Caroline Caroline onto right Turn floor. factory the railway line. Look down Victoria Road Road Victoria down Look line. railway the Roberts Roberts Road. Continue along Bingley Road and and Road Bingley along Continue Road. the temptations of alcohol. of temptations the for the ‘overlookers’, the foremen of the the of foremen the ‘overlookers’, the for 4 Our tour begins on the bridge over over bridge the on begins tour Our left around the corner to reach Bingley Bingley reach to corner the around left health, particularly as a distraction from from distraction a as particularly health, more spacious houses were provided provided were houses spacious more 1 HERITAGE TRAIL HERITAGE THE WALK Photography by: Hobo Tom Photography Photography by: Hobo Tom SALTAIRE Accredited as a UNESCO World Heritage Their finest work was Saltaire United Site there are many reasons why you Reformed Church, now a Grade 1 listed GETTING TO should visit Saltaire, from the spectacular building. The housing provided was of the architecture, to the boutique independent highest quality. Each had a water supply, THE HISTORY OF shops, bars and restaurants. gas lighting, an outdoor privy, separate SALTAIRE DISCOVER living and cooking spaces and several Saltaire takes its name from its founder, bedrooms. This compared favourably RAIL PARKING Sir Titus Salt (1803-1876), and the River with the typical worker’s cottage. Salt Take a train from Bradford Forster Square Car park destination and GPS postcodes: Aire, which runs through the village. Salt was also one of the greatest Victorian (10 min journey) or a train from Leeds (15 SALTAIRE 2020 made his fortune in the Bradford textile philanthropists. He donated liberally min journey). Saltaire Road/Exhibition Road car park: SALTAIRE industry, manufacturing fine woollen to good causes locally and nationally. BD18 3JW, Victoria Road/Caroline Street fabrics. Determined to escape the Almshouses were provided rent-free for BUS car park: BD18 3LF (Pay and Display) From world class exhibitions in polluted and overcrowded town centre the elderly and sick in Saltaire. They came There are several buses from Bradford for greener pastures, he made a bold with a pension, forty years before the first to Saltaire: 662, 622, 623, 675, 677. Salts Mill car park: BD17 7EF Salts Mill or a picnic in Roberts decision to relocate his business and state pensions in the United Kingdom. For information on public transport in West (Free for visitors) Once on Salts Mill Road Park, to ten days of art and culture his employees. Local architects, Henry Yorkshire visit www.wymetro.com or call continue to the very end until you see the Lockwood and Richard Mawson, were By the 1980s the British textile industry 0113 245 7676 car park.