Northward of Shipley, through a River Aire, is a wooded ridge known as Shipley Glen. (The glen is normally the vale, and so this title occurs as little surprising.) This has hanker been the popular beauty spot, & inside 1895 the [http://www.glentramway.co.uk/ Shipley Glen Tramway] was built to carry visitors as much as a top. A tramway has weathered periods of forget about & possibly closure, however now (2005) it diarrhea virtually all weekends, staffed by volunteers.

Shipley likewise has the World Heritage Site in the village of Saltaire that was designed and built to home a industrialist Sir Titus Salt's worksforce. Salt built his mill beside a Leeds and Liverpool Canal & was involved heavy in the manufacture of worsted and more woolen fabric. Salt's mill however stands now & is page to the 1853 Gallery which houses some of creative person David Hockney's artwork & photography, besides when many shops & business, including digital television manufacturer Pace Micro Technology plc. One of a shops is The House, a high class designer homeware shop which sells Alessi kitchenware & Designer Article of furniture from either the likes of Philippe Starck.