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Will you enjoy a Salts Walk?

Of course you will - they're fabulous! Did you know that Sir Titus Salt built this amazing model Industrial Village between 1851 & 1876 and it is now a World Heritage Site? The village consisted of Salts Mill, neat stone cottages for the workers, alms houses for the poor and needy, a school, shops, an institute, wash houses, a hospital, churches and a park (but no pub - God forbid!). The Village still stands and most of the buildings have survived (in pretty good nick too!) even if their function is now different. Oh - and there are now establishments that sell alcoholic beverages!

The walks are great fun. You'll be given a bookmark which tells you about one of the hundreds of folk who actually lived here. During your walk, you'll get to know more about your character. You'll see what house your character lived in, where they worked and find out who they married. Maybe you'll be little Sarah Ann Baker who lived at 2 Stable Cottage and was trained to be Sir Titus Salt's servant - or perhaps John Parley, an Overlooker who fell in love with Mary Denby. If you've got questions or special areas of interest in Saltaire - feel free to ask. Our Tour Guides are very knowledgeable as well as great entertainers (they're modest too!)

Weekend walks: where from, when and how much

Walks start from the shop
"Magic Number Three"
3 Victoria Road
Saltaire (opposite Salts Mill).

Saturday walks start at 2.00 pm
Sunday walks start at 2.00 pm
including Bank Holiday weekends

YOU DON'T NEED TO BOOK!

• Walks take approximately 1 hour.
• So, treat yourself to an
• and wear a comfy pair of

Charge

Adults £3.50 *
Children £2.50 * (age 12 & under)

*Price includes a FABULOUS and LAMINATED Saltaire Folk bookmark!

Minimum charge - £15 - and it's a goer!

Tour Guides are available every weekend and in order to be considerate to them, we have a minimum charge of £15.

If there's enough people to make up the minimum charge of £15.00 (or one or two people sharing the cost between them) it's a goer!

Walks in the week

Can't make a weekend? What a lemon!
Never mind - contact Maria and find out if there's any tours you can join in the week. That works really well and you'll be made welcome.

Contact Maria for more info.

Or, why not drum up a bit of support and book a group walk - see below!

Group Bookings

Group Bookings are available any time by arrangement. You can also specify your area of interest so that the Tour Guides can gen up and impress you.

Group charges
£3.00 for an adult
£2.00 for children

Minimum charge
The minimum charge for a group is £45.

Book on-line
Use our on-line booking form to get the ball rolling

Salts Walks Events & Services

Our Tour Guides are more than just pretty faces! They're passionate about Saltaire and its history - and more than a smidge creative. They can offer:

• Daytime and evening talks about the history of the area.
• Costumed Drama Tours
• Costumed dramatizations of life in the village
• Resource Packs which are fantastic keepsakes and great educational resources (see below for more details).

Contact Maria for more info

Resource Packs

They're fun, fabulous and completely worth the money!

• The 4 Rules of Saltaire: rules of the Village, the Mill, the Park, & the Almshouses (you wouldn't believe how many daft rules there were!)
• Beautifully presented details of residents who lived in Saltaire from census records.
• A hip and funky laminated bookmark.
• A fan-tabulous set of 12 postcard-size Victorian images of Saltaire - wow!
• A print of a signed postcard of Sir Titus Salt which you'll cherish forever.

It doesn't get much better than this!