The town of Todmorden, proudly straddling the Yorkshire-Lancashire border in western Calderdale, has long since shed its traditional image of cloth caps and dark satanic mills. Once at the heart of the cotton working industry, the production of worsted and fustian created a prosperity that 'King Cotton' entrepreneurs invested back into the town, still evident today in the legacy of such elegant buildings as Dobroyd Castle. The Unitarian Church and the John Gibson-designed Town Hall. the newly-renovated Queen Hotel embodies the graceful architecture of the area, occupying a prominent position in the town centre. Areas serviced: Halifax, Brighouse & Calderdalewww.queenhotel.co.ukRise La, OL14 7AA

Originally the seat of the Crosslee dynasty, Scaitcliffe Hall can be traced to the middle of the fourteenth century. The Crosslees, local landowners and latterly magistrates, remodeled the hall over five centuries, constructing the present hall in 1821. Built in a Tudor fashion with a porch, mullions and leaded lights, the building still incorporates some of its earlier materials, in particular the numerous stained-glass windows in the Garden Room and the large rear window of the main stairwell. Areas serviced: Halifax, Brighouse & Calderdalewww.scaitcliffehall.comScaitcliffe, OL14 7DQ