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With outdoor seating just 30 minutes drive outside Wakefield, Ossett Brewery specialises in award-winning real ales and has taproom and brewery tours on site.

Merlins of Wakefield is a magic shop offering both products and informed advice to beginner and experienced magicians.

This casual bistro restaurant occupies the carefully transformed warehouse of local fruit merchants Butler & Whites, the functional interior given a sophisticated update.

Taking inspiration from city bars in London and Edinburgh the Humber Street Distillery offers over 100 different varieties of gin, unique spirits, local and international craft beers. Online it offers hampers of some of its favourite fruity gins perfect for bank holidays and a good selection of its gins so you can sample the full gamut with a tonic!

Thieving Harry’s is a community café serving breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner, booze and coffee in a converted warehouse with a down-to-earth vibe, overlooking the marina.

Part of Hull’s vibrant Fruit Market cultural quarter, Form Shop & Studio is an independent shop selling affordable art prints, cards and stationery.

Selling fantastic Yorkshire produce, the Rhubarb Triangle Farm shop is located just outside Wakefield, on the outskirts of Carlton village.

Fruit Market Hull is the name of Hull’s vibrant cultural quarter and the revitalisation of a historic area – featuring places to visit, shop and eat it’s a must visit.

Housed in one of the city’s finest buildings, Hull Maritime Museum has been showcasing 800 years of maritime history since 1975 – including a 113-year-old 40ft whale skeleton and the largest collection of scrimshaw this side of the Atlantic.

This beautiful Victorian shopping arcade is now home to a raft of innovative local retailers, each with their own specialism to offer Hull’s residents and visitors alike.

Opened in 1927, Ferens Art Gallery houses a superb collection, including masterpieces by Stanley Spencer, David Hockney, Helen Chadwick and Gillian Wearing.

The birthplace of William Wilberforce, the British politician, abolitionist and social reformer, Wilberforce House tells the story of the transatlantic slave trade and its abolition.