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| The main county attractions can claim over 4 | | | | four themes earth, air, fire and water and takes |
| million satisfied visitors every year. Here is a | | | | you on a journey though spacecraft, airships, and |
| breakdown of some of the most popular things | | | | even a real boy's toy a JCB. On the same site is |
| to see and do in south Yorkshire. The National | | | | Sci-Tek described as a playground of science and |
| railway museum is home to some truly historic | | | | technology that combines a good amount of play |
| locomotives, including Shinkansen, the ultra fast | | | | with a dose of learning. If that's not enough, there |
| 'Bullet Train' as well its distant ancestor the worlds | | | | is also Aqua-Tek the county's biggest water play |
| fastest stream train The Mallard. | | | | area. |
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| There is a miniature railway as well as many | | | | South Yorkshire is also the home to Eureka! The |
| other attractions including a permanent exhibition | | | | country's foremost kid's museum, they claim that |
| of the flying Scotsman story. There are also | | | | you will never have visited a museum like this |
| many children's features including the Interactive | | | | before. And that may well be true with its several |
| Learning Centre. | | | | hundred interactive exhibits that invite children to |
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| Over in Leeds on the waterfront you will find the | | | | Â |
| free admission Royal Armouries, the worlds | | | | If you want to get out into the countryside then |
| largest and oldest collection of arms and armour | | | | South Yorkshire has far more than its fair share |
| dating as far back as Ancient Greece and the | | | | of stunning scenery, there are simply a multitude |
| Romans and spanning the centuries right up to | | | | of places to visit either to take a walk, mountain |
| the present day with summertime outdoor | | | | biking or just sitting and enjoying the view. |
| exhibitions of the weapons and armour in action | | | | Â |
| as well as War, Tournament, Oriental, Hunting and | | | | These areas of interest include Rother Valley |
| Self Defence galleries, all together there are over | | | | Country Park, near Rotherham, the 11th century |
| seven and a half thousand exhibits. | | | | Roche Abbey and stunning Wentworth Castle. For |
| Â | | | | walkers the Sheffield Round Walk is increasingly |
| Harewood is an exceptional stately home opened | | | | popular, but with so many walks available in South |
| to the public by the Earl of Harewood. It is very | | | | Yorkshire it would be hard to choose. |
| well known for its unusual and stunning | | | | Â |
| architecture as well as its world renowned | | | | South Yorkshire has come of age as far as |
| collection of fine Chippendale furniture, beautiful | | | | natural and man-made attractions are concerned |
| porcelain and incredible art collection. | | | | and it is so easy to get there with its wealth of |
| Â | | | | motorways and roads that it would almost be a |
| A symbol of the county's re-birth is found at the | | | | crime not to take in just a little of what this large |
| long disused Templeborough Steelworks in | | | | and interesting county has to offer. You could try |
| Rotherham, which is now the home Britain's | | | | a restaurant in Rotherham or if on business the |
| Science Adventure Centre, Magna. | | | | conference facilities in South Yorkshire. |
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