Likewise I can see a lot within a 5 mile radius
Eg;
- a grade 1 listed (cast iron) aquaduct - reputedly what Sydney Harbour bridge was modelled on (& as a model for the Tyne Bridge)
- a (built in the last 5 years) hydro-electric generator, that's alongside a Victorian weir/sluice-gates
- one of only 4 bridge chapels, left in the country (this one dating, in parts, to the 1340s)
- one of the first purpose built lunatic asylums in the country (now flats/apartments - but probably still with the cells retained in the basements
(they're interesting, I've been in there, 'on a professional basis')
- the site of the first wagon-way in the country, that was open to anyone to load goods - not simply the owners coal (Lake Lock Railway)
- the first (allegedly?) 'new town'/suburb development in the couuntry (late 1700s) - St Johns
- Wakefield Manorial Court Rolls, almost complete from 1270s, to 1920s!! (at one time, the Manor of Wakefield, stretched to Todmorden, & the border with Lancashire (by appointment at the Archives)
- one of the earliest 'by-passes' in the country, 1830s, with Ings Road (to prevent Drovers taking cattle to market, through the town centre
(if anyone knows Wakefield, the big Royal Mail sorting depot is on the site of the cattle-market)
- Englands first purpose built buildings used as a bank
- the deepest cutting in the country, at the time of digging (Barnsley Canal in 1790s) at Notton ...... okay that is pushing the 5 miles a bit!!
And lots more.....................................