Patricia Hall's Yorkshire 

Hall's fictional Bradfield is based on the mill towns of West Yorkshire, somewhere in size between her home city of Bradford and nearby Halifax and Huddersfield. This is a hilly country, with industrial towns and villages hugging the river valleys with easy access to the bleak, beautiful moorland of the Pennine hills above.
The West Yorkshire towns were the centre of a thriving wool textile industry throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The smoke from the tall mill chimneys turned whole landscapes sooty black in her childhood. But wool and some of the other traditional industries have declined, mills and factories have been demolished, leaving pockets of deprivation in town centres and on the council estates on the edges of the towns. The population has also changed, with significant ethnic minority communities moving into the area, particularly from Pakistan.
Poverty, racial tension, and the pig-headedness of the native Yorkshire character make a volatile mix in a landscape which encompasses the worst urban deprivation and some of the most beautiful and wild landscape in Britain.