Tourists

Being a World Heritage Site, Saltaire features on many coach tour itineraries. Most seem to be day trips and so people don't get all that long to look around. I expect most of them get as far as Salts Mill and perhaps into the church. Some of them include a 'Salts Walk' with a costumed guide, as well. The coaches are allowed to drop people and pick them up from a dedicated bus bay behind the Victoria Hall, but then the coach has to go and park on Salts Mill Road, at the back of the Mill. There, the coach driver can have a little snooze whilst the coach party has a wander round. Mostly they seem to be retirees, and they come from all over. This one only hailed from Sheffield but I have seen coaches from Wales, Scotland and the south of England. Often the package also includes a visit to Haworth and the Brontë Parsonage Museum, so that's quite a lot to pack into one day, with the journeys here and back as well. Sometimes it's a tad annoying to live in a tourist hot spot, but Saltaire rarely feels overcrowded (apart from festival times) and I guess folks spend a little bit of money in the Mill or the coffee shops. The bigger nuisance is commuter parking, which gets worse and worse.