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BLAKE DEAN BRIDGE is a single-arch stone bridge. Just downstream from the present structure there used to be a wooden trestle bridge erected when the three Walshaw Dean reservoirs were being constructed. It was 700 feet long and 105 feet high, and…

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When Halifax Corporation built Walshaw Dean Reservoir, they wanted to close the footpath across the moor. A group of people from the Scientific Society carried out an Opposition Ramble from Blakedean to Oxenhope. It was agreed that there would be a…

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The gate beside the bridge

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The path from the bridge at Blake Dean down to the waters.

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Postcard with postmark July 1956. Shows Widdop Road coming down from Heptonstall Slack to the bridge over Alcomden Water.

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"At 105 feet high the trestle bridge carrying Blakedean railway across the valley remained a stunning spectacle for over a decade in the early years of the 20th century. Enoch Tempest commissioned architect William Henry Cockcroft and engineer George…

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Causey at the meeting of the waters, between Heptonstall and Colne

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Causey at the meeting of the waters, between Heptonstall and Colne

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Causey at the meeting of the waters, between Heptonstall and Colne

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The former chapel is now a Scout hostel.

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The snicket beside the bridge for the path to the river.

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Featured in the Geoff Boswell Calendar of 2004.

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Blake Dean, a popular picnic spot, off Widdop Road between Hebden Bridge and Colne.

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"At 105 feet high the trestle bridge carrying Blakedean railway across the valley remained a stunning spectacle for over a decade in the early years of the 20th century. Enoch Tempest commissioned architect William Henry Cockcroft and engineer George…
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