Inscriptions: In Loving Memory of A DEAR HUSBAND & FATHER. NELSON WALTON, Heptonstall, WHO FELL ASLEEP JULY 31 1932, AGED 58 YEARS. A BEAUTIFUL MEMORY LEFT BEHIND. ALSO OF SARAH GRACE HIS BELOVED WIFE WHO DIED MAY 2ND 1953 AGED 78 YEARS. ALSO…
Inscription: In Loving Memory of EVERTON INGHAM, DEARLY BELOVED SON OF WILLIAM & ELIZABETH ANN UTTLEY, Br????ton?, Heptonstall, WHO DIED OCT 17TH 1911, AGED 19 YEARS. ALSO OF SARAH, THE DEARLY BELOVED DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE, WHO DIED SEPT 12TH…
Father of Alice Longstaff nee Speak, he is buried at Slack cemetery. Inscription: Sacred to the Memory of JAMES SPEAK, LEARINGS, HEPTONSTALL. DIED 24TH FEBY 1947 AGED 79 YEARS
The church, dedicated to St Thomas a Beckett, first dates from the mid-13th century but was re-constructed and enlarged on several occasions over subsequent centuries. By the mid-19th century it was structurally in poor condition and then was badly…
The foundation stone of this Chapel was laid by John Wesley, and erected in 1764. The shape is octagonal. In the building of this chapel there appears to have been almost an element of romance; women as well as men, coming even from a distance and…