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Looking up towards Hardcastle Crags. Far right Peckett Well War Memorial on Smeakin Hill. In the valley bottom New Mill at Midgehole is just discernible and the white building diagonally above it in the woods is Cosy Corner Guest House, now site of…

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Hollin Hall, Crimsworth Dene looking down towards Midgehole.

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NEW BRIDGE spanning the Hebden near the entrance to Hardcastle Crags is a stone bridge of one arch built probably in the middle of the eighteenth century.

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NEW BRIDGE spanning the Hebden near the entrance to Hardcastle Crags is a stone bridge of one arch built probably in the middle of the eighteenth century.

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Looking down on Midgehole towards Crimsworth Dean and the entrance to Hardcastle Crags.

On the left foreground is New Bridge Mill, a former fustian manufacturing mill, water powered but supplemented by steam in times of drought. By the late 1890s…

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The lodge and gates at the entrance to Hardcastle Crags. The road going off to the left went down to New Bridge Mill and cottages.

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Right of centre the chimneys of Midgehole Upper and Lower Mills just discernible. Right of centre on the hilltop is Pecket Well.

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Towards the centre Lee Mill and chimney and left ofit the chimneys of Upper and Lower Midgehole Mills.

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The path in the centre is part of the old Packhorse route from Heptonstall crossing over the bridge here and then climbing up the hillside to Pecket Well.

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Looking down the valley in the direction of Hebden Bridge. The signage on the building far right is advertising refreshments so as to be seen by visitors walking down Midgehole Road on the other side of the river.

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The building on the left has now been demolished.

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The buildings in the centre over the bridge have been demolished and the area is now car parking for the Blue Pig.

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In the centre is New Bridge Mill a former water powered cotton mill looking here in a rather derelict condotion. Bythe late 1890s the upper floor was converted into Lello's Tea Rooms catering for the thousands of visitors who came to Hardcastle…

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View over New Bridge looking up Crimsworth Dene. Bottom ledft New Bridge Mill and in the centre the Gate Lodge and The Drive through Hardcastle Crags.

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In the is New Bridge and as following demolition of the mill the photo is post 1950s. Amongst the trees on the centre hillside is Hebden Hey now site of two scout hostels.

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Bbottom left the roof of Midgehole Upper Mill (Dyeworks) and just discernible in the centre is New Bridge Mill.

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View looking up Crimsworth Dene and at the bottom The Lodge at the gates to Hardcastle Crags

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View of Crimsworth Dene looking over New Bridge and The Lodge at the gates to Hardcastle Crags.

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Loking up Crimsworth Dean with New Bridge and mill bottom cenre with the Gate Lodge to Hardcastle Crags above.
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