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Section of road on Jeffrey's map of 1775, in Lee Wood, Heptonstall, on the way to cross the river Hebden at New Bridge, Hardcastle Crags

On a packhorse route to Hurstwood and Colne this medieval wayside cross stands in magnificent moorland above the Gorple reservoirs. In the drought of 1976 the receding water revealed an ancient paved trackway, part of the original medieval causeway…