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MYTHOLMROYD COUNTY BRIDGE. The first reference to this bridge is in Holinshed's Chronicles (1577) where the river Calder is described as receiving "one rill neere Elphabrught Bridge." Elphabrough Hall was an important hall on the Cragg Vale bank of…

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MEARCLOUGH BRIDGE is a double-arch stone bridge over the river Calder at the foot of Fall Lane. As far back as 1300 there was a corn mill here run by water, and for nearly 500 years this mill was owned by the Waterhouse family of Skircoat. Mearclough…

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LUDDENDEN FOOT BRIDGE was erected in 1882 by the Luddenden Foot board of Health to replace an earlier bridge washed away in the flood of December 23rd, 1880. This bridge, known as the “currie” bridge, was built between 1790 and 1795, Sowerby paying…

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HEBBLE END BRIDGE is a single-arch stone bridge on the west side of Hebden Bridge. In the sixteenth century it was known as Litthouse Bridge from the dye¬house near at hand, referred to in the Heptonstall Parish Register as Litte-house. On April…

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HAWKSCLOUGH BRIDGE, Mytholmroyd, is a single-arch stone bridge over the Calder thought to be at least 200 years old. It was built to serve Hawksclough Manor, now known as Hawksclough Farm. The house was extended in 1735 and the bridge may have been…

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COPLEY BRIDGE is a stone bridge of two spans crossing the River Calder. There was a toll bar here until 1856, the bridge and road up into the wood being privately owned. Until a few years ago a board showing the various amounts of toll payable was…

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Callis is the name of a place on the slopes of Erringden. It was named as ‘Calys’ as early as 1375. A deed dated 1604 has reference to ‘one small close adjoining the Hebble called Callishebble.’ The district is approached by the bridge over the…

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CALDER BRIDGE near the former Greetland Station spans the Calder and was built in the turnpike days.

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BREARLEY BRIDGE is a single-arch saddle-back stone bridge thought to date from the mid 18th century. An inn, the Mill Inn, later the Clarence Inn, once stood on the Brearley side of the bridge. There was a bridge there in the seventeenth century as…

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Weir at Sterne Mill, Copley

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Bridge over the River Calder at Brearley, circa 1960

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The diagonal road is Hollins Mill Lane, the road across the bottom is Hollins Lane, the area bottom right is known as Hill Top.

The open area in the centre bellow the river is the site of Hollins Mill.

The area above the river on the left is…

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Work on the bridge connecting Stansfield Road with Burnley Road.

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Work on the bridge connecting Stansfiled Road with Burnley Road to the top centre of the shot. The Abraham Ormerod health centre visible across the road.

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Rear of the 'top and bottom' terraced houses on Bridge Lanes with the River Calder on the left.

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Postcard with September 1922 postmark. Looking up to the junction with Burnley Road with the bridge over the River Calder in the foreground and then the bridge over the Rochdale Canal further on.

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Postcard with October 1904 postmark. A busy small industrial village at the time this photo was taken, but all the mills have now gone. On the hillside is Brearley House built in 1841 and not to be confused with the older nearby Brearley Hall. The…

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Poatcard with1931 postmark. Top left a tram on Burnley Road, they were withdrawn in 1936. Top right Dauber Bridge on Cragg Road and bottom right Hawksclough and bridge over the River Calder.

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Undated postcard. The image top right shows the tram lines on Burnley Road with a policeman seemingly on point duty at the junction with New Road. Top left photo shows Cleveley Gardens.

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Undated postcard. Looking down the River Calder from Caldene Bridge. The roof of the Sunday school building over the bridge has since been lowered.

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Carrying Station Road over the Calder it was built by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway in 1850 to replace a wooden trestle bridge which had been built when the station opened in 1840. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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Carrying Station Road over the Calder it was built by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway in 1850 to replace a wooden trestle bridge which had been built when the station opened in 1840. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive
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