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Weir at Sterne Mill, Copley

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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This stone wall shows evidence of where the sluice gate was situated that fed water from the River Calder to the old goit that in turn fed water to the reservoir at Grange Mill, Mytholmroyd. It is because of this that the end house of Calder Terrace…

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We have this photo dated 1961, but Jonathan Greenwood comments: “I have a copy of this print because the building in the centre used to belong to my great grandparents, Thomas (Tommy) & Harriet Louisa (Louie) Knight, who ran it as a bakery. They both…

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LYRS 3561 - Copley Viaduct climbing up to Copley Station and Halifax with bridge over the River Calder on the Calder Valley Main Line in LMS period with a goods or coal train heading west towards Milner Royd Junction.

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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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Original postcard. In the foreground the three arch viaduct on the original M&LR Calder Valley Main Line. Behind it the impressive 23 arch viaduct completed 1851 on the WRU line from Milner Royd up to Dryclough Junction south of Halifax Station.

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Victoria Bridge carries Station Road over the Calder; it was built in 1855 replacing a timber trestle bridge built for the station in 1839/40. The weir was to direct water to the wheelhouse for Mayroyd Mill. Just visible in the background Queens…

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General view across to the Stubbings hillside. Centre left the Board School which opened in 1878 and along from it the partially constructed Zion Particular Baptist Chapel which was constructed in 1881 and opened for worship in 1882.

Centre right…

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An unusual view looking up the Calder Valley towards Calderside Mill with its tall chimney and the railway crossing Whiteley Arches. The road to the right is Burnley Road into King Street. To the left between the Calder and the Rochdale Canal are the…

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Engraving by J Shore c.1855. Looking up from Stubbing Holme where the Colden Water joins the River Calder, the 'mytholm'. Above is Mytholm Hall, St James Parish Church and above that Eaves Lower and Upper Mills and to the right Bankfoot Mill, now the…

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HLS05085. Looking up Colden Clough. In the left foreground is Stubbing Holme Dyeworks and next to it Trinity Street on Stubbing Holme between the canal and the river. Above St James Parish Church and Bankfoot Mill with the Eaves Mills beyond. Date…

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Thornber's Poultry Farm, Elphaborough Hall.
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