Many of the "over and under" houses or "double decker" or “top and bottom” houses in Hebden Bridge are legally referred to as "flying freeholds". Wikipedia describes them as:
Flying freehold is an English legal term to describe a freehold which…
The "White Lion" was orginally built as a private residence for the King family around 1657, and was known as Kings Farm. It became a pub and posting house in the mid 1700's. It is reported that the composer F Liszt stayed there in 1840. The pub had…
The Manchester and Leeds Railway (later the Lancashire and Yorkshire) opened the Normanton to Hebden Bridge section of a line to Manchester in 1840. This station building dates from 1893 but was renovated in the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway style…
The theatre company started in 1924 as the Dramatic Section of the Hebden Bridge Literary and Scientific Society. For the first four years they performed at the Co-operative Hall in the Carlton Buildings. They have also performed at the Picture…