Threatened with closure and redevelopment as housing, the local community raised funds to try to buy the property (The Merry Men), bought by a local farmer and wife who after a difficult period ended up becoming the landlord himself. Centre of much…
The Lord Nelson Inn, built of stone now rendered in roughcast, is the very epitome of a village pub. It has an unusual plan and may have always been an inn. It consists of two parallel ranges, staggered so that the west wing projects to the north…
The Baptist cause was particularly strong in the Hebden Bridge area where several chapels were built from the mid 18th century onwards. None is earlier than Wainsgate, founded in 1759 by the famous Baptist preacher and author Dr John Fawcett. The…