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The old parish church of St Thomas a Becket at Heptonstall was founded in the 13th century, although much of the ruin that still stands dates from the 15th century. A new church dedicated to St Thomas the Apostle was built in 1854, after a fierce…

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The church, dedicated to St Thomas the Apostle, was completed in 1854 and replaced a much older one on the same site. The ruins of the old church are adjacent.

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The 1850s decorated font in the church of St Thomas the Apostle, Heptonstall There is also the old font from the previous Church of St Thomas a Beckett but much more roughly hewn.

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Looking across Hangingroyd and Nutclough Mills to Birchcliffe late 1880s.

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View over the town from Fairfield looking up Hebden Dale about 1900. Bottom centre St Thomas' Catholic Church and next to it Pallis House.

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The Parish Church of Hebden Bridge, dedicated to St James the Great, was consecrated in 1833. The church was built on land given by the Revd. James Armitage Rhodes and his wife Mary, who lived at nearby Mytholm Hall.

One of the Mytholm silk mills…

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View over the railway station to the town and Heptonstall hillside. Bottom right the municipal gas works at Crow Nest. The station wedged between the railway warehouse and Victoria Mill.

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Looking across to Wadsworth with Calder Mill prominent in the foreground.

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Looking over to Heptonstall Road with Heptonstall Church on the skyline. Early 20th century prior to building of Riverside School in 1909.

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Looking up the valley from above St James' Church. In the distance Calderside Mill and Whiteley Arches.

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The Foster Lane chapel opened in 1904 and was closed and demolished in the mid-1960s. On the hillside top left is Cross Lanes United Methodist Chapel which had opened in 1840 but that too closed and was demolished in the 1960s. To the right is Foster…

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Cosy Corner Guest House, Kiosk and camp site on the south side of the valley. Originally a farm then opened as Thornton's Tea Rooms before being converted to a guest house as seen here. Now the site of Hebden Hey scout hostel.

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Originally known as Hawden Hole, it is situated on the south Hebden Dale hillside between Midgehole and Hebden Hey above Hebden Water and the lower part of Hardcastle Crags. It was the site of the locally infamous murder of Samuel Sutcliffe in…

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Top right Harley Wood Church opened 1858 and demolished in 1975. The building in the foreground believed to be Lineholme Baptist Chapel which closed in 1962 and was subsequently demolished.

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All Saints Church, Harley Wood, Lydgate opened 1858 and was demolished in 1975 following closure.

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Hare Mill on Burnley Road was built for the Hare Spinning Company and was completed in 1910. It passed to the Mons Mill Company and was renamed Mons Mill after the First World War battle. Textile production ceased in 1968 and the mill was demolished…

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Looking up Hebden Dale to Hardcastle Crags. In the foreground Midgehole Lower Mill and on the right Midgehole Upper Mill.

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Hallroyd east of Todmorden town centre is where the Burnley line divides from the Manchester and Leeds line. The signal box and signals, but not the junction, seen here.

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St Mary's Church at the top and the Town Hall on the right.

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Todmorden Waterworks Gorpley Reservoir came into operation in 1905.

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Built in 1805 and taken over by the Ormerods in 1823 for cotton spinning and extended in 1838. They vacated it in 1865 and it stood empty for many years before being demolished in 1894. Seen here shortly before demolition.

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Situated on the Bacup Road from Gauxholme. Top left the remains of the waterwheel casement of Gorpley Mill, demolished in 1894.

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Glen View, off the north side of Burnley Road between Scaitclffe and Harley Wood.

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Gibson Mill, or Lord Holme Mill, at the heart of the Crags. Originally a water powered Cotton mill, subsequently supplemented by steam. By the 1890s it had become an 'entertainment emporium' providing for the vast number of visitors to the Crags…

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A rambling viaduct of 17 stone spans of 35ft and 1 of 60ft plus the iron span bridge over the Rochdale Canal, much plainer than its more famous neighbour to the east of the viaduct.
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