This is where the old road, North Well Lane, is crossed by the new road, Lee Wood Road, constructed by Heptonstall township in the late 18C. The old road became a bridleway.
This photo can be dated after 1965 (when the gallows signals outside Millwood tunnel were removed) but before 1973, when the signal box was demolished.
HEBBLE HOLE BRIDGE lies in the Colden valley in the deep clough below Hudson Mill. W. B. Crump thought that this hollow became known as Hebble-hole from the presence of the hebble or bridge there. When the meaning of the hebble passed out of common…
The bottom of Keighley Road where it leads into Hebden Bridge. The White Lion Inn is on the right of the picture, with Bridge Gate turning to the right. The building just beyond the traffic lights was a toll-house.
Taken from Horsehold hillside, Co-op supermarket is bottom right, Melbourne Mill right of centre, Queens Terrace and Heptonstall Road on the left. Old town Mill can just be seen in the distance.