Gorpley packhorse causeway. The same style as the "Roman" road with a cut and cover drain in foreground. not uncovered for the photograph to prevent deterioration on a wet moor.
Close by a large 16th century aisled barn is the latest known F-plan house, built for Robert and Grace Sutcliffe in 1712. The house is entirely 18th century, though in traditional style. The left gable was taken down and the house extended later in…
Mount Cross, Stiperden, on the Long Causeway where the old tracks converge on the moor between Heptonstall and Burnley, near the branch road to Todmorden and Rochdale. Possibly Anglo Saxon and one of the earliest signs of Christianity in the…
Close by a large 16th century aisled barn is the latest known F-plan house, built for Robert and Grace Sutcliffe in 1712. The house is entirely 18th century, though in traditional style. The left gable was taken down and the house extended later in…
During the course of the 18th century Halifax came to occupy a prominent place in West Yorkshire as a cloth market, and the Piece Hall, opened in 1779, is a striking monument to the pre-factory age. ‘Pieces’ or lengths of cloth, handwoven in Pennine…