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Bridge at Blake Dean near Hebden Bridge - TWA00203
BLAKE DEAN BRIDGE is a single-arch stone bridge. Just downstream from the present structure there used to be a wooden trestle bridge erected when the three Walshaw Dean reservoirs were being constructed. It was 700 feet long and 105 feet high, and…
Booth Dean Bridge, Rishworth - TWA00204
BOOTH DEAN BRIDGE, Rishworth, is a single-arch stone bridge in Booth Dean, carrying the road across the valley to Ripponden and Ringstone Reservoir
BREARLEY BRIDGE - TWA00205
BREARLEY BRIDGE is a single-arch saddle-back stone bridge thought to date from the mid 18th century. An inn, the Mill Inn, later the Clarence Inn, once stood on the Brearley side of the bridge. There was a bridge there in the seventeenth century as…
Calder Bridge, Brighouse - TWA00206
BRIGHOUSE CALDER BRIDGE. In 1823 an Act of Parliament sanctioned the making and maintenance of a turnpike road from Wibsey Bank Foot through Brighouse to Huddersfield. The stone bridge over the Calder at the site of the ancient ford from Snake Hill…
Bridge over the Calder at Greetland, Nr Halifax - TWA00207
CALDER BRIDGE near the former Greetland Station spans the Calder and was built in the turnpike days.
Callis Bridge, Todmorden - TWA00208
Callis is the name of a place on the slopes of Erringden. It was named as ‘Calys’ as early as 1375. A deed dated 1604 has reference to ‘one small close adjoining the Hebble called Callishebble.’ The district is approached by the bridge over the…
Catherine House Bridge, Luddenden - TWA00209
CATHERINE HOUSE BRIDGE in the upper Luddenden Dean valley is a picturesque stone footbridge formerly a wooden bridge.
Clark Bridge, Halifax - TWA00210
CLARK BRIDGE crosses the Hebble Brook below Halifax Parish Church. Watson wrote in 1775 that this bridge ‘seems to have been first built by the clergy, or clerks, for the convenience of passing from the church, either to their habitations, or some…
Clifton Bridge, Brighouse - TWA00211
CLIFTON BRIDGE carries the road from Brighouse over Clifton Beck and is mentioned at least three times in the West riding Quarter Sessions Records. In 1445 is the entry ‘Brighouse tenants to repair the way between Brighouse and Clifton brig.’ The…
Clough Moor Bridge, Norland - TWA00212
CLOUGH MOOR BRIDGE, Norland, crosses the Maple Dean Clough stream in a single, stone span and carries the road from Norland to Greetland.
Copley Bridge - TWA00213
COPLEY BRIDGE is a stone bridge of two spans crossing the River Calder. There was a toll bar here until 1856, the bridge and road up into the wood being privately owned. Until a few years ago a board showing the various amounts of toll payable was…
Dauber Bridge, Cragg Vale - TWA00214
DAUBER BRIDGE is in Cragg Vale just past Hoo Hole where the road from Mytholmroyd turns half left over the bridge. It is a single-arch stone bridge crossing the Cragg Brook (Cragg Brook is the modern name.)
Denton Bridge, Kebroyd - TWA00215
DENTON BRIDGE, Kebroyd. Below Kebroyd Mills the Lumb Brook is crossed by the main road between Sowerby Bridge and Ripponden at Denton Bridge, a high, stone, single-arch. This is probably the site of the ford over which Samuel Hill, the clothier,…
Dumb Mill Bridge, Shibden Valley - TWA00216
DUMB MILL BRIDGE in the Shibden Valley has been known successively as Barrowclough Bridge, Place Bridge, Deaf Mill Bridge and its present name. It spans the Red Beck which was the boundary between the Hipperholme and Southowram townships. The stream…
Elland Bridge - TWA00217
ELLAND BRIDGE was the subject of a paper by the late W.B. Crump in the 1935 HAS Transactions
Foster Mill Bridge, Hebden Bridge - TWA00218
FOSTER MILL BRIDGE is situated in the Hebden Valley. It was described by W.B. Crump as “a private pack-horse bridge built probably in the 17th century to serve the fulling mill there.”
Grainwater Bridge - TWA00219
Grainwater Bridge, at the top end of Crimsworth Dean, accessed from Haworth Old Road.
Godley Bridge - TWA00220
GODLEY BRIDGE dates from 1900, the designer being E.R.S. Escott, Borough Engineer of that time. The iron skew bridge was opened on January 27th, 1900, replacing a narrow stone bridge which had probably been erected at the time Godley Cutting was made…
Godley Brook, Halifax - TWA00221
GODLEY BROOK BRIDGE spanned the Red Beck at Stump Cross and part of it still exists in the bridge or culvert under which the brook flows. The following resolution appertains to this bridge. "At a vestry meeting of the in¬habitants of the township of…
Bridge at Hawksclough, Mytholmroyd - TWA00222
HAWKSCLOUGH BRIDGE, Mytholmroyd, is a single-arch stone bridge over the Calder thought to be at least 200 years old. It was built to serve Hawksclough Manor, now known as Hawksclough Farm. The house was extended in 1735 and the bridge may have been…
Hebble End Bridge, Hebden Bridge - TWA00223
HEBBLE END BRIDGE is a single-arch stone bridge on the west side of Hebden Bridge. In the sixteenth century it was known as Litthouse Bridge from the dye¬house near at hand, referred to in the Heptonstall Parish Register as Litte-house. On April…
HEBBLE BRIDGE, Wheatley - TWA00224
This is crosses the Hebble Brook at the foot of Brackenbed Lane, midway between Wheatley and Mount Pellon, and carries the road between these two places. Neptune Hotel is o n the right.
Hebble Hole, Colden Valley - TWA00225
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 Old Bridge, Hebden Bridge - TWA00226
HEPTON BRIDGE was written about by the late W.B. Crump at p121 in the 1924 HAS Transactions, in Part 111 of “Ancient Highways of the Parish of Halifax.”
Holme House Bridge, Luddenden - TWA00227
HOLME HOUSE BRIDGE at Booth in Luddenden Dean was originally a pack-horse bridge but it was widened to the eastward. In 1776 Isaac Patchet, a carpenter, was paid 13s 7d on September 30th, 1795 for further repairs. The following resolution is…