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Used as an illustration in Gertrude Attwood's book "A Village Childhood"

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Looking down Cragg Road towards Mytholmroyd. The Methodist Chapel, now a private house, is on the left.

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On the left is the church of St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness and far right the Hinchliffe Arms with the road up to Withens Clough Reservoir. Note the tennis court at the rear of the church.

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The Cross Lanes Society was formed from two Methodist groups from Hebden Bridge and Heptonstall. They decided to join together and build a new chapel at a half way site. The land cost £289 4s 0d in 1838?. Plans by Mr John Nicholson were accepted. …

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The chapel at the top of the Buttress opened in 1840 and closed due to declining attendance in 1958 and was then destroyed by fire in the mid 1960s. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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The chapel at the top of the Buttress opened in 1840 and closed due to declining attendance in 1958 and was then destroyed by fire in the mid 1960s. Part of the Hebden Bridge Local History Society Archive

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Looking in a very sad state prior to demonlition. The Birchcliffe hillside can be seen in the distance on the left.

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The little hamlet directly below the church is known as Little Cornwall.

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The canal is unusable, Mount Zion Church is being demolished, depressing times.

The chapel was opened in 1887, but by 1960 it was suffering from dry rot. It closed in August 1960 and was demolished in 1970.

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Ruth Ryder with Rev Stanley Kirby cutting the cake at the retirement party for Rev Stanley Kirby, 29th October, 2005.
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