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"At 105 feet high the trestle bridge carrying Blakedean railway across the valley remained a stunning spectacle for over a decade in the early years of the 20th century. Enoch Tempest commissioned architect William Henry Cockcroft and engineer George…

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Blake Dean, a popular picnic spot, off Widdop Road between Hebden Bridge and Colne.

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Featured in the Geoff Boswell Calendar of 2004.

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The snicket beside the bridge for the path to the river.

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The former chapel is now a Scout hostel.

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Causey at the meeting of the waters, between Heptonstall and Colne

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Causey at the meeting of the waters, between Heptonstall and Colne

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Causey at the meeting of the waters, between Heptonstall and Colne

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"At 105 feet high the trestle bridge carrying Blakedean railway across the valley remained a stunning spectacle for over a decade in the early years of the 20th century. Enoch Tempest commissioned architect William Henry Cockcroft and engineer George…

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Postcard with postmark July 1956. Shows Widdop Road coming down from Heptonstall Slack to the bridge over Alcomden Water.

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The path from the bridge at Blake Dean down to the waters.

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The gate beside the bridge

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When Halifax Corporation built Walshaw Dean Reservoir, they wanted to close the footpath across the moor. A group of people from the Scientific Society carried out an Opposition Ramble from Blakedean to Oxenhope. It was agreed that there would be a…

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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…

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The underside of the bridge carrying Widdop Road over Graining Water. Historical OS maps call the whole area Black Dean.

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The bridge carrying Widdop Road over Graining Water just before its confluence with Alcomden Water to form Hebden water. Historical OS maps refer to the area as Black Dean and today it is a famous local beauty spot and picnic site..

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"But hark! What sound is that which startles him (the tourist) with its shrill shriek, almost making him forget that he is 'far away from the madding crowd?' On the opposite side of the valley he descries a railway engine with a train of trucks just…

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"But hark! What sound is that which startles him (the tourist) with its shrill shriek, almost making him forget that he is 'far away from the madding crowd?' On the opposite side of the valley he descries a railway engine with a train of trucks just…

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Postcard. 1960s.

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Postcard date stamped June 20 1905 sent to Mr J. Mr J. Mitchell in Whitworth from Lill.
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