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Part of an ancient packhorse route from Burnley to Halifax, as it descends into Hebden Bridge from the village of Heptonstall.

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Top of the Buttress. You can see gravestones from the former Cross Lanes Methodist Chapel. The newly built houses are at the top of moss Lanes.

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The holly tress are still there (2014) but the inn has gone and the area is now a car park The water tower, seen here on the top on the left hand building on the corner of St Georges Square, has since been removed. Hangingroyd House can be seen part…

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Taken from outside the 'Hole in the Wall' inn. Hangingroyd House can just be seen part way up the Buttress. Royd Terrace is on the right.

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The bottom of the Buttress near the junction with Royd Terrace, Fred Brown Engineers on the right. June 1978.

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The part building on the left is the 'Hole-in-the-wall' pub. The other buildings were demolished in the 1960s.

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Fred Brown's Mill can be seen and the houses of Royd terrace.

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The old inn at the bottom of the Buttress next to the Old Bridge prior to demolition and replacement in 1899 with the building we see today.

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This 400 yards long cobbled route was originally the packhorse trail between Heptonstall and Hebden Bridge. This in turn was part of the route from Burnley to Halifax.

Photo taken in 1969 following the demolition of Buttress Brink houses on the…

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Mount Zion Chapel and Stubbings School can be seen on the hillside with the Hole in the Wall public house at the foot of The Buttress, and the Council Offices (now the Town Hall) on the left.

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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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Known as Buttress Brink it was a warren of dwellings demolished in the 1960s.

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The Old Bridge originally built 1510 and repaired in 1602 and 1657 when it was described "in great ruin and decay". Seen here in about 1900 looking over to Buttress Brink, demolished 1960s, with the new 'Hole in the Wall' pub on the right.
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