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Sculpture Trail, Hardcastle Crags - PAK00299
A sculpture trail was held in the Crags every other year from 1996 to 2005.
Reaps Cross with Gorple reservoir behind. 1995 - DAH00159
Near the top end of the Colden Valley on a packhorse route to Hurstwood and Colne this medieval wayside cross stands in magnificent moorland above the Gorple reservoirs. In the drought of 1976 the receding water revealed an ancient paved trackway,…
View of Higher Baiting, Alcomden, from Ridge Nook, 1995 - DAH00173
Comment from Charles turner: My ancestor William turner farmed Higher Baitings Farm from 1824 until retiring to Kendal in the 1860s, leaving his son Edmund turner to carry on the farm. It was demolished by the Water Board when the reservoirs were…
Mytholmroyd from Scout Rocks, 1995 - DAH00175
Looking west along the Calder Valley
Hoo Hole House, Cragg Vale. - DAH00178
Taken from above the former Hoo Hole Dye works.
Churn Milk Joan on Midgley Moor - DBC00103
Also known as Churn Milk Peg and Savile's Low, this stone is located on Midgley Moor. It is a 6' 9" high stone pillar - probably originally placed as a boundary marker. The stone is claimed to spin round three times on New Year's Eve. It is said to…
Churn Milk Joan on Midgley Moor - DBC00104
Also known as Churn Milk Peg and Savile's Low, this stone is located on Midgley Moor. It is a 6' 9" high stone pillar - probably originally placed as a boundary marker. The stone is claimed to spin round three times on New Year's Eve. It is said to…
Shooting Butts and Churn Milk Joan on Midgley Moor - DBC00112
Also known as Churn Milk Peg and Savile's Low, this stone is located on Midgley Moor. It is a 6' 9" high stone pillar - probably originally placed as a boundary marker. The stone is claimed to spin round three times on New Year's Eve. It is said to…
Filming in Redacre Wood - DBC00127
L to R: George Wilding, Lloyd Greenwood, Stanley Boocock and Nick Wilding. On the site of the ancient Briton's grave. Gabriel Wilding took the photograph.
Widdop Gate - DTA00120
The Widdop Road starts at Slack above Heptonstall and goes to Colne and Burnley.
Nutclough Mill Pond - DTA00124
Situated in Nutclough woods.
The Colden Valley - DTA00146
The Colden Valley
Widdop Reservoir - DTA00154
The reservoir was designed by J. F. Bateman for Halifax Corporation to provide a water supply from Widdop to Halifax, 8 miles away.
It was constructed under an Act of Parliament passed in 1868. The first sod was cut on 26th July 1871 by Mayor H. C.…
It was constructed under an Act of Parliament passed in 1868. The first sod was cut on 26th July 1871 by Mayor H. C.…
The Upper Calder Valley - DTA00169
Calder Valley with Stoodley Pike in the distance
Stepping stones, Hardcastle Crags - DTA00174
Stepping stones, Hardcastle Crags