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Off the road from Todmorden at Knowl Wood to Lumbutts. Between Shepherds Rest and Swineshead. There used to be a fair held here.

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Causey, or Causeway, Wood Dam in Lumbutts Clough with Causeywood Mill, or Folly Mill.

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Doorway showing 1672 date stone on the ruins of Strait Hey Farm, below London Road, Lumbutts.

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Lumbutts Methodist Church to the left hand side of the photo, with Stoodley Pike to the horizon on the right hand corner. The chapel was built in 1860 - 1870. In the foreground is Lee Dam, which was one of three dams which powered Lumbutts Mill.…

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A Chapel was built in 1837 by a breakaway group from Mankinholes Chapel but as the congregation grew it was demolished and replaced by this larger building in 1877. The Chapel remains open as at 2015.

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Another Fielden Mill utilising water power with a unique system of three waterwheels, each fed by a stepped series of dams. This mill was later converted to steam power. Lumbutts Mill and Jumb Mill were interconnected by a conveyor system which…

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Renovations at Croft Farm 2002

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In about 1830 a series of four dams was constructed above the Fieldens’ Lumbutts Mill to feed a new water-wheel tower. This striking industrial monument housed three wheels, one vertically above the other, in an ingenious piece of engineering that…
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