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Original drawing by Alan D. Jones, published by Halifax Courier.

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Arthur Comfort, born in London in 1864, became a master wood engraver. He worked for some years on "The Graphic", the National illustrated journal, and exhibited his work at the Royal Academy and abroad. Around 1900 he moved north and began work as a…

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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

Howroyde, with its ivy-clad walls, rookery, fish pond and glorious prospect of hill and dale, is deeply impressed with old-world characteristics. It was…

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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

The hall stands on the hillside between the Upper and Lower Edges. It is one of the domestic buildings of the 14th century and in all probability was…

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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913. There is uncertainty as to the date of this picturesque hall

There is uncertainty as to the date of this picturesque hall – now divided into two…

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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913. The sketch gives the north view of the hall.

With its old-fashioned gateway and courtyard it has still on this side much the same appearance it had when…

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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

Sunnybank is one of the few remaining timber-built houses in the parish. It presents a quaint sight and a decaying one, especially on the north side. …

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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

The Halifax manufacturers’ Hall was opened on Jan 2, 1779 for the use of the textile manufacturers of the district. It has been declared that as a…

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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

Hope Hall (Hope House originally) is thought to have been built some 160 years ago by David Stansfield (1719-1769). In its earlier days it was a…

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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

Said to occupy the site of a much older building, Woodhall bears the date 1580 on the porch. The letters 'JW' are also to be found. There is little…

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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

The house was built in 1668 by Thomas Hanson upon the site of an ancient homestead that existed in the 13th century. The structure is in excellent…

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This sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

“One of the beautiful halls of Ovenden Wood, overlooking the Wheatley Valley from the Mount Tabor side. It derives its name from the Broadley or…

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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

Built about 1610, Upper Willow Hall (that delightful old-world building at Cote Hill) is undoubtedly the successor of a much older building. Although in…

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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

Oldest of local homesteads, rich with features illustrative of many centuries of house architecture internal and external, it is fitting that Shibden Hall…

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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

A unique building, crumbling to pieces; but for unsightly buttresses some of the walls would fall; the pillars and figures on the south porch are…

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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

One of several old homesteads in Shibden valley. Staups dates back well over 300 years, for documentary evidence tells of a John Bentley compounding for…

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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

Passing up the main road from Holmfield Station to the district known as Holdsworth, attention is attracted by iron gates at the entrance to the remains…

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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

The building is a fine, antiquated, ivy-clad, pointed gable house, the owner of which is Mr Richard Kershaw of Crow Nest, Lightcliffe and the present…

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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

The ancient homestead stands on a knoll near Coley Church and commands extensive views, especially southwards. From its exposed position its name is…

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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

The architecture has unique features and an interesting history attaches to the house. From the latter part of the 13th century the Rysshworth family had…

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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

The fact that most local townships have a Great House lends confirmation to the idea that at some time they were used as minor manor homes. The Midgley…

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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

From the point of view of preservation it is one of the finest local old buildings. Almost square, it is adorned by eleven stone-pinnacled gables and two…

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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

Originally known as simply ‘Mytholmroyd’ and said to have given its name to the village. In a will dated 1549 Richard Draper of ‘Michomroode’ is referred…

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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

Broadbottom, a cluster of houses rather than a single homestead is an ancient settlement on the Wadsworth side of Calder Valley, on the edge of the wood…

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The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.

Few homesteads are more pleasantly situated than Brearley Hall, which stands on an eminence between Mytholmroyd and Luddenden Foot. Antiquaries tell us…
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