House, late C16 cross-wing attached to late C17 hall range replacing an earlier timber-framed single storey hall evidence of which still survives. Large dressed stone to wing, smaller coursed stone to hall range. 2 storeys. 3-room…
This park is next to what is now Bankfield Museum. This grand house was once the residence of Colonel Akroyd, a wealthy mill owner who built houses for his workers nearby in Boothtown and at Copley, near Sowerby Bridge. Postcard dated August 1907.
This park is next to what is now Bankfield Museum. This grand house was once the residence of Colonel Akroyd, a wealthy mill owner who built houses for his workers nearby in Boothtown and at Copley, near Sowerby Bridge. It seems it was a popular…