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 Heptonstall,is an ancient village (predates Hebden Bridge) is sited on top of a very steep hill overlooking the Calder Valley, to it's south and east, just above Hebden Bridge. The village until the end of the 18th century thrived on the woolen trade until first water, and then steam powered mills meant that the industry moved down from the hilltop into the valleys of the River Calder. It was then that the town of Hebden Bridge began to develop just below, with the help later of the Rochdale canal, and then later the Leeds to Manchester railway. The village churchyard is unusual in that it is one of the only churchyards in the country to have 2 churches in it one still used and one in ruins. Heptonstall still retains a feeling of Olde Worlde to this day. It even has connection to The English Civil War in The Battle of Heptonstall.

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A VIEW OF HEPTONSTALL TAKEN FROM
OLD TOWN.

GATEWAY TO HEPTONSTALL MUSEUM

HEPTONSTALLS
RUINED CHURCH OF St THOMAS A BECKET

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HEPTONSTALL MUSEUM
HEPTONSTALL MUSEUM IS THE OLD VILLAGE SCHOOLHOUSE

LOOKING UP SMITHWELL LANE

SILVER STREET

CHURCH STREET

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LOOKING DOWN SMITHWELL LANE

 RUINED TOWER OF THE CHURCH OF St THOMAS A BECKET STANDS NEXT TO THE CURRENT CHURCH OF St THOMAS the APOSTLE.

THE OLD PUMP AT THE TOP OF SMITHWELL LANE

St THOMAS THE APOSTLE MAIN WINDOW

Pinnacle from the top of the new church struck down by lightening on
5th April 1875

NORTHFIELD GINNEL 

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MY SON SCOTT STANDING ON TOWNFIELD LANE

LOOKING DOWN NORTHFIELD

WHITEHALL FOLD, and WHITEHALL FARM.

LOOKING ALONG NORTHGATE

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HEPTONSTALL'S HEXAGONAL METHODIST CHAPEL

LOOKING ALONG NORTHGATE TOWARDS TOWNFIELD

QUAKER PLAQUE ON THE SIDE OF CROSS INN NORTHGATE. Originally called New House

TOWNFIELD

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HEPTON DRIVE

St THOMAS'S
INTERIOR
picture courtesy of
STEVE GLOVER

THE GRAVESTONE OF 'KING DAVID' HARTLEY OF 'THE CRAGG COINERS'

HEPTON DRIVE COMMUNAL GARDENS

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REAR OF THE MUSEUM / SCHOOLHOUSE

POST OFFICE

The Cloth Hall (Blackwell Hall)
1545-1553

Barratts shop
(now private residence, Towngate.

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The old Post Office, Smithwell Lane

Weavers square, designed by Noel Singer, finished 1967. Where the old band room stood

 The original font from the old church 13th century, now in the new church..

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The lock-up or dungeon. Which stands below the brewhouse for The Stag Inn.

  AN ANCIENT ARCHWAY (1578).

The ginnel (connects the car park to Towngate).

Longfield House Towngate, built  in the 1730s.

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The Pinfold. Used  to house straying livestock, which could only be released for payment of a fine

Wesleyan Octagonal Chapel built 1764. The foundation stone was laid by John Wesley.

The old COOP building, built 1866, went into liquidation in 1967. Then became The Economic

Slack Top Chapel

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