Exploring SE0023
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Contents
- 1. Introduction
- Links to maps
- 2. The roads
- Along the !B6138 road
- Church Bank Lane
- Coppy Nook Lane
- Footpaths to the north-west of Cragg Road
- Footpath 85
- Footpath 86 - Castle Gate, Sunny Bank Lane, Upper Lumb Lane
- Footpath 86(A)
- Footpath 86(B)
- Footpath 86(C)
- Footpath 88
- Footpath 88(A)
- Footpath 88(B)
- Footpath 89
- Footpath 90
- Footpath 90(A)
- Footpath 90(B)
- Footpath 90(C)
- Footpath 117
- Footpaths to the south-east of Cragg Road
- Footpath 91
- Footpath 91(A) - New Lane
- Footpath 91(B)
- Footpath 105
- Footpath 106
- Footpath 106(A)
- Footpath 106(B)
- Footpath 107
- Footpath 109
- Footpath 110 - Bent Close Lane
- Footpath 112
- Footpath 112(A)
- Footpath 112(B)
- Footpath 112(C)
- Footpath 113
- Footpath 113(A) - High Lane
- Footpath 113(B) - The Deacon Hill path
- Footpath 114
- Footpath 114(A)
- Footpath 114(B)
- Footpath 114(C)
- Footpath 114(D)
- Footpath 115
- Footpath 116 - Four Gates End, Marshaw Bank
- Footpath 131 Kirby Cote Lane at Owlet Hall
- Bibliography
Footpath 115
Five paths meet here, although not all are obvious. In the foreground there is some stone paving, the top end of the 'causey stones'. The Calderdale Way (FP115) slants up the hillside to the right. FP114 goes through a gap in the wall, to the right just before the stile. Its continuation goes left at the waymark post beyond the wall. FP112 goes straight on, to the right of the tall trees in the distance. | |
I thought at the time that this path is blocked by the retaining wall. The rights-of-way map suggests that it goes up the slope from the corner of the yard, but it does not look to be an easy scramble. It is part of the Calderdale Way, but it seems that people walk along the driveway of Plod Well (FP112 and then FP113) instead. FP113 goes to the north-east to Deacon Hill where FP115, on the driveway, turns to the south and stops at the invisible FP109. There is a short length of the driveway, and the Calderdale Way, that is not shown on the rights-of-way map as a public footpath. |
Footpath 116 - Four Gates End, Marshaw Bank
Here the path emerges from its narrow confines and continues up the hill in open woodland. A track goes off to the left in a cutting. It is shown on Myers's map of 1835, and would appear to have been the main route up the hill at that time, leading directly to the bottom of High Lane. It is still shown on the OS map as a broken black line. However the 1850 map shows yet another variation, leaving the Marshaw Bank path further down and joining Myers's route at the position shown in the following map. | |
The path goes through a field gate into the farmyard of Bank Top, a group of 17C building sadly derelict. It emerges onto FP114(A), which is along a very muddy track. Bank Top Farm is at the top of a spur of land, projecting from the hillside, a typical siting for a medieval farmstead. The present house was built in the mid-17C at the time of the 'great rebuilding' when timber houses were rebuilt in stone. It is listed Grade II and the listing details state that the date on the Tudor-style lintel is probably 1668. However I am not sure whether that is the building shown in this image. |
Footpath 131 Kirby Cote Lane at Owlet Hall
Bibliography
Stephen Walsh, Cragg Vale, a Pennine valley, Mytholmroyd 1993Colin Spencer, The History of Hebden Bridge, Hebden Bridge Literary & Scientific Soc. 1991
ed. Bernard Jennings, Pennine Valley - a history of upper Calderale, Otley, 1994
G R Binns, Water wheels in the upper Calder valley Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society 1972
Frederic A Youngs jr., Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England
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