The saga of the Huddersfield 3½ mile “to and from”
Apart from Stott Hall Farm, nothing stood in the way of the builders of the M62 trans-Pennine motorway as it made its way over the …
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Apart from Stott Hall Farm, nothing stood in the way of the builders of the M62 trans-Pennine motorway as it made its way over the …
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In 2006 funding was obtained by Kirklees MBC (covering Huddersfield and district) to restore and conserve the many milestones – there are over 100, not …
Another glorious Spring day in the Yorkshire Dales, the pee-wits decoying, the pheasants whirring, the tiny lambs shivering pitifully on the frosted grass, as around …
A trod, according to the OED, is a dialect word for a trodden way, a footpath, path, or way. Brockett’s Glossary of North Country Words …
The Sedbergh Turnpike Trust, based in the far north-west corner of the old West Riding, was unusual in that rather than having a single road …
At the beginning of the 19th century Huddersfield was a small but increasingly populous township on the north-west side of the River Colne. Public services …
In the 16th century a stone was found in Booth Bank Clough, between Slaithwaite and Marsden, one of the little streams that drops down into …
One of the most unusual guide-stoops in the county can be found just off the A616 Stocksbridge bypass in South Yorkshire: it is, as far …
Up to the 19th century a parish was a parish, for both church and local government purposes. In the north some parishes were very large, …
William Mattison of Richmond started a foundry in 1851 on railway company land at Leeming Bar (on the Great North Road in Bedale Parish). They …