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022 A Yorkshire Packhorse Route, Midgley to Heptonstall
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- čas přidán 15. 10. 2021
- This is a saunter/car ride from the Yorkshire village of Midgley ear Halifax and Hebden Bridge to the village of Heptonstall over part of the Halifax to Heptonstall packhorse route. I have, where possible followed the route of or very close to, the original packhorse route, some of the journey is guesswork based on local knowledge and a bit of old map reading.
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Nice to see you back, and thanks for another memory video.
Hi Nigel, really enjoyed the video..i am a Midgley, originally from Guiseley now in Australia for 53 yrs. will definately look again. We have been to Midgley many times . yes very interested to see more.
Thank you for your lovely comment.
Brilliant Nigel !
Brilliant - thank you Nigel for going out and making these videos!
Thank you 😀
Really interesting video. Good to see you back.
This area is absolutely our most favourite place to visit. You'll fall in love with the area, we have stayed a few times in the Mount skip b&b fantastic place beyond comfortable, and the breakfast are amazing. Clean fresh air can't beat the Calder Valley. Hope your feeling better mate?
Thank you for filming this, it was interesting to see the area of my ancesters.
I'm glad you enjoyed it, thank you 😊
Know that route very well, roamed all over as a kid in the 50s and 60s, left in 1974 and still make occasional trip back
Love this 🥰
Born in Hebden left 1964, returned for a couple of years late 1970's after living in Zambia. As a child roamed all over the valley. Believe the Packhorse route ran as you said. The burial route, I believe started down in Mytholm and went up to Lily Wood. That would be interesting to watch on U tube. Sad to see At John's Church no longer there, I was ia Chorist as a teenager.
Burial route known as "The corpse Road"
Nice to see you back! :) Glad your well!
Thanks Sean
The Mount Skip Inn was later a B&B where my husband and I stayed at one time. ("Inhabited"!!)
Done the walk via Height Rd to HB a few times and up and down the Butress so this was a very interesting video Nigel.
Loved that one Nigel and my sympathies with the sciatica x
Enjoyed the video. One of my photographic project is photographing packhorse bridges.
Mount skip inn, remember that place as a kid
The Manor House above Doddnaze was known too us as kids as the haunted house lol
Nice video, Nigel.
Regarding the route of the buttress beyond where it meets Lee Wood Road - I very strongly suspect that it turned left and crossed the current Heptonstall Road, following what now appears to simply be an access road for the houses on its left, then turned sharp right and went along the hillside to Lily Hall (formerly a farm) just below the village.
At first glance it looks like nothing more than a farm track, but in fact there are stone setts beneath the grass - rather too elaborate and expensive for a farm track !
Incidentally, many pubs begin life as farms that sold food and the ale they brewed to the passing packhorse trade, and perhaps provided somewhere to stop overnight.
Re the route I suggested, although not on my video, I did scramble through the wooded are close to my suggested route and found some setts.
@@NigglePics That's very interesting because it's so unclear where the upper section of the buttress used to be. As the route into Heptonstall from the east it was quite a substantial road (for its day) and you might think there'd be more evidence of which direction it took. However, the Cross Lanes (a clue in the name, perhaps ?) area was changed a lot with the building of Lee Wood Road, which didn't exist until relatively late, being built by the Gibsons of Greenwood Lee to avoid having to go through Heptonstall to get to their mill and estates. Locals used to call it "Needless Street" because it was basically a vanity project, intended only to keep the people of Heptonstall from knowing the Gibson's business !
Something I know nothing about is when the upper section of Heptonstall road dates from. The walls on its western side suggest that it's old, but they may be just a relic of it having once been a farm track giving access to fields. Anyway, they don't give us any clues as to whether the buttress went by that route or another. Because of my interest in local history, and particularly the English Civil War I'd love to have a better idea of its route because of the role it might have played in the "Battle of Heptonstall".
I believe the St Thomas a Becket Church ( amended) at Heptonstall ( 13th C) was the original Parish Church for the area, pre dates all the others, along with Halifax Parish Church.
Have you read Robin McKenzies little book "Treat your own back" cured my very bad sciatica which is now just a distant memory of over 10 years, never recurred. Love the vid !
Thanks Misty, I'll look into that x