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- Midgley Moor from MytholmroydBeginning a mere stone’s throw from Ted Hughes’ birthplace our trail begins by snaking through the antecedent author’s childhood playground of Redacre Woods. The woods are home to a large rock that Hughes and his brother attempted to excavate as children. This became the basis for his poem ‘The Ancient Briton Lay Under His Rock’Continue reading “Midgley Moor from Mytholmroyd”
- Stoodley Pike from Hebden Bridge, West YorkshireNestled in the Upper Calder Valley approximately 13 km west of Halifax lies the market town of Hebden Bridge. Hebden Bridge was originally a small settlement at the point the packhorse route crossed the River Hebden (so its not just a clever name…) that quickly grew in the 19th Century when is fast flowing riverContinue reading “Stoodley Pike from Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire”
- Nab Hill, Oxenhope, West Yorkshire‘…the whole hill-back was one billowy, white ocean; the swells and falls not indicating corresponding rises and depressions in the ground: many pits, at least, were filled to a level; and entire ranges of mounds, the refuse of the quarries, blotted from the chart which my yesterday’s walk left pictured in my mind.’ – EmilyContinue reading “Nab Hill, Oxenhope, West Yorkshire”
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