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 Heptonstall
Cloth Hall (see image opposite) was built sometime around 1550
to take advantage of cloth woven in the upper Calder Valley and
neighbouring East Lancashire.
In contrast to the wealth of southern clothiers
these men of the north were noted for their frugal living and
ceaseless toil which provided them "the necessities of life without its superfluities". In the language of the day they were "clothiers of the meanest sort".
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