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From Weaver to Web: Online visual archive of Calderdale History

Welcome to the online visual archive of Calderdale history. It gives you access to over 23,000 images, with supporting historical information.

The Calderdale area includes the towns of Halifax, Brighouse, Elland, Hebden Bridge, Sowerby Bridge and Todmorden.

From Weaver to Web provides access to a wide range of materials. These may be very useful to local and family historians interested in this area.

You will find photographs, postcards, maps, trade directories, handbills and many other types of historical sources.

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Middle Stepping Stones, Hardcastle Crags.

Middle Stepping Stones, Hardcastle Crags. Hardcastle Crags are one of Calderdale's better known beauty spots and are located near Hebden Bridge. The stream is named Hebden Water after its locality, Hebden Dale. The National Trust has owned the area for over half a century. Lord George Halifax Lumley-Savile donated 250 acres in 1948, and in 1950 the National Trust launched an appeal to buy a further 168 acres. Henry Mitchell Ingham stepped in and bought the land for the National Trust. In 1957 Abraham Gibson left Gibson Mill and his family home Greenwood Lee to the National Trust.




In the mid-1930s plans were made to make Hardcastle Crags into a reservoir. These plans were submitted several times; eventually the House of Commons rejected them in 1970.