Shibden Hall, The Dining Room
Recreation of a dining room at Shibden Folk Museum, Halifax, West Yorkshire.
Author: Folk Museum of the West Riding West Riding
Date: not dated
Location: Shibden
Format: Postcard - Mono
Document ID: 100042
Library ID: 34561949
Shibden dale has been a popular tourist destination for Halifax people since Victorian times. Shibden Brook becomes the Red Beck at Brookfoot downstream.
Over the years, 13 different spellings of Shibden have been recorded, all deriving from mispronunciations of Sheep Dene (The Valley of Sheep).