Hebden Bridge to Hardcastle Crags The Riverside Path
Plan of the Hebden Water between Hardcastle Crags and Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire.
Author: Calderdale MBC
Date: not dated
Location: Hebden Bridge
Format: History Trail
Document ID: 101685
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Pamphlet with the Hebden Water Riverside Path produced by the Countryside and Forestry Unit of Calderdale Council.
Hardcastle Crags is one of Calderdale's beauty spots 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.
