Tag: Hebden Bridge

Walk to Heptonstall

Here’s what happened when I took an unplanned walk to the village of Heptonstall from Hebden Bridge.

It started with this.

I thought, just because you can doesn’t mean you should–but I did it anyway. I saw how steep it was–but I did it anyway. I reckoned, if it gets too bad I’ll just turn back–but in the end I made it all the way to Heptonstall!

People I met on my way up did follow the instruction on the sign–honestly everyone was so dead nice!

I’ve not spent much time in the actual village, just enough to take some shots. My loss, probably, as there is a museum and also the poet Sylvia Plath is buried in the graveyard extension of the St Thomas the Apostle Church (but that I found out later by Googling, at home). I needed to preserve energy for the walk back!

It’s a very picturesque village as you can see.

Chicken at the Methodist church graveyard.

So that was trip to Hebden Bridge. A lot of it quite unexpected.

Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire

I knew I would have to come back to Hebden Bridge one day, ever since I went there to get the bus to Haworth. So I did and here are the results:

Along the Rochdale Canal:

Right outside the train station in March:

Same place in June:

I also did an unplanned walk to the village of Heptonstall and was rewarded with some spectacular views. But that’s content for another post.