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Winter Walks Programme 2023 - 2024

 

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Welcome to our winter programme of walks taking place across our valley.

The programme has fortnightly walks on Sundays throughout the winter. Unless stated, just turn up and pay the guide the fee of £4. All afternoon walks start at 1.30pm.
You are advised to wear good walking shoes or boots. Walks which we think are suitable for mobility scooters are noted.
We have a minimum age limit of 13 for our insurance. Unless stated, well-behaved dogs on short leads are welcome.
Walks are generally 2 hours with a few a little longer. We must reserve the right not to take anyone on walks who seems unlikely to cope with the conditions.

Every effort is made to adhere to the published programme, but we must also reserve the right to cancel or amend any walk if circumstances make that necessary.

Where this is necessary, we use our FaceBook page and our circulation list to let people know.

 

  For enquiries, please email us at : cdaleheritagewks@gmail.com

  To check if a walk has been cancelled please check Facebook

 

Winter Walks Programme November 2023 - March 2024

Sunday 12th November 2023

LOWER RASTRICK

The area where Rastrick and meets Brighouse. It grew from around 1840 onwards into a complete new community with, not just houses, but its own mills, places of worship, shops, pubs and the like.

 

Meet Ian Philp at the car park adjoining the Assembly Rooms, Briggate, Brighouse. HD6 1EL


Sunday 19th November 2023

THE COINERS IN HALIFAX

The famous Coiners came from up the Calder Valley, but many significant and dramatic events in their story occurred in Halifax. Visit the location of 'King' David Hartley's arrest, the site of the 1769 Exciseman murder, hear the tale of the arrested Constable, learn about the last coiner buried in Halifax, and thrill to the story of a Gallows Pole…


A linear walk of 2 ½ hours. Good footwear recommended, nothing strenuous. An escort will be available to walk back to the start.
Please book through TicketSource -https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/Calderdale-heritage-walks. If you need help with this, please call at Halifax Information Hub, Woolshops, near the Piece Hall. This walk costs £5.


Sunday 26th November 2023

TODMORDEN IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR

With this new walk we will explore how the town and its people were affected by war, looking at war memorials and graves of those who died and the challenges faced by the town during the war. The town ran a military hospital and welcomed Belgian refugees and many soldiers received honours for bravery. But many lost their lives and for those who remained it was a struggle to keep businesses going and cope with food shortages.

 

Meet Anne Mealia at the entrance to Centre Vale Park next to the Cricket Ground Todmorden OL14 7BS


Sunday 3rd December 2023

SHIBDEN HALL PARKLAND AND THE NEW TURNPIKE

New roads, a coal mining argument together with a pistol practice to stop intruders. All in Miss Lister's time.Walking shoes advised. 2½ hour max.

 

Meet Mike Beecham at the Shibden Park overflow car park opposite the BP petrol station on Godley Lane. HX3 6XG.


Sunday 10th December 2023

THE CENTRE OF ELLAND

In 1086 the town featured in Domesday Book. It has a fine old Parish Church and one of the oldest town centres in Calderdale though, now, much changed. We'll see how areas of it have evolved down the centuries.

This walk is suitable for mobility scooters.

 

Meet Ian Philp by Elland Parish Church notice board. HX5 0RU


Sunday 7th January 2024

FOUR SQUARED IN HALIFAX

Three of Halifax's four major 'squares' have undergone changes in the last few years. This walk looks at 250 years of development in the town's new cultural quarter, as well as exploring the changes in Woolshops over the last half millennium!.

This walk is suitable for mobility scooters.

 

Meet Anne Kirker by the Duke of Wellington statue at the top of Woolshops. HX1 1PB


Sunday 21st January 2024

THREE VILLAGES MEET

This new walk takes you to Northowram, Hipperholme and Shelf where their historic stories overlap. Older houses and the road to paradise that takes the congregation to Coley Church. The site of a lost property and a Stone Age hoard.

 

Meet Mike Beecham on The Green, Northowram, outside Northowram Methodist Church. HX3 7JE.


Sunday 4th February 2024

Victorian Halifax

This new walk presents the Victorian legacy in Halifax, which is second to none, and the town is fortunate in that so much has survived. On this walk you will see some of the many fine buildings which celebrate the town's entrepreneurial spirit and civic prideand discover some of their stories. This walk is suitable for mobility scooters.

 

Meet Anne Kirker at the entrance to Halifax Town Hall, HX1 1UJ


Sunday 18th February 2024

GOING TO CHURCH IN TODMORDEN

This walk explores the different churches and chapels of Todmorden and the development of non-conformity in the town. Includes one fairly long steep section.

 

Meet Anne Mealia in Fielden Square, Todmorden, OL14 6LZ


Sunday 25th February 2024

DARK HALIFAX

Formerly 'Halifax's Dark Side', this walk recalls the severed heads, ghosts, creaking gibbets, strange burials and other peculiarities – like the guilty pig – historically associated with the places we visit around the centre of town.
Churchyard may be slippery.

 

Meet John Billingsley outside the top gate of Piece Hall, HX1 1PD


Sunday 3rd March 2024

THE DELIGHTS OF STONEY ROYD

This new walk will take you on a stroll through a landscaped Cemetery, uncovering the tale of the lost 1760s Rawson mansion, later a Fever Hospital. Learn about the many South Parade graves moved in the 1880s, and discover fascinating stories of an airship man, a great tramways inventor and a doctor who gained a seat in the House of Lords. View EP Thompson's house and hear a very strange anecdote about Anne Lister.

 

 

Meet David Glover outside the cemetery, on Swan Bank Lane near entrance, HX3 9HR. (Please park outside the cemetery) Mostly on good pathways or pavements, much is suitable for mobility scooters (one section easily bypassed).


Sunday 17th March 2024

Chaos in Shelf

This new walk will take you on a stroll along part of the main road through Shelf where we'll investigate a murder, a missionary, a suicide, an "offensive and noxious" trade and Methodists who just couldn't get along.

 

Meet Ben Stables at the entrance to St. Michael and All Angel's Church (opposite Lidl), Halifax Road, Shelf, HX3 7RJ.


Sunday 31st March 2024

HEPTONSTALL'S EDGES

 

A longer walk (2.5mls) circles above Colden Valley to Popples and Slack and back into Heptonstall, with memories of the Industrial Revolution, Nonconformist era, witch mania, pestilence, folklore and famous and (not-so-famous) poets.
Steep drops, a half mile of very uneven woodland terrain included: Walking shoes, good footing and a head for heights recommended.

 

Meet John Billingsley at Heptonstall Bowling Club Car Park,HX7 7LT


 

To receive our Programmes & Newsletters by e.mail, contact us at :
CdaleHeritageWks@gmail.com

There’s more on our website at:   https://calderdaleheritagewalks.org.uk

 

We must reserve the right not to take anyone on walks who seems unlikely to cope with the conditions.   Every effort is made to adhere to the published programme, but we must also reserve the right to cancel or amend any walk if circumstances make that necessary.  These walks are not really suited to under 13s.
Our sincere thanks go to various sections of Calderdale MBC for their continuing co-operation and support.

 

GUIDES CAN ALSO BE BOOKED FOR PRIVATE GROUPS – WE HAVE OVER 90 WALKS AVAILABLE RIGHT ACROSS CALDERDALE

 

 

 
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