Hebden Bridge...

[ColinJ]

What about Trooper Lane in Halifax, up to Beacon Hill??? (partially cobbled)

Stainland Lions claim it ascends 570feet in less than 1/2mile!!! (I ran.....struggled....up it in their 'Bluebell Trail Race' back in May)

Map of course at bottom of page;

http://www.stainlandlions.com/Club_Races/2013/BluebellTrail/index.htm

Some of you may remember my controversial thread on the old C+ forum about that one! ('Macho Climbing Gears')

 

[classic33]

What about Trooper Lane in Halifax, up to Beacon Hill??? (partially cobbled)

Stainland Lions claim it ascends 570feet in less than 1/2mile!!! (I ran.....struggled....up it in their 'Bluebell Trail Race' back in May)

Map of course at bottom of page;

http://www.stainlandlions.com/Club_Races/2013/BluebellTrail/index.htm

The Beacon Hill Race used to be run from the Piece Hall, onto Horton Street, down Berry Lane onto Bailey Hall Bank and then straight uphill to the top & then the reverse route to the Piece Hall. Did it in just under 15 minutes in '83.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I was just speaking to someone who knows the woman with the orange and the knitting ... apparently, she sits there to give green bodysuit man 'moral support', presumably because he would otherwise feel really stupid dressed like that, talking nonsense to himself, and staring down at an empty hat!

Could be the Duckman (colleague of 'Foul Old Ron' in the DiscWorld books)

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

Can't say I'm comfortable reading that people who may be mentally ill being poked fun at, or comments that they must be taking drugs....it's not the seventies you know.

Ironic when some of the ones making comments post in the depression thread.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I might make my way down the Calder Valley in a few days time, as I'm on day-off that Saturda, & quite fancy this race
http://www.todharriers.co.uk/shepherds_skyline.htm
See 'Course Sketch-Map' under the 'Location' heading

It's a lot easier to get there on a Saturday, than it would be mid-week for their 'Stoodly Pike' race, given the nature of the M62 at tea-time (not even mentioning the drive via Sowerby Bridge. Damn!, I just have)

I know what you mean; it has a unique quaintness about it that I've never found anywhere else. Do you know that HB is on a major packhorse trunk route and that the bridge, first built out of wood then stone in 1510, was the first structure there? People don't realise that it was packhorses, charging around the hills like the equivalent of today's white vans, that shaped our landscape. Mytholmroyd was the original settlement and the packhorses needed to cross the river, hence the need for the bridge

A bit further east, at Halifax, the Magna Via was the medieval highway to the Manorial Courts at Wakefield.
The stones are still there on the climb, some on edge, so the ponies & horses can grip
The continuation (Dark Lane????) is also partially flagged/cobbled, at the other side of Beacon Hill

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

A bit further east, at Halifax, the Magna Via was the medieval highway to the Manorial Courts at Wakefield.
The stones are still there on the climb, some on edge, so the ponies & horses can grip
The continuation (Dark Lane????) is also partially flagged/cobbled, at the other side of Beacon Hill

I'm on iPad, so can't access my own pics of the Magna-Via, so here's one from Geograph


http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/39656

Edit; sorry, not Dark Lane, merely a continuation of the Magna Via


http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3278986

 

[ColinJ]

I think I would have liked fell running, but my joints would not take the battering. My hips and, to a lesser extent, my knees, are a bit fragile. I don't want to end up like my dad, with both hip joints destroyed by osteoarthritis. I will stick to the bikes! (Which reminds me - it would be great to get out on the bridleways again. I must sort out the brakes on my MTB.)

 

[Globalti]

On packhorse trails, some of you may have missed this:

http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/the-packhorse-trail.104995/

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

On packhorse trails, some of you may have missed this:

http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/the-packhorse-trail.104995/

Had look, I like it!!

 

[ColinJ]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-24826739

Most of those chapels have now been converted into 'Grand Designs' or like this old Methodist chapel on a hillside a few miles from here, into several individual flats.

 

[postman]

Most of those chapels have now been converted into 'Grand Designs' or like this old Methodist chapel on a hillside a few miles from here, into several individual flats.

I like that building.