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Heptonstall Village
Where it all began...
"...Running right down the spine of England is the mountain range called
the 'Pennines'- the county of Lancashire lies to the West and the county of
Yorkshire to the East. On the Yorkshire side runs the Calder Valley,
named after the Calder river that runs through the bottom of the valley.
In the Dark Ages, 5th-6th centuries, it was a miserable and desolate place.
Badly drained it was not much more than a bog rife with mosquitoes, the
sides were so steep that finding a flat piece of land to build a house on
was almost impossible. However, vikings settled there 1,500 years ago &
named it Heptonstall, which roughly translated means: 'Farmsteads where
Rose-hips or Brambles grow'.
(Old English: heope or heopa + tun-stall)"
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