Calendar 2017

If you look closely at the garden pond. It is possible to make out the outline of what was once the dam of Turvin Mill, one of Cragg Vale's oldest mills

Board 1 of the Cragg Vale Heritage Trail, near Craggs Country Business Park, has views across the hills, moors, and the old settlements

The Heritage Trail goes down past Moorland Cottages to Green Bank, down steps to the river to the old clapper bridge known as 'Dog Bridge' and Heritage Board 2

At Turvin Brook, Heritage Board 2 is near where Richard Hinchliffe set up the primitive water wheel to power a spinning frame producing mechanically spun thread

The stone flagged packhorse trails, also used by workers walking to the mills, have become worn down by the mill workers' clogs

Board 3, outside the Old Vicarage, is found by turning left where the trail meets the road to Withens Clough reservoir

New Cragg Hall was destroyed by fire in 1921 but the gatehouse still stands and some remains of the towers can be seen from Cragg Vale's tennis courts

Story board 4 is outside the Hinchliffe Arms. Follow the Heritage Trail through the field to the old bridge above a waterfall and the weir

The heart of the village, from the Hinchliffe Arms and St john's church past the stream to the Robin Hood, this is the route of the 'Spaw Sunday' procession

Story board 5 is found by following Turvin Brook to Papermill cottage, past the last remnants of the once mighty mills. Water still shapes this valley

Mechanisation created jobs for women and girls but children as young as 8yrs worked long hours in the hot, humid, dusty, unhealthy conditions

Story board 6, the last story board, is sited by Dauber Bridge on the path to the Broached Clough Nature Reserve managed by Yorkshire Wildlife Trust