Hester's Haunt
reverse walk on on walk led by Hester Whitaker the vicar’s wife from the 17th century, reputed to haunt the vicarage. Highburton Hester’s Haunt - mile 5 a includes includes A legend of Kirkburton, This place was known as ‘Treacle Oil’, You’ll often hear it tell, For the giant mill that once stood here, There used to be a railway, Involves a war, a wife, a death, They say the air was truly spoiled, That came along this way, And a rebel priest as well! By smoke as black as dark stout beer. If you look about you, They say in the first civil war, But the children found a silver lining, You can see the track’s remains. The parish priest was a royalist, For the mill brought brilliant spots for hiding, And in 1644, And in the pond they found frog spawn, There are many weavers’ cottages, He claimed to be the loyalist. And sailed boats from paper, torn. That stand around this place, So parliament came to arrest him, Which tells us there were hand weavers, And a fight broke out in his house, And weavers of the stays. A gun was fired, They worked long hours and cloth was dear, And it transpired, Walk round to the ne a And losing work was a great big fear. Continue until you can L A soldier had shot his spouse. right and towards the t fi see a road opposite Interpretation Board in But this was not a rich man’s job, And now if you see a ghost, Far Continue down to the Continue alongL and leading to Woodsome Turn D left down the and over the footbridge And Kirkburton was poor, Wandering around Kirkburton, en bottom, then take a left cross over, at the end Lees and follow this road toe the main Though compared to those that had no jobs, You know it is Hester, the wife, Follow the road and and through the gap in down the Hallas.
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