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Todmorden is home to Stoodley The life sized statue, Hebden Bridge, voted as the “fourth Holmes Park, which Lair of 18th century counterfeiting Also on the canalside you Pike monument, and has some of installed next to the funkiest town in the world” and sits between the gang the ‘ Coiners’ , can read one of the many The the best mountain bike terrain in Memorial Gardens, has “the greatest town in Europe” is Canal and the River Calder. birthplace of the late Poet Laureate interpretation boards that tell with miles of bridleway gained a wide-spread full of great independent shops, ; Mytholmroyd is the amazing history of the networks. Explore the independent reputation for bringing many of which showcase the Blazing Saddles bike shop home to the World Dock Pudding canal. Close by is the sculpture shops & cafes, thriving markets Championships. of a crow, commemorating good luck to anybody that work of local artists. offers free bike lock hire too the work of poet Laureate and amazing architecture. gives it a friendly pat. for that much needed pit stop. Ted Hughes. Newly opened On the outskirts of the town, The steep and winding Cragg Road, the longest continuous incline in Craggies Café at Cragg Vale Just outside the town centre is Lucky Dog at a favourite stop for cyclists is 4 Stubbing Wharf Centre Vale Park, where you can 3 , leads from Mytholmroyd, Business park offers a welcome Really Centre Vale Park Stubbing Wharf Pub situated on 5 Coffee Cali cycle friendly pit stop for those enjoy crazy golf, tennis, bowling the banks of the canal. In the town winding its way up to beautiful heather-clad moorland 1,000 feet attempting Cragg Vale. and events throughout the year. there are plenty of cafes to fuel up 6 Calder Holmes Park You’ll also find The Lucky Dog, with coffee and cake, Coffee Cali above. The Dusty Miller pub by 8 Ted’s House as made famous by Derren Brown WEST CALDERDALEis cycling CYCLE friendly withMAP lots of bike 7 Blazing Saddles bike shop the side of the canal offers a warm welcome and good food. in his TV show racks to the rear and there’s even 9 Cragg Vale Incline ‘The Experiments’. one smack in the middle of Calder

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Great Bride boards by the canal-side Holmes is homeGreat to the ever-popular the ‘Cragg Vale Coiners’. This excise man named William Midgley River Elphin Luddenden magnificent drink offer, with theto Burnley Moorings, M65 Pub & StonesHill gang’s activities were said to be so HEBDEN Back Park, a couple ofSourhall and a GrandmaCentreRock Pollard’s Chippy 66 Deighton to investigate. Foot 68 Blackshaw n Kitchen, Temujin Mongolian stir fry restaurant. The village of damaging that they threatened to AP 5 SowerbyHebden BridgeWo Bridgeod “fryingVale tonight” for over 50 years! Deighton was murdered and 8 Whams Long Causewa Head andBRIDGE Gabriel’s Coffee Lounge. 12 3 wreck Britain’s currency. 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