Marsden Walkers Are Welcome The Marsden Film & TV Trail 4 miles/6.5km 9 At the junction with the A62, 11 Turn right on to Peel Street, 12 Turn left onto Station Road Easy cross over towards Towngate. then left towards Station Road. and continue up the hill back Turn right and immediately after towards the railway station. You crossing the river, turn left onto F.A.T.T. FACT will pass the junction with the Weir Side. After about 20 metres, Last Tango in Halifax – BBC The Green and Victoria Street. turn right onto Garfield Place. 2012 Follow the narrow street until you F.A.T.T. FACT The Co-operative building was come to a red brick wall and turn Where the Heart Is – ITV where Nicola Walker’s character left onto Oliver Lane. 1997-2006 worked in the first series. 1997 introduced the public to F.A.T.T. FACT the fictional town of Skelthwaite Last of the Summer Wine – BBC F.A.T.T. FACT and the lives of a group of 1988-2010 Walk Like a Panther – Film 2018 district nurses who worked from Marsden Health Centre on In the mid-eighties, the makers Filmed throughout the centre of Victoria Street. of the long running series began Marsden in the summer of 2017, to move away from Holme this big budget movie featured Valley, filming more in the the Mechanics as the local pub F.A.T.T. FACT neighbouring Colne Valley. The known as The Half Nelson. first house on your right was Coronation Street – ITV 1988 Auntie Wainwright’s bric-a-brac When Derek and Mavis escaped shop from 1988 to 2000. F.A.T.T. FACT to the countryside for their Housewife 49 – BBC 2006 honeymoon they didn’t have to travel far from Manchester. The second hand book shop They had, in fact, chosen to stay had a make-over to become at the cottage on The Green and the Red Cross shop in Victoria spend time sitting by the river Wood’s drama. Colne (see cover photo). A fascinating 4 mile* circular walk around the village of F.A.T.T. FACT F.A.T.T. FACT Marsden in West Yorkshire, that uncovers some of the In The Dark – BBC 2016 Remember Me – BBC 2014 10 Continue down Oliver Lane Immediately following the locations made famous by film and television companies towards Market Place. The majority of the series was village fair and craft market in filmed in the Colne Valley and 2015, producers moved into over the last few decades. F.A.T.T. FACT the former vicarage on your the village to set up a, you left as you walk up the road, Wokenwell – ITV 1997 guessed it, village market for played a leading role in the The large building at the this brooding crime drama. They chilling ghost story. The walk starts and finishes at the railway station. A fun day junction of Oliver Lane became even brought a rain machine! the village police station in this out designed to suit all ages and abilities. six part drama that centred on the lives of three policemen. Marsden Walkers are Welcome is a voluntary group. Many of the locations feature private houses – Find out more, including how you can get involved: please respect the occupiers’ privacy. Marsden Walkers are Welcome E [email protected] would like to thank the following for their support of this project: W www.marsdenwalkersarewelcome.org *Can be a 2 mile walk - see note overleaf facebook.com/MarsdenWAW Directions *The following section is quite hilly with a steep descent. If you wish, you can turn right at the junction with Peel Street and continue the walk from stage 11. 1 From the railway station turn 3 Turn left down Crowther Bruce 5 Walk to the top of Brougham 6 Zigzag down the narrow 8 Continue down Old Mount right and follow Station Road Mill Road and follow the road Road, cross the main A62 via streets, until you meet Carrs Road enjoying the far-reaching up over the railway bridge. After round to the right with the mill on the crossing and continue up Street. Turn left onto Carrs Street views of the Colne Valley. crossing the bridge, turn right your right all the way. the hill onto Meltham Road. and follow the road until you F.A.T.T. FACT onto Reddisher Road leading to Don’t miss the Tenter Posts on After approximately half a mile come to a junction. Dirker Drive. the left as you turn – a historic turn right onto Woods Avenue. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 7 Continue along Carrs Road Continue on to the end of Dirker Grade 2 listed monument to Continue to a crossroads then – BBC Documentary 2010 towards the roundabout. At the Drive where there is a bus Marsden’s industrial past and turn right onto Woods Terrace. Presented by local poet, Simon roundabout, continue straight terminus and you can see the reason why people use the Armitage, the story begins in forward onto Mount Road and Royal British Legion. phrase, ‘on tenter hooks'. Pule Side Working Men’s club – F.A.T.T. FACT follow the road for one mile until otherwise known at The Cot. A Monster Calls – Film 2016 you come to the junction with F.A.T.T. FACT Woods Mount was the unlikely Old Mount Road. In The Flesh – BBC 2013-2014 setting chosen by the producers Turn right onto Old Mount Road. F.A.T.T. FACT The BBC 3 supernatural drama of the film based on the Patrick Turn right and then left onto Remember Me – BBC 2014 was filmed at several locations Ness novel, as Connor O’Malley, Carrs Road. F.A.T.T. FACT around Marsden but most Towards the end of the series, the central character's home Spark House – BBC 2002 recognisable to fans of the address. The 2016 movie the story moved to the North Those with more energy can show will be the Dirker estate featured a number of Marsden Yorkshire village of Goathland continue on Mount Road for with views of Shooter’s Nab in locations including Derby (better known as the location 4 At the junction with Brougham another mile to the junction the distance across the valley. Terrace and Binn Road. The for Heartbeat). Clark Hill farm, Road, prepare to turn left. with the main A62. To your right local charity shop also got a on your left, was the setting you’ll see the Carriage House. make-over as a vintage arts and used to represent Goathland. Sally Wainwright’s re-telling of F.A.T.T. FACT crafts supply shop but never the Wuthering Heights story Sink or Swim – BBC 1981 made the final cut. featured the pub – known as F.A.T.T. FACT Peter Davison caused a stir Walk alongside the local Junior the Eagle’s Nest at the time – at Between Two Women – Film 2000 when he arrived in the village School and Marsden Park. the key break up moment. The Before continuing past Clark Hill to complete filming for the F.A.T.T. FACT remainder of the series was BBC sitcom in 1981. Davison Farm, turn round and look at the The League of Gentlemen F.A.T.T. FACT filmed in the Calder Valley with views of the mills and village. had just been named as the – BBC 1999-2017 locations chosen by the artist, new Dr Who and groups of Banana – Channel 4 2015 At the end of this lesser known Just beyond Woods Mount is Peter Brook. feature film, the couple meet 2 Turn right onto Grange Street, local children gathered to get The cottages directly opposite the stunning moorland location and sit on a park bench – filmed crossing over the railway and his autograph, much to the the park proved to be just the for the infamous Local Shop. at Beaumont Park, Huddersfield continue to the bottom of the production team’s frustration. ticket for Russell T Davies and F.A.T.T. FACT Access is by an old quarry track – but with the magic of cinema, road. The series was set in London producers when filming took and features in our Deer Hill In The Flesh – BBC 2013-2014 the view that they look at is the but when location managers place throughout the village. At the junction turn right onto From Old Mount Road you can needed a ‘Northern’ cottage walk. one you can see from here. Marsden Lane and follow the see the series of reservoirs for the main characters’ family road onto Warehouse Hill Road known as Wessenden Valley. home, they chose the ones to until you come to the mill with a The location was used your right, opposite the mill on road leading down to your left. extensively in the series as a Brougham Road. The series also TURN OVER This is Crowther Bruce Mill Road. fenced off security area. starred Robert Glenister..