Start and Finish. Continue to the red telephone box opposite which is 6. Krumlin Wesleyan Methodist Opposite Stoney Butts Lane, you Chapel - built on Calf Garth and opened in 1869. It was closed in 1973 and will find 12. Park View - the 1. Christ Church - built in 1852, consecrated in 1854, at a cost of subsequently demolished; however, the graveyard remains open. Its marble Roll of oldest recorded house in £1,882 on land (School Field) given by William Waterhouse Baxter of Honour was resited alongside Barkisland War Memorial (Site D) in 2020 and Barkisland, dated 1618, built for Lower Hall who placed a time capsule under the foundation stone. contains the names of 22 serving soldiers and 4 that died in WWI. John Ramsden. This area, known Unusually, very detailed building and accounting records were kept and as Top o’t’town, once had a preserved. Donations from the community paid for chairs, oak screens, woollen manufacturer. Opposite carpets, windows, the font and trees. The Roll of Honour contains 129 Stay on Scammonden Road until you reach the next right after Clough this at 19-21 Road – names of those who served, and the 12 deceased from WWI. In the House Lane. Turn down this footpath to reach 7. The Howroyde - you can see four semicircular graveyard, TH Jagger killed in WW1 and Fred Holroyd and Jack Grade I listed (private) - the 1419 timber-framed structure was stone steps on the outside of the Wadsworth killed in WWII are buried. renovated and encased in stone in 1642 for William Horton. Its Tudor building, probably the Medieval arched fireplace features Charles I’s coat of arms and has a stained-glass remain of a cross base, also used window dating back to 1641. An inscription over the door reads ‘Except as a mounting block. Turn around to face 2. Barkisland Cricket Club - founded in 1899 and the Lord build this house They Labour in vain that build’. With no moved to this site from Norland Moor in 1920. The original pavilion, bor- proper courthouse in Halifax, cases were heard in the house in front of rowed from Southowram, was replaced with a purpose-built pavilion in Mr Thomas (Justice) Horton. The Horton family retained ownership for 1975. Turn left towards the crossroads. some 3 1/2 centuries. It was sold for the first time in 1965, and many of original features were retained. Famous visitors include Lord Nelson and At the crossroads, turn right and walk for approximately 1km to Ivor Novello who wrote ‘We’ll Gather Lilacs in the Spring Again’ whilst 3. Ringstone Reservoir - one of most important prehistoric sites staying there. Richard Thorpe (Alan Turner in Emmerdale) was a in Calderdale, showing evidence of human habitation here since previous owner. the Mesolithic Age (8000BC). Close to Meg Dike (Scheduled Ancient Monument), an Iron Age settlement, and a track lead- ing to the Ring of Stones, a druid place of worship on Wolf Stone Moor. The reservoir was built between 1881/88 at a cost of £30,000. The Darby family were the Reservoir Keepers from then until 1965. At the fork in the road with Witherns End Lane, keep to the left and remain on Saddleworth Road, just past the reservoir on the right is Ringstone Moor where Ted Darby found a 10,000-year-old At the crossroads, turn right past site A, take the footpath Mesolithic tranchet near here. Many arrow heads, pierced stones (loom across the field to Scammonden Road where you will find weights) and axe heads were collected by the Darby family and now form 13. Barkisland Workhouse/Poorhouse - (private) built in 1827 by part of the collection at Heptonstall Museum - Calderdale, Tolson Museum - the Thomas Gledhill Charity and with money from coal mined and the British Museum - London. at White Birch Farm in Northowram (see inscription above the door); for the poor, destitute, sick and infirm, and those failing to meet the Victorian standards of morality and enterprise. Barkisland Old Board (responsible for public health – water Continue along the road to the first turning on the left - Turn left along the footpath towards supply, sewerage system and street cleaning) which then Scammonden Road. From here, you can see 4. Scammonden Dam, Stainland Road. Looking down the became Barkisland Urban District Council was based here, Bridge and Motorway (if you wish to continue down this road you hill, you will see 8. Barkisland Mill - a rented this location for £4 a year. can get to the bridge), constructed by Alfred McAlpine & Sons, 6-storey building used for textile started in 1965 to supply water for Huddersfield and for the dam production in the 19th and 20th wall to carry the M62. Deanhead Valley was flooded, submerging centuries. Converted into residential Deanhead village, though the Church, vicarage and schoolhouse flats in the 20th Century. Next, you can see 14. Barkisland Pinfold - at the gateway to the Poor House now remain. It contains 78 million litres of water and is 51.8 m deep. The dam’s occupied by Pinfold House (private) an enclosure for confining wandering animals embankment is 625m long and rises 63m above the valley floor. The bridge over the Deanhead cutting was the longest single span non-suspension and those of debtors. Owners had to pay for their release; if bridge in the world and the longest concrete arch bridge in the UK, taking 3 When you reach Stainland Road, you will not, the animals were sold. If animals were illegally released, years to construct 120ft above the motorway, weighing some 9,000 tonnes. see 9. Old Stocks - Grade II listed, stand the owners were sentenced to hard labour and deemed to be Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the motorway in October outside what was the lock-up, now Stocks guilty of ‘pound breach’. 1971. House (private), a single-cell prison used for the temporary detention of drunks and Walk down the road and on the right is vagabonds. The house contains a ‘witch- 15. Barkisland School and Headmaster’s post’, an upright beam between the door (now School) House - Built in a gothic Walk to the T-junction and turn left towards Krumlin. From here is the 5. and fireplace extending from the floor revival style in 1868, opened to 38 children Site of Krumlin Festival - Banquet House Farm (private) was the setting for through to the roof which wards off evil on the first day but had the capacity for 214 children aged 6-16 the ill-fated festival in August 1970 which some 25,000 people attended. spirits, especially those which might harm at a cost of 2 pence per child with compulsory attendance at Headline acts such as Elton John (who passed bottles of brandy out to the babies. Each birth was marked with a both Church and school on Sundays. A separate infant school audience), Pink Floyd (although they never arrived), The Who and Billy notch in the post. Connolly (in The Humblebums) were advertised to appear on the 150-acre was built in 1895 for 100 children. site, though many failed to show or were unable to perform. Doomed from 10. Little Ing is known as the kennels because it was where the the start as potential backers failed to materialise, atrocious weather saw Gledhill family’s hunting dogs were kept. In the 1881 census this was Passing the crossroads back towards the Church, you will see the site devastated, festival goers suffered from hypothermia, the police listed as the building name. Turn left and walk uphill. On the right, the Post Office – called School Row and the site of Barkisland were brought in to clear the site, and the organisers appeared in court you will see 11. The Griffin Pub - Grade II listed, built originally as Grammar School (demolished in 1866). Holden House was built charged with bankruptcy. Details about the festival appear in “Fogbound in accommodation for staff at Barkisland Hall in 1642, reputedly has in 1787 for the Master of the Grammar School. On the opposite Paris – the Story of the Krumlin Festival and in Elton John’s autobiography the ghosts of an old man who sits by the fire and an old lady corner was the original school house, founded and funded by ‘Me’. dressed in white carrying logs. Sarah Gledhill in 1657 to ‘teach the poor of Barkisland to read English and accounts.’ Printed by Ripponden Parish Council Other Sites of Interest Other information

Marked by a letter on the map. There are many theories about the name “Barkisland” - derived from being the ‘land’ of HERITAGE A. Former site of Barkisland Co-op, Stainland Road; unfortu- nately, there is nothing here now. the chieftain “Barkis”; from the Anglo-Saxon Barsey or Barkesey – a low-lying enclosure B. Tin tab, next to the Church on Stainland Road. Also see the where birches grow; or meaning where wolves Rishworth Heritage Leaflet. WALK are. Early forms of the name include: C. Barkisland Subscription Library, Abbotsroyd Cottage, Barkesland [1275] around 1945 run by 12 year old David Bottomley. David charged an [1389] entrance fee of 2p, plus a monthly lending fee of 1/2p. He raised a Barsland profit of £4, which was given to charity. Barslande [1515]

D. Barkisland and Krumlin War Memorials. The Savile family were Lords of the Manor of E. Barkisland Hall. Often referred to as a ‘prodigy house’, the Barkisland from the middle of the 14th century. Grade I listed building (private) was built in 1638 for John Gledhill, though records show a house owned by Thomas Woodhead was The first recorded council organization was the previously on this site in 1419. The 3-storey high house was the first of its kind in Calderdale and is built in an ‘F’ shape. On its front face, it Barkisland Local Board established in 1863.

has 365 windows and a ‘Rose’ window, made from bull’s eye glass, Their office was the Old Poor House in BARKISLAND which is believed to be the oldest of its kind in domestic architec- Barkisland. The Barkisland Urban District ture. A Latin inscription over the door reads ‘now mine, once his, but afterwards I know not whose’. Inside, the Hall has three 17th Council, founded in 1894, merged with century fireplaces. In 1967, Lord Kagan, owner of the Gannex rain- Ripponden in 1937, becoming the Ripponden coat factory in , bought the house and entertained Prime District Urban Council until 1976. With the Minister Harold Wilson here. Next on the left is Barkisland Lower Hall which was built to accommodate the Gledhill’s expanding passing of the Local Governance Act, it was family. renamed the Ripponden Parish Council.

Local Mills Difficulty level — medium. Footpaths are Bower’s Mill – 18th century water powered woollen mill, also uneven and not paved. Some roads have operated as a corn mill and worsted mill. Now converted as a large Howroyd Hill no footpaths. entertainment and wedding premises, The Venue. Look for the carved initials and date JWT 1895. Krumlin Mill – occupied the site now known as Ringstone, 11 These were carved after John William Tetley Distance — 7 km /4.3 miles detached houses, was built in 1864 and known then as Spring Mill. was killed by a bull he had just bought from a It stood 3-storeys high and had a landmark stone chimney. Demolished in 2004. farmer at Barkisland Hall.

The Fleece Inn, Ripponden Bank – Grade II listed building with the date stone: IDM 1737. A coaching inn on the road from York to Chester, one of many used by travellers to change horses every 14 miles. An archway led to the stable yard. Said to have been fre- quented by thieves and highwaymen and haunted by Black Nancy. Prior to his performance at the Krumlin Festival, Elton John visited the pub. In July 2014, the Fleece entered the Guiness Book of Records after the world’s largest glass of beer was poured to mark the passing of the Tour de France: 3,664 pints, one for each mile of the race. Printed by Ripponden Parish Council