Hi Roy, We got a bus pass for the day and went to Hebden Bridge, wish I had known the information you give then, Haworth was the other place we visited and the church had fantastic stained glass windows. Jean If you are planning to visit, then Heptonstall is an absolute must - one of the most fascinating places in the country. The climb up from Hebden Bridge is formidable, whichever way you do it, but more than worth the effort. It's a classic old picture postcard village with weavers' cottages, cobbled stones, a museum, several pubs and two churches in one churchyard (one of very few, possibly the only one, in the country). And also, as has been mentioned, the octagonal chapel founded by the Wesleys. The old church ruins are quite eerie (the church was destroyed in a gale in 1848 and a new one built alongside it). In the graveyard of the old church is the grave of "King" David Hartley, leader of the gang known as the Cragg Vale coiners, who counterfeited gold coins and murdered an exciseman at Halifax. Hartley was hanged at York in 1770. In the new churchyard is the grave of the American poet, Sylvia Plath, who committed suicide when married to Ted Hughes of nearby Mytholmroyd, the former Poet Laureate. Hebden Bridge was a grimy old mill town when I lived at Mytholmroyd in the 1950s, but in the last 40-50 years it has been transformed into a trendy place with wine bars, restaurants, craft and antique shops, terraced houses built spectacularly on the hillside one above another in Italianate stall - and, it's claimed, the largest gay and lesbian community in the UK (if you are interested in that sort of thing)! -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE Some useful websites - FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ FREEREG - http://www.freereg.org.uk/ Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message