Lumbfoot

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Lumbfoot
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Cottages at Lumbfoot (2008)
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Lumbfoot
Location within West Yorkshire
OS grid reference SE016375
  London 180 mi (290 km)  SSE
Civil parish
  • Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury
Metropolitan borough
Metropolitan county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town KEIGHLEY
Postcode district BD22
Police West Yorkshire
Fire West Yorkshire
Ambulance Yorkshire
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53°50′00″N1°58′47″W / 53.8333°N 1.9798°W / 53.8333; -1.9798 Coordinates: 53°50′00″N1°58′47″W / 53.8333°N 1.9798°W / 53.8333; -1.9798

Lumbfoot or Lumb Foot is a hamlet in the Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury civil parish, and the City of Bradford metropolitan district, England. [1] It is situated approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) from Haworth and less than half a mile north-east from Stanbury. The hamlet is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Lumbfoot overlooks a number of fields and a small brook, and contains 15 households and a farm. There is no public road; access is by a private road for vehicles, and a public footpath.

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History

Lumbfoot Mill, built on the floor of a valley, was originally water powered but adopted steam power in c.1900. The mill has since been largely demolished but a 15-foot stump of the chimney and the engine house still remain, and there is evidence of the pit that housed the original waterwheel among the ruins. A row of cottages at Lumbfoot, which today are modernised, were constructed between 1840 and 1852 to house mill workers.

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References

  1. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 104 Leeds & Bradford (Harrogate & Ilkley) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2014. ISBN   9780319231654.