Heptonstall, West Yorkshire

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It was around Heptonstall that the notorious Cragg Vale Coiners, led by the so-called "King" David Hartley, supplemented their meagre incomes from cloth-making and farming by making new coins from "old". David Hartley was subsequently hanged for murder in 1770 and buried in Heptonstall churchyard. Their lives were laced with intrigue and murder and their legend lives on in the town to this day.

Heptonstall had it own cloth hall, and its own Grammar School, which is now a museum open to the public. Rebuilt in the 14th and 15th Centuries, the remains of the early Parish church are still a focal point in the town. Its roof was torn off by gale force winds in the mid nineteenth century, but the new Victorian Gothic church was built close to the original site, without disturbing its ruined predecessor.

Hebden Bridge and Heptonstall thrived during the Industrial Revolution when the mills and their familiar chimneys became the symbols of prosperity, specialising in the production of corduroy and worsted.

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