Lumbfoot Explained

Country:England
Coordinates:53.8333°N -1.9798°W
Official Name:Lumbfoot
Metropolitan Borough:City of Bradford
Metropolitan County:West Yorkshire
Region:Yorkshire and the Humber
Constituency Westminster:Keighley
Civil Parish:Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury
Post Town:KEIGHLEY
Postcode District:BD22
Postcode Area:BD
Os Grid Reference:SE016375
Static Image Name:Lumbfoot cottages 2008.jpg
Static Image Caption:Cottages at Lumbfoot (2008)
London Distance Mi:180
London Direction:SSE

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 1miles 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.

History

Lumbfoot Mill, built on the floor of a valley, was originally water powered but adopted steam power in . 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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Notes and References

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