Tag: Oakworth
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KWVR 1940s Weekend 2025
Usually held in Haworth Village, this event had become a victim of its own success, so the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway took over hosting this year to spread the load and relieve some of the pressure from the village. It was great idea and the glorious weather helped make it a huge success.
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A walk from Oakworth to Haworth with a sprinkling of snow
The weather forecast was pretty bad so I took a half-day snow-day from work and came home at lunchtime. I headed straight across to Haworth and started snapping, although it wasn’t quite a fairytale winter wonderland like it was last March, The dusting of snow was beautiful. Murgatroyd Wood, between Oakworth and Haworth Ebor Mill…
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A 5 mile circular walk from Oakworth to Goose Eye
Starting from Holden Park in the centre of Oakworth, there are plenty of points of interest and beautiful Pennine scenery on the way to the picturesque hamlet of Goose Eye just to the north of the village. Holden Park is the site of the long-demolished Oakworth House, home of Victorian businessman, inventor and politician, Sir…
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A New Year’s Eve walk from Oakworth to Haworth
Station Road, Oakworth A passing train at Oakworth Station Vale Mill, Oakworth Footpath through Murgatroyd Wood, alongside Bridgehouse Beck Ebor Mill, Haworth Main Street, Haworth Still a few Christmas items for sale A pretty unique Christmas display The Cabinet of Curiosities, formerly the Apothecary. Probably the best-known shop in Haworth. The recently refurbished Old Post…
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A frosty start at Haworth Brow Top
I’m very fortunate that my relatively long commute to work takes me through some incredible scenery and, particularly this time of year, I can experience all kinds of weather conditions early in the morning that make for some stunning photos. One day last week. there had been a hard overnight frost and a dusting of…
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Another snowy walk from Oakworth to Haworth (Part 4)
The final instalment takes us along the lane from the graveyard, up through Balcony Farm to Dimples Lane. From there, down Dimples Lane, via a 4×4 stuck in a snowdrift, back into Haworth on West Lane then down Mytholmes Lane, over Mytholmes Tunnel and home to Oakworth, about 4 miles in total. Click HERE to…
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Another snowy walk from Oakworth to Haworth (Part 1)
It was one of those days when I could have pointed the camera anywhere and got a big pile of fantastic photos, so I’ve had to split this post into three sections. This was Friday 10th March, the day after the shots in my last post, following heavy overnight snow. I’ll let the photos speak…
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