ABOUT US
God's Own Country
Right on the edge of the stunning wuthering heights like heather moorland with some of the best views in Yorkshire . The Hare and Hounds is a charming country B&B situated right on the edge of the stunning wuthering heights like moorland, offering some of the most spectacular views in Yorkshire. Whether it is rest and relaxation or fast paced and activity filled you are looking for, Old Town and Hebden Bridge have it all within reach.
What's to do near Old Town Hebden Bridge ?
- Howarth ( Home of the Bronte's ) 7 miles.
- Hardcastle Craggs ( Gibson Mill ) 2.8 miles
- Hebden Bridge ( Canal Boats ) 1.9 mile
- Heptonstall ( King Of The Coiners, Richard Hartley Grave ) 3.9 mile
- Halifax ( Piece Hall ) 10 mile
- Calderdale and Pennine way nearby
GETTING THERE
Manchester Airport 30 mile - Taxi/ Train to Hebden Bridge Station
Leeds Bradford 16 mile - Taxi to Leeds Station, Train To Hebden Bridge
Buses Every 30 minutes to or from Hebden Bridge
Hebden Train Station 2 miles
Taxi To or from Hebden Bridge approximately £5
Walk To or from Hebden Bridge 30-45 minutes
Hebden Bridge, What's Going For It ?
Nobody knows why Hebden Bridge became “Hebden Bridge”, officially the quirkiest/kookiest/koolest/most LGBTQ-friendly/least chain-store-y etc small town in the universe. I have asked. I asked the people in the herb shop on the narrowboat, at the market, on the towpath, at the Trades Club. I asked Urban Boffins in the university faculty I teach in. Nobody knows. It looks like other northern, post-industrial former mill towns: canal, steep valley, Methodist chapels, chimneys... It feels, though, utterly different, a little rain-soaked paradise. You’d never have guessed it from Hebden Bridge’s starring role in Happy Valley’s grimfest; nor from local boy Ted Hughes’ poem Stubbing Wharfe: “the hopeless old stone trap”. Two decades after he wrote that in the 1950s, though, others saw what he couldn’t – artists, hippies and conservationists doing up its cheap, knackered buildings. Today the town feels festive even on a wet winter Tuesday: all co-ops, carrot cake and bunting – blunt Yorkshire wit, though, perfectly tempering the earnestness.