Hebden Timeline
This is a timeline of significant events that have occurred in Hebden, and of lesser changes that aid the dating of photographs. It is an on-going, endless exercise. If you have any dates you feel could be usefully added, please let me know.
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1086 | Hebden mentioned in the Domesday book |
| 1589 | Sale of Hebden Manor to the Trust Lords by the Tempest family |
| 1600 | Grassington-Hebden boundary wall built between High Garnshaw & top of Bolton Gill (approx) |
| 1631 | Hebden Old Bridge built (re-built in 1757) |
| 1666 | Beckett's Charity founded |
| 1674 | Green House (now Court Croft) built |
| 1675 | Hole Bottom Cottage built (approx) |
| 1677 | Phoenix Cottage built |
| 1723 | The two Ibbotson's Charities founded |
| 1743 | Hole Bottom Farm rebuilt |
| 1757 | Hebden Old Bridge re-built after flood |
| 1760 | Turnpike built (approx) |
| 1788 | Beckett's Charity awarded the Poor Grass at Yarnbury by the Grassington enclosure |
| 1791 | Hebden textile mill built |
| 1792 | Mill cottages built |
| 1795 | The New Inn built (approx) |
| 1796 | Hole Bottom Farm bought by the 5th Duke of Devonshire and... |
| 1796 | Duke's Level started (the project took 30 years) on the land he bought. |
| 1812 | Original Wesleyan Chapel opened (rebuilt 1876) |
| 1813 | Old Prosperous Level driven in Gateup Gill (approx) |
| 1813 | Saxelby House built |
| 1822 | Turnpike closed (approx) |
| 1827 | Hebden Road Bridge built |
| 1829 | Hebden - Grassington boundary stones erected (approx) |
| 1838 | Primitive Methodist Chapel opened |
| 1838 | The Clarendon opened (approx) |
| 1841 | St. Peter's Chapel-of-Ease consecrated |
| 1846 | Tithe map published |
| 1847 | St. Peter's Chapel-of-Ease bell cast |
| 1850 | Mossy Moor Reservoir built (approx) |
| 1851 | Hebden's "Star of Hope" Oddfellows lodge founded |
| 1851 | The New Inn renamed Oddfellows Inn (approx) |
| 1852 | First 6" Ordnance Survey map of south-west of the township published |
| 1853 | First 6" Ordnance Survey map of north-west of the township published |
| 1853 | Initial 3-year lease granted to William Sigstone Winn for mineral exploitation |
| 1854 | Hebden Moor Mining Company established |
| 1854 | Bottle Level driven at bottom of Bolton Gill |
| 1855 | Mossy Moor Reservoir dam burst |
| 1856 | Hebden Moor Mining Company granted a 21 year lease for mineral exploitation |
| 1856 | Bolton Gill Engine Shaft sunk (approx) |
| 1857 | Enclosure Awards allotted |
| 1857 | Miners' Bridge built |
| 1857 | Peak of Hebden Moor Mining Company lead ore production |
| 1857 | Smelt mill built adjacent to Holebottom |
| 1859 | Hebden Post Office services established under Ralph Bowdin |
| 1862 | Peak of Hebden Moor Mining Company lead ore production |
| 1862 | First water supply installed, and Main Street troughs installed |
| 1866 | Hebden becomes a civil parish as a result of the Poor Law Amendment Act 1866 |
| 1869 | Low Green wall adjoining Main Street built |
| 1873 | Hebden Horse Level start of excavation |
| 1874 | Hebden School built |
| 1877 | New Wesleyan Chapel opened |
| 1877 | Green Terrace, Angle House etc. built by Francis and Thomas Hammond |
| 1877 | The Clarendon renamed The Jolly Miners (approx) |
| 1881 | The Jolly Miners closed |
| 1883 | John Emsley published his book of verse "Rural Musings" |
| 1884 | Vestry, west and nave windows in St. Peter's Church replaced by Ralph Bowdin |
| 1885 | Suspension Bridge opened |
| 1887 | New Lathe built |
| 1888 | Oddfellows Inn renamed The Clarendon |
| 1888 | Hebden Horse Level abandoned |
| 1889 | Hebden Moor Mining Company liquidated |
| 1889 | Saxelby Barn rebuilt after a fire |
| 1891 | Smelt Mill adjacent to the Miner's Bridge demolished |
| 1893 | Hebden's "Star of Hope" Oddfellows lodge dissolved |
| 1894 | Hebden becomes part of Skipton Rural District Council |
| 1894 | Hebden Parish Council formed following the Local Government Act 1894 |
| 1894 | Organ in St. Peter's Church installed |
| 1897 | Horse chestnuts planted along river to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee |
| 1897 | Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrated with a Gala |
| 1899 | Initial planting of trees in Low Green by Parish Council |
| 1901 | Footbridge built across the beck in High Green |
| 1902 | Railway line opened at Threshfield |
| 1903 | Last Hebden Gala |
| 1903 | Ibbotson Institute built |
| 1903 | Scala Glen Cottage built (approx) |
| 1903 | Thomas Stockdale took over the store at Bridge House from Ralph Bowdin |
| 1905 | Turnstile gate into Low Green made by William Bell for two guineas |
| 1906 | Telephones arrive in Hebden (latest date) |
| 1907 | Thomas Tattersall takes over Post Office from Thomas Francis Hammond (approx) |
| 1909 | CHA Guest House opened |
| 1909 | First 25" Ordnance Survey map of the township published |
| 1911 | Hargreaves Coaches founded by Robert Hargreaves |
| 1911 | Water supply augmented from spring on Edge Lane |
| 1918 | Allotments provided on Low Bankside |
| 1920 | Hydroelectric power plant installed at Holbottom (approx) |
| 1921 | First Hebden Sports |
| 1925 | Back of Brook Street excavated, and access granted through the Pinfold on payment of a wayleave |
| 1926 | Beckbottom House rebuilt as Thors Ghyll by Thomas Tattersall (approx) |
| 1928 | Longthorne of Hebden founded by Herbert Longthorne |
| 1928 | Craigmar built by Thomas Stockdale |
| 1929 | Braemoor built by the Misses Braimes |
| 1930 | Playground built |
| 1931 | Wilfred Waddilove buys Post Office from Thomas Hammond |
| 1933 | Jerry and Ben's guest house business founded by Robert Sturgeon |
| 1933 | Hole Bottom Cottage extended by Robert Sturgeon |
| 1935 | Hebden Mill Lane postbox installed |
| 1935 | Telephone box installed (approx) |
| 1935 | Primitive Methodist Chapel demolished (approx) |
| 1936 | Brayshaw Lane semi-detached houses built (approx) |
| 1936 | Suspension Bridge raised and repaired after flood damage |
| 1937 | Parish Council elected by secret ballot, rather than by a show of hands, for first time |
| 1937 | Flowering cherries planted in Low Green |
| 1937 | Highfield built by Richard Edgar and Alice Stockdale |
| 1941 | Parish Council undertook survey of iron railings in village for the War Office, but declared them all necessary |
| 1946 | The Falling Rock collapsed in Care Scar Quarry |
| 1947 | Street lighting installed, electricity supplied by T. & A. Stockdale |
| 1950 | Thomas & Sarah Bond buy Post Office from Wilfred Waddilove |
| 1953 | The Coronation Seat built to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II's coronation |
| 1954 | Yorkshire Dales National Park established |
| 1955 | CHA Guest House closed |
| 1955 | Street lighting supply transfered to YEB |
| 1955 | Playground pulled down by the Parish Council |
| 1956 | Playground rebuilt with new swings and sand pit rebuilt, following protests |
| 1957 | Allotments closed on Low Bankside due to lack of demand |
| 1960 | First display of Parish Council Christmas lights at the junction |
| 1960 | New cemetery opened (approx) |
| 1961 | "Riversway" and "Bramley Garth" built below Ranelands by the Stockdales |
| 1962 | Top gate into Low Green replaced with metal turnstile gate at a cost of £12 10s |
| 1962 | Hebden put onto mains sewerage |
| 1962 | Path to Hebden Mill diverted from the mill race culvert into the valley despite local opposition |
| 1963 | Smithy demolished on Smithy Hill (approx) |
| 1964 | Manor House Cottage built |
| 1964 | Flow monitoring station constructed on Hebden Beck in Care Scar Quarry |
| 1965 | The Bungalow, Mill Lane, built |
| 1966 | Water supply augmented from Longshaw Level |
| 1967 | Hebden textile mill demolished |
| 1967 | New swings and slide installed in the playground |
| 1968 | Recreation Grounds, Town Hill Green, and banks of beck between bridges registered as Village Greens |
| 1969 | Beverley Farm built |
| 1969 | Road straightened outside the Clarendon and the bridge marker relocated |
| 1970 | Hebden transferred from the West Riding to North Yorkshire |
| 1971 | Public toilets built on Low Green by Skipton Rural District Council with a 60 year lease |
| 1971 | Orchard Lane adopted by Skipton Rural District Council |
| 1972 | Cyril & Sheila Towler buy Post Office from Thomas & Sarah Bond |
| 1972 | Kitchen extension added to the Ibbotson Institute |
| 1972 | Bracken Hall at Holebottom demolished |
| 1972 | Rowan Beck built (approx) |
| 1973 | Walton Croft built |
| 1974 | Part of High Bankside leased to the Yorkshire Water Authority for 60 years for a booster station |
| 1974 | Hebden comes within Craven District Council rather than Skipton Rural District Council |
| 1975 | Lime tree felled in the playground |
| 1975 | Orchard Lane adopted by Skipton Rural District Council |
| 1975 | Eddy's Barn, Hole Bottom, converted to housing |
| 1976 | First mobile homes built adjacent to the Travel Lodge |
| 1976 | Thors Ghyll road surfaced with tar macadam |
| 1977 | Crag Cottage barn converted (approx) |
| 1977 | Silver birch planted in the Pinfold to commemorate Queen Elizabeth's II's Silver Jubilee |
| 1977 | Care Scar Quarry placed under the protection of Hebden Parish Council |
| 1979 | Danny & Irene Ogilvie buy Post Office from Cyril & Sheila Towler |
| 1981 | The Coronation Seat converted into a bus shelter by raising the walls and adding a roof for £505 |
| 1982 | Standard Garth wood planted by Parish Council |
| 1983 | Hebden School closed |
| 1983 | Scala Glen Barn converted |
| 1983 | Peter & Linda Wilson buy Post Office from Danny & Irene Ogilvie |
| 1987 | Edge Side Quarry placed under the protection of Hebden Parish Council |
| 1990 | Travel Lodge finally closes as a holiday centre |
| 1992 | Toilets and store room extension added to the Ibbotson Institute |
| 1992 | Jacky Lathe demolished, with stone being re-used for garage at Highfield |
| 1994 | Rowan tree planted on Town Hill to commemorate 100th anniversary of Parish Council, and 40th of YDNP |
| 1994 | Croft House Barn converted - now known as Lady Barn |
| 1995 | Washfold in High Green restored by Geoff Lund for £295 |
| 2000 | School clock refurbished |
| 2000 | Hebden Hippins refurbished by the Yorkshire Dales National Park |
| 2000 | Village photographic "Millennium Album" compiled by the Parish Council - copies in the Institute and the NYCC Records Office |
| 2001 | Wet Scar Wood planted |
| 2002 | Court Croft Barn converted - now known as Green Farm Barn |
| 2002 | Mossy Moor Reservoir level lowered |
| 2003 | Daisy Farm Lathe converted |
| 2003 | Yorkshire Dales National Park installed stepping stones below Scala Falls |
| 2004 | Bridge Barn converted - now Orchard House |
| 2005 | Paradise End Cottage rebuilt and extended at Hole Bottom |
| 2005 | Barn at Saxelby Farm converted, now known as Prospect Lathe |
| 2006 | Hebden designated a Conservation Area by the Yorkshire Dales National Park |
| 2006 | Public toilets closed by Craven District Council |
| 2007 | Rose Bank Farm barns converted to residencies |
| 2008 | Knowles Lathe demolished, with stone being used for Scale Haw |
| 2008 | Scale Haw built (approx) |
| 2009 | Mill Barn converted by the Hirds |
| 2013 | Hebden Post Office closed |
| 2014 | Suspension Bridge refurbished by the YDNP |
| 2015 | Telephone box decommissioned and moved to current location |
| 2015 | Flatt's Lathe converted |
| 2016 | Generator building converted to create Cherry Tree Cottage |
| 2016 | Wesleyan Chapel closed |
| 2016 | Public toilets building transferred from Craven District Council to Hebden Parish Council |
| 2016 | The Lodge built on the site of the ex-CHA Travel Lodge by the Geldards |
| 2020 | Regular services at St. Peter's ceased |
| 2022 | Town Head Lathe converted |
| 2022 | William Bell's turnstile gate into Low Green restored by the Parish Council |
| 2022 | Oak tree planted in Low Bankside to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee |
| 2022 | Last wing of the CHA building demolished |