Midge Hole To Gibson Mill

Hebden Water, Hardcastle Crags

West Yorkshire, UK

Hardcastle Crags is located astride the boundary between the modern parishes of Heptonstall

and Wadsworth, in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire. The woodland

occupies the sides and bottom of the valleys formed by two watercourses: Hebden Water and

Crimsworth Dean Beck. It is surrounded by working farmland, exclusively pasture and

meadows.

The woodland covers an area of 251 hectares (620 acres) and is recognised as ancient seminatural woodland (ASNW) or plantation on ancient woodland site (PAWS) in the Ancient

Woodland Inventory (Natural England, 2017).

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