Lumbfoot

Lumbfoot
Cottages at Lumbfoot (2008)
Lumbfoot Location within West Yorkshire
OS grid reference	SE016375
• London	180 mi (290 km) SSE
Civil parish	Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury
Metropolitan borough	City of Bradford
Metropolitan county	West Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	KEIGHLEY
Postcode district	BD22
Police	West Yorkshire
Fire	West Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
UK Parliament	Keighley

Lumbfoot or Lumb Foot is a hamlet in the Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury civil parish, and the City of Bradford metropolitan district, England. It is situated approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) 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 c. 1900. 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.

Gallery

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  Lumbfoot Mill about 1900, from an old postcard
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  Lumbfoot cottages about 1900, from an old postcard
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  Sign at Lumbfoot showing population

External links

• Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury Parish Council