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27 September 2023 at 3:39 pm
#9643
Regarding Dr Redmonds’ map if it’s “circa 1786”, perhaps also worth noting that there was a flood in 1787:
https://huddersfield.exposed/wiki/River_Holme
Part of the new bridge over the river Calder at Brighouse, was washed down; most of the bridges in Saddleworth, and Holmfirth, were swept away; and scare a single weir belonging to any of the mills in that neighbourhood was left standing.