What to See in Hebden Bridge - Top Sights and Attractions

Movie theater in Hebden Bridge, England. Hebden Bridge Picture House in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, is one of the last remaining council-owned cinemas in Britain. Together with the adjacent shops, it forms a Grade II listed building.

The Picture House, built between 1919-1921, is an independent cinema with daily evening screenings, weekend matinees and tea time screenings, and matinees most days during school holidays. There is a screening every Thursday morning, at which free tea and biscuits are provided. It also screens live broadcasts of theatre, opera, ballet, music and arts documentaries via satellite. It has both digital and 35mm projection facilities. It has one screen with over 500 seats, and mainly operates from the stalls seating downstairs. It has a kiosk serving hot and cold drinks, cake, popcorn, sweets, chocolates and savoury snacks.

The Picture House offers a wide-ranging programme of film and live events. It shows anywhere between 16 and 26 films per month, ranging from mainstream and blockbuster to art-house and foreign language films. There are regular screenings of specialist films and touring programmes from a range of organisations, including the British Film Institute. Certain screenings come with subtitles and / or audio description.^[1]

Hill in England. Stoodley Pike is a 1,300-foot hill in the south Pennines in West Yorkshire in northern England. It is noted for the 121-foot Stoodley Pike Monument at its summit, which dominates the moors of the upper Calder Valley and the market town of Todmorden. The monument is near the villages of Mankinholes and Lumbutts, West Yorkshire, and was designed in 1854 by local architect James Green, and completed in 1856 at the end of the Crimean War.

The monument replaced an earlier structure, started in 1814 and commemorating the defeat of Napoleon and the surrender of Paris. It was completed in 1815, after the Battle of Waterloo (Napoleonic Wars), but collapsed in 1854 after an earlier lightning strike, and decades of weathering. Its replacement was therefore built slightly further from the edge of the hill. During repair work in 1889 a lightning conductor was added, and although the tower has since been struck by lightning on numerous occasions, no notable structural damage is evident. There is evidence to suggest that some sort of structure existed on the site even before the earlier structure was built. The monument is approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) south west of Hebden Bridge and approximately 2.5 miles (4 km) east of Todmorden town centre. The monument was Grade II listed in 1984.

The inscription above the entrance is worn and covered with lichen but it is legible and reads:

STOODLEY PIKE A PEACE MONUMENT ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION COMMENCED IN 1814 TO COMMEMORATE THE SURRENDER OF PARIS TO THE ALLIES AND FINISHED AFTER THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO WHEN PEACE WAS ESTABLIS- HED IN 1815. BY A STRANGE COINCIDENCE THE PIKE FELL ON THE DAY THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR LEFT LONDON BEFORE THE DECLARATION OF WAR WITH RUSSIA IN 1854 WAS REBUILT WHEN PEACE WAS RESTORED IN 1856 REPAIRED AND LIGHTNING CONDUCTOR FIXED 1889^[2]

Heritage building in Hebden Bridge, England. Birchcliffe Baptist Church is a redundant Baptist chapel in the town of Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, England. It was founded by Daniel Taylor in 1764.

In 1807 a splinter group left to found Mount Zion Baptist Church, Slack, Heptonstall as they were unhappy with the ordination of a new minister, Henry Hollinrake.

Three churches called Birchcliffe have existed on the site: the second was built in 1825, and demolished in 1933; the third and current building was built further down the hill and opened on 31 October 1899. It closed for worship in the 1970s.

Today the building is Grade II listed and is known as the Birchcliffe Centre. Little remains of the original chapel buildings, aside from part of the school building and the graveyard.^[4]