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Walking through Elmet

Heptonstall Museum Church Yard Bottom, Heptonstall

Please note The Elmet Trust are the organisers of this event. membership rates do not apply. Meeting at Heptonstall Museum - Join award-winning poet and novelist, Michael Stewart, on a walk through Elmet, which, according to Ted Hughes, was the last British Celtic Kingdom, a ‘wilderness, a notorious refuge for criminals, a hide-out for refuges’.… Read More »Walking through Elmet

Celebration of Ethel Carnie Holdsworth

Heptonstall Museum Church Yard Bottom, Heptonstall

Event marking Heritage Open Days commemorating the former home of Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, organised with Calder Civic Trust and the owners of the cottage at Slack Top. A short screening, exhibition at Heptonstall Museum will be followed by a walk and a blue plaque unveiled.

Ted Hughes’s Birthday Celebration Walk

Heptonstall Museum Church Yard Bottom, Heptonstall

A chance to see Nick Wilding's film, 'Sacred Place' which features places of significance to the poetry of Ted Hughes and then join him and Ruth Crossley on a walk around Heptonstall to immerse yourself and experience first hand the beauty of the area.