Huddersfield Highways Down the Ages (1949) by W.B. Crump

Huddersfield Highways Down the Ages is one of the series of Tolson Museum handbooks and was written by William Bunting Crump (1868-1950).

It was first published in 1949 by the Advertiser Press Ltd. of Huddersfield. Kirklees Leisure Services issued a reprint of the book in 1988 (ISBN 0900746270) which was limited to 750 copies.

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This book has been made freely available to commemorate the centenary of the Tolson Memorial Museum, which opened in May 1922.

Contents

Part I. — HISTORICAL SKETCH

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Human Needs and Geographic Possibilities
  • 3. Highways before the Conquest
  • 4. In Medieval Times
    • (a) Manorial Highways
    • (b) Monastic Ways
    • (c) The Priests' Way
    • (d) Kirkgates
  • 5. The Growth of the Woollen Industry
  • 6. Seventeenth Century Pack-horse Ways
    • (a) Causeys
    • (b) Pack-horse Fittings
    • (c) Seventeenth Century Travel
  • 7. Maps and Surveys
  • 8. The Eighteenth Century
    • (a) Guide Stoops
    • (b) The Bridge Book
  • 9. The Turnpike Roads and the Coaching Era

Part II. — THE HIGHWAYS

  • 1. The Pennine Crossings
    • (a) The Stanedge Road
    • (b) New Hey Road
    • (c) The Marsden Pack-horse Way
    • (d) The Woodhead Causey
  • 2. The Southern Highways
    • (a) Ogilby’s Road from London
    • (b) Through the Hills to Rotherham and Sheffield
    • (c) Warburton’s Road to Penistone
  • 3. Beyond the Calder Northwards
    • (a) Elland Bridge to Halifax
    • (b) Rastrick Bridge
    • (c) Cooper Bridge
    • (d) Horbury Bridge to Wakefield
  • 4. The Cross Routes
    • (a) Elland to Almondbury
    • (b) Ripponden to Huddersfield
    • (c) The Nodal Point at the Royal George, Scammonden
    • (d) Marsden to Holmfirth and Penistone

Copyright Status

The literary copyright for this work is believed to have been held by the Tolson Memorial Museum for a period of 50 calendar years from the date of first publication.