 Welcome to our page of accommodation in Sowerby
Bridge! Sowerby Bridge has been a crossing point on
the Calder and Ryburn rivers since the Middle Ages. Domestic
weaving in the hilltop villages of Sowerby and Norland gave way
to the building of large water powered mills by the River Calder.
Transportation was provided by the building of roads, canals
and later, the railway. Most of the mills are now closed, many
are now engineering premises or converted into living accommodation.
The canal, once closed and partly filled in, has now been re-opened
as a leisure waterway. Sowerby Bridge can be found on the A58,
the former main route between Yorkshire and Lancashire, about
3 miles south west of Halifax. |
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