__NOTOC__ Lumbfoot or Lumb Foot is a

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in the Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury

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, and the

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metropolitan district, England. It is situated approximately from

Haworth Haworth () is a village in the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, in the Pennines, south-west of Keighley, west of Bradford and east of Colne in Lancashire. The surrounding areas include Oakworth and Oxenhope. Nearby villages includ ...

and less than half a mile north-east from

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. The hamlet is

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part of the

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. Lumbfoot overlooks a number of fields and a small brook, and contains 15 households and a farm. There is no public road; access is by a private road for vehicles, and a

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History

Lumbfoot Mill, built on the floor of a valley, was originally water powered but adopted steam power in . The mill has since been largely demolished but a 15-foot stump of the chimney and the engine house still remain, and there is evidence of the pit that housed the original waterwheel among the ruins. A row of cottages at Lumbfoot, which today are modernised, were constructed between 1840 and 1852 to house mill workers.

Gallery

Image:Lumbfoot mill 1900.jpg, Lumbfoot Mill about 1900, from an old postcard Image:Lumbfoot cottages 1920.jpg, Lumbfoot cottages about 1900, from an old postcard Image:Lumbfoot sign 2008.jpg, Sign at Lumbfoot showing population

References

External links

Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury Parish Council
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