Blake Dean
📍 Hebden BridgeWest Yorkshire
Moorland valley picnic spot where Hebden Water begins, with an old stone bridge
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Blake Dean is a well-known beauty spot and picnic site in the hills above Hebden Bridge, where streams meet to form Hebden Water. You can still see the concrete bases of a huge wooden trestle bridge that carried a tramway to the Walshaw Dean reservoirs until 1912, beside an older stone road bridge. Paths link it to Hardcastle Crags and Widdop, but they can be rocky and rooty underfoot.
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