Saturday 8 November 2014

Chain Cottage

 
Date stone on Chain Cottage, near Marsden, on Meltham Road, once known as the "Chain Road" (there was a chain instead of a toll bar). Blind Jack Metcalfe built the  First Turnpike, the Chain Road in the 1760s....
 See: http://www.crossingthepennines.co.uk/routedetails.html

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