Cob Clough Culvert, Ripponden, Barkisland
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Cob Clough Culvert, Ripponden, Barkisland
Image: © Humphrey Bolton Taken: 20 Aug 2006
This is where the Cob Clough stream enters the River Ryburn, seen from the packhorse bridge. In the 18C there was a disastrous flood which caused the culvert to burst and wash coffins and bodies out of the graveyard, some of which lodged in trees downstream - quite a grisly story!
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Image Location
Latitude
53.673756
Longitude
-1.940928