History
Dean Res
Dean Clough
Dean Lane
Harwood Moor
From the moor
GREAT HARWOOD
Surrounding country
With many signposted footpaths the area around Great Harwood is ideal for walking or just for taking in the view.
At
the time of The Norman conquest Great Harwood was an area of moor, marsh,
clearings and cultivated land with many springs and small streams running
down the hillside and it was near these streams that the first farms were
built.
Over the centuries more and more land was cleared and brought into use
for crops and pasture. From the 18th century the area became more reliant
on cotton manufacture than farming and during the 19th century, with the
introduction of the mill system, the town's population mushroomed from
around 1,500 to 12,000. Great Harwood is, however, on the northern edge
of the once great, cotton manufacturing conurbations of
Lancashire and
has retained an almost semi-rural situation surrounded by open country
which, because of the size of the town, is never far away.
Great
Harwood from Top o'th Heights west of town.
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and written by ifinwig
Last
updated 11th June 2004
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