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Post by mrdando on Jan 26, 2019 10:38:23 GMT
I am working with Haworth, Cross Roads & Stanbury Parish Council on the production of a Neighbourhood Plan. The subject of Barcroft Farm has come up through reading of local history books, but no one seems to know anything about it. The key question is does it still exist, either intact or as part of a rebuilt structure, and if so where exactly is it? And if so, does anyone have any information at all about it? In fact, does anyone have any information about it full stop?! Any contribution much welcomed.
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Post by jambutty on Jan 28, 2019 18:46:39 GMT
Looking at the OS maps from 1847-8, 1892 & 1906 There is no “Barcroft Farm” indicated on any of them, at the head of the lane there is a cluster of half a dozen buildings which may well have been associated with a farm or the quarry above. The link for the map is” maps.nls.uk/view/102344905Presumably the area takes its name from the toll bar on the Keighley Halifax Turnpike, so it dates around 1790. The bars were removed in 1870. |
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Post by barcrofter on Feb 2, 2019 22:28:31 GMT
The last row of 6 houses on Barcroft is Myrtle View, where I was born, on the left looking towards Myrtle View is a pair of Semi Det Hillary Croft and Sunny Croft and before these semi's is Barcroft Farm, set back from Barcroft. This was a working farm up to around 1964 ish
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Post by mrdando on Feb 4, 2019 12:07:47 GMT
Many thanks for both contributions. I had understood the original farm to date from the 1700s. The good news is that we now know the original farmhouse still exists and where exactly it is.
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