The Best Things in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire*

If you're around, be sure to check these things out

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• It's next door to Mytholmroyd.
• the hare and hounds 5 bean chilli and chips......
• Hippies
• The laid back atmosphere- unlike many West Yorkshire towns there isn't that "lets start on someone" mentality. People are generally polite and the kids are much better behaved than in all the surrounding towns.
• Leaving the apathetic shit hole
• It's great if you're a lesbian but not if you're a hetero-bloke
• Laid back athmosphere, The Trades Club (See band Listings reading Earls Court: London, Nynex Arena Manchester: The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge; NEC: Birmingham), the friendly people, lunch at the packhorse inn next to Top Withens (see the Brontes for literary placement). Walking in the woods/on the Moors, Wildlife, the water, the wild and wonderful mushrooms. The general air of tolerance.
• lively scene, vipa does some quality gear - blueprint rythym, powell, flip, element, tensors, spitfire, dartkstar, indies etc etc etc no police interference
• That laid-back, tree-hugging, hackey sack kicking, dreadlock wearing, tie dyed vibe. Hebden Bridge is a college town without the college: very reminiscent of Berkeley California, Lawrence Kansas, and Boulder Colorado. It's also a lesbian dormitory town for Leeds and Manchester.
• Watching the tourists suffering in traffic jams on hot summer days. Excellent pubs.
• its not in L ancashire
• Has to be the tolerant attitudes of the established town inhabitants and the rednecks who populate every alley-way and street.
• The "Lost T Shirts of Atlantis" play for free in my local pub.
• It's really easy to get your name in the local paper - just grow a big leak, or volunteer to coordinate the local arts festival.
• A great mix of people
• Pre-industrial, industrial and working class history
• All the facilities you would expect to see in a much bigger town
• House prices
• Some innovative local projects for example
  • LEVEL BEST information and Advocacy Services for Disabled People
  • Disabled-People's Electronic Village Hall
  • Kirklees interactive Telematics Partnership check Kirklees Net WWW pages
  • Cyber Coffee mornings
  • Cyber Cafe
  • CANDo Community Project in Holmfirth
  WWW pages on these and other projects appearing soon

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Last updated: 2008-10-14