Blackshaw Head: what to know before moving day
The parish is rural, and most of its 45 listed buildings are stone houses, cottages, farmhouses and farm buildings. In and around the village they include Hippins, a house of 1650 with a T-shaped plan and mullioned windows; Hamer Cottage, three cottages of 1770 made into one house; and Blue Ball House and Blue Ball Cottage, a former public house now two homes. At a road junction in the village an early 19th-century guide post still gives distances to Heptonstall, Burnley, Hebden Bridge, Halifax and London.
Colden, with its junior and infant school, is the next settlement to the north-east along New Shaw Lane, and the open ground of Staups Moor and Rock End Moor lies around the village. If you are moving into one of the old stone houses, measure the largest pieces and send photos of the doorways and the stair turn before the day.
How the van gets to Blackshaw Head
Long Causeway is the road through the village, a 30 mph street in Blackshaw Head and 40 mph as it heads west out of it. From Hebden Bridge the van climbs by Rawtonstall Bank from the Mytholm side of the valley and then Badger Lane, which reaches the village from the east. New Shaw Lane and Old Shaw Lane lead north-east towards Colden. The whole run from Bradford takes roughly 45 to 55 minutes.
The drive from Bradford is roughly 45 to 55 minutes. That is an estimate from route data, not a timed run, and traffic changes it.
Services for Blackshaw Head
Each service below links to its Hebden Bridge page, which covers how the job works in and around Hebden Bridge.
Blackshaw Head: questions before you book
Which parish and ward cover Blackshaw Head?
It is in its own civil parish, Blackshaw, with an HX7 postcode like Hebden Bridge, and it sits in the Calderdale ward called Hebden Bridge & Todmorden East. Hebden Bridge is the town down in the valley to the east.
Can a long van reach a farm around Blackshaw Head?
Many farms are on unclassified lanes or tracks. Send a photo of the track and gateway, say whether there is room to turn, and the fixed price will allow for any carry from where the van can stop.
Nearby areas
Where the local details on this page come from
Checked on 28 September 2026 against:
- Postcode lookup (postcodes.io, ONS data): HX7 7JD is in Hebden Bridge & Todmorden East ward, Calderdale, parish of Blackshaw
- Blackshaw (Wikipedia, redirect from Blackshaw Head): civil parish containing the village of Blackshaw Head, population 935 (2001) and 992 (2011)
- Listed buildings in Blackshaw (Wikipedia, from the National Heritage List): 45 listed buildings in a rural parish containing Blackshaw Head, Charlestown and Colden; Hippins (1650), Hamer Cottage (1770), Blue Ball House and Cottage (former public house), early 19th-century guide post with distances to Hardcastle Crags, Heptonstall, Burnley, Hebden Bridge, Halifax and London
- OpenStreetMap map view (checked 2026-09-28): Long Causeway (30 and 40 mph), Badger Lane, New Shaw Lane, Old Shaw Lane, Davey Lane, Colden Junior and Infant School, Staups Moor, Rock End Moor, Hippins Clough
- OpenStreetMap map view (checked 2026-09-28): Rawtonstall Bank joining Badger Lane above Mytholm, Hebden Bridge