Man with a Van Midgehole

Moving in Midgehole: what to know first

Midgehole lies low, by Hebden Water at the foot of Hardcastle Crags, and Midgehole Road, dropping in off the A6033, is the only tarmac. Visitors to the woods use the same road for the National Trust car parks, which charge, and the Blue Pig club has a private car park of its own, so check on the day whether cars have parked along the road and tell us how far your door is from the main road.

Beyond the road, Midgehole Lane is an unpaved bridleway, Crimsworth Lane a track and Carr Lane a cobbled bridleway with steps, so homes along them are reached on foot from the van. Crimsworth Terrace and Hebden Terrace are the rows on the road itself. If your home is one of the houses built back to earth, say which level your door is on and how many steps lead to it.

Midgehole: the local picture

Homes are few and close together: Hebden Terrace and Crimsworth Terrace, Midgehole Farm, and the Blue Pig, run as the Midgeholes Working Men's Club, with its own car park. The name Crimsworth Terrace goes with the brownfield site of the former Crimsworth Dye Works, beside the road, and Crimsworth Dean Beck runs a few hundred metres away. Raw Holme Farmhouse and Holme Cottage, a listed early 19th-century row, are built back to earth, two storeys at the front and one behind.

Hardcastle Crags is the draw: 400 acres of woodland, about two miles north of Hebden Bridge, with Gibson Mill half a mile up the valley. Because the same lane leads to the Midgehole car park for the woods, it is worth checking on the day whether visitors have parked along it. On the hill above, the 12.5 metre Wadsworth War Memorial obelisk of 1923 stands on Smeekin Hill.

How the van gets to Midgehole

The van comes up the A6033 Keighley Road from Hebden Bridge and turns off at Midgehole Road; a listed cast iron milepost just north of that junction gives the distances to Hebden Bridge and Keighley. From Bradford, through Halifax and the Calder Valley, allow roughly 40 to 50 minutes. There is a bus stop on Midgehole Road by the old dye works, so the van stops clear of it.

The drive from Bradford is roughly 40 to 50 minutes. That is an estimate, not a timed run, and traffic changes it.

Man and van services near Midgehole

Each service below links to its Hebden Bridge page, which covers how the job works in and around Hebden Bridge.

Every service we offer near Midgehole

All 11 services run to Midgehole, each with its own page.

Common Midgehole routes

• Midgehole → Hebden BridgeMidgehole Road to the A6033 and down Keighley Road into the town, about 1.1 miles
• Midgehole → KeighleyKeighley Road (A6033) north past Pecket Well and over the moor, then Haworth Road to the A629, about 11.4 miles
• Midgehole → Bradfordnorth on the A6033 over the moor, then Denholme Road (B6141) and Thornton Road (B6145), roughly 40 to 50 minutes

Frequently asked questions: man with a van in Midgehole

Where the local details on this page come from

Checked on 1 October 2026 against:

• Postcode lookup (postcodes.io, ONS data): HX7 7AG is in Hebden Bridge & Todmorden East ward, Calderdale, parish of Wadsworth
• Hardcastle Crags (Wikipedia): wooded valley owned by the National Trust, about 2 miles north of Hebden Bridge; Gibson Mill about half a mile along the valley; 400 acres of woodland
• Wadsworth (Wikipedia): civil parish in Calderdale, second largest parish in England by area; Crimsworth Dean Beck is in the parish
• Listed buildings in Wadsworth (Wikipedia, from the National Heritage List): Raw Holme Farmhouse and Holme Cottage (early 19th century, built back to earth, two storeys at the front and one at the rear); milestone north of the junction with Midgehole Road (cast iron, east side of Keighley Road, A6033, distances to Hebden Bridge and Keighley); Wadsworth War Memorial (1923, 12.5 m obelisk on a hilltop)
• OpenStreetMap map data extract (checked 2026-09-30): Midgehole Road with a bus stop at the Dye Works, Midgehole Lane (unpaved bridleway), Former Crimsworth Dye Works (brownfield), Midgehole Farm, Hebden Terrace, Crimsworth Terrace, Hebden Water, Crimsworth Dean Beck, Keighley Road (A6033), Blue Pig (Midgeholes Working Mens Club) and its car park, Hardcastle Lodge (National Trust), Midgehole Car Park, Smeekin Hill War Memorial
• OpenStreetMap map data (API extract around the research point, checked 2026-10-01): Midgehole Road, A6033 Keighley Road, Midgehole Car Park and National Trust car parks (fee), Midgehole WMC car park (private), Midgehole Lane (unpaved bridleway), Crimsworth Lane (track), Carr Lane (cobbled bridleway with steps), Crimsworth Terrace, Hebden Terrace, Hebden Water
• Open Topo Data EU-DEM 25 m elevation lookup (checked 2026-10-01): Midgehole about 142 m
• Route estimate to Hebden Bridge town centre on OpenStreetMap road data (public routing server, checked 2026-10-01): Midgehole Road, Keighley Road (A6033)
• Route estimate to Keighley town centre on OpenStreetMap road data (public routing server, checked 2026-10-01): Midgehole Road, Keighley Road, Hebden Road and Haworth Road (A6033), Halifax Road and South Street (A629)
• Route estimate to central Bradford on OpenStreetMap road data (public routing server, checked 2026-10-01): Midgehole Road, Keighley Road (A6033), Denholme Road and Long Causeway (B6141), Halifax Road (A629), Thornton Road (B6145)
• Driving route (OpenStreetMap road data), Midgehole to Hebden Bridge: Midgehole Road 1.0km > Keighley Road (A6033) 0.5km, 1.1 miles
• Driving route (OpenStreetMap road data), Midgehole to Keighley: Midgehole Road 1.0km > Keighley Road (A6033) 10.5km > Hebden Road (A6033) 2.2km > Haworth Road (A6033) 0.4km > Halifax Road (A629) 2.1km > South Street (A629) 1.1km > Worth Way (A6035) 0.6km, 11.4 miles
• OpenStreetMap map data around Midgehole: Midgehole Road (unclassified); Keighley Road (A6033) 50 mph; Midgehole Car Park; Blue Pig; Carr Lane cobbled bridleway with steps; Estate Track private