Lumbfoot

Coordinates: 53°50′02″N 1°58′34″W / 53.8340°N 1.9760°W / 53.8340; -1.9760

Lumbfoot is an English hamlet in the Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury civil parish, and the City of Bradford metropolitan district. It is situated approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) from Haworth and less than half a mile north-east from Stanbury. The hamlet is Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Lumbfoot overlooks a number of fields and a small brook, and contains 15 households and a farm. There is no public road; access is by a private road for vehicles, and a public footpath.

Lumbfoot has its own newspaper, "The Lumbfoot Clarion", which reports on local news and events.

History

Lumbfoot Mill, built on the floor of a valley, was originally water powered but adopted steam power in c. 1900. The mill has since been largely demolished but a 15-foot stump of the chimney and the engine house still remain, and there is evidence of the pit that housed the original waterwheel among the ruins. A row of cottages at Lumbfoot, which today are modernised, were constructed between 1840 and 1852 to house mill workers.