This is where the old road, North Well Lane, is crossed by the new road, Lee Wood Road, constructed by Heptonstall township in the late 18C. The old road became a bridleway.
HEBBLE HOLE BRIDGE lies in the Colden valley in the deep clough below Hudson Mill. W. B. Crump thought that this hollow became known as Hebble-hole from the presence of the hebble or bridge there. When the meaning of the hebble passed out of common…