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Drawn on the landscape : the story of the roads east of Halifax, the people who made them, and the transport that used them

Greenwood, Alan2022

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From the earliest times the east west route through Halifax and on to Lightcliffe, Leeds and Wakefield was an important link for both local and long distance travel. This book tells the story that reflects the changes in the roads and transport travelling east from Halifax. The local gentry were intimately involved in this road development as were increasingly the growing class of business men growing wealthy on a burgeoning textile trade. Anne Lister features too in an attempt to maintain her privacy in the face of increasing traffic on the roads. But it was ordinary people whose efforts helped make enormous changes to the system over time. For centuries the only way goods could be moved in such hilly country was by packhorses. As Halifax expanded local people carved out the routes and improved the roads, linking to the growing towns on the West Riding, for wheeled vehicles. By the mid-nineteenth century where this book finishes they had created the road system that we enjoy today.