This week we’re taking a look around Mytholmroyd.
Its name comes from its place at the meeting of two rivers.
St Michael’s Church, which is Grade II-listed, has stood at the heart of Mytholmroyd since the mid‑19th century.
The foundation stone was laid in 1847 and the church was consecrated by The Right Reverend Charles Thomas Longley, Bishop of Ripon in 1848.
Poet Ted Hughes was born at 1 Aspinall Street, Mytholmroyd, and lived there until he was seven.
Mytholmroyd is home to the World Dock Pudding Championships. Dock pudding is a local delicacy little-known outside the Calder Valley area and the competition was founded in 1971 to help preserve it.
Over the past ten years the village has seen a transformation with the construction of the flood defences.
The Mytholmroyd Flood Alleviation Scheme is a £41m flood defence scheme to provide better protection for 400 properties in the village.
4. Village spotlight
The start of the longest continuous gradient in England. Photo: Bruce Fitzgerald