Allan Rostron's Pictures of Heptonstall

The shell of the Church of St Thomas a Becket

The Church was abandoned after being badly damaged in a gale in 1847. The top of the tower of the Church that was built to replace it St Thomas the Apostle is just visible at the centre of the picture.

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Heptonstall, Churches, West Yorkshire

Heptonstall Churchyard

This Churchyard is shared by two Churches: St Thomas the Apostle and the ruins of the Church of St Thomas a Becket which was abandoned after it was badly damaged by a gale in 1847. The poet Sylvia Plath is buried in this Churchyard.

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Heptonstall, Cemeteries, West Yorkshire

Near Heptonstall, West Yorkshire

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Heptonstall, English Countryside, Wildlife in England, West Yorkshire

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