{"id":80817,"date":"2018-02-23T23:30:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T16:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-hebden-bridge-west-yorks-a-rain-soaked-paradise\/"},"modified":"2018-02-24T00:02:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T17:02:55","slug":"lets-move-to-hebden-bridge-west-yorks-a-rain-soaked-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-hebden-bridge-west-yorks-a-rain-soaked-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to Hebden Bridge, West Yorks: a rain-soaked paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIf the roots of its liberal and creative image are a mystery, its appeal is obviousWhat\u2019s going for it? Nobody knows why Hebden Bridge became \u201cHebden Bridge\u201d, officially the quirkiest\/kookiest\/koolest\/most LGBTQ-friendly\/least chain-store-y etc small town in the universe. I have asked. I asked the people in the herb shop on the narrowboat, at the market, on the towpath, at the Trades Club. I asked Urban Boffins in the university faculty I teach in. Nobody knows. It looks like other northern, post-industrial former mill towns: canal, steep valley, Methodist chapels, chimneys… It feels, though, utterly different, a little rain-soaked paradise. You\u2019d never have guessed it from Hebden Bridge\u2019s starring role in Happy Valley\u2019s grimfest; nor from local boy Ted Hughes\u2019 poem Stubbing Wharfe: \u201cthe hopeless old stone trap\u201d. Two decades after he wrote that in the 1950s, though, others saw what he couldn\u2019t \u2013 artists, hippies and conservationists doing up its cheap, knackered buildings. Today the town feels festive even on a wet winter Tuesday: all co-ops, carrot cake and bunting \u2013 blunt Yorkshire wit, though, perfectly tempering the earnestness.The case against\u2026 Such is the demand to live here, and such is the shortage of space, you\u2019ll pay a premium to move in. Floods: though how well it bounced back from the last, in 2016. Cosmopolitan it may be, but it\u2019s still a very small town. Occasionally tends towards over-kookiness. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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