PLANS to convert a shop to a holiday let in a town which attracts a lot of tourists have been rejected by council planners.

Sowerby Bridge shop owner Izzy doesn’t mince her words when she talks about Hebden Bridge a few miles up the Calder Valley. “It’s a hippy theme park,” says Izzy who runs Artichoke, a vegan food shop ...

Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. But what could be wrong with the place? The West Yorkshire town has become famous for being ...

Just a stone’s throw away from the moors of West Yorkshire's Bronte Country and surrounded by the rolling hills of Calder Valley lies the small market town of Hebden Bridge. If it looks familiar, that ...

One of the oldest buildings in the Calder Valley will soon reverberate to the sound of cabaret nights and drumming workshops when a landmark mill conversion is completed. Did you know with a Digital ...

Thanks to its wonderful independent shops, amazing countryside and the fact it is home to one of England’s best music venues, picturesque Hebden Bridge has been described as the “greatest town in ...

In his poem Stubbing Wharfe, Ted Hughes wrote about sitting with Sylvia Plath in a pub 'between the canal and the river' in the West Yorkshire former mill town of Hebden Bridge. To the poet, who was ...

Until just over three weeks ago, the 5,000-plus residents of Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, could be forgiven for feeling ever so slightly smug. Theirs was an impossibly pretty town of cobbled streets ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The west Yorkshire landscape described by Emily Brontë is a place of moody stretches of moorland and dark, desolate ...

Hebden Bridge's 2023 Christmas tree has left some in the town feeling a little let down compared to last year's effort Hebden Bridge's festive centrepiece has been installed in St George's Square ...

Alison Bartram, who runs Heart Gallery, put her flood plan into action on Saturday A gallery and shop owner has said the threat of flooding has had a "devastating" impact on trade in what should be ...

The sign's typeface was based on plaques fixed to the ancient bridge A farewell sign to a West Yorkshire market town has been criticised by some residents who have called it "pompous" and "pretentious ...