Heptonstall

The village is on the route of the Calderdale Way, a 50-mile (80 km) circular walk around the hills and valleys of Calderdale.^[4]

Media[edit]

Heptonstall Methodist Chapel featured in the BBC Four 2010 series Churches: How to Read Them,^[26] in which Richard Taylor named it as one of his ten favourite churches, saying: "If buildings have an aura, this one radiated friendship."^[27]


The ruin of St Thomas a Becket church featured as a location in the 1993 BBC Television drama series Mr. Wroe's Virgins^[28] directed by Danny Boyle.^[29]


The village was the main location used in the BBC Three situation comedy The Gemma Factor, with the local tearoom being used for a major part of the show. It was aired in spring 2010.


Heptonstall was a major location in The Rochdale Pioneers, a film produced by the Co-operative British Youth Film Academy,^[30] telling the story of the birth of the Co-operative movement, and screened in November 2012.


Heptonstall is also featured in the 2010 short film Trailing Dirt, directed by Richard Cousins and written by Alison Flack.^[31]


The 2014 BBC drama Happy Valley was partly filmed in Heptonstall, and featured Sylvia Plath's grave.


The BBC drama The Gallows Pole was partly filmed in Heptonstall, an adaptation of a book by Benjamin Myers. It told the story of the Cragg Vale Coiners, who clipped coins. This involved clipping the edges off coins and melting them down to make new coins out of the scraps. It happened on such a large scale, it threatened to devalue the currency. The grave of "King" David Hartley can be seen in the churchyard of St Thomas' Church, Heptonstall.