Stainland
[2] An economy that was based principally on wool and textile production led Stainland to develop as a hilltop village, in much the same way as Sowerby and Heptonstall.With the Industrial Revolution, mills developed in the neighbouring valleys to take advantage of water power, but Stainland continued to act as a focus for the area.Its proximity of the M62 motorway has led to the development of a new residential role of housing people who work in the neighbouring towns.Due to its altitude and remote location, places visible are (clockwise from north): King Cross, Savile Park, Halifax, Southowram, Siddal, Greetland, Elland Wood, Blackley, Ainley Top, Jagger Green, Thunnerley Wood, Old Lindley, Outlane, parts of Sowood, Scammonden, Krumlin, Barkisland, Norland Moor and Norland.Stainland is essentially linear: all the principal buildings face the main road which forms a central spine.Much of the lesser domestic buildings has developed on minor lanes at right angles to the road and these dense clusters of houses provide areas of enclosure with occasional dramatic glimpses across open countryside.[citation needed] On 3 September 1875 The Building News announced that the cross was to be restored according to plans by a "Mr Barber of Halifax.Stainland Mechanics' Institute was built by the Shaw family in 1883 by public description, "to improve the moral, social and intellectual habits of the inhabitants".[6] St Helen's Well at the eastern end of the village is mentioned in John Watson's monumental The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Halifax, 1775.He gives no description but says a Roman Catholic chapel dedicated to Saint Helen, nearby had been converted into a cottage, but in its walls was a large stone known locally as 'the Cross'.The 'Halifax Guardian' for September 1842 described the scene around Well Head spa where crowds carrying drinking utensils jostled each other in their eagerness to take the waters.[citation needed] Carr Hall Castle,[7] located on the edge of Thunnerley Wood in the Holywell Brook valley, was built in the mid-nineteenth century by the Shaw family, local mill owners, to improve the view from their mansion at Shaw Park.[8] St Andrew's C of E Church in the centre of the village was built c.1755 as a chapel for Stainland, Holywell Green and Sowood.Joseph Stott, a board member, gave a speech saying that "he believed there was a necessity for additional means of instruction," before hundreds of people were given tea in the local Sunday school room.
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