Lumbfoot
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Lumbfoot or Lumb Foot is a hamlet in the Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury civil parish, and the City of Bradford metropolitan district, England.[1] It is situated approximately Script error: No such module "convert". from Haworth and less than half a mile north-east from Stanbury. The hamlet is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Lumbfoot overlooks a number of fields and a small brook, and contains 15 households and a farm. There is no public road; access is by a private road for vehicles, and a public footpath.
History
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Gallery
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Lumbfoot Mill about 1900, from an old postcard
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Lumbfoot cottages about 1900, from an old postcard
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Sign at Lumbfoot showing population
References
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