Halifax's Historic Wakefield Gate - a Film for Halifax Civic Trust in its 60th Year
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 มี.ค. 2022
- This short film tells the story of the Wakefield Gate - or "Magna Via" - the old medieval route eastwards out of Halifax. It is remarkably well preserved in places and is designated an Ancient Monument. The route - an ancient "Holloway" developed its distinctive round shape ground down by hundreds of years of Packhorse traffic before the Turnpike roads came to Halifax. The route contributed to the early success of the town. The route starts in Hipperholme and ends up in the beautiful town of Halifax with its stunning architecture. Anne Lister used part of this route to visit her estates and you can see some of the building she visited which are still in existence.
Halifax Civic Trust commissioned this film to celebrate this unique and little known part of the Town as part of a wider project to install new sign posts, information boards, a newsletter and a walkers guide as part of their 60th Anniversary of working for Halifax.
Halifax Civic Trust is run by volunteers who rely solely on donations to support their work. If you enjoyed the film please consider joining as a member - see link near the image of Halifax on the main page channel page or making a donation to support our work.
We hope you enjoy the film.
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Amazing video of my beautiful town.
Sadly, it takes the burden of years to appreciate one’s local pride. Great video.
Really enjoyed this video and it was well put together. Please make more like this about the history of Halifax and the surrounding area. 👌
Thank you for this brilliant film. We are lucky to be living in one of the best boroughs in Britain.
Thank you David for your feedback - its very much appreciated and makes all the hard work worthwhile. Yes we are very luck indeed. Thank you for the support.
Thank you very much! Well presented and informative, thoroughly enjoyed the video.
Fantastic video! I was born in Halifax and left in the 90's just returning last year. As a teen I never appreciated how great our town and it's amazing history and architecture was until I decided to move back.
Keep up the good work.
Thank You Peter for you support of our work
Thank you so much for taking the time to make this informative video! I moved from Halifax to the USA in the late 90's, but I am still amazed by all of the history that I didn't know about when I lived there from 1971 to 1997. My goal is to walk parts of the Wakefield Gate when I next return for a visit!
Thank you for the feedback. All our work is undertaken by volunteers and we really appreciate your kind words and appreciation.. We are very proud of our Town!
Excellent 👍
An excellent informative video, will certainly walk it one day. Never thought the way in and out of Halifax would be so difficult back in the day. 🥵
Thanks for sharing, I loved it wish that somday I will see and walk for myself al this beauty of halifax and it surroundings, greats from the netherlands 🇳🇱
Fantastic
Very enjoyable an informative thankyou
Mahalo for a lovely cinematic & informative short form documentary.
May I say that was SO enjoyable. I no longer live in Halifax so always enjoy seeing interesting programmes about it. This, although not a 'programme' was one of the best and most informative films I have seen in recent years. Thank you so much to the gentleman (David Witcher) who shared his knowledge - and fitness - with us! :)
Hi. Thank you so much for commenting on our film, its really appreciated. We are thrilled that we can reach out to people around the world who no longer live in Halifax but are still interested in our fascinating Town and its history. I shall pass on to David your thanks too....its a fair challenging route!
As someone who lived in Halifax area for 4 years a few decades ago I wish I had seen this then ! And must go back. Excellent video, thanks
Thank you for the feedback. All our work is undertaken by volunteers and we really appreciate your kind words and appreciation..
Fascinating walk, I never knew of the Wakefield gate , thoroughly enjoyed your insight and history, the drone photography is beautiful.
A very good an interesting video, Calderdale has a lot of hidden history and some not so hidden - moved down here in the 90's and was blown away I lived near an ancient well renowned for its healing qualities, stone circles and a Roman fort!
Wasnt Treasure Island partially written in the town too....its an old place and I have loved it since I moved here
This was excellent thank you
We love learning about local history, and found this to be a very interesting and well filmed documentary. Thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it. We enjoyed making the film and sharing the story of the Wakefield Gate.
There is film on TH-cam of the full Magna Via .it is best avoided after heavy rain and safer up than down
Pretty sure the steep cobbled road that runs down next to Wainhouse Tower is part of Wakefield Gate, Ive had a unit there on Washer Lane Ind estate for 35 years.
This was wonderful! Informative and well-researched and presented. I enjoyed following along on the map. Thank you for sharing!
Hi Patricia. Thank you for taking time out to comment on our film its really appreciated.We really enjoyed making it and telling the story.
Hi. I’m originally from Pye Nest and grew up living in Ackroyd Terrace in the shadow of Wainhouse Tower. Can you confirm that the Wakefield Gate I walked on to school is part of the Wakefield Gate featured in this excellent film.
I can't _confirm_ what you ask, but as Wakefield (not Leeds!) is the county town of West Yorkshire it's from where the county was administered. The Bishopric of Wakefield also extends as far as Todmorden, so the road to Wakefield would have been the most important road in the area and would have extended west of Halifax, not only to connect Wakefield to the western parishes, but also because of the woolen and cloth trade in the upper Calder valley. I suspect that "Wakefield Gate" probably ended at Sowerby Bridge or perhaps a little beyond, and the road westward became the road to Manchester.
Hi Andrew. The route these days starts above Matalan up the cobbled / Setts road and ends at Hipperholme so if thats the way you walked then it's the same route!
There's a Wakefield gate at manor heath Halifax its a cobbled road
I painted the Cross inside and the front recently
Hi Steven. Thank you for commenting on our film. Thats an interesting fact for ourselves and future viewers to note. You did a great job it looks beautiful.
@@halifaxcivictrust3568 Thanks you.
Lots of information and good narration. Does anyone have a "link" to the map that is shown at 5:28 to 5:41. There looks to be a lot more information on this data sheet. I looked on the Trust website but did not find it.
Hi David. Im not sure if you can view this link. It takes you to the information board we placed at the end of the route. You should be able to zoom into the map. Thanks Mark.
www.dropbox.com/s/goxi08zfa4ncani/97024%20Design%20v5%20Board%201.pdf?dl=0