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The village that's bloomin' marvellous
The Huddersfield Daily Examiner
|September 27, 2025
HISTORIC TEXTILE SPOT 'HAS BEST VIEWS IN HUDDERSFIELD'
View from Longwood Tower, aka Nab End Tower, Huddersfield
WHEN Lesley Crawshaw first set eyes on Longwood, her first thought was “blooming heck”
“It's like I had died and gone to heaven.
“It was so lovely,’ she recalled, 40 years after she arrived in the Huddersfield village from Southport in Merseyside.
She was impressed by the incredible views down the Colne Valley and the big houses dotted around the former textile village. She was intrigued by the history of the village that was once known for mills, among them Joseph Hoyle & Sons which is now just a memory.
Lesley settled in Longwood and has loved the place ever since. She says the village is pretty and people's gardens are well-tended. But she warns that there are some seriously steep hills and the gradients get tougher over the years.
This story is from the September 27, 2025 edition of The Huddersfield Daily Examiner.
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