Local Attractions

Staying in Hebden Bridge gives you easy access to many local beauty spots and musical events. Hebden Bridge has its own music venue and cinema. Plus there are several music and arts festivals during the year.

The Arts Festival and Fringe Arts Festival take place every year in the late spring, the traditional Pace Egg plays are an annual Easter event, and the midsummer Hebden Bridge Handmade Parade is a vivid, non-commercial variation on the small town parade.

Hebden Bridge also has one of the few moorland golf courses left in the area.

Hebden Bridge Little Theatre is an amateur company aiming for professional standards, producing five plays a year and catering for the local community and visitors to the area alike.

Hebden Bridge is also the base of the Calder Valley Youth Theatre, an under-18s society which produces one main musical production per year in the Halifax Playhouse and often several smaller, less formal productions. The group has often been praised by critics as performing to an adult, professional standard.

The Stubbing Wharf is an 18th century inn located alongside the Rochdale Canal, in which the poet Ted Hughes set his poem "Stubbing Wharfe".

Sylvia Plath is buried here in Heptonstall.