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- The town of
Holmfirth has achieved fame as the centre of "Last of the
Summer Wine" country. Visitors flock here every year to
follow the
- footsteps of
Compo, Clegg and Foggy visiting
- Sid's Cafe
and the "Wrinkled stocking Tea Room" in Compo's bedroom
below Nora Batty's steps.
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- Holmfirth itself
is an attractive town of steep, narrow alleys, cobbled lanes,
weavers' cottages and handsome old mills.
- It sits at
the confluence of the Holme and the Ribble, the cotton mills
crowding the riverside. The river Holme bursts it's banks when
the Pennine snows melt too quickly and Holmfirth has witnessed
three devestating floods. The 18thC Holy Trinity Church was rebuilt
after the 1777 flood as an attractive Georgian "preaching
Box" with galleries on 3 sides and painted blue and white.
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