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Our rooms
Our bedrooms, named after local reservoirs, all have private en-suite shower, WC, hand basin, complementary toiletries, hairdryer, freeview TV, tea & coffee making facilities, linen and towels. Ramsden and Holme Styes are on the ground floor, Ramsden has easy access wet room. Riding Wood and Holme Styes rooms can be set as twin or doubles and children under 16 can be accommodated on sofa beds (fees apply). Winscar, our largest room, will comfortably sleep a family of six. Free wifi is available in most areas and guests have use of a drying room, iron and ironing board.
Winscar
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Spacious room with super king sleigh bed and private en suite bathroom with double ended bath and shower over. Winscar can be booked as a double room or family room sleeping up to four children on a double sofa bed and two additional put up beds.
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Ramsden and Yateholme
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Spacious king rooms with private ensuite facilities. Ramsden is on the ground floor with en suite wet room and wide doorways for easy wheelchair access. Yateholme is on the first floor and has original beams. Both have a sofa bed for up to 2 children.
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Bilbery and Digley
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Quirky loft suites with separate seating area. Both have private en suite showers and velux window which open to the stunning Holme Valley, across which are Bilberry and Digley reservoirs. The ceilings in these rooms slope from a height of 290cm to 112cm.
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Holme Styes and Riding Wood
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Super king or twin rooms, please advise at the time of booking if you would prefer a twin. Both have en suite shower. Riding Wood is on the first floor and boasts high ceilings with original beams. Holme Styes on the ground floor.
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Snailsden
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First floor king room with private en suite shower. Snailsden has high ceilings and boasts original beams.
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The room names - a tribute to the valley's history.
Our rooms are named after local reservoirs. Before the industrial revolution the valley was peppered with small holdings and valley folk earned their living from the land. In the 1800's mills lined the valley floor and the mill owners built villages, such as Hinchliffe Mill, to house their workers. The mills were powered by huge water wheels driven by the river. River water was also used to wash the wool, of course the further down stream the mill the dirtier the water became. Bilberry and Holme Styes reservoirs were built in the 1840s to control the flow of water to the mills. Bilberry reservoir was plagued with problems from the start. The reservoir banking was built over a spring which weakened the structure and as the banking settled the new banking level was below the overflow chimney, rendering the overflow useless. In 1852 prolonged heavy rain filled the reservoirs and surplus water had no means of escape. The reservoir banking gave way and a huge wall of water swept down the valley killing 81 people. The greatest loss of life occurred in Hinchliffe Mill where six houses were completely destroyed.
Following the disaster Bilberry reservoir was repaired and it was decided that a second reservoir, Digley, was to be built below Bilberry. The building of Digley reservoir was delayed and work was set back further by the outbreak of war.
During the second world war, decoy beacons were lit on the moors surrounding the valley, diverting the bombers away from the cities of Manchester and Sheffield. The story goes that four bombs landed at Lower Whitegate and two craters are still visible today, one just above our wood to the west and one on the banking across Whitegate Road, to the east. A land girl, sleeping in the farmhouse, was supposedly knocked out of bed by one blast.
On Whit Sunday 1944 disaster struck the valley again. A cloud burst caused water to flow over the banks of Bilberry reservoir once again. Three people lost their lives in the flood and the valley was devastated. The promenade along the front of Holmfirth Picturedrome was washed away. This flood is called the forgotten flood because wartime censorship delayed news reports and when the flood was eventually reported the allied invasion of Normandy was under way. When the war ended, building Digley reservoir became a priority.
There are tributes to the floods around Holmfirth, a flood walk on Hollowgate depicts the stories, a stone marks the height of the flood water on Victoria Street and a plaque on Towngate is dedicated to those who lost their lives.
Following the disaster Bilberry reservoir was repaired and it was decided that a second reservoir, Digley, was to be built below Bilberry. The building of Digley reservoir was delayed and work was set back further by the outbreak of war.
During the second world war, decoy beacons were lit on the moors surrounding the valley, diverting the bombers away from the cities of Manchester and Sheffield. The story goes that four bombs landed at Lower Whitegate and two craters are still visible today, one just above our wood to the west and one on the banking across Whitegate Road, to the east. A land girl, sleeping in the farmhouse, was supposedly knocked out of bed by one blast.
On Whit Sunday 1944 disaster struck the valley again. A cloud burst caused water to flow over the banks of Bilberry reservoir once again. Three people lost their lives in the flood and the valley was devastated. The promenade along the front of Holmfirth Picturedrome was washed away. This flood is called the forgotten flood because wartime censorship delayed news reports and when the flood was eventually reported the allied invasion of Normandy was under way. When the war ended, building Digley reservoir became a priority.
There are tributes to the floods around Holmfirth, a flood walk on Hollowgate depicts the stories, a stone marks the height of the flood water on Victoria Street and a plaque on Towngate is dedicated to those who lost their lives.