Hebden Bridge Marina Stadt Walstein Twinning Marker – Hebden Bridge, UK
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N 53° 44.430 W 002° 00.687
30U E 565200 N 5955103
This marker was erected at Hebden Bridge marina on the Rochdale Canal as part of a regeneration project in 2007.
Waymark Code: WMFWPB
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/09/2012
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Parts of the town centre were made traffic free and repaved with high quality York Stone and granite sets. The area around the marina on the Rochadale Canal was also repaved.
This stone marker was erected to commemorate this and it has plaques with the coat of arms of both Hebden Bridge and Stadt Warstein. The twinning arrangement began in 1995.
Before the advent of rail and road transport Hebden Bridge was a small hamlet at the junction of a number of packhorse routes. In the centre of the Pennine Hills it is surrounded by a number of other similar communities. Hebden’s main industry has always been associated with the textile industry.
Stadt Warstein and is also the centre of a number of small communities, although larger and more industrial than Hebden Bridge. Hebden Bridge first developed links with Warstein through Pol Sur Ternoise its French twin town which been twinned with Warstein in Germany since 1965. Hebden bridge twinned with Warstein in 1995.
The three towns are now part of the
three way twinning arrangement. There is a similar marker to this commemorating the twinning with St. Pol Sur Ternoise in the centre of town on the edge of the newly name St. Pol Square.
Also nearby to here at the edge of the marina is a plaque donated by Stadt warstein in 1995 to commemorate the start of the twinning arrangement.