SITUATED within half a mile of Ingrow at what a Victorian guide book called "a considerable elevation" (975 feet above sea level at its highest point), the hamlet of Hainworth seems to inhabit a different world from that of its urban neighbours. It is seen here on a postcard view photographed a century or so ago.
There was s a community here before the Norman Conquest. The "Hagena's enclosure" listed in the Domesday Survey, once thought to represent Haworth, is now regarded as Hainworth.
Prominent on the left is the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, built in 1884 to accommodate 200. Even its predecessor in 1847 could seat 150. Nearby quarries helped make the hamlet a busy place. Victorian Hainworth boasted its own Co-operative Society, trading both as grocers and drapers, plus a grocer's shop run by the family of a local stone mason and contractor.
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