IN response to Mr Cockerill’s interesting letter and accompanying photograph of the lant spout, a similar spout exists on the end wall of Tunnel Street in Denholme, near where the mill used to be.

Some years ago, an elderly gentleman who used to live in the street told me he believed the spout was a ‘leaking stone’.

He said in the early days of the mill, men’s urine was used as a fixing agent for the tweed and collected from homes via a stone spout known as a leaking stone.

So, lant spout, leaking stone, whatever, it’s likely there are others in the locality.

Terry Hanson, Cullingworth

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