Pennines

The South Pennines lie between Lancashire and Yorkshire, where high moors rise above the Rossendale valleys. Before turnpike roads, packhorses carried goods across the hills: routes from Halifax and Wakefield to Manchester crossed at Marsden. In Rossendale, woollen workers were spread among numerous hamlets in the early eighteenth century. Cloth travelled out of the valley for fulling and dyeing until those processes became established locally during that century.