The Braemoor Server

Chartreuse is one of the French pre-Alps massifs between Chambéry to the north and Grenoble to the south. Although the area is well known to British cavers, it is somewhat neglected by the British walking fraternity, despite being one of the finest walking areas in France. This web site offers a general guide to the area, and detailed guides to forty of its best walking routes.

The Dent de Crolles cave system in Chartreuse provides perfect holiday caving, with a large number of classic through trips and round trips available of varying degrees of difficulty, as well as scope for more challenging expedition-style caving. This website is intended to be the first port of call for potential visitors.

This section contains a series of articles intended for the guidance of experienced cavers who may not be familiar with the better routes through the more complex systems in the Yorkshire Dales. It is hoped that these articles will help fill that gap. Some additional caving articles are also published in these pages.

When lead mining on Grassington Moor in North Yorkshire became more intensive in the early 18th Century, miners were granted mining rights on areas of land on the mineral veins, called meers. To help mark out the extremities of the leases, stones were set in the ground. This website records some of those which are still to be found on the moor.

When the output from the lead mines in the north of Hebden parish in North Yorkshire plummeted in the 1870s an ambitious project was initiated to intercept the veins at a lower level by digging a level from the centre of the village for 2.39 km. The veins were intercepted 15 years later and found to be barren. This website documents the project.

This website, which has recently moved from the Braemoor server to a new domain name, contains a transcript of the Hebden censuses from 1841 to 1911; the 1939 Hebden Register; details of those from the village who served and died in the World Wars; electoral registers; data from the Hebden Moor Mining Company lead mines; transcript of various local almanacks; parochial data; and details of those commemorated in the two village cemeteries. It also has a set of historical photographs depicting various aspects of the village, and a set of modern photographs shewing places of interest.