Tales of the Urban Explorer: The Ruins of Far Nook

Nestling on the edges of the Yorkshire moors above the famous ‘Lesbian Town’ of Hebden Bridge lies a derelict farmhouse.

I picked up the information about this old ruin from Google and then had to track it down.

This was tougher than I thought. It is well documented as ‘Nook’ and even ‘The Ruins of Far Nook’ but all I could pick up was that it was on the old road to Haworth, land of the Bronte sisters.

No other information can be found about this old farmhouse, that is if it once was one?

There is another farmhouse close-by but we saw nobody on this miserable windswept day, parking up in a nearby lay-by as the road is too narrow otherwise.

This particular day, around 5 weeks ago we were heading into Yorkshire once again, and I notched down ‘The Ruins of Far Nook’ as a starter thinking there was little chance of failure when it comes to getting in.

You can hardly fail to get into this one, it’s a question of whether you would like to walk through those arches and have large pieces of ancient masonry fall on your head.

The house appears to be sinking into the ground, as well as nature taking a heavy toll on it, with trees growing pretty much from the central areas.

Getting upstairs was out of the question, or was it? Those stairs looked quite sturdy (just the odd hole here and there) and yours truly was going to find out if death would arrive early by going up.

They held remarkably well, but what I saw at the top was quite dull. It was just a wall of tangled branches.

…'I suppose I am asking too much to be finding a stash of 17th-century working rifles in here?'…

This big pile of collapsed roof was making a statement to me, ‘fuck off, you can’t come this way’.

I had to agree and backed into the entrance room noting how low the ceiling was.

This was a rather large farm once, or was it a couple of houses?

I say this as the other entrance-way looked quite similar; another fireplace and some more stairs.

So yes, I did try and mount these steps but they were in significantly worse condition than the former. I couldn’t even poke my head up there to see what wonders were going to enter my eyeballs.

…’a summer visit to The Ruins of Far Nook is recommended. This stuff I was standing in wasn’t exactly shit, but wet it would be highly unpleasant’…

These old cottages or farmhouses are ridiculously well made. Who would have thought the upstairs area would be semi-accessible looking from afar?

It was a positive start to our Urban Exploration day trip, though not overly-exciting.

This cement mixer was the only relic I could find. It’s not exactly antique but you need to take what you can get given there was nothing else to be found besides cow-shit.

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