kirkstall abey tunnels
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40 years ago I used to work at a firm called P X Fox on Hawksworth Road Horsforth. I believe it is a hydraulics company now. In the woods next to the works was the entrance to a culvert or tunnel. It was stone built tall and narrow and obviously very old. Being tall and narrow it was the wrong shape to be a drainage culvert and was rumoured to be the tunnel to the abbey. The works were reputed to be built on the site of a water mill operated by the monks so who knows, another rumour? The tunnel was blocked some 6 to 10 feet in. Wouldn't it be nice to know the truth.
If iver tha does owt fer nowt allus do it fer thissen
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There are numerous stories about tunnels and pits and the various bits and pieces concerned with the abbey, however there was one story I picked up from a leeds history forum, this concerned a young man that had travelled down this said culvert and had made it into the abbey grounds only to be pulled out by abbey staff and police from an area not open to the public after shouting for an hour.
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tyke29 wrote: 40 years ago I used to work at a firm called P X Fox on Hawksworth Road Horsforth. I believe it is a hydraulics company now. In the woods next to the works was the entrance to a culvert or tunnel. It was stone built tall and narrow and obviously very old. Being tall and narrow it was the wrong shape to be a drainage culvert and was rumoured to be the tunnel to the abbey. The works were reputed to be built on the site of a water mill operated by the monks so who knows, another rumour? The tunnel was blocked some 6 to 10 feet in. Wouldn't it be nice to know the truth. My late Aunt worked at Fox`s in the 60`s, she told me of a tunnel entrance, it must still be there, the Fox`s building is still there.
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