Tower at Woodhouse Grove School?

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Spackler
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Post by Spackler »

Just wondering if anyone can tell me what the ruined tower is in the grounds of Woodhouse Grove School. You can see from the road what looks like a ruined tower as you start to climb the hill at Apperley Bridge. Its in the trees at the top of the hill before you pass the church.
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simong
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Post by simong »

A google provides this: http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/sh ... hp?t=11974. So it's a folly built by the local unemployed. It's more striking from the canal.
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Uno Hoo
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Post by Uno Hoo »

Look out, Spackler. You've strayed over into Bradford - the Leeds boundary is 1/4 mile up from W'house Grove going towards Rawdon
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Si
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Post by Si »

It's a Bradford postcode (BD10) but I think it comes under Pudsey's political constituency.I was told the tower was built in the late 1700s, before the manor of Wood House became a school, c.1812. It was originally an academy for the education of Methodist ministers' sons, and still has a Methodist chapel on Apperley Lane. It was still all boys as recently as c.1978.
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