Spen Fame Trail

A hang man with a conscience and the biggest public meeting ever held in England are two of the lesser known reasons why Spen Valley deserves to be famous. Another would be for the man who built an entire church for the price of a Ford Fietsa.

From sporting achievement to the flowering of national artistic talent, from the straight laced to the weird and the whacky, men and women of the Spen Valley have managed to excel themselves in almost every field.  But who are they all?

In 2007 with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund the Civic Society devised a "Fame Trail" featuring 48 famous people and events. On the streets and roads of our towns and villages will be found numbered plaques fixed into the pavement. These mark the home of the named person or location of the event.

To read more about Spen's connection with The Archers and with the Harrier Jump Jet and lots more click this link to go to a feature article giving details of the Spen Fame Trail. You'll be tickled pink; or should that be orange?