WELCOME TO LONGLEY OLD HALL
A Grade ll* building with its origins in the 14th century
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Visiting Open days Brief history The Hall today
1508 - Jennet Wode, the second daughter of John and wife of William Ramsden, was born here
1538 - John Wode dies
1958 - Sir John Frechville Ramsden, the sixth baronet,
dies

The former home of the
Ramsdens' of Longley,
Lords of the Manors of
Almondbury and Huddersfield
Advice written in William
Ramsden's Commonplace Book
at Longley Old Hall in 1544
Geyt thy goodes truly
spend them precisely
Set thy goodes dewly
lend thou them wisely
True getting wise spending
Have he lyttyll or moche
kepeth a man full Rutche
Untyll hes ending
Updated 6 April 2008
visitors since 1 April 2001
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