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Midgley is a traditional Pennine village sitting in a beautiful moorland-edge location on the hillside above the Calder Valley, near to Hebden Bridge and Halifax. Midgley Community Forum operates this website and is the focus of the many strands of community activity taking place in the village.
Dates for your Diary at a glance Website calendar shows all events and details of events below
Saturday breakfast - 5th November 10 - 12pm
Saturday breakfast - 3rd October 10 -12pm
Open invitation - Social Group meeting - 5th October 7pm at the community room
Family Teatime Halloween Special - 5-7pm
History Talk - Friday 6th November - 7.30pm
Saturday breakfast - 7th November 10 - 12pm
Autumn Quiz - Friday 20th November 7.30pm
History Group Talk
Friday 6th November 7.30pm at the community room
“Journeys of the Soul : Investigating Upper Calderdale’s traditional corpseways” by John Billingsly
Tickets are £3.50 - sign up sheets in the shop. Bar Open
Many thanks to Jerome for the lovely shelves & newspaper box and to all our volunteers who are trying to keep the communal areas watered and looking good in the heat.
Midgley News/ Recent Events
Open Gardens Weekend - June 2026
The weather was kind and the sunshine brought visitors from the local area as well as further afield, over 450 people enjoyed the event. The visitors love the varied views from each garden, the range of gardening styles and the friendly welcoming vibe they feel here.
A massive, belated “thank you” to everyone who helped to make this a successful event. A magnificent £5,455 was raised for our community.
Well dressing & Welly Trail - May 2026
Midgley Well Dressing & Welly Trail
Some wonderful well dressing on the theme of authors and books, and gorgeous wellies decorated our village on Sunday 3rd May. It was a dreary day which didn’t stop people enjoying a guided walk around our great village, maintaining a well-loved tradition. Many thanks to everyone who contributed, decorated, supported, catered and planned. Well done Midgley!
Book Swap Cupboard
Our new book swap, in the village has been very successful adn thanks to our curators who keep it fresh and varied.
Please take a book if you are donating a book. That way it will be easier for us to manage the amount of books stored there. Where is it? Next to the water trough across the road from the shop - thanks to Jerome for the lovely handmade cabinet. Happy reading everyone!
Community Room Art
Thank you to Dave Warburton who has been sharing his art in the community room recently, we have enjoyed and admired your work.
The latest collection of art to view/for sale is a collection from Halifax Art Society - a varied and interesting display. Please pop in and take a look!
Bus update
Luddendenfoot Ward Councillors have sent our analysis of your responses and summary to West Yorkshire Combined Authority Transport group. The chief executive Simon Warburton responded to say, “Feedback such as this can help us shape the bus network for the communities it serves, which as we move towards a franchised network will be vital to ensuring our services meet the needs of our passengers.” At present there isn’t the funding from WYCA for additional buses; but in the meantime, our Ward Councillors are looking into what can be done locally.
Regular Village Events
Quiz Nights
Quiz Evenings
Doors open at 7:30pm for 8pm start.
Ticket is £6 which includes your supper (meat and vegetarian options).
The bar will be open and supper will be served half way through the evening.
Please sign up and pay in the shop, to book your place by Wednesday of that week for catering and bar ordering purposes. Please bring a pound in cash for the jackpot prize
Autumn Quiz - Friday 20th November
Saturday Breakfasts
Saturday Breakfasts in the Community Room from 10am to 12:30pm (last orders 12:00pm)
Come and enjoy a freshly made bacon, egg or/and sausage (vegetarian options available) teacake and a cafetière of coffee or pot of tea.
Take away available!
Saturday 5th |Sepember
Saturday 3rd October
Saturday 7th October
Coffee Mornings
Coffee mornings Thursdays 10:00 to 12:30 - homemade cakes, teas and coffees
Craft and Chat
Meets second Tuesday in every month - 2pm -4pm in the community room. Cost is £1.50 including a cuppa & a cake. If you like crafting, sewing, knitting or anything arty you will be in good company. We chat about our projects, and lots of other things besides, while we work & enjoy good company. For more information & to be added to the group email list please contact Jean on jean.tallis@gmail.com or 07786 702813
Midgley History Group
We share a love of local history and meet every month or so. We would love to see you if you are interested in local history, or have some knowledge to share, just come along. Contact Kym Lockett 07770 974140 for information
Gardening group
Meets monthly in the community room - last Tuesday of the month
Sharing of ideas, seeds and gardening tips - this is a self-help group of enthusiatic amateurs who support the village environment as well as supporting each other with our gardening endeavours.
Everyone welcome
Village Carol Singing
Thank you to all who turned out for the popular carol singing event in December, we had more people and families than ever before and it was a wonderful traditional evening.Thanks to all mince pie makers, to Santa for taking time out to come to Midgley, to Emma who gallently played for us, and Helen in her role as compere. You raised a fabulous total of £176 for the Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice.
Huddersfield to Ukraine
On 17th January the community room was full to bursting with your donations for the people of Ukraine. Huge thank you from organiser Mary Smith to everyone who donated, stayed to help, volunteered to drive van loads to the depot in Huddersfield as well as the financial donations which were made, this helps get the truck on the road on 21st February. For more information contact Mary on 07443438522 or check out the group on Facebook
Midgley Needs You!
Midgley Community Forum (MCF) and Midgley Matters (MMAL) continues to provide a very special and important community hub but only with the hard work and dedication of volunteers. If you would like to get more involved in any aspect of MCF or MMAL, we are always looking out for any new offers of expertise, enthusiasm and help. Take a look at our website to see what’s coming up/ our history and recent events. Please contact Graham Hill ( Chair of MMAL and MCF ) for more information if you would like to get more involved. email : whatsappeningmidgley@gmail.com.
Community highlights for 2025 - at the recent Annual General Meeting reports were produced by all the amazing groups that are part of Midgley Community. Click here to read all about it.
If you would like to get involved in village activities, help organise some different events, help out in the shop or on the committee - please get in touch whatsappeningmidgley@gmail.com
Midgley Centenary Fete - June 2025
The weather was kind, the crowds came out to support us - Midgley Fete 2025 was a great success!
Midgley resident Peggy Horsfield formally opened the fete and Midgley school children did a wonderful Maypole dance and the school choir sang the Midgley Song ( a song written in yorkshire dialect in the 1970's). The children's races were hotly contested as was the parents' "beanbag on yer 'ead" race!!
We had a fun-filled afternoon with old favourites like the dog races, welly wanging and tug of war as well as new additons to the programme. Demitri Ogden entertained with circus skills and Ben Gates with his Orchestra of Objects delighted all ages. Cricketing skills by Booth Cricket Club were a welcome addition to the centenary celebration of Midgley Recreation Ground. Our friendly St John's Ambulance volunteers were in attendance and ready for any weyward welly incidents.
With plenty of information stalls, tombola/bottle stall, face - painting, theraputic kneads massages, coconut shy, splat the rat and bric a brac, the fete-goers were generous in their support for local charities and small businesses. Chunky's kitchen provided the food to keep our strength up, Just Jenny's ices kept us cool and the Midgley forum tea tent sustained us with cuppas and the most delicious of cakes. The beer tent was integral, as always, to a successful event and kept the beer flowing into the evening with its usual expertise and hard graft.
We cheered out and welcomed back the fell runners who ran 6.2 km to Churn Milk Joan on Midgley Moor and back. They had everyone's admiration and some great times were recorded - results are below. Congratulations to all on a great race.
The Ruth Gardziel Trio, Les Gillon and the Agents of Karma and ORBIT were our musical entertainment and delighted listeners from 3.30pm onwards, singing on in the early evening sunshine. Our evening entertainment as well as the PA system was coordinated and supported by Dave Nelson, Richard and Wainsgate Chapel. Our thanks to them for their professional and technical support.
A shout out to Mytholmroyd Scouts who ably helped us with marshalling of the road, access to the recreation ground, as well as providing some muscle with the marquees. Also a thanks to Luddenden village who loaned and kindly assisted us with the erection of the tea tent - no mean feat in itself!
Many thanks to everyone who contributed to the success of this event - baking cakes, organising, completing paperwork, advertising, erecting marquees, hanging bunting, fetching, carrying, serving and working on the day, as well as the weeks before and after. And not forgetting you all for turning up and being great sports!
Anniversary Photographs
Its 100 years since the Murgatroyd family gifted the recreation ground to the people of Midgley.
Midgley school children, staff and villagers gathered to create an historic drone photograph recently. Sport and recreation is still an important part of life. Big shout out to Craig G for the photography
Anniversary Photographs
It is also the 75th anniversary of Midgley Football Club - quite an achievement for any amateur club.
Midgley Well dressing & Walk - May 2025
Many thanks to all who decorated wells, organised the event and attended to view the glorious wells of Midgley. This year the theme was Sports and Past times and we had a lovely sunny day for a walk and refreshments were served in the community room during the morning.
Its great to see an ancient tradition and celebration of water being preserved and celebrated in our special village.
Midgley Pace Egg
Many thanks to all Pace Eggers and supporters - another great performance - See you next year!!
Memorial Bench installed
A wonderful addition to the Pinfold has recently been installed, in memory of Joan and Brian Boland. Many thanks to the Boland family, Jerome, Sam, Ian ( CROWS) and residents of Chapel Lane. A bench for everyone to enjoy. The wild flower beds will hopefully be blooming soon
Blooming Midgley
Gardening group have been busy planting up around the village. Lets make it a bloming marvellous springin the village. Any helpers out there who would like to contribute - contact Pat through the shop or come along to Gardening group - all welcome
Family History
Agnes Dransfield's family recently got in touch with the forum to try find out about their great grandmother. Big thanks to Peggy and Ruth for their efforts - the family now have much more information and a photograph of Agnes at a retirement party at Murgatroyd's. Agnes Dransfield nee Bostock was born in 1903 and was a worsted spinner at Murgatroyd's from 1953 to 1966, she lived at Pleasant View and Goitside over her years married to Willie Dransfield and she passed away in 1993. Anyone with more information about Agnes, please contact Becca Lane at beclane@sky.com
Social Evening Success
Midgley Social Evening is set to become a regular event - we had a relaxed, interesting and informative evening listening to two very accomplished speakers. Thanks to Jerome for his talk on Materials - Why things break? And also to Mick for his talk and discussion on re-wilding.
The Pinfold
Many thanks to Jerome for working on the pinfold. It looks amazing. Also a big shout out to the Gardening group, Sam Barker and Anne H for advice/help/plants & bark. Our pinfold ia quite rare, age unknown but it is thought that it dates to the 18th century. Pinfolds were where stray animals were impounded & owners paid a fine to get them back. Midgley's last pinder ( responsible for upkeep of pinfold & grazing animals on common land ) was John Scott who died in 1869
Midgley School
Upcoming community events at Midgley School
Watch this space....
See website for all things Midgley School - www.midgleyschool.org.uk
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