Editing Stanbury (section)

== Landmarks ==

The surrounding countryside is mainly [[moors]] and farmland.<ref>{{cite web |title=Stanbury |url=http://www.yorkshireguides.com/stanbury.html |website=Yorkshire Guide |access-date=17 October 2016}}</ref> [[Ponden Reservoir]] was built in the 1870s<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wood |first1=Steven |title=Haworth, Oxenhope & Stanbury from old photographs. Volume 2, Trade & industry |date=2011 |publisher=Amberley |location=Stroud |isbn=9781445606699 |page=vi |chapter=Introduction}}</ref> and a reservoir was approved to be built at Lower Laithe on Sladen Beck in 1869, but it was not started until 1911.
Due to the nation being involved in the First World War, the reservoir was not completed until 1925.
Its completion necessitated the abandonment of the hamlet of Smith Bank.<ref>{{cite web |title=Stanbury Conservation Area Assessment |url=https://www.bradford.gov.uk/media/2504/stanburycaa.pdf |publisher=City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council |access-date=17 October 2016 |page=11 |date=October 2005}}</ref>
The village is close to the [[Brontë Waterfall]] and [[Top Withens]] tourist landmarks.
[[Emily Brontë]] is reputed to have used Top Withens as the model for the location of ''[[Wuthering Heights]]'', and nearby [[Ponden Hall]] (half a mile from the edge of Stanbury) has been considered the model for 'Thrushcross Grange' in the same book.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Booth |first1=Alison |title=Homes and haunts; touring writers' shrines and countries |date=2016 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-107689-3 |page=139 |chapter=3. Ladies with pets and flowers; with graveyards and windswept moors}}</ref>
It has also been theorized that Ponden Hall is actually the setting for Top Withens as its size is smaller than that of Thrushcross Grange as described in the book.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Butterfield |first1=Mary A|title=The Heatons of Ponden Hall and the legendary link with Thrushcross Grange in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights |date=1976 |publisher=R & B Taylor |location=Keighley |pages=1–23 |oclc=4932423}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Somerville |first1=Christopher |title=Yorkshire: Walk of the month |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/732441/Yorkshire-Walk-of-the-month.html |access-date=17 October 2016 |work=The Telegraph |date=28 February 2005 |location=Travel}}</ref>
There are also additional theories that the hall is the model for Wildfell Hall in [[Anne Brontë]]'s [[The Tenant of Wildfell Hall]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hyslop |first1=Leah |title=For sale: Ponden Hall, the house which inspired Wuthering Heights |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/period-property/10130506/For-sale-Ponden-Hall-the-house-which-inspired-Wuthering-Heights.html |access-date=17 October 2016 |work=The Telegraph |date=19 June 2013}}</ref>
There is an [[Anglican]] church in Stanbury built in 1848. In 1998, it was named St Gabriels, after spending the previous 150 years without a name.<ref>{{cite web |title=Stanbury Conservation Area Assessment |url=https://www.bradford.gov.uk/media/2504/stanburycaa.pdf |publisher=City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council |access-date=17 October 2016 |page=23 |date=October 2005}}</ref> The school caters for primary school age children.
There are two [[public house]]s: The Friendly and the Wuthering Heights which dates from 1763 and was formerly and locally known as 'The Cross'.
The Old Silent Inn (formerly The Eagle) is a public house and guest house close to the village which is over 400 years old.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Knights |first1=David |title=Friendly welcome at the Friendly - as well as Stanbury's other two pubs|url=http://www.keighleynews.co.uk/leisure/food_drink/down_pub/13463289.Friendly_welcome_at_the_Friendly___as_well_as_Stanbury_s_other_two_pubs_/ |access-date=17 October 2016 |work=Keighley News |date=18 July 2015}}</ref>