Editing Mytholmroyd (section)

==Culture==
Mytholmroyd Community Centre<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mytholmroydcommunityassociation.co.uk|title=Mytholmroyd Community & Leisure Centre|work=MytholmroydCommunityAssociation.co.uk|access-date=5 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150406071108/http://www.mytholmroydcommunityassociation.co.uk/|archive-date=6 April 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> hosts the annual [[Dock Pudding]] Championships, in April. In 2007 [[Robbie Coltrane]] entered the competition and was awarded second place.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hebdenbridge.co.uk/news/news07/32.html |title=Hebweb news 2007: Robbie Coltrane comes 2nd in World Dock Pudding championship |work=Hebden Bridge Web |access-date=20 July 2014}}</ref>

Award winning authors Benjamin Myers and Adele Stripe both lived Here, writing award winning books like ''The Gallows Pole'', ''Under the Rock'', ''Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile''.{{cn|date=May 2024}}

Married comedians Jon Richardson and [[Lucy Beaumont (comedian)|Lucy Beaumont]], during an interview in the ''Halifax Courier'' headlined "Mytholmroyd's Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont tell us about their brand new sitcom", talked about their TV show ''[[Meet the Richardsons]]'', which includes fellow comedians and their Hebden Bridge neighbours, and spoke about including a Dock Pudding competition.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/people/mytholmroyds-jon-richardson-and-lucy-beaumont-tell-us-about-their-brand-new-sitcom-1890952 |work=Halifax Courier|title=Mytholmroyd's Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont tell us about their brand new sitcom|date=25 February 2020|access-date=20 June 2020}}</ref>

[[Jeremy Corbyn]], leader of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] (2015-2020), visited Mytholmroyd Community Centre twice. Once in May 2018<ref>{{cite web |title=Jeremy Corbyn visits Mytholmroyd |url=https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/985177900260446209?lang=en |website=Twitter}}</ref> and also in November 2019 as part of local and national elections. On both occasions he spoke to a packed room of invited Labour Party members.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/jeremy-corbyn-given-heros-welcome-17344097 |work=Huddersfield Examiner|title=Jeremy Corbyn given hero's welcome on campaign visit to Calder Valley candidate Josh Fenton-Glynn|date=30 November 2019|access-date=20 June 2020}}</ref>

The {{convert|130|ft|adj=on}} [[Scout Rock]] on the south side of the valley in Mytholmroyd features heavily in [[Ted Hughes]]' autobiography, ''The Rock''. Hughes was born in the village, before moving to [[Mexborough]], but latterly owned a property in Mytholmroyd in his adulthood. Hughes claimed that Scout Rock cast its mood over the village.<ref>{{cite web|title=A walk around Ted Hughes' Mytholmroyd|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/content/articles/2009/07/28/mytholmroyd_walk_feature.shtml|publisher=BBC|access-date=19 July 2016}}</ref> Local writer [[Ben Myers]] also used Scout Rock as a backdrop for his non-fiction book ''Under the Rock'' released in 2018 which charts his time here after moving to the Calder Valley from London.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/book-review-under-rock-poetry-place-benjamin-myers-1429183 |work=The Scotsman|title=Book review: Under The Rock: The Poetry Of A Place, by Benjamin Myers|access-date=20 June 2020}}</ref>

Mytholmroyd has four breweries: The Nightjar Brewing Co, Little Valley Brewery, Equinox Kombucha and Vocation. The breweries supply locally and nationally and two have bars in Hebden Bridge.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} Barbarys, which opened in 2019, is a small craft bar by the Caldene bridge, and is named after an old haunt of the [[Cragg Vale Coiners]] which was sited 50 yards away.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}

===Literature===

Mytholmroyd is the primary setting in the [[post apocalyptic]] [[Rampart Trilogy]] series by British writer [[Mike Carey (writer)|M. R. Carey]]. In these books, where many names are lost to time, it is called the village of Mythen Rood.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.writerscollegeblog.com/on-names-and-dialogue-a-conversation-with-m-r-carey|work=The Writers College Times|title=On Names And Dialogue – A Conversation With M.R. Carey|access-date=10 May 2024}}</ref>