Editing Heptonstall (section)

==Media==
Heptonstall Methodist Chapel featured in the [[BBC Four]] 2010 series ''Churches: How to Read Them'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tlwfb |title=BBC Four – Churches: How to Read Them, Dark Beginnings |publisher=BBC |date=24 November 2011 |access-date=14 January 2014}}</ref> in which [[Richard Taylor (author)|Richard Taylor]] named it as one of his ten favourite churches, saying: "If buildings have an aura, this one radiated friendship."<ref>{{cite web | url=http://riderbooks.tumblr.com/post/1137648531/richard-taylors-top-10-churches | title=Richard Taylor, Rider Books | access-date=12 February 2011 | archive-date=11 October 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011111950/http://riderbooks.tumblr.com/post/1137648531/richard-taylors-top-10-churches | url-status=dead }}</ref>

The ruin of St Thomas a Becket church featured as a location in the 1993 [[BBC Television]] drama series Mr. Wroe's Virgins<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106074/|title=Mr. Wroe's Virgins|publisher=|accessdate=13 May 2022|via=www.imdb.com}}</ref> directed by [[Danny Boyle]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106074/|title=Mr. Wroe's Virgins|publisher=|accessdate=13 May 2022|via=www.imdb.com}}</ref>

The village was the main location used in the [[BBC Three (former)|BBC Three]] [[situation comedy]] ''[[The Gemma Factor]]'', with the local tearoom being used for a major part of the show.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}} It was aired in spring 2010.

Heptonstall was a major location in ''[[The Rochdale Pioneers]]'', a film produced by the Co-operative British Youth Film Academy,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.therochdalepioneers.co.uk/the-making-of-the-film |title=The Rochdale Pioneers |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130725194225/http://www.therochdalepioneers.co.uk/the-making-of-the-film |archive-date=25 July 2013  }}</ref> telling the story of the birth of the [[History of the cooperative movement|Co-operative movement]], and screened in November 2012.

Heptonstall is also featured in the 2010 short film ''Trailing Dirt'', directed by Richard Cousins and written by Alison Flack.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1852956/locations|title=Trailing Dirt - Filming & Production|website=[[IMDb]] |accessdate=9 May 2022}}</ref>

The 2014 [[BBC]] drama ''[[Happy Valley (TV series)|Happy Valley]]'' was partly filmed in Heptonstall, and featured Sylvia Plath's grave.

The [[BBC]] drama ''[[The Gallows Pole (TV series)|The Gallows Pole]]'' was partly filmed in Heptonstall, an adaptation of a book by [[Benjamin Myers]]. It told the story of the [[Cragg Vale Coiners]], who clipped coins. This involved clipping the edges off coins and melting them down to make new coins out of the scraps. It happened on such a large scale, it threatened to devalue the currency. The grave of "King" David Hartley can be seen in the churchyard of St Thomas' Church, Heptonstall.