Harden Beck

Harden Beck
Goit Stock Waterfall in Goit Stock Wood
Location
Country	England
Counties	West Yorkshire
District	Bradford
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Hewenden Reservoir, West Yorkshire
Mouth
• location	Beckfoot, Bingley, West Yorkshire
Length	14.55 km (9.04 mi)
Basin size	33.228[1] km2 (12.829 sq mi)
Discharge
• location	River Aire
Basin features
Tributaries
• left	Cow House Beck, Midgram Beck
• right	Mytholmes Beck

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Legend
from Doe Park Reservoir Hewenden Reservoir Hewenden Viaduct (The Great Northern Railway Trail)  B6144  Hewenden Mill Bents Mill Hallas Lane Bridge Hallas Beck Hallas Bridge Mill (site of) Goit Stock Waterfall Cow House Beck Goit Stock Mill (site of) Crag Wood Weir Harden Bridge Mill Harden to Wilsden road Midgram Beck Mytholmes Beck Birkey Bank Wood Weir Beckfoot Mill Beckfoot Ford Beckfoot Bridge River Aire

Harden Beck is a stream that flows from Hewenden Reservoir, over Goit Stock Waterfall to the River Aire in Bingley, West Yorkshire. The route starts out further up the valley as Denholme Beck, Hewenden Beck and Hallas Beck. Its waters are fed by Thornton Moor Reservoir, Stubden Reservoir, Doe Park Reservoir and Hewenden Reservoir.

Harden Beck is an overflow channel of Glacial Erosion which was carved out during the last ice age.^[2] The section after the waterfall down to the bridge under the road to Wilsden, is locally referred to as 'The Hidden Valley.'^[3]

Mapping lists Harden Beck as starting where Hallas Beck and Cow House Beck meet, but documents from Bradford Council and the Yorkshire Invasive Species Forum list the beck as starting at the dam head from Hewenden reservoir^[4][5]

In his book, Chronicles of Old Bingley, Harry Speight says that the Beck does start at the confluence of Hallas and Cow House Becks and that Harden Beck was a dividing line in the parishes, deaneries and the Wapentakes.^[6]