Welcome To Bubblefloss Cottage
Bubblefloss Cottage, a kitch, quirky and distinctive high quality shop, specialising in Ladies and Babies accessories and gifts that make a statement. Being the authorised dealers of Cath Kidston and situated in the heart of the shopping area of Hebden Bridge, next to the river, (where 10,000 visitors came for the duck race at Easter.) http://www.hebdenbridge.co.uk/ A busy, local and tourist, market town where excellent shops are numerous and where avoiding the supermarkets is a wonderful thing to do. Popping into one shop and then another, having a cuppa in our Tea Room, "Flossy's" and relaxing without the confusion and pressure of todays hurried way of life. There are even clean separate public conveniences, cash machines and plenty of café's so why not make a day of it? A warm welcome awaits you, literally if it's cold outside, (now centrally heated following minus 11 our first winter!!
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Hebden Bridge is on the Yorkshire side of the Pennine Hills. Not long ago, it was a small mill town producing wool and woollen goods. By the end of the sixties, the town was in bad shape. Shops were empty and blocks of terraced houses were being pulled down. During the seventies and eighties the town was repopulated by a mixture of artists, writers, photographers, musicians, alternative practitioners, teachers, green and New Age activists and more recently, wealthier people who strive for the peace and serenity of the countryside. The area has a rich literary history. The Bronte sisters wrote their famous novels just a few miles away in Haworth, the American poet, Sylvia Plath is buried at Heptonstall on the hill overlooking Hebden Bridge and the poet laureate, Ted Hughes was born in Mytholmroyd, two miles away. 
Hebden Bridge was an obvious destination for those wanting to escape the cities because life here can be a fine mixture of the urban and rural. The water from the hills powered the first mills of the Industrial Revolution. Yet, ten minutes from the town centre and you can be walking alone by the river in one of the many wooded valleys. A half an hour's walk uphill and you can be rambling across heather moorland.                                                                                                                     
2010 marks 500 years of  Hebden Bridge.

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Site last updated on Tuesday 10th April 2012