Re: Green Haworth/Bedlam
 

They've named a hole Bedlam.

The nutters.

'The Club has some awe inspiring views of the surrounding area. Looking outward from our signature hole "Bedlam" you can see across the borough of Hyndburn over to Blackburn, The Coppice and Pennines and onto the surrounding Ribble Valley.'
Green Haworth Golf Club

:D

Re: Green Haworth/Bedlam
 

When I was a kid us townies probably thought people WERE mad to live at Green Haworth (though it's probably quite a desirable location now with better building materials and personal transport 'solutions'?).

I remember an old well there - down some steps across the lane from the cottages - is it still there? - I always went for a drink when in the area (provided it didn't look too mucky).

I'm told the preacher at the methodist chapel there once took as his sermon "Do as I say, not as I do". Later that day he hanged himself in the vestry. The moors have that effect on you !

PS - I haven't seen it but I'm told the cottages down the hill from the Shoulder of Mutton had stone flag floors - UPSTAIRS !!!

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Not sure but I think its the second hole, theres a hell of an all round view from the green

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One wonders if Bedlam was renamed 'Green Haworth' as part of a cynical marketing exercise sometime in the 19C.

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not disagreeing with anything posted above , but seem to remember reading/hearing something years ago about the Hospitals of Bethlehem (Bedlems) and they were originally leper colonys where folks were kept in isolation for fear of contagion, no idea if its correct , but guess it could make sense.

Re: Green Haworth/Bedlam
 

Ya believe they had a great card school SJ until some one through their hand in;):D

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Thanks to all of you for the answers

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My great grandmother lived in one of the cottages at Bedlam and was the washerwoman for what was described to me as an orphanage there (just across the road from the cottages I think). I think the orphanage building longer stands but perhaps this explains the name Bedlam.

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What an interesting thread, so just add my penny'sworth.
Entry in my very old Oxford dictionary:
Bedlam Madhouse, scene of uproar, also bedlamite = insane person.
Comes from hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem in London