53°44′02″N 2°00′40″W / 53.734°N 2.011°W / 53.734; -2.011 Erringden is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of CalderdaleinWest Yorkshire, England. Previously it was a township within the chapelryofHeptonstall.
The first recorded mention of Erringden is in a deed from 1321, where it is named Heyrikdene,[1] and it is described as a park for hunting.
Plans of an estate in Erringden produced in 1761 are the first known work by the land surveyor and engineer Robert Whitworth, who went on to become one of the leading canal engineers of his generation.[2]
In the 1870s Erringden was described as
In the 2001 census it had a population of 194.[4] By the 2011 census the population had dropped to 159.[5]
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