Plaque at Heptonstall

The ornate stone on New House, Northgate, is inscribed 1736, with the initials of the builders H.E.F. – Henry and Elizabeth Foster. It was thought to be a Quaker house, and this was believed by the Quakers of Washington D.C. in America, when in 1970 they held a huge spring fair with copies of these figures, twelve feet high, placed alongside the main highways into the city.