# Mankinholes

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**Mankinholes** is a [hamlet](/source/Hamlet_(place)) in the [Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale](/source/Calderdale), in [West Yorkshire](/source/West_Yorkshire), [England](/source/England). It is situated in the [Pennines](/source/Pennines) and the nearest town is [Todmorden](/source/Todmorden). The hamlet is part of Calder Ward in Calderdale Parish Council. It has a [YHA](/source/Youth_Hostels_Association_(England_%26_Wales)) [hostel](/source/Hostel), managed by the larger hostel at nearby [Haworth](/source/Haworth). Mankinholes is the starting point for the popular trek up [Stoodley Pike](/source/Stoodley_Pike) (pike being a [North-country](/source/English_language_in_northern_England) term for a mountain or large hill). The hill is surmounted by a 19th-century [obelisk](/source/Obelisk), 120 feet (37 m) high, also known as "Stoodley Pike", commemorating the end of the [Crimean War](/source/Crimean_War).

The name "Mankin" is believed to have [Celtic](/source/Celts) origins, with the [OED](/source/OED) recording its first meaning as "fierce wild man". The surname Mankin is found in parish records of the township of [Langfield](/source/Heptonstall) and the parish of [Halifax](/source/Halifax,_West_Yorkshire). One theory is that the name derives from an area of caverns, inhabited by mankins. A second theory is that the name means "Mancan's Hollow", Mancan being an [Irish](/source/Irish_people) surname. This would indicate an Irish-Viking settlement.[1]

Mankinholes was an early centre of [Wesleyan Methodism](/source/Methodism). Groups met in [farmhouses](/source/Farmhouse) as early as the late 18th century and the first chapel was built in 1814. This was enlarged in 1870 and rebuilt in 1911. An adjacent [Sunday School](/source/Sunday_School) was built in 1833. Mankinholes [Methodist Church](/source/Methodist_Church) closed on 1 July 1979, when the congregation joined with that of Lumbutts Methodist Church, situated midway between the villages of Mankinholes and [Lumbutts](/source/Lumbutts). The Mankinholes Sunday School building still stands and is now a private house, surrounded by a large graveyard.

## Film and television

"What the Mankinholes" is a frequently-used expression in the animated comedy television show *[The Treacle People](/source/The_Treacle_People)*, which is set in the nearby village of [Sabden](/source/Sabden).

## References

1. [Lumbutts & Mankinholes Conservation Area Character Appraisal](http://www.calderdale.gov.uk/environment/conservation/conservation-areas/lumbutts-mankinholes.pdf), Calderdale Borough Council, April 2008

## Other sources

- Mitchell, E., *History of Mankinholes*, 1909
- Wilkinson, R., *Methodism in Mankinholes*, 1964
- Wilkinson, R., *Unto the Hills*, 1987

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