Article: Tourist plans for Cragg Vale Coiners base.

PLANNING permission is being sought to renovate Bell House Barn, used by the notorous counterfeit gang the Cragg Vale Coiners and turn it into a visitor attraction.

Bell House Barn in Cragg Vale is one of the oldest buildings in Calderdale. But it was partly destroyed by a storm in 1974.

Now Nathan Smith and Elizabeth Tomkins, owners of nearby Bell House, plan to reconstruct the barn.

Their plans, submitted to Calderdale Council, include dedicating a museum to the Coiners on the ground floor, along with a visitor centre for the many ramblers on the Calder and Pennine Ways.

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