tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15274203858442537762024-03-16T18:50:36.059+00:00Alone Beneath The SkyThe continuing wanderings and musings of Morley's Walking Man, transplanted Midlander and author of the 1,000 Miles Before I'm 40 Odyssey.
Still travelling to find new trails and fresh perspectives around the West Riding of Yorkshire and Beyond, and seeking the revelations of History and Geography in the landscape before writing about it here, now on the long road to 5,000 Miles, in so many ways, before he turns 50.Christopher Wrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09743749271457169317noreply@blogger.comBlogger417125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527420385844253776.post-90447757656307232902023-10-01T18:22:00.588+01:002024-01-06T21:36:29.275+00:00Morley to Harewood 30/09/23<div style="text-align: left;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">13.4 miles, via Valley Mills, White Rose, Beeston Park Side, Cross Flatts Park, Hunslet Carr,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Pottery Fields, Crown Point, Leeds (St Peter's), The Leylands, Sheepscarr, Buslingthorpe,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Scott Hall, Chapel Allerton, Moortown, Moor Allerton, Alwoodley, Alwoodley Gates,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Sturdy Bridge, Cote Hill, and Wall Side<b style="text-align: left;">. </b></div></b></div><p style="text-align: left;">The first weekend of Autumn is spent away from the trail, as we've got a reunion to do celebrating (almost) 30 years since we first came to Leeds to attend University, reuniting five of the original ten members of our first student residence, seven (7!) years after our last meetup and feeling a lot more like a reunion of old guys this time around, as we ate and drank an afternoon and evening together, also presenting pretty nice day for it as well as we trolled ourselves from town to Hyde Park and back along the way of it, and experience that I'll probably have more to say about at the year's summation, but for now it's just good to take a break and catch up with some old heads before we resume another push into the Late Season. When that does come around, the weather hasn't travelled and we've got both a tight window ahead of rain and a total lack of trains to play with as our route chooses itself, having intended to approach if for much f the Summer, and as we descend to Morley Station for our 9am jump off, noting proper construction finally having started around the lift towers at the new station, we find our early going is all very familiar, down Valley Road past the old gasworks and mills, and onto the muddy avoiding path and thence down the railway-side, mostly undercover of overgrown foliage as we travel towards the White Rose Centre and its own woodland walk. This leads us out to the Dewsury Roads, amidst the tangling of the main road with the access way and the petrol stations, crossing over by the island in sight of the culverting Millshaw Beck and hitting the surprisingly long drag uphill on the A653 Dewsbury Road towards the greater city, with the railway bridge at the urban edge, beyond Stank Hall always being further along than expected, and running into Beeston Park Side, you become very much aware that we've already set two tracks in this direction, as we merge in with Ring Road Middleton, past the old St David's church and up to the Tommy Wass junction. The Dewsbury Road will be our obvious red route into the city, taking the left-side pavements along the dual carriageway to mix things up from our last trek this way in 2014, passing the long stretches of terraced ends of South Beeston around the shopping parade, across from the suburban semis that run down to the Broadway Inn and the Harrison Sparks plant, before we touch base with Cross Flatts Park, astonishingly less than an hour away from home, and pass the Dewsbury Road social club and the corner where we dwelled very briefly back in 1998, carrying on as industry bumps up to the lane, as the terraces return to the roadside, displaying a fine ghost sign before we pass the former cinema (and 'health club') on the Parkside Lane corner.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD4OYF0Ziby8Jje9VRz5WXspH4kPBwWQrp1FJqtO3SAvtOAgISfWT08eYLH3e_H6zaeoUP3Pd2pdLuImcqr7gOW0rVsPEaALr5A0erxt5uE8ZbhuLatzLdzwZFCgfLANLSuJlBolPoSJsR3twgBZWg9lKxOhHTdmeuc9wmV9dju199ngxG5w7Npv8wGwM/s2560/P2030108.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD4OYF0Ziby8Jje9VRz5WXspH4kPBwWQrp1FJqtO3SAvtOAgISfWT08eYLH3e_H6zaeoUP3Pd2pdLuImcqr7gOW0rVsPEaALr5A0erxt5uE8ZbhuLatzLdzwZFCgfLANLSuJlBolPoSJsR3twgBZWg9lKxOhHTdmeuc9wmV9dju199ngxG5w7Npv8wGwM/s320/P2030108.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lift Towers finally under construction, Morley station.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJbBdT_9VCzOtcc3upiTQK4WeA7M2pvN89NVOijhXyAmwRh0ckh2JD79TQe2Hu8BEu4FZsM38YYGjbJo0_UiOPw96MVZJhPvngamR7dhUsCdJoWJIhaQc8FLkuuZ4HiUUdCxFCZhXHuHgcR_2f4kfAj1D3gW0i4-Kxqm_Um-NVpKN1z4dSkPB1iTEEkVU/s2560/P2030146.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJbBdT_9VCzOtcc3upiTQK4WeA7M2pvN89NVOijhXyAmwRh0ckh2JD79TQe2Hu8BEu4FZsM38YYGjbJo0_UiOPw96MVZJhPvngamR7dhUsCdJoWJIhaQc8FLkuuZ4HiUUdCxFCZhXHuHgcR_2f4kfAj1D3gW0i4-Kxqm_Um-NVpKN1z4dSkPB1iTEEkVU/s320/P2030146.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Woodland Walk, White Rose Centre.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMcxr1sex60pXJL-GKKDxD3krrQuySQ8L0BS0BNQTeTJ9vi6kwjFvVUfcaeOyY6Ny0NMULPPq14QrL8u7e4t2lXd5ZlkJejDdDppDYIqdgSkepqa74wHL4gNTz8g42pt2Q82KVinjbsP-GZ15y-Ac0jL4nB2n-yZbtRimhwOUrgC1il_0OOUY9BvUMPkg/s2560/P2030168.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMcxr1sex60pXJL-GKKDxD3krrQuySQ8L0BS0BNQTeTJ9vi6kwjFvVUfcaeOyY6Ny0NMULPPq14QrL8u7e4t2lXd5ZlkJejDdDppDYIqdgSkepqa74wHL4gNTz8g42pt2Q82KVinjbsP-GZ15y-Ac0jL4nB2n-yZbtRimhwOUrgC1il_0OOUY9BvUMPkg/s320/P2030168.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tangling with the Ring Road and Dewsbury Road.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0f2O-eEG6QzL6Zgz6-X8uqmmQteSYsCVZ7SaMelp9xAu_9s3SWcpTbhvqY3u5vw9vRodGAPJy5_vtfpjYVsVOkHDREGYrlGb72tAbYakujekooewgql3RcoXSCdDMQbThGQdMi9_zSEVlzFlRLn0bfrxc0-pQlH2rmbES63YLqsWLqGRo4KiVZwmahsQ/s2560/P2030188.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0f2O-eEG6QzL6Zgz6-X8uqmmQteSYsCVZ7SaMelp9xAu_9s3SWcpTbhvqY3u5vw9vRodGAPJy5_vtfpjYVsVOkHDREGYrlGb72tAbYakujekooewgql3RcoXSCdDMQbThGQdMi9_zSEVlzFlRLn0bfrxc0-pQlH2rmbES63YLqsWLqGRo4KiVZwmahsQ/s320/P2030188.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Welcome to Beeston Park Side.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtjuDbDE1aqDH1xYVLTz64v9aH6nFeqErmKXDTInVEEm_Qxxz5M4is7KJA7BVOChsEzWQ6NdzzPVlwL2h7dS6Zewp9ufTo9solRQJ3IRK8-kW8o0b0hvXTQTjB8x8jkcD5URVqOe70FYSL_dqdCS5D78l64a3d4IPEXyTIOFtQokRY5-WW7dD-74u6P5g/s2560/P2030217.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtjuDbDE1aqDH1xYVLTz64v9aH6nFeqErmKXDTInVEEm_Qxxz5M4is7KJA7BVOChsEzWQ6NdzzPVlwL2h7dS6Zewp9ufTo9solRQJ3IRK8-kW8o0b0hvXTQTjB8x8jkcD5URVqOe70FYSL_dqdCS5D78l64a3d4IPEXyTIOFtQokRY5-WW7dD-74u6P5g/s320/P2030217.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dewsbury Road and the Broadway Inn.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyw3SGmHbGt1CUKGHMa64mKhuDLNvAYBRIkV1cRFTmiPFWsb0oWcPviV07LDojlJBy5UZQgyDch674KXKTbCo8vhSE0RTMWOY0HHs9LSAAIlHTOT8juCKo5Cg5cuIsA6hrj2krjEJdg2REs3NWZBBI1NZxElcVRtfjZ6cchL89P95OerIWIZ5408CKyvI/s2560/P2030243.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyw3SGmHbGt1CUKGHMa64mKhuDLNvAYBRIkV1cRFTmiPFWsb0oWcPviV07LDojlJBy5UZQgyDch674KXKTbCo8vhSE0RTMWOY0HHs9LSAAIlHTOT8juCKo5Cg5cuIsA6hrj2krjEJdg2REs3NWZBBI1NZxElcVRtfjZ6cchL89P95OerIWIZ5408CKyvI/s320/P2030243.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Ghost Sign and the 'Health Club', Dewsbury Road.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">Then we are deep into the terraced urban landscape, of North Beeston or Hunslet Carr depending on what map you're reading, passing north among the terrace ends and runs, mostly across the way from the array of stores and takeaways that service the diverse neighbourhood of the lands to the west, noting the other fine, through sadly obscured ghost sign by the old New Inn before we press on, past the New Bewerley Community School, the site of St Peter's church and the Spinning Wheel Inn as we split off the Dewsbury Road and join the unlit path that leads us by the playing fields and up to the footbridges and raised walkways that elevate us over the M621, the Wakefield and Castleford bound railway line and the tangle at the top of the A653. We then drop down to the roadside once more, by the ranks of car dealerships adjacent to the Leeds Gasworks site, pressing on alongside the vast traffic island until <span></span>we meet the Civica House - Union mill site at its apex and split off to change our passage trajectory into the city of Leeds away from the A653, thusly down Holmes Street to Kidacre Street and into the Crown Point Retail Park, on the Midland Railway goods station site, and then on to passage over the dual carriageway of Great Wilson Street and up Crown Point Road, beside the Tetley Brewery site which is finally getting redeveloped after a decade of lying fallow, as we are draw up to meet Brewery Wharf flats and passage over the River Aire at Crown Point bridge, landing us in the city west of the Calls, the Palage hotle and Leeds Minster at the eastern end of Kirkgate. Duke Street marks our first entanglement with the A61 as it leads us past Penny Pocket Park and under the train-free railway bridges, to passage over New York Street, and around the city bus station, across the way from the BBC Leeds HQ, the Leeds Conservatoire and the West Yorkshire Playhouse around the semi-revived St Peter's Square, before we come up by John Lewis's at the bottom end of Eastgate and cross to the traffic island with the Pagoda that used to be a petrol station on it, taking a break by the Arthur Aaron VC memorial statue on the convenient ring of benches to contemplate the lack of distance travelled, in distance and duration before we press onwards to break through the psychological barrier created by the the city of Leeds, with first footfalls taking us between the new City College campus and the city Job Centre, and on below the A64(M) inner ring road.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRQ8lxOBfPPFGSO8DsksRR1UaiGeu2oPhx8J9JLCYPaKr1MArJoIu8PY790ERbAE0ckjkgorZ_rt3V5yEjP6jlsssICgiqwCbKTd7C1olKJL5yIcUaVkvrxUSSd1Jsm-La5WSG4GjfCw5OBksROMSnDP952z8tZMe640okm5M08nw1evAIVVLY4aDnf3w/s2560/P2030274.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRQ8lxOBfPPFGSO8DsksRR1UaiGeu2oPhx8J9JLCYPaKr1MArJoIu8PY790ERbAE0ckjkgorZ_rt3V5yEjP6jlsssICgiqwCbKTd7C1olKJL5yIcUaVkvrxUSSd1Jsm-La5WSG4GjfCw5OBksROMSnDP952z8tZMe640okm5M08nw1evAIVVLY4aDnf3w/s320/P2030274.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Among the stores and takeouts of Hunslet Carr.</td></tr></tbody></table></p><p style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqTXyLMAtAQsOm0lKF__mwf-svRJGi8TIsMTI7elRNsmlqFnJT17RpGbuvEYU-fpQnATEnXDcjB7-20GWQBrXX98vYr8Hr-cKMs7OxbJqgzE9bd8CDdQYXKcujYLKwMgxUGlH85T1XPABPGXY83UVv0H4ZD2q1KqFMbyk2kIApx-TI95M0-JLWdVzzGrc/s2560/P2030312.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqTXyLMAtAQsOm0lKF__mwf-svRJGi8TIsMTI7elRNsmlqFnJT17RpGbuvEYU-fpQnATEnXDcjB7-20GWQBrXX98vYr8Hr-cKMs7OxbJqgzE9bd8CDdQYXKcujYLKwMgxUGlH85T1XPABPGXY83UVv0H4ZD2q1KqFMbyk2kIApx-TI95M0-JLWdVzzGrc/s320/P2030312.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the footbridges above the Motorway and Railway.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaaKJ1k5GKIsT1W2KOJ9kYSthibCILWiRKMCCtsS12zhOARY6rnnfDgicMcfEcsLYatwg6snBx-N01WjS91vYHqvr1eFAn9RkOImU-N9u6EiI0LMWxrnOCvl4TC06SQ41PorJJhrpnXqhZDrl4KN5KdQxcvcD9OqWvcjitHr0LavHHtBXE5sI3ObMkG94/s2560/P2030363.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaaKJ1k5GKIsT1W2KOJ9kYSthibCILWiRKMCCtsS12zhOARY6rnnfDgicMcfEcsLYatwg6snBx-N01WjS91vYHqvr1eFAn9RkOImU-N9u6EiI0LMWxrnOCvl4TC06SQ41PorJJhrpnXqhZDrl4KN5KdQxcvcD9OqWvcjitHr0LavHHtBXE5sI3ObMkG94/s320/P2030363.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crown Point Retail Park.</td></tr></tbody></table></p><p style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9V-lwFG-Phz3wLD-wNnKhLEVjMTHvoQRslD_Wpbq3boxv3fyNaNA-LLaQEcZ3NxSi0kycXyWhPhmwnYWXkb_AbzIHB_izBTSqdxYyPWdwEeUduMXdRqz5uaP1iS_6c8STmTnJP5Ai_Ko90YzU1xskPAefd0HSN03q1mYpMMJKX5uIj2HKp8VjtsrszNc/s2560/P2030419.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9V-lwFG-Phz3wLD-wNnKhLEVjMTHvoQRslD_Wpbq3boxv3fyNaNA-LLaQEcZ3NxSi0kycXyWhPhmwnYWXkb_AbzIHB_izBTSqdxYyPWdwEeUduMXdRqz5uaP1iS_6c8STmTnJP5Ai_Ko90YzU1xskPAefd0HSN03q1mYpMMJKX5uIj2HKp8VjtsrszNc/s320/P2030419.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The River Aire at Crown Point Bridge, Leeds.</td></tr></tbody></table></p><p style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiW3JMRjPXKcANCS4gkcsE05cGgvZlSezZ4NYojBDy6zRXo3wlodHS73kf_FFcvhjMIRK41i0INUkEPGfTMP46iAnt5BANroYmnfJhHXpjL-HdwA6dcppXORyotF3KIjPtBZ_MeryS_zIf_1dGEMcAUwfiH9L2Ta8_N2HKmi1x0ZdoCkahHsitQaJiRu8/s2560/P2030442.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiW3JMRjPXKcANCS4gkcsE05cGgvZlSezZ4NYojBDy6zRXo3wlodHS73kf_FFcvhjMIRK41i0INUkEPGfTMP46iAnt5BANroYmnfJhHXpjL-HdwA6dcppXORyotF3KIjPtBZ_MeryS_zIf_1dGEMcAUwfiH9L2Ta8_N2HKmi1x0ZdoCkahHsitQaJiRu8/s320/P2030442.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Duke Street Railway Viaduct, Leeds.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYzPqqH3NyGOkP7S2Avn8BB79mcHHvhxQhfFxqyi-NxxDPQmt_5Cqou6QGQXnWM8yO_yvKNvjZbWU7zX2EMKOGGSzTgsg0PhlgeWtvByRVSzGP5_KJgejRuugwbPXvO-nsDGew_mi5Ti6CGq6biHNhI67x9vV4GSDh-v3EmXhvX3sV660ON7E9y-78s7Q/s2560/P2030481.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYzPqqH3NyGOkP7S2Avn8BB79mcHHvhxQhfFxqyi-NxxDPQmt_5Cqou6QGQXnWM8yO_yvKNvjZbWU7zX2EMKOGGSzTgsg0PhlgeWtvByRVSzGP5_KJgejRuugwbPXvO-nsDGew_mi5Ti6CGq6biHNhI67x9vV4GSDh-v3EmXhvX3sV660ON7E9y-78s7Q/s320/P2030481.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Eastgate Pagoda, and the Victoria Gate centre.</td></tr></tbody></table></p><p style="text-align: left;">Regent Street carries us northwards, passing though The Leylands and not bearing much similarity to its London namesake as it forms a bulk retail and industrial band to the northwest of the city centre, passing Christopher Pratts's furniture and lighting store, and the crowd of lads that gathers outside Patriot Games, as well as the only blocks of city flats that I seriously contemplated when home hunting in 2006, before we come upon the Churchill Barracks of the Leeds Army Reserves, and passage over the almost concealed passage of Meanwood Beck, before we come up to the Sheepscar interchange, the singularly most stress inducing junction in the city, where foot passage has to be planned well in advance, as the crossings on North Street, Clay Pit Lane and Meanwood Road have to be negotiated among the streams of traffic to keep us on track. Sheepscar Street (North) has the pavement that elevates us into North Leeds, onto the north side of the Meanwood Valley, giving us sight towards Woodhouse and the University before we are finally drawn up to the side of the A61 Scott Hall Road by the considerable remnants of Buslingthorpe Tannery, joining this most ahistorical of all of Leeds's major routes as it presses uphill into the landscape of the Scott Hall estate, west of densely packed terraces of Chapeltown and Potternewton, among many council house semis that I can't be sure that I've ever seen, uncertain if this a route that I have ever travelled by car or bus in all my years in the North Country, which is an odd feeling to have as we press uphill to the level plots that's home to the Caribbean cricket club and Potternewton playing fields. We can also ponder the seemingly underused guided bus lane, and the trig pillar in the middle of the road before we take our last looks to the high points of the city centre and delve deeper into the northern suburbs, meeting a prior route in these parts as we cross the B6159 Potternewton Lane by the traffic island and shopping parade, past the leisure centre and through the last remnants of the council estate landscape before we come up to the Stainbeck Lane island, also previously traversed, and as we now sit west of Chapel Allerton, the landscape becomes a whole lot more middle class suburban as the size of the houses changes up, with considerable trees lining the road all the way up to the Stainbeck Road corner, by the Esso garage, our third previous point of lateral passage across the northern city.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0_09-6yWxqheEkAOXN3F4T-M8-STd6tYLFjKTp4Vj7xgdn6m3_fvqZi6prmBuMxoIvY0ws8Mt69Is1CcdARWpuNEmgNWWU2jrrs4n-ztbU6x6Hi6wlLYWs8tKX3xy5jbKq-URvSh0JwNUF-gEA8dxDTh2l6DZ0mSF4tVl1yOIhtr7SGvhXqLx-bB2-ng/s2560/P2030506.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0_09-6yWxqheEkAOXN3F4T-M8-STd6tYLFjKTp4Vj7xgdn6m3_fvqZi6prmBuMxoIvY0ws8Mt69Is1CcdARWpuNEmgNWWU2jrrs4n-ztbU6x6Hi6wlLYWs8tKX3xy5jbKq-URvSh0JwNUF-gEA8dxDTh2l6DZ0mSF4tVl1yOIhtr7SGvhXqLx-bB2-ng/s320/P2030506.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Regent Street and Christopher Pratt's furniture store.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7GA0J0y6duPBTbVQP-ZmnR1rUhDZRHJxCIZjZjGnqxlwfTl_9u7TNPicDJrYYDN_uRoMxX2qXIjdYUedFTWgrb98ZbtXXTY4IrjsNlvtyBLqRiY79AhoJsXO3ZnIS4shJVhR1pHOi3097i4wz2tmpPO3UnNndB_y6KejY8ISZFuQaFXDGvHPuo2b-KLE/s2560/P2030536.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7GA0J0y6duPBTbVQP-ZmnR1rUhDZRHJxCIZjZjGnqxlwfTl_9u7TNPicDJrYYDN_uRoMxX2qXIjdYUedFTWgrb98ZbtXXTY4IrjsNlvtyBLqRiY79AhoJsXO3ZnIS4shJVhR1pHOi3097i4wz2tmpPO3UnNndB_y6KejY8ISZFuQaFXDGvHPuo2b-KLE/s320/P2030536.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The North Street Bank, Sheepscar Interchange.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLyI61IUBGCLeKbUkx7qhkMA9AVW6yHvulZ-XpmqkgJZVWAmQGDvJA0j9uye6Yv-CZ23oJQCE7IkkoHHJ6TQBfuZYJjfbW4Tc9fhiFBIZs96nHgy5Sq51lW-Em9BGSZdo5wdY_zyqrQ9OjknGFKh28RxXAm0tdqfhxIlMQTfpJ2oH-A8aMFskWlDMlCf0/s2560/P2030571.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLyI61IUBGCLeKbUkx7qhkMA9AVW6yHvulZ-XpmqkgJZVWAmQGDvJA0j9uye6Yv-CZ23oJQCE7IkkoHHJ6TQBfuZYJjfbW4Tc9fhiFBIZs96nHgy5Sq51lW-Em9BGSZdo5wdY_zyqrQ9OjknGFKh28RxXAm0tdqfhxIlMQTfpJ2oH-A8aMFskWlDMlCf0/s320/P2030571.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joining the A61 Scott Hall Road, by Buslingthorpe Tannery.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpQD1G3yM1pvuPWTnspRe02NCXdxDtKHazgG4qKoxmRvPv0OHRk8LM54CEeFY-gsHz61C0yleiYcB0a1QtQFIABQjo95jOXGXnxWSTBDl-DwFkFq4f6_eoKvgf0uN6Paldq48aj43SDB5PQFy3CbXku8KBoQDo9o7I7sb5GYjQkM8pfFWVgAEwqQkVHxg/s2560/P2030595.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpQD1G3yM1pvuPWTnspRe02NCXdxDtKHazgG4qKoxmRvPv0OHRk8LM54CEeFY-gsHz61C0yleiYcB0a1QtQFIABQjo95jOXGXnxWSTBDl-DwFkFq4f6_eoKvgf0uN6Paldq48aj43SDB5PQFy3CbXku8KBoQDo9o7I7sb5GYjQkM8pfFWVgAEwqQkVHxg/s320/P2030595.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The climb of the A61, Scott Hall Estate.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2YJnHCBfVtVkq-fIcpVCtA5PNDDMDKrGk7yRBqGarUrKl2L7J_9i2sbLg2oXIQv89hJxH2BNozlXx81OyebuAgYAKbEZOj5rP1aB8u7y53aiX5yVBcaIwm__FQ5xF7BFwkXbK7hBtwTYqHrLxrHH7Ujjz1bO-BfafDMbxjBWB1HTsy8W5TCNfB9l_kW8/s2560/P2030615.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2YJnHCBfVtVkq-fIcpVCtA5PNDDMDKrGk7yRBqGarUrKl2L7J_9i2sbLg2oXIQv89hJxH2BNozlXx81OyebuAgYAKbEZOj5rP1aB8u7y53aiX5yVBcaIwm__FQ5xF7BFwkXbK7hBtwTYqHrLxrHH7Ujjz1bO-BfafDMbxjBWB1HTsy8W5TCNfB9l_kW8/s320/P2030615.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scott Hall Playing Fields and the Trig Pillar.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD8zaiytbfqH67ow3D53Y4PZUXx-oE2Es6YSPFs42pmvZYPUfGyAz1tjQ10CaZBOQ15GZcejCB0HYpuwiTOEdnUiTbR6U69uFe5ChVpJaDtpE1hH_a0favA9rhm3u3-5N5GgPXuOHxt72T_BvaO-kc5ZbOXul1iDqvZzSLF1RWJXGEP8JQnWqdMFcwE4M/s2560/P2030653.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD8zaiytbfqH67ow3D53Y4PZUXx-oE2Es6YSPFs42pmvZYPUfGyAz1tjQ10CaZBOQ15GZcejCB0HYpuwiTOEdnUiTbR6U69uFe5ChVpJaDtpE1hH_a0favA9rhm3u3-5N5GgPXuOHxt72T_BvaO-kc5ZbOXul1iDqvZzSLF1RWJXGEP8JQnWqdMFcwE4M/s320/P2030653.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Leafy Suburbia that's Chapel Allerton adjacent.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">The lack of history starts to get boring as the suburban landscape goes on and on, still under the cover of greenery that's displaying little by way of autumnal colour at the end of September, with the passage over King Lane being noted for its historical vintage, as the old pre-turnpike lane to Bramhope and Arthington, and having not been previously traversed, before the suburbia gets even more upscale as we cross over Street Lane, definitively traversed in the past and on up past the apartment development at the Moorfield House Site, and the run up to the top of Stonegate Road, the other major lane heeding north that I've never paced, and its entanglement with the Harrogate Road, putting us back on pavements seen from bussing the #36 and among old buildings once again. Prior footfalls in this part of Moor Allerton have only been made here in 2007, when dropping off keys at my letting agent on my previous home, an office that isn't there anymore, in the block ahead of the A6120 Ring Road, where new footways have been laid to ease the crossing, ahead of the tree-concealed St John's church, where we arrive just to late to indulge in the Macmillan Coffee morning and bake sale, but we do at least find a bench to take second lunch in the shade around the Etz Chaim synagogue and the press into suburban Alwoodley, past the underground reservoir and Royal Mail office on the hillcrest and on into a landscape with more than its expected share of tower blocks among the city's grandest plots of suburbia, passing the shopping parade and Lord Darcy tavern, as well as the way to Moortown Golf Club (host of the 1929 Ryder Cup). The burgeoning colours of Autumn among the Horse Chestnut trees and the carpets of conkers that litter the pavements grab the attention from the host of hedges that conceal the outermost suburbs of the city, as we press up to Alwoodley gates and its farmstead hamlet on the crossroads ahead of the A61 finally quitting the city and entering the countryside, past the entrance to the considerable estate of the Leeds Grammar School, almost concealed away to the east, and maintaining a footway as we enter the fields, carrying us on to the the woodlands that carry the track down towards Eccup Reservoir, and the route once traversed around the north-east of the city, where we come upon the bottom edge of the Harewood Estate, past the semi-circular Alwoodley Lodge, and its frustratingly inaccessible track, which is almost completely obscured by recently felled logs.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFb0BlRERQK4tTlYGLsMqUpvMC8-SfaHNloYxa7NXolGHRS_LW2HiI5rvjErmIZT3Ou-Naiewy2IMeThSu4_SVNSXYWbX_H1MRKVQx9DC8W7HoR1H8ikToJpurJoigIZpJe0mCeWZope6rjBtCc1BraBXkdihyphenhyphenkd_kUn_ufuZ7-K7ZjGQWeBN4i4s9FQc/s2560/P2030686.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFb0BlRERQK4tTlYGLsMqUpvMC8-SfaHNloYxa7NXolGHRS_LW2HiI5rvjErmIZT3Ou-Naiewy2IMeThSu4_SVNSXYWbX_H1MRKVQx9DC8W7HoR1H8ikToJpurJoigIZpJe0mCeWZope6rjBtCc1BraBXkdihyphenhyphenkd_kUn_ufuZ7-K7ZjGQWeBN4i4s9FQc/s320/P2030686.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Leafy Suburbia that's Moortown adjacent.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiCtbQ-YCdmpOVufoFhcxOPcdEYUkZ1U_6FIWerJdKXpZSwZAmeR7mFyuuloqE2NPFbRqNALiy0juVBigip4_938dhIyq9tqs-ZCGuXNJwUkkj70D5aMJurLtmHtaJEzwQB1-_3lSfdXWboC1dQCo0d4-t6OseZWrukUq8Tq18L_dmu281fVFqxtPjBXI/s2560/P2030733.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiCtbQ-YCdmpOVufoFhcxOPcdEYUkZ1U_6FIWerJdKXpZSwZAmeR7mFyuuloqE2NPFbRqNALiy0juVBigip4_938dhIyq9tqs-ZCGuXNJwUkkj70D5aMJurLtmHtaJEzwQB1-_3lSfdXWboC1dQCo0d4-t6OseZWrukUq8Tq18L_dmu281fVFqxtPjBXI/s320/P2030733.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harrogate Road, and vintage buildings, Moor Allerton.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFufeuqXF6qmdrIH_6U_n9IE1tiOU8ZWhaMA_xOP0V8sJa39CwVtEPhsm1SJUi9IRFRzRO57sLrqV9A2-a7Zr3DXhRu8EegWmU3TiDvuFZn2VLSmbU2QeY1GoEkTdnb9z5Hzue-tlnrQ1Le0-E7EbAdN-FHm15aws85I63-UNOAa7fvluLbSmWtnVI__s/s2560/P2030768.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2mF_z1kmRfapEVk6nfrzynao-evhtQ2aMcX13HGhgRow7Wtlw6rjPnrxVHpsyjyrwJNIJ5xpYJLidik-FzKZl1f5pFuJHygYKzJp0hzeC5fKLL-gEXMoTwLTM9jswAiaVCUO54WuFEgQyIkMEAYzaC_pfb64zLWKsfVqPt1skcwOtcrhBKuWMjgy41n8/s320/P2030790.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Alwoodley shopping parade, and the Lord Darcy tavern.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLO7aBPu126ifP9fZ2jkumBMdQwbfREALhLQORYuKLjFjcY-_3KzAmFWmRuoQsc6I4-E-PBX_n_54MjLFnQu8WPmTmAFraD15mr493aDhQnlXGNofqoR1h7v4eIjVS1YkzBHhAmcS3GFbK3uookhOlrzzbsul_fYWzm7v4CbOWQB9dGTAKrVftWSPDlXQ/s2560/P2030814.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLO7aBPu126ifP9fZ2jkumBMdQwbfREALhLQORYuKLjFjcY-_3KzAmFWmRuoQsc6I4-E-PBX_n_54MjLFnQu8WPmTmAFraD15mr493aDhQnlXGNofqoR1h7v4eIjVS1YkzBHhAmcS3GFbK3uookhOlrzzbsul_fYWzm7v4CbOWQB9dGTAKrVftWSPDlXQ/s320/P2030814.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The old farmsteads at Alwoodley Gates.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMEzZjYe5aq_bM6ue70CR5PK5mHN-i4UXKsWuCFil-aoBHSN5RbNv2el2udwi3uRlriAm9YoccGldvLKhGoodUt6tkC5EYIUNLFHqZbD4Bp_9zcsILHOqpRWG4BvaEPM9tfNaWQHICvQcmQbnI31Re12_2JsbkLhg3cKomEc35q2xs9dSVKTf7XvkSk18/s2560/P2030850.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMEzZjYe5aq_bM6ue70CR5PK5mHN-i4UXKsWuCFil-aoBHSN5RbNv2el2udwi3uRlriAm9YoccGldvLKhGoodUt6tkC5EYIUNLFHqZbD4Bp_9zcsILHOqpRWG4BvaEPM9tfNaWQHICvQcmQbnI31Re12_2JsbkLhg3cKomEc35q2xs9dSVKTf7XvkSk18/s320/P2030850.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alwoodley Lodge, Harewood Estate.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">The footway ends past Millfield House farmstead an we are forced onto the tarmac of the A61, right on a kink that looks like an accident blackspot, before we walk on against the traffic among the wrinkles of the landscape that sheds towards the river Wharfe, having dropped over the watershed somewhere at the top of the city, keeping the wits engaged as we pace down to the embankment that elevates us over Sturdy Beck, via the eponymous Sturdy Bridge, and then its on up the other side, remaining engaged as there's no margin for error as we rise to the blind corner ahead of the Wike Field farmstead and the evening out of the going as we come up to the walled perimeter of the Harewood estate, beyond the 2 mile marker, by the Sugar Hill and Cote Hill plantations. Our first rough approximation can be gained, through the haze from here, before we drop down through the woods and note that the #36 buses seem to be running in threes today. maybe to cover up the lack of trains, though it's definitely a curious sight to see as we come down to the Wike Lane corner, opposite the completely rebuilt Lofthouse Lodge, where we cross the sixth and final leg of the Leeds Country Way route to draw it into Tier 2, passing beyond its northern edge as we continue up the A61's side, away from the secure footpath that tracks through Wall Side Plantation, keeping on against the traffic and the vegetation at the kerb as we track among the trees that obscure all sense of location outside of the estate walls. Not the funnest of final miles then, with the entrances to Lofthouse Grange and Moor Hill farms being the only things to note while there's no roosting Red Kites to observe, before we climb the final press towards Harewood village, finally gaining a pavement under our feet again as we come up by Gateways School and pass across the still untraced passage of The Avenue, the A659 east towards Collingham, and circuit about the 18th century model village past the estate's main gates, the Harewood Arms and the pair of bus stands to cover all the local bases in our tier shuffling exercise, but sadly not being able to drop in on my former colleague who lives locally as she's presently under the weather, meaning that I can't fulfil the promise made some two decades ago to walk from home to Harewood to visit her (when I lived in Burley Park, much closer than I do now!).</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF5-wa8raO8BrNh03AQT3190AZXhjjLW9_T_GMOQeUzkm9fynZER64ybFZuLQu_UdrRzRidkomSYYpdR6Bv-SZYwyWMPPa54eT0-BdJ_v05IjXjV-TXMtOwnPAQXAMYnx65_Xlh77fNNJb5VVcGU133hEUmsUjOuiiX_gjr43LP8LkxUjrNTHq4gy5DNQ/s2560/P2030876.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF5-wa8raO8BrNh03AQT3190AZXhjjLW9_T_GMOQeUzkm9fynZER64ybFZuLQu_UdrRzRidkomSYYpdR6Bv-SZYwyWMPPa54eT0-BdJ_v05IjXjV-TXMtOwnPAQXAMYnx65_Xlh77fNNJb5VVcGU133hEUmsUjOuiiX_gjr43LP8LkxUjrNTHq4gy5DNQ/s320/P2030876.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The descent to Sturdy Bridge.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLZ3RQSFTzOBwMfa6UlQjOvVuiBr2jXlIe2BPUV3J5HYXa6-TthdfYzwnBi5wFIVDSOT11VhVjK8ngmkhB7Eu7KqH5y2nMfvLU_OKoLHCpzG-sO3LYq4JagE0LiQd-FiUWP_7KnahgKHOKxtBaP__ClttRj71i6bGE_VQjdZ52iveU7GJZol1Cjb9KooY/s2560/P2030919.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLZ3RQSFTzOBwMfa6UlQjOvVuiBr2jXlIe2BPUV3J5HYXa6-TthdfYzwnBi5wFIVDSOT11VhVjK8ngmkhB7Eu7KqH5y2nMfvLU_OKoLHCpzG-sO3LYq4JagE0LiQd-FiUWP_7KnahgKHOKxtBaP__ClttRj71i6bGE_VQjdZ52iveU7GJZol1Cjb9KooY/s320/P2030919.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The ascent to Cote Hill.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPuotYYah8HE3X3am6hlnHhZrsEimiZiITlO0W2xEJOoQ007jptwZCYBK0fLI70EqfIGZJyhZaQzlhYtepAckCvexeouRoQaqnUmgdGQ8Z68TVwgzNZYdYviaC9N896mBfKMu1qBMXfZ0WVndArrPz2Fc8O8JeRdih7SfTmxZuzvNse0ylFb-plpTX04o/s2560/P2030958.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPuotYYah8HE3X3am6hlnHhZrsEimiZiITlO0W2xEJOoQ007jptwZCYBK0fLI70EqfIGZJyhZaQzlhYtepAckCvexeouRoQaqnUmgdGQ8Z68TVwgzNZYdYviaC9N896mBfKMu1qBMXfZ0WVndArrPz2Fc8O8JeRdih7SfTmxZuzvNse0ylFb-plpTX04o/s320/P2030958.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lofthouse Lodge, Harewood Estate.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6bHcvDuq7H01cpDkU4pswQJrqQBjYrjmPBhDhpKTl1rwQPz8j8koeWDYG9js9VExA4f-3grBmjc8oZFjuTh5psoob3NEOT0RoGNo0toSryPXB39SAxH6LrFwpM281O3kyGCYp_KZy4WsLHfXUSAS4cNIjcj-1WRzU_nWd0mQli-buCgmzfgIV3vnWayQ/s2560/P2030988.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6bHcvDuq7H01cpDkU4pswQJrqQBjYrjmPBhDhpKTl1rwQPz8j8koeWDYG9js9VExA4f-3grBmjc8oZFjuTh5psoob3NEOT0RoGNo0toSryPXB39SAxH6LrFwpM281O3kyGCYp_KZy4WsLHfXUSAS4cNIjcj-1WRzU_nWd0mQli-buCgmzfgIV3vnWayQ/s320/P2030988.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wall Side Plantation.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMmwSOyAniTsC_uUhg28YUzeBPkfFxQTnZ3dmGK6RUf2jn3c5YCPYLgAIoEkML5lMq2M8OCwsib8QtuI4oxNZ41NqJAJaG9XLro8gRX7zokgNVPlhYFmXfiZB4c_Ha1tKf1gKzfDSIrto5INu8hBE2rEoggBdmLJuN0PjG9mGIRKUlo6TabIaYPc7xLws/s2560/P2040025.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMmwSOyAniTsC_uUhg28YUzeBPkfFxQTnZ3dmGK6RUf2jn3c5YCPYLgAIoEkML5lMq2M8OCwsib8QtuI4oxNZ41NqJAJaG9XLro8gRX7zokgNVPlhYFmXfiZB4c_Ha1tKf1gKzfDSIrto5INu8hBE2rEoggBdmLJuN0PjG9mGIRKUlo6TabIaYPc7xLws/s320/P2040025.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Road walking finally comes to and end at Hrewood village.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1AOIXigynuXQsvtJeJ670qgyhU7p5HTHzGy-xiHMRi5QxKkPyKYawYKkQuC38G9aKNWYp4wp5h7xvvvdwSIHqLXAX8uhoL7bgxc6WVE68d8Vjs9coIL0RRgXFHFwU3_9IMeQWvcDcb2Xji50oIE5QHKS3OY5S_NeJBbAQi-h9gTgobKJxIc__vz40cbY/s2560/P2040055.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1AOIXigynuXQsvtJeJ670qgyhU7p5HTHzGy-xiHMRi5QxKkPyKYawYKkQuC38G9aKNWYp4wp5h7xvvvdwSIHqLXAX8uhoL7bgxc6WVE68d8Vjs9coIL0RRgXFHFwU3_9IMeQWvcDcb2Xji50oIE5QHKS3OY5S_NeJBbAQi-h9gTgobKJxIc__vz40cbY/s320/P2040055.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Avenue, and the unseen way east, Harewood.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">We're wrapped at 1.50pm, in excellent time and just ahead of the day's turn towards absolutely foul weather, with just enough time to stuff what remains of lunch into my face before the #36 and #200 buses will almost exactly match the outbound route as we rise homeward, thrilled to have made such a huge change to my landscape of tiers, having broken through the psychological barrier that the city of Leeds has formed to put Harewood much closer to Morley than it ever felt, while drawing in many paths around Wharfedale, and on its north side, into Tier 2, and the lower stages of Nidderdale, as well as distant routes towards Grassington and York, into Tier 3, thus massively rearranging the map and changing my local outlook without venturing much more than 13 miles from home, the sort of revelation that Shuffling the Tiers was intended to deliver when the idea was conceived back in April.</p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>5,000 Miles Cumulative Total: 6180.2 miles</b><br />2023 Total: 258 miles<br />Up Country Total: 5,688.4 miles<br />Solo Total: 5837.6 miles<br />5,000 in my 40s Total: 4780.1 miles</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Destinations Moved from Tier 2 to Tier 1: Harewood<br />Destinations Moved from Tier 3 to Tier 2: Ripley, Thorpe Arch</div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><br /></div><div>Trails moved from Tier 3 to Tier 2: 6</div><div>Trails moved from Tier 4 to Tier 3: 4</div><div><br /></div><div>Next Up: A Long Weekend NIW with a Train Ride and a notable Southbound Trek!</div><div><br /></div></div>Christopher Wrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09743749271457169317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527420385844253776.post-54210767327852034402023-09-17T17:04:00.311+01:002023-11-13T18:22:33.780+00:00Morley to Baildon 16/09/23<div style="text-align: left;"><b>13.3 miles, via Daisy Hill, Laneside, Daffil Woods, Rooms, Farnley Wood, New Farnley,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Park Side,</b><b> Roker Lane Bottom, Pudsey (Fartown, Greenside, Chapeltown, Waterloo, Hill Foot),</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Bradford Road, Gain Lane, Fagley, Eccleshill, Bank Top, Blake Hill, All Alone, Idle Hill,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Wrose Brow, Wood End, Baildon Wood Bottom, and Low Baildon. </b></div><p style="text-align: left;">The warm week away that we had already feels like a distant memory as gloom and chill return to the atmosphere of West Yorkshire for the last weekend of the Summer, ensuring that there will be no long pushes across the county as we get into the Late Season, with the impetus that we gained already feeling squandered as we start pulling up the shorter treks that we had in mind for the dwindling days of the year, not that I feeling in anything like the condition that would be needed for tilting at a trail in excess of 14 miles now, as getting back into work and the midst of a physical task that we we all seem to feel the need to get to the end of as quickly as possible has burnt off a whole bunch of energy. So the modest treks from home will start as we aim at the Aire valley again, meeting the start line at Morley station at 9.20am, with our north-westerly path rising above the station site to observe the completion(?) of the drainage works that had left a deep, flooded hole in the car park, and passing on into the empire of bungalows again, passing over Daisy Hill and up King George Avenue to trail out to the A643 Victoria Road to observe that the Laneside housing development is coming on at a pace as houses spread out over the once green fields to the south, already looking like some might be plausibly liveable by the end of the year. Across the main road, we enter the suburban hinterland of Morley and Churwell, keeping things green as we drop down among the urban woods along Westwood Side before we join the track that leads into Daffil Woods and wander on among the local nature preserve before joining the field path that leads us under the M621 and on to the view towards Leeds that casts it in a dense pall, before arriving on the track that services the farmsteads of Rooms, before we come down to pass under the old bridge on the New Leeds Line and emerge beyond onto the A62 between the trailer park and the Jewish Cemeteries. Over Gelderd Road and we rise again, up the track to and onto the field paths around Spring End farm, elevating ourselves onto the Farnley Wood hillside, to join the high path across its top, still admirable for its lack of suburban growth, and also being the namesake of the (unsuccessful) 1663 plot against the Restoration government of Charles II which I learned about on one of my many wiki-crawls, getting little of a projected horizon abounds due to the low cloud, before we meet the path that leads us over to New Farnley, over the hillcrest and away from the flocks of gulls and crows that are supervising the ploughing, and tracking downhill to the yard of the house with a concrete alligator in it.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFRai7-3BiFiDmwGi_bQi4yL_Av2lT7GoVIv9f8SdPAL281_AdIJiFaLuWmyzzA1aJ2AwrPeWOjS_9CCBNLicBMslK6KOOVjTAab1sHcitztzie1MHW66w1oUYnJ5XQ5msaGqHj_qBTurOOEhEqE-TtGISXu2k3lqt5I4-HY0CZdfIb91So2IoSBwhJVk/s2560/P2020521.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFRai7-3BiFiDmwGi_bQi4yL_Av2lT7GoVIv9f8SdPAL281_AdIJiFaLuWmyzzA1aJ2AwrPeWOjS_9CCBNLicBMslK6KOOVjTAab1sHcitztzie1MHW66w1oUYnJ5XQ5msaGqHj_qBTurOOEhEqE-TtGISXu2k3lqt5I4-HY0CZdfIb91So2IoSBwhJVk/s320/P2020521.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A hole in the ground gets infilled, Morley Station.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifXfMigXrltdUShihv9WB64snd4En8ORoKnHxk73uFMOMYl4tsISGjuSngJqVAJlkY8G10QbKX4ewxGR8qrg7o_ZDAu20TmfyOXoCNNXqPIALXf6WL8sAJ81ZltljUsyAZ27zPBJIkw0MWn_eyRr3nbgnspzUQG0kbT2nKPRXmGDwU5_7tR0lS0z9NZEs/s2560/P2020552.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTp1RQCODC0lYeRQTqm8x-dkJCojkZNBx2Xy09flb215RQdMnG33aNCsilny5KSKsVdE7ZcwmohqedXDC0704iQvGIb9wUwfD1Tm4IoiNJa210dRygVnhi1DXr4q636eSiipz9ZE4KlkO0perJ8OKR8Kdbz-ZUhyphenhyphenlAYyF23N7CwGbNLySFRPIJcmwOZS8/s320/P2020604.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Among the farmsteads of Rooms.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI3FtHr0QDVWa5Lrz_Au8WcIGNAqo4TsfZirl4LkLw8_j3BlEDZStEkig6V4qrVft1XMB1vahC7yjdFfsiREKraSCNku1Ukbr5nb3yMjsIGkK5veHtVVL4PYbvX2Pfr5vkTQiG8lTsW-rMdWP7lYCQdHQDvS2TWOTF_2Jn0FMYjoPU5P-USTE1NocVUE8/s2560/P2020638.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtKdg1iYp-uxCNw2imjyec57WHFOI6p2VDbilr7nwN3VPo2IfUCz9oPqHDg5kKkILmV9fB7Yzh0kOs8AJU2d1iAuK92MJPSukVAUmUPuIfvBrRHUBxdJ2-M8rJuah9xQdKc_iMR-b858-yjrnYczHE8n7ekQSyZGdwjGCguEYvyW0f5NSBxqioLq32Vn4/s320/P2020668.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Descending from the Farnley Wood hillside.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">Pass onto the A58 and track along the pavements of Lawns Lane beyond, rising into Leeds's semi-detached suburbia and noting the Forge Row cottages before we join the footpath to take us around the northern perimeter of this village, previously un-walked for some of its length as we keep a slight remove from the grounds of Farnley Park, and the idle cattle in these undulating fields, before we meet a track we have paced before to find it delving into a thicket of seasonal overgrowth, which makes for some challenging footfalls as we make our way to the equestrian enclosure behind Park Side farm and the clear way down to Back Lane, where first walked just one week ago. Somehow, the descending path beyond is missed, as we look towards Pudsey and following the leading footways, meaning that we get down to Tong Road a little further along than intended, passing us down past the Lane Side terrace and cottage before we come down to Roker Lane Bottom, where the streams of the Tong and Fulneck valleys meet, and the inhabited partial remains of Union Bridge mill endure, where multiple previous trekd have brought is before, but not from home as we start the long rise up towards Pudsey, rising among the fields, cottages and farmsteads and finding the landscape all rather familiar as we trek up to the East House corner, high above the valley and leading us into Pudsey at the bottom end of Little Moor. There's a slightly more rural aspect to this corner, and the Whitby Fish van has to be noted by Tomlinson's Farm Shop as we process among the stoney cottages at the top of Roker Lane and on to the estate landscape that sits by the corner that leads into Fulneck, where paths are yet to lead us this year, beyond which we join Fartown as it leads us into Fartown, past the Fleece inn and on to the Carlisle Road corner where we turn to pass over the old Loop Line, above Pudsey Greenside station, passing the Royal inn again and rising with the lane as it leads us towards the town's main street, also noting Lucifer's takeout before we come up to Chapeltown, by the board school and Cenotaph.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcfahxIWlXdUqIkwYhS1lb1gUy7Zyrbsv_RYDqJhFsh9Rt5_wyjsoyuATOeRHcGW6whLFbStGNTxpdvu2K3cFbzxvwiS_HBtFvtMRG9AervQ9LXv2qB2WH95-E2wsd7X46BO1C4Tj95TmLFIbBcyIeTpBbI4bcAq5ZuDUAkRg3WLYYkuNx2AA9vZhdQ_0/s2560/P2020687.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcfahxIWlXdUqIkwYhS1lb1gUy7Zyrbsv_RYDqJhFsh9Rt5_wyjsoyuATOeRHcGW6whLFbStGNTxpdvu2K3cFbzxvwiS_HBtFvtMRG9AervQ9LXv2qB2WH95-E2wsd7X46BO1C4Tj95TmLFIbBcyIeTpBbI4bcAq5ZuDUAkRg3WLYYkuNx2AA9vZhdQ_0/s320/P2020687.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Memorial Cottage, Forge Row, New Farnley.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_7CrhRam_GjimuUd-t3JoiWfNjLe6wkfmZL9Jvd2EaZGnjoBqCfuXpKEnMIHZKcUHEfIhqQXFh9bbjejKJBaPwXnJpCQiyKBdNI1OPOHWkmQMPbE3-w9PK9KESDVeNk0alhqU-8t-8yV8-htwLhPBT1Hvb072qU2IIeN51kzrx5YN43AVAvt0LPfUj_0/s2560/P2020715.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_7CrhRam_GjimuUd-t3JoiWfNjLe6wkfmZL9Jvd2EaZGnjoBqCfuXpKEnMIHZKcUHEfIhqQXFh9bbjejKJBaPwXnJpCQiyKBdNI1OPOHWkmQMPbE3-w9PK9KESDVeNk0alhqU-8t-8yV8-htwLhPBT1Hvb072qU2IIeN51kzrx5YN43AVAvt0LPfUj_0/s320/P2020715.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rough Going on the path to Park Side Farm.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs1vS6ciM7TP5VPASmtAtl65qgHqgcMuKE1OiDWJMggR-Xi3D0ChRHitR4koU7TKmrdNUFqHINnxW3P_9VfjYHB1tZceOi06_ltRQ8b0BGok4YK8ahDbW9U9YNqZxpJI2orFyuAqTlI3_nJu8PGcGswWMuN374ynwa_Xx1gAwCi8fZpvnWl3LLCDewA9w/s2560/P2020747.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs1vS6ciM7TP5VPASmtAtl65qgHqgcMuKE1OiDWJMggR-Xi3D0ChRHitR4koU7TKmrdNUFqHINnxW3P_9VfjYHB1tZceOi06_ltRQ8b0BGok4YK8ahDbW9U9YNqZxpJI2orFyuAqTlI3_nJu8PGcGswWMuN374ynwa_Xx1gAwCi8fZpvnWl3LLCDewA9w/s320/P2020747.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Union Bridge Mills, Roker Lane Bottom.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjLIIa6s3p8lg3Ny3x7Z-KJmo217IAAtkSM2skf3cuz-mIyVkeQe6jS_e-0lGrEy9Xsl7L76HFXJvS3hzegVxKszUNYUGMkngHz1lW2wTR23Ty2jsIB4mHSVjOtcaS0GTKO3_Dt3wr84v0EF0U8gEtZKDJQ3okudW-Lv6hJRx4JUsNyzj_Fy-uUDRRQmA/s2560/P2020775.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjLIIa6s3p8lg3Ny3x7Z-KJmo217IAAtkSM2skf3cuz-mIyVkeQe6jS_e-0lGrEy9Xsl7L76HFXJvS3hzegVxKszUNYUGMkngHz1lW2wTR23Ty2jsIB4mHSVjOtcaS0GTKO3_Dt3wr84v0EF0U8gEtZKDJQ3okudW-Lv6hJRx4JUsNyzj_Fy-uUDRRQmA/s320/P2020775.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Among the suburban - Rural outliers, Roker Lane.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUeU9UZTZRG6pZCH6mQNLCWxquS33J1YY90CWrOMD6RkURgpW1tGezMEJSL25b7KNiimP3WBYC4GkkjQjSWJP_CvU0zB8XLStmAiLxV-goXRZpRHQ5CWGVU1P0SxGWw8_EH6CfvNmTGtYst8Glq8bp3Fm8B9bOUUskJeXe1jaydPT2LO-FTGjuUJ2k6PI/s2560/P2020797.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUeU9UZTZRG6pZCH6mQNLCWxquS33J1YY90CWrOMD6RkURgpW1tGezMEJSL25b7KNiimP3WBYC4GkkjQjSWJP_CvU0zB8XLStmAiLxV-goXRZpRHQ5CWGVU1P0SxGWw8_EH6CfvNmTGtYst8Glq8bp3Fm8B9bOUUskJeXe1jaydPT2LO-FTGjuUJ2k6PI/s320/P2020797.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roker Lane, Pudsey Littlemoor.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJtfqYTEtgvPyem_zMkt1SSyEI3hpbwa2Jd67Esv17KBXgIUi5UMSWv0A5MUr5Nh7msFBHYzQnFbNzpOyTVnF_yUEO2VIyiNDtwDNlINs7TWxOZNyJg2xIrcOj0GQ7_TiGHFRlOX_WaWDE6iGrVhXYK8oFFveFdRGjaOs9jOgu093ICk7Moe450ng64Y4/s2560/P2020837.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJtfqYTEtgvPyem_zMkt1SSyEI3hpbwa2Jd67Esv17KBXgIUi5UMSWv0A5MUr5Nh7msFBHYzQnFbNzpOyTVnF_yUEO2VIyiNDtwDNlINs7TWxOZNyJg2xIrcOj0GQ7_TiGHFRlOX_WaWDE6iGrVhXYK8oFFveFdRGjaOs9jOgu093ICk7Moe450ng64Y4/s320/P2020837.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carlisle Road, Pudsey Greenside.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">Break in the neighbouring memorial gardens for elevenses, pondering whether it would have been wiser to have dressed for Autumn on a day like this and also feeling a mild frustration that two hours into this trip, we have yet to make headway on many original paths or pavements as we track to the northwest, which isn't going to change any time soon as we set off past the Golden Lion and Commercial inns to meet Uppermoor, to join the long push to the northwest out of the town, on through Waterloo and at a height above the fall of Tyersal Beck, which cannot be seen that much as suburbia abounds around the Marsh inn and the drag across the hill just goes on and on. There's at least a lot of suburban styles to absorb as we carry on, past the enduring Waterloo Mills as we corner around Waterloo Road and come to the descent of sorts down to Hill Foot, not getting the elevated view that I mis-remember from this locality and also noting housing having arrived in most of the empty spaces among the former rural outliers along the lane as we meet the shopping parade and the parish church of St James the Great on Galloway Lane, beyond the Owlcotes Road corner, which in turn leads us out to the A647 Bradford Road, by the invisible traffic island and the home of the territorial Parachute Regiment, crossing the dual carriageway to its north side so that we might meet the break point on the Leeds Country Way that marked our very first trek from home some 11+ years ago, by the Woodhall Park sports fields. We'll make our way to the city border as we trace a way past the Howdy! and Lala's restaurants, passing over the old Shipley - Tyersal line bridge and touch the edge of Bradford as we split off down Gain Lane to make our encounter with the still enduring green space between the cities, one which is markedly diminishing as Woodhall Lane now has a proper metalled surface, leading to a new industrial park beyond the old fever hospital, constructed on a vast earthen plinth that looms large over the old railway remains and the passage of Fagley Beck, which seems to be filled with soap suds, where we'll finally split onto an unseen path, just at the point where my camera decides that this is the point to stop working, as no power seems to be getting to the lens motor.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJYnpV7X1Se4-YT3Pj1gkyg_UsCIysmxNgJaH-G36yZs7CsF3epO-qUR6fEn2LGtXlJJkLxTt6HPxkpIXue3CQ7XC-XYc7ZbLM-cTVfCkztKpDH-1GfNffHwTvRbeK2q8KYnw7-wSPVtIIZgQIGBB75wUtLe7Q2mSn7F0MoPmq2XnGEmlSJ99tIiDv5Tk/s2560/P2020860.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJYnpV7X1Se4-YT3Pj1gkyg_UsCIysmxNgJaH-G36yZs7CsF3epO-qUR6fEn2LGtXlJJkLxTt6HPxkpIXue3CQ7XC-XYc7ZbLM-cTVfCkztKpDH-1GfNffHwTvRbeK2q8KYnw7-wSPVtIIZgQIGBB75wUtLe7Q2mSn7F0MoPmq2XnGEmlSJ99tIiDv5Tk/s320/P2020860.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Commercial inn, on Chapeltown and Uppermoor, Pudsey.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj48lANhgzxvDWQXRiL9CeJBP3yMSveBEjA8PVIpOXWB6K1GYG8SKmgjRfo3k1GDtOCSzDUvpM92TVFSPUVR-RP904aBgXMz0KbgO7zE7dFHe26OKrK2EvXssjJQdnM8K2P8O5Py5K7s7LBoZIy6h-YStnZjlmnkR_fV0juGPu0-kRysbUIZrE1-mU87fI/s2560/P2020876.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj48lANhgzxvDWQXRiL9CeJBP3yMSveBEjA8PVIpOXWB6K1GYG8SKmgjRfo3k1GDtOCSzDUvpM92TVFSPUVR-RP904aBgXMz0KbgO7zE7dFHe26OKrK2EvXssjJQdnM8K2P8O5Py5K7s7LBoZIy6h-YStnZjlmnkR_fV0juGPu0-kRysbUIZrE1-mU87fI/s320/P2020876.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Marsh Inn, Pudsey Waterloo.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLCKfuen5Va0-WPhYbHHSq2Z4Un4IjFUZiEfSaAYzk6V3lvukLrOV0YUv-GEL3WhJ0CyciHFVDi0Rjtqq7E20rZ0k3p49IeUNKmsfm_NOquQvtGtuz_pzCqQl7N-1eqfMZo2baf3BFpAykQ5kbpAQGQvCTFzLNe2VEiAwxx8oDaWKdJVcHp8aKiRo1P2E/s2560/P2020904.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisAWnuqncraB1f8GgrZdi5fCAip1XOB_3g3oaDLLDKjYLhzLhIJQ5gh-MLa5y_AtXkTYGinFkmHzjaHMbqkg_e4R1I52draWJ3wreWoIYr9h7QtB38ZK2fkiDvCzt-7HMmkyxo6uJWo9IGo0bpGd-a6lYIQJgUARHWQKMH95sv0sTMdggiIfdFS3BjVEg/s320/P2020922.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The A647 Bradford Road.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEIwvq3x04gbiELJxGACxW97ANcCMS-aCPFk3OSucknQZWkiwqGt_Um3XOw0pFS3bnlySNfwEblqlXfZ404hxOOtdUjAURqajrqKYFMQnZTgPnuX320Ry6qZYUvyHW-MY7Zu_f57dghBiZAfEeNq9-OZIdBrHBdw3FlKi-wYYU7tdKc_ktJNzpnkV_GAY/s2560/P2020952.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEIwvq3x04gbiELJxGACxW97ANcCMS-aCPFk3OSucknQZWkiwqGt_Um3XOw0pFS3bnlySNfwEblqlXfZ404hxOOtdUjAURqajrqKYFMQnZTgPnuX320Ry6qZYUvyHW-MY7Zu_f57dghBiZAfEeNq9-OZIdBrHBdw3FlKi-wYYU7tdKc_ktJNzpnkV_GAY/s320/P2020952.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gain Lane, on the Bradford - Leeds border.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLyZjr0OLqpwriixCnNQFEFZa84QeSzViqEhFmog_kaa76Tim84aOIH3rgLDGFAyUugD4cDPIqZ8KrTtYKvn-cPOHDTjUX2Qp4ehOo6fXp6wST0arOBUWNEwYux8utTV3gQ7B1tiarXmmZ_dHNG_hY53ePqbJwF0lp5Ly-WcfTsi7ST5ei1M516_DuFSY/s2560/P2020989.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLyZjr0OLqpwriixCnNQFEFZa84QeSzViqEhFmog_kaa76Tim84aOIH3rgLDGFAyUugD4cDPIqZ8KrTtYKvn-cPOHDTjUX2Qp4ehOo6fXp6wST0arOBUWNEwYux8utTV3gQ7B1tiarXmmZ_dHNG_hY53ePqbJwF0lp5Ly-WcfTsi7ST5ei1M516_DuFSY/s320/P2020989.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Development at a cost of Green Fields, above Fagley Beck.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">A most unwelcome outcome to have, especially as I've only had 18 months of use out of it (and aren't carrying my spare, for obvious reasons), now having to fly blind as we pass over the stream and up the ginnel to meet Foston Lane, at the eastern edge of the Fagley estate, one of the more depressing landscapes I've trailed into under these glum skies, pacing along to Fagley Road to note more urban fields getting consumed by residential development, a theme which continues further as we trace Foxcote Crescent up to the isolated track of Fagley Lane, which once fed the Throstle Nest farm in the fields behind the Bradford Industrial Museum, but now is being scoured to grow its eponymous housing estate, losing the farmstead and almost all of the green space between Undercliffe and Ravenscliffe. Suburbia relacing green fields will always be spirit crushing to me, especially as its rarely done to provide the sort of housing that the population really needs, and I'll get my spirit back up as we rise among the outliers on the lane up to St Luke's school and church ahead of the crossing of the A658 Harrogate Road, confirming that all these fields are now lost before we delve into the older suburbia of Eccleshill, where urban village and the extensive spread of this city's industries butt together along Victoria Road as it rises to the east of the village centre, shuffling us onto the high embankment beyond the White Hart inn as the downstream Aire valley landscape falls away to the right side of us, passing the Victoria Hotel and around to Bank Top and Norman Lane to set us on a trajectory towards Five Lane Ends. Interesting route finding has us taking a turn beyond the long north-facing terraces through the carpark of the local Morrison's store, and the Enterprise 5 retail park, to pass over the Bradford (& Idle) Road and then cuttinf another corner as we trek past the Javelin House HQ of West Yorkshire Police at Blake Hill to meet Highfield Road beyond, trailing us towards distant Thackley before we need to pop the map out to trace a way all the super-concealed All Alone Road, an ancient track snaking it way among the suburbia that has grown on this high quarter, not actually visiting its eponymous hamlet and not having any houses built facing it, lending it a very strange air as it leads into the high fields between Idle and Wrose. </p><p style="text-align: left;"><i>> Insert Missing Pictures Here. perhaps? <</i></p><p style="text-align: left;">It Certainly live up to its name as it drops us out onto Westfield Lane, among the suburbia that has grown right up to the south side of Idle Hill, with its masts and overed reservoir, and we have to navigate some more as we rise with Cotswold Avenue to be as close to the summit above the Aire Valley as can be managed, before we descend again, around five corners among the many semis that had to be memorised in advance to get down from Spring Hill to the ginnel that leads to Low Ash Road, taking us back into the trees and onto the descent beside Carr Mires Beck on a damp and slippery path through Wrose Brow Plantation, away from east Bradford and down to greater Shipley at Wood End. Pass the impressive former schools beside Wrose Brow Road and then take a merry old time getting across the A657 Leeds Road, up the rise from Windhill, dropping quickly down to the Thackley Old Road beyond to take the track beyond the mill and industrial works that leads down to the end of the the descent of the Shipley - Tyersal line and on between the former and contemporary railways to pass over the electrified line via a bridge that's in a different place than is marked on the map, and thence through the fields to make passage over the Leeds & Liverpool canal at Turn Bridge, adjacent to the bridge carrying the Baildon branch overhead, with the embankment leading us northwards to passage over the Aire, via the footbridge in the shadow of the high viaduct of stone arches and a sole lattice girder span that hides away from all attention in the shroud of riverside trees. The A6038 Otley Road lies beyond, crossed over to meet the wide spread of suburban Baildon, at Wood Bottom, way down the hill from the village centre but still providing a challenging rise or two on the pavements as we head up Midland Road and Woodcot Avenue, shadowing the railway from below it to above it, tracking all the way up to Low Baildon without getting sight of it until we've negotiated a way down a ginnel and passed along Hawthorn View come out onto Kirklands Lane and passed into the Ridgeland Close linear development that sits in the old goods yard, leading us directly to Baildon station, where the walking day wraps up at 2.20pm, well ahead of the train away, allowing time for us to late lunch before our baffling odyssey homeward, via Bradford, <i>and Leeds,</i> begins.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><i>> Insert more Missing Pictures Here. perhaps? <</i></p><p style="text-align: left;">NB: At time of writing, on Sunday afternoon, it seems that Lumix #2 now seems to be feeling to need to work normally again, coming back to life without me having applied any TLC to it, so it's hard to tell if it took objection to the damp atmospherics of yesterday or whether the Spring goo that got may have got into its mechanism worked themselves out, leaving me frankly baffled as Lumix #1 at least had the decency to take multiple soakings before giving up altogether, and wondering if another new camera might be in the offing come birthday time, as I might be the only citizen of these isles who still prefers using a single purpose piece of technical kit rather than recording everything on their smartphone. Regardless, the last two hours of this trip will have to be re-walked at some stage, hopefully before the end of the year, as I'm going to need photographic coverage of this previously unseen landscape in eastern Bradford, be it with the revived Lunix#2, my trusty Fuji Finepix #2 or some other modestly affordable digital camera as that was mostly 5+ miles of novel, and historic, paths and my trailing around the county absolutely needs to be fully recorded for posterity, doesn't it, because why else would be doing this (aside from the obvious benefits of healthy exercise, fulfilling my geographical curiosity and maintaining my mental health)?</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>5,000 Miles Cumulative Total: 6166.8 miles</b></div><div>2023 Total: 244.6 miles</div><div>Up Country Total: 5,675 miles</div><div>Solo Total: 5824.2 miles</div><div>5,000 in my 40s Total: 4766.7 miles</div><div><br /></div><div>Destinations Moved from Tier 2 to Tier 1: Baildon<br />Trails moved from Tier 3 to Tier 2: 1</div><div><br />Next Up: A weekend off to celebrate 30 years Up Country, before burning one across the city?</div><div><br /></div></div>Christopher Wrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09743749271457169317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527420385844253776.post-27611065696951921212023-09-10T18:29:00.236+01:002023-10-22T18:44:13.182+01:00Morley to Guiseley 09/09/23<div style="text-align: left;"><b>13.9 miles, via Croft House, Springfield, Dean Wood, Gildersome, Upper Moor Side, Park Side,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Troydale, Little Moor (Bottom), Pudsey, Primrose Hill, Stanningley, Westroyd Park,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Farsley Beck Bottom, Bagley, Calverley Bridge, Swain Wood, Horsforth Low Fold, West End,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Beechwood, Horsforth Golf Club, Plane Tree Hill, Yeadon, and Shaw Lane.</b></div><p style="text-align: left;">After an immensely satisfying week away, our long week off, and holiday, continues as we return to West Yorkshire, bringing the bright and warm spell with us, which guarantees I'll be getting our for another trek despite still having Mum around the place, as she stays on for a Sunday dinner date, but as she's in the position of having some writing of her own to catch up that she didn't get done whilst away, it gives me freedom to get back into the business of Shuffling the Tiers by pulling up the first trail that I'd slated for this scheme, plotted quite a while back when I though there really weren't all that many original trajectories left to walk away from Morley, somewhat naively, it would seem. We start at Morley station, at 9.20am in the already gathering warmth of a late Summer morning, to observe the works at the new station where they've gotten very good at assembling scaffolding around the lift towers without actually building anything, before we set off up the steps to King George Croft and New Bank Street to find another original path through this town, this time tracing a pavement through the empire of bungalows on the Croft House estate, negotiating multiple corners to emerge onto Church Street and to cut a corner to cross the A643 Victoria Road and renew the theme by pacing the pavements of Springfield Road and Avenue through the suburban estate east of the Ingles, with its namesake house concealed within. Also note that The Arkle inn didn't survive the pandemic era closure before the way is found out via Woodland Drive and Horsfall Street to land us on the very familiar side of Asquith Avenue to bet onto our north-westerly trajectory, passing through Dean Wood and rising to the A62 by the Gildersome Arms to cross into the village and deliberately shift onto the right-side pavement to vary things up as we descend Branch End Road to pass the Old Griffin Head and come down Harthill Parade to the Green and the War Memorial, ahead of passing the Village hall and Library and the curious wood carved sculptures that grace the sides of Town Street.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRTVEVRqTn30CQG1WnPy-g99bhDcTp85648nCj89Zn7SwwHxwRHoT-mBXgc-fMTOO6bw0wjTm5Te8HAwe56WjrMY4r607URKMEd2nYcCenX1NYy8m2xDgYQPQLcMC1BvWd_scKMxReGsxpr4wMWEyR_mnNvz2muNs9827LRZErdYn2mpzmZfxRqtKtuK4/s2560/P2010482.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRTVEVRqTn30CQG1WnPy-g99bhDcTp85648nCj89Zn7SwwHxwRHoT-mBXgc-fMTOO6bw0wjTm5Te8HAwe56WjrMY4r607URKMEd2nYcCenX1NYy8m2xDgYQPQLcMC1BvWd_scKMxReGsxpr4wMWEyR_mnNvz2muNs9827LRZErdYn2mpzmZfxRqtKtuK4/s320/P2010482.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Scaffolding erected at Morley New Station.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBNB4tnbht9nQYc7cmW11rpVJDjOcVr5b55vVKIMoRo92O-zqoBA1SUuqHxpUGpASXZdNX8rh52EuVTGRZK8jZCVxdTOk33kFr_Oy5jl6SNnpRfpfEia3YbGy1I1tKMGK1gKgeQq4ENzahkLwcUrj7GxllZzxlXkhhvAe_HK7IIiJpkDKH0_KXavDIfTg/s2560/P2010503.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBNB4tnbht9nQYc7cmW11rpVJDjOcVr5b55vVKIMoRo92O-zqoBA1SUuqHxpUGpASXZdNX8rh52EuVTGRZK8jZCVxdTOk33kFr_Oy5jl6SNnpRfpfEia3YbGy1I1tKMGK1gKgeQq4ENzahkLwcUrj7GxllZzxlXkhhvAe_HK7IIiJpkDKH0_KXavDIfTg/s320/P2010503.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Empire of Bungalows, Croft House Avenue.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_RgygskKTUX5x8LbRZB3OUz1GE_sXOCc9am-gdCVGxsFRa3k1gRAIhwO1Kb0LgdF6suT79CGpX57_zsI7v82rfq8bbYMdz-7OVeTvdSsMja995dU6V5iux_0uB213iLX7yNU1lDA5D0W93KeHd5y4L9-YPzQqHafFsANtbRmDSVorZj13Y6tVbGSd1CY/s2560/P2010540.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_RgygskKTUX5x8LbRZB3OUz1GE_sXOCc9am-gdCVGxsFRa3k1gRAIhwO1Kb0LgdF6suT79CGpX57_zsI7v82rfq8bbYMdz-7OVeTvdSsMja995dU6V5iux_0uB213iLX7yNU1lDA5D0W93KeHd5y4L9-YPzQqHafFsANtbRmDSVorZj13Y6tVbGSd1CY/s320/P2010540.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Springfield Avenue, and The Arkle (former).</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj4eAz4FScPAnt_y-myp39J7mKhPiO42BPM-eQnwd6uq8Qkpx95Jy8tyQ52TB2GJjYa3Zce-EJS0RGeC7H8tDXpQ6tBAecDL665WgULGknPAAHHfVfmtf00YW8z_9sXrZ5es7QQmjy5jy7TE4lJ7d33AkvKWdzZrnOmnd0g7lk32kg25VOqnd_5gg3Feo/s2560/P2010569.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj4eAz4FScPAnt_y-myp39J7mKhPiO42BPM-eQnwd6uq8Qkpx95Jy8tyQ52TB2GJjYa3Zce-EJS0RGeC7H8tDXpQ6tBAecDL665WgULGknPAAHHfVfmtf00YW8z_9sXrZ5es7QQmjy5jy7TE4lJ7d33AkvKWdzZrnOmnd0g7lk32kg25VOqnd_5gg3Feo/s320/P2010569.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Asquith Avenue, and Dean Wood.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6MlbVHwbNPggUjxAfkMJCytTx7H4EnKb0_mqOWzMWLAJobn91CcL7zU1X7bG2IB69kFMFvP9ltCupMceYYFQY1E5FLYz_xb7pheLnXv31F2E6HhXZUBxbhVPCzg_lawKMKgzpBnm72LT65Fheb22fHsyyXMgm1HFBYycUzIuSj3eE-jiuutuOZSBgnXg/s2560/P2010591.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6MlbVHwbNPggUjxAfkMJCytTx7H4EnKb0_mqOWzMWLAJobn91CcL7zU1X7bG2IB69kFMFvP9ltCupMceYYFQY1E5FLYz_xb7pheLnXv31F2E6HhXZUBxbhVPCzg_lawKMKgzpBnm72LT65Fheb22fHsyyXMgm1HFBYycUzIuSj3eE-jiuutuOZSBgnXg/s320/P2010591.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Old Griffin Head, Gildersome.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">Our new path commences as we join the ginnel ahead of the Street Lane corner, pushing us north to meet the estate suburban roads of the northern half of the village, undulating along Springbank Road and Church Avenue to meet the Suffield Road Rec and the rough path north, that leads us along the hedge line behind an enclosing wire fence to keep us away from the cattle who would appreciate the shaded edge of the their fields as we pass by to meet the A58 Whitehall Road at Upper Moor Side, to cross over by the Woodcock inn and press on northwards with Back Lane, one of the most obvious trajectories that I haven't traced away from home so far. The lane's fall, below the hill of Farnley Park and above the gatherings of the Tong and Fulneck valleys offers sight towards Pudsey on the next hillside along, which we'll eventually rise to after we've come down the surprisingly long drag between Upland and Park Side farms on the hillside, a route sometimes travelled many years back as a sneak route into West Leeds, to the lodge house on the Tong Road corner to switch back south by that odd suburban parade at a remove from all settlements around, and switch again almost immediately to resume north and downwards with Troydale Lane. Down the heavily shaded passage we are led to meet Pudsey Beck by Farnley Mill, to then pass into the odd urban enclave of Troydale, which we almost touched in 2016 but today marks my first encounter in the 25 years that have passed since my Sister set up home here with Dr G in the wake of graduation in 1996, and the sight into the small estate is not one immediately recalled before we start the rise towards Pudsey that is again the only one not previously traced, rising through the fields that fall towards Park Spring Wood, between the houses perched around the sweep of lane, with the heat starting to be felt as we come up to the Valley Road corner and the outermost edge of the town's estates, and the continuing westward rise into the old rural and/or industrial enclave of stone terraces at Littlemoor Bottom.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNzr10wykWTfBHcI_SwwNAjJeJA-G09x2qKiFLqI8j-kjoSutElod69mJknJruIAop5pcQTVoqfBbmK1a1JcGGwQHKOcFPVKr0dNj3obWZuA-UsCmKLsG6Ts6yjzblf0XqwaQ1vZ4MNS8LKSXSKJZT2G-c2rEQg-qOzVZ93IUW6wy3ZSjF8F9roIUD_ng/s2560/P2010631.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNzr10wykWTfBHcI_SwwNAjJeJA-G09x2qKiFLqI8j-kjoSutElod69mJknJruIAop5pcQTVoqfBbmK1a1JcGGwQHKOcFPVKr0dNj3obWZuA-UsCmKLsG6Ts6yjzblf0XqwaQ1vZ4MNS8LKSXSKJZT2G-c2rEQg-qOzVZ93IUW6wy3ZSjF8F9roIUD_ng/s320/P2010631.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Church Avenue and the field path out of Gildersome.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisE119S3_ROgMsOb5uXy0B3t8gfiwDrK23qhmtCxR3YmDn41kkOc9otpEQ9ir_RdHqnCmIqdzDGC8AFsDe8VnqjHyDNf4r3YCMRqVLDvoRkBfQNQUrjDoSYzz1mwVxM54QlLBKiduaP8siwKNAFS6UnoYxjz5q_JEQiNkoKSJSYPYjNYPJfYTeql5AfZI/s2560/P2010674.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisE119S3_ROgMsOb5uXy0B3t8gfiwDrK23qhmtCxR3YmDn41kkOc9otpEQ9ir_RdHqnCmIqdzDGC8AFsDe8VnqjHyDNf4r3YCMRqVLDvoRkBfQNQUrjDoSYzz1mwVxM54QlLBKiduaP8siwKNAFS6UnoYxjz5q_JEQiNkoKSJSYPYjNYPJfYTeql5AfZI/s320/P2010674.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back Lane, Upper Moor Side.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdDAMP9XIoC-vC_rT-ChmvhXN1FLmsd59omTZAj0c37eZN_gT4IZkC1_vrp_e7e1pZ028RU8G_V6qRL6Zx3Lg1fdPHddHlbr-rB4kulpISN2f8f2sLkdznRx5AxjKyeTpe04v5fjr7gXeWrPbRUty1CsXrMfeoUm_r8stwtitxLBdoR4uQzqFhUHGOoO8/s2560/P2010708.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdDAMP9XIoC-vC_rT-ChmvhXN1FLmsd59omTZAj0c37eZN_gT4IZkC1_vrp_e7e1pZ028RU8G_V6qRL6Zx3Lg1fdPHddHlbr-rB4kulpISN2f8f2sLkdznRx5AxjKyeTpe04v5fjr7gXeWrPbRUty1CsXrMfeoUm_r8stwtitxLBdoR4uQzqFhUHGOoO8/s320/P2010708.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A view up the Fulneck valley.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5x3ngNY-iP_9wt__k0VNZGl7wzwrIO9XmMoJptDP58xobruB32BDuHeAfFiEumVp5YiZ_Sk22nHhYvOpughS-3C2a_-3pkik75rWkph8A3Fsml25FB9xYV-rznDnkjO6-bSyiTQc-5ZqMwyrkAYNK7zmVQ6TLoc4oUFTDBJxUKzBDIPMnJcYXSYstcGQ/s2560/P2010717.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5x3ngNY-iP_9wt__k0VNZGl7wzwrIO9XmMoJptDP58xobruB32BDuHeAfFiEumVp5YiZ_Sk22nHhYvOpughS-3C2a_-3pkik75rWkph8A3Fsml25FB9xYV-rznDnkjO6-bSyiTQc-5ZqMwyrkAYNK7zmVQ6TLoc4oUFTDBJxUKzBDIPMnJcYXSYstcGQ/s320/P2010717.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stray Suburbia on Tong Road.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFFLhU8qL0gklkofOMqSVT2IjkQgQW05kGd9w5PkU95rJq3ny_mPNJzDNSStshMZNrhDqfFLhp3fTPoDBhIQ9RuHWXMK32htorLkDKIwHqabdAquxwhSUCmWgtwGbvNRSx7oVuFeCPb_deWjbo1oVfK9af9OW0yU9UJs5l_JgDIB6UbnTyhVsOt7kFqZ8/s2560/P2010760.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFFLhU8qL0gklkofOMqSVT2IjkQgQW05kGd9w5PkU95rJq3ny_mPNJzDNSStshMZNrhDqfFLhp3fTPoDBhIQ9RuHWXMK32htorLkDKIwHqabdAquxwhSUCmWgtwGbvNRSx7oVuFeCPb_deWjbo1oVfK9af9OW0yU9UJs5l_JgDIB6UbnTyhVsOt7kFqZ8/s320/P2010760.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Troydale Gardens. Troydale.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsp6U9lDLkdUVwJOaLkGQv9S39ASNP0m6DcqD6muwy2MPVh32IMMqLKj0hamTh7qNCf47SOpsAMVjoMpwTbQDWeAYx5R5fzRNLDLqfhDVhS0sMvbuMAj25BJQzexDUGuWZfkl9EnZptH0pq5dpJiES9fXLZXrWSKL1xzhY6-w0i7CWdwx5GkA8XBB4s8o/s2560/P2010783.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsp6U9lDLkdUVwJOaLkGQv9S39ASNP0m6DcqD6muwy2MPVh32IMMqLKj0hamTh7qNCf47SOpsAMVjoMpwTbQDWeAYx5R5fzRNLDLqfhDVhS0sMvbuMAj25BJQzexDUGuWZfkl9EnZptH0pq5dpJiES9fXLZXrWSKL1xzhY6-w0i7CWdwx5GkA8XBB4s8o/s320/P2010783.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Valley Road, Little Moor Bottom.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">It's a steep and situationally challenging uphill push to come up to the level of Littlemoor Road at Littlemoor, naturally, taking a right turn to resume northwards and push deep into Pudsey proper as we rise to the old chapel and well-situated workshop terraces to pass over the lost Pudsey Loop line via the infilled Robin Lane bridge, regarding the chaotic development that seems to define this town and come around past the health centre and St Andrew's Methodist church, which offers the first available place to park myself for elevenses before we carry on, past the Scottish Baronial fashioned Town Hall on the corner of the Church Avenue - Lowtown main street. Rapidly passing though the shopping streets, we crest the local hilltop as we rise and fall down Lidgett Hill, following the previously unseen B6155 Richardshaw Lane as it passes The Grange school redevelopment and the West 44 business centre as we rather closely shadow our prior trajectory this way, passing over the A647 Ring Road via the high bridge and coming down through the largely industrial band beyond before we meet the Oddfellows Hall inn, the almost completely concealed St Paul's church and the site of Stanningley station, on the Leeds & Bradford line with goods yard and shed in use by a builders wholesaler. Pass under the east end of Stanningley viaduct and cross the B6157 Bradford Road, and then have to navigate for a bit as we enter the back streeks by Spring Valley Mills, letting Sun Street and Sunfield Place, lead us to the ginnel that takes us into Westroyd Park, where the Newlands Works memorial (noting the local history of David Crown and Aston Martin) has to be acknowledged, and then its on into the suburbia of Stanningley and Farsley, with the route ahead seared into my mind by pre-recognition, as the ways down Parkside Road, past Hainsworth park and on down the long curved sweep of Springbank Close, offer little in the 80s-90s vintage suburbia that would aid improvised route-finding on the ground. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhQbZb-_HfDX6iSE-XK2cfTx8oqNQj-6g7YQYxn3WjiH9qZOYtAN77VdFWPPJYQiCOkQjzvQDHK0qF8BZ0iS_3ESMEC5Uxu0uN13eW2gQKg7ujquLszjRBpXPsfKIbxTvLc1f1gorJJ25dnLU4jSeMZak9lyB7X9Kp9f5636FtYlQUbEFz1yVeH7YfwTU/s2560/P2010817.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm0cJiDGGOC2OV4HCIuP5_73pEjINq3ZPKX1rM60i8s2VcM2NWYV-vtaA83KhDUp3jGe39VwsrA518dAgTn-CbszafRlZg7ts2LqnQdWgjHZeJFd9gFR2qJroWZhofaLFlsQbk459uI8ajBbVin22OEOkRO8AhPpNGlCEns1wxHwUzvzKdza7SWEPdHqM/s320/P2010849.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pudsey Tpwn Hall in the Scottich Baronial style.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-gehmH8GaWt9-H3JG8vbJ5hA6GxjTjZT2xNEqS0HAGKWbcxUwv6sTxPVgErPf9kTBsqO9Ln3RnyiM0555RRZrzNf-MT538Tp-bpGUj9LHxBSTgYKgrFufJZfpIXSTsWVy0dGcGbiyk9eNLHp1B_eno-Krktd3ou5eC3TMhyphenhyphen_XadXqi9lZ1jl6C5n8OaI/s2560/P2010871.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-gehmH8GaWt9-H3JG8vbJ5hA6GxjTjZT2xNEqS0HAGKWbcxUwv6sTxPVgErPf9kTBsqO9Ln3RnyiM0555RRZrzNf-MT538Tp-bpGUj9LHxBSTgYKgrFufJZfpIXSTsWVy0dGcGbiyk9eNLHp1B_eno-Krktd3ou5eC3TMhyphenhyphen_XadXqi9lZ1jl6C5n8OaI/s320/P2010871.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Richardshaw Lane passes off Pudsey's hilltop.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgW7ucT-zG8fegYiuqPSR8cOZsls-d4k6QBFAe1WFrP8iFZxd3LClt8OJYDYQ3Ygl1LXXB2fHBGwddgoZEhZGXE2EtZouQYDK1Iyo1LirNyHiv8_CCBhyaL0Yqyyl3ArghkGjkz2bswPUsmiAFfmqYyPDlnBBPX59qtXQmAf61Sfw4uwZwRaL_LR-Bc1g/s2560/P2010893.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgW7ucT-zG8fegYiuqPSR8cOZsls-d4k6QBFAe1WFrP8iFZxd3LClt8OJYDYQ3Ygl1LXXB2fHBGwddgoZEhZGXE2EtZouQYDK1Iyo1LirNyHiv8_CCBhyaL0Yqyyl3ArghkGjkz2bswPUsmiAFfmqYyPDlnBBPX59qtXQmAf61Sfw4uwZwRaL_LR-Bc1g/s320/P2010893.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stanningley Station site, Stanningley.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvV_fg2hjTWZ1ijIOOkywvuMJ0d9UKdOUvFd6t-TErkYhMIlhVCTtfHIU6ZGUCB_p6zSR4drNpppCBrBuRyIhMSZDwx3y5qmH9O_iQkZeTl4ho1VO7CEnUYPzDMSJVVf7BnD_-JkGEZtSpST8W3bPgzZYxSoVMDqXAPxc7_D-jp3NDQEf2iqQSE1WV_rA/s2560/P2010922.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvV_fg2hjTWZ1ijIOOkywvuMJ0d9UKdOUvFd6t-TErkYhMIlhVCTtfHIU6ZGUCB_p6zSR4drNpppCBrBuRyIhMSZDwx3y5qmH9O_iQkZeTl4ho1VO7CEnUYPzDMSJVVf7BnD_-JkGEZtSpST8W3bPgzZYxSoVMDqXAPxc7_D-jp3NDQEf2iqQSE1WV_rA/s320/P2010922.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Westroyd Park.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRFhscjF8fvuKeGWRaGEwg36834LrcfdtmQGb0G6XlMtUGKQ-ExGQE1QAeuPZeJt37WYwvzdZVEACS8muQy0mV0_qdePzv4JZFf9dvA8zA8_khbgEY0tckdLPZ2SnxUbCsCOKiLIVeULjdciR_jafzJJauGluKRe0DwgMMH267QCLWPB4LprYvAr7B3-k/s2560/P2010947.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRFhscjF8fvuKeGWRaGEwg36834LrcfdtmQGb0G6XlMtUGKQ-ExGQE1QAeuPZeJt37WYwvzdZVEACS8muQy0mV0_qdePzv4JZFf9dvA8zA8_khbgEY0tckdLPZ2SnxUbCsCOKiLIVeULjdciR_jafzJJauGluKRe0DwgMMH267QCLWPB4LprYvAr7B3-k/s320/P2010947.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Springbank Close, Farsley? or Stanningley?</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">Springbank Road drag us down hill definitively toward Farsley Beck Bottom to land us on Bagley Lane by the complete Springfield Mills complex, and we press north with the road as it passes through Bagley Hamlet, where suburbia snares every available plot of flat land that it can find hereabouts among this former mill landscape, and we join the Oaklands Road track as it leads us along the field edges at the city's western perimeter, before we delve into the suburbs again, at the outer reach of Rodley and our emergence onto the A657 Rodley Road, where a brief upfill tug leads us to the interchange traffic island on the A6120 Ring Road, where passage across the Aire valley awaits. Thankfully, there's a footway alongside Horsforth New Road to keep us secure from the traffic that hurries by as we come down to pass over the Leeds & Liverpool canal and the river Aire, via the bridges just east of Calverley bridge, and thence uphill to pass over the other railway line to Leeds and Bradford (and Skipton, and Ilkley) in its deep cutting, and then its uphill further by the dual carriageway, grateful for the overhanging shade that comes at the edge of Swain Wood and beyond, but the effort needed for my third day of hot weather walking in a week has us needing to stop a refuel at the nearest available wall by the paddock of the farmstead at the edge of Horsforth Low Fold. Refreshed, we follow the remainder of Broadway to meet the horse-bearing island on the A65, where we tangle with an early season path as we join Rawdon Road and pace along the front of the elevated suburban block that overlooks the Aire valley, as far as the Hall Lane corner where a ginnel propels us away and uphill among the houses, noting the rather obvious perimeter wall of Grange House among the back gardens ahead of meeting the suburban pavements of West End, along its Grove and Rise, and up where the Leeds Country Way brought us in 2012. and we'll be carrying on far beyond its northern boundary this time, as we meet the rural edge of the city again, as the farmsteads endure while the suburbs peter out.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkYtop91GtB8NGk2BMDWPi0VGrENpXR-2_PQUvfkIMYat1SPejiOEtzh0Koe7ca0xzdOF-ceTPp5CyYQBzr1TIB7qJ16XmtGm47_XOjDPQv4XIdiVyvByJbhIbTxxcatGktFPoYU2z-_-MyvgGW-hENeu7C5gyuC4Nv1ViK5UDNqGt3n09Fy1ei3GFabY/s2560/P2010969.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkYtop91GtB8NGk2BMDWPi0VGrENpXR-2_PQUvfkIMYat1SPejiOEtzh0Koe7ca0xzdOF-ceTPp5CyYQBzr1TIB7qJ16XmtGm47_XOjDPQv4XIdiVyvByJbhIbTxxcatGktFPoYU2z-_-MyvgGW-hENeu7C5gyuC4Nv1ViK5UDNqGt3n09Fy1ei3GFabY/s320/P2010969.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bagley Lane, Bagley.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1VCUdPhg-xUgTzOxBF__Jt5z5oqyQLJvUCl10lnHcdVkYv5YWTChxJxCWabdfdhd9qsyXg4lzwCPzAMS1YjGqlKuXc25imaK2BXwRC4N8NJK1msAr1jn7esYMYoJXfOLcStLBwP1NMkJ4fTU9iA7zLbIOj-KGlVdNufpsqmgZ3WRfeXsebO8Ps6_5eEM/s2560/P2010995.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF7cOisas9iQmfMjqKUd16NrzL27OMicDh6TCwLVPxEsdle9Ih6jTCYaP0zM7xyvkzSgUIlNVAf-Yv1I41sbiP6CechijG7HHm9NbvQg5g0lm23a-K_Y5p1YtnDCJ3etThH9NGqJqoJ7jCSuwLF06qjRyLbqv5I_ZVsWj8PfZK-OARpUByZX6ldRpAaMo/s320/P2020076.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The West End Ginnel, and the Grange house wall.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfq_Cb62W5qGSORGHf-_Vh59gPFh3GOmmlmcTMi0z25FobWKxlnQT4QN8Igxw5w2DWE_8PSWc5GpGhZ28zG_G2z6l916xF2hnVULdp9pywbUf11tgaLTMtxi1yJMtJm-u11y-nferHnxHywecEaCXZRfFmfk8sDnv8ZOCQH28yUp6YDODGdz5lrsy7e80/s2560/P2020087.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfq_Cb62W5qGSORGHf-_Vh59gPFh3GOmmlmcTMi0z25FobWKxlnQT4QN8Igxw5w2DWE_8PSWc5GpGhZ28zG_G2z6l916xF2hnVULdp9pywbUf11tgaLTMtxi1yJMtJm-u11y-nferHnxHywecEaCXZRfFmfk8sDnv8ZOCQH28yUp6YDODGdz5lrsy7e80/s320/P2020087.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rural West End, in Suburban Horsforth.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">We get two hedges lining our footway along West End Lane as we pass the Kemps 'Pick Your Own' Farm, which is a bit of a blast from the past, leading us onto the high land beyond Hunger Hills and up to that odd suburban enclave of Beechwood, around the Southways circle, that feel like some historical architect's passion project, which sits ahead of the Lane Ends crossroads, passing over the end of Brownberrie Lane and losing our pavement as Bayton Lane carries on north, oddly one of the few lanes that Google Maps has never offered as a walkable route, which just piques the curiosity as we set off among the trees that conceal Leeds Trinity University's playing fields and the outlying farmsteads and cottages, ahead of the grounds of Horsforth Golf Course. There's a lot of greens and fairways to see on both sides of the lane as the verges narrow and the road walking gets a bit more testing as we emerge out into the high fields, taking a turn as Leeds & Bradford airport hides itself in the plots to the north of us, and Billings Hill rises to the southwest, apparently level with us as we pace the way up to Plane Tree Hill, against the charging traffic and up to the covered reservoir, from where we can get a view into the maany wrinkles of upper Airedale beyond the Idle and Baildon Hills, and over towards Wharfedale and Otley Chevin in the northwest, while a look back places Morley Town Hall's tower on the distant reverse horizon before we head downhill again, with the crown of Rombalds Moor lying dead ahead. Clear sight of where we're going, beyond the brief reveal of the airport complex has us feeling more secure in our going, past Cold Harbour farm and down to the suburban edge of Yeadon, just beyond greater Leeds, and soon enough upon the A658 Harrogate Road crossroads, by the Premier Inn and Murgatroyd's fish restaurant, passing the business park and cricket field as High Street leads into the stone terraced passage down towards this town's centre, beyond the White Swan inn and down to The Albert at the Cemetery Road corner, where we cross a Tier #3 trail for the first time in a while as the main street is met beyond the Clothiers Arms. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5GFmUn4SnXFDntoaxBBip9winED9ldZSh9FAjOdYtNLZFmpfjHrfe7vu-T3yTxA7BlAjzArJQ7rMoY4oOt0pR2dx46jZlQPbtEC74KD94Xowf-MfdxAHIUkFhaHuPq1MvvFBZE6oUwhc924rETJYLkDUYMBxAcbfUnQJ8GNEeUpdvcgTgZRZbYidUPnc/s2560/P2020108.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj_hUb7fgMP2lHDIYVrOLs5Qnei7UTsJ1OWBL5iVqBDR00HfxR8PfAnox4RlL8qr_x7vGq-exYzSi72rO7WZxlNcPgmENmjA2QlIF6mXwBnnBnctkRbHAY350VqOg7BESxwSFYEjnoajaKg1SLKZ1up2_EEJJqZ_ZRgh4UW9e6rBytEqJHLmZE-GxYBIk/s320/P2020251.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The terraced passage of High Street, Yeadon.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">Pass the Morrison's store on the shady side of the street, before a convenient shaded bench is found to take a third food and watering break, in front of the Town hall which simultaneously does Victorian Gothic, the 'Psycho' house and the Edward Hopper painting that hangs above my desk in its stylings, and immediately regretting not stopping at the supermarket as my last bottle takes a draining, so a thirsty last hour feels like it might be coming on as we head away, down the steep and cobbled Town Street to the corner of Kirk Lane by the memorial hall and take a right turn to head up Haworth Lane to vary up the path to our destination, along some un-historical roads for a change, as this patch along Queensway would otherwise remain resolutely unseen. It's not really a suburban landscape to warm the soul as aesthetics were not on the planning slate hereabouts as we are led to the far perimeter of Nunroyd Park, but it does have a Sainsbury's Local in its midst, allowing us to fulfil our refreshment needs for the reminder of the trip, and also get buzzed by a a Red Kite as we push on through the council houses and the local playing fields before we meet the field break ahead of the historic centre of Guiseley, still plainly evident to the keen eye as we come up to the Towngate end, above St Oswald's church and below the Memorial Green, at a remove from the new Main Street on the Otley Road. Oxford Road displays the era of Victorian growth, with a shopping parade, prominent town houses and a pair of churches along its length before we come upon the railway bridge and the turn along Station Road to meet the destination for the day, wrapping at Guiseley station at 2.50pm, taking a Tier #3 trail and maker off the map, with three more Tier #3 destinations <i>theoretically</i> within reach, but not on a hot day like this one, when we've already bested our longest trail for the year, at just under 14(!) miles from home.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgrlNXGmbJYPXpVrRbGBUROEn2h9o-a-Vqv9usbI1ZwhxmCHg-PQwia4PLF0yBz74XPne44EvSD3Dlo-7P1c9YifqTUMBkF8B_2tg43RhVWGdcl3Nnar_5riFkINoVLAWSdloqMv2Qo4SVwHnA2Ptmr4uEG37CRMVybSyirwlIbeEbA6nZzV5s9wZ-a6s/s2560/P2020270.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjefvHyPiFQHb29Y6PVznqrBUSX5wDzSxC85p94RAGs4_3jltCaltZoUd79PbzBVbWbqjqXJipxe31VKOqztorgc1AblpcyiWWTbd7gQVvyKjT1QcM1wHrmYEhIN4emctCdzIOhsMbAn1NJyDZ_ZAPgYaoOrpTSl6JeuVkNqQlkcj6BCGbkr5diFHixQZg/s320/P2020384.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Guiseley Station House.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>5,000 Miles Cumulative Total: 6153.5 miles</b></div><div>2023 Total: 231.3 miles</div><div>Up Country Total: 5,661.7 miles</div><div>Solo Total: 5810.9 miles</div><div>5,000 in my 40s Total: 4753.4 miles</div><div><br /></div><div>Destinations Moved from Tier 2 to Tier 1: Guiseley</div><div>Destinations Moved from Tier 3 to Tier 2: Silsden Bridge</div><div><br /></div><div>Trails moved from Tier 3 to Tier 2: 2</div><div><br /></div><div>Next Up: Can we push the mileage further as the End of Summer comes on?</div><div><br /></div></div>Christopher Wrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09743749271457169317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527420385844253776.post-30609105267169717462023-09-08T23:09:00.120+01:002023-10-07T21:47:14.132+01:00Rumination: Summer Jollies (with Trains, Birds & the Night Skies)<div style="text-align: left;"><b>Featuring: Ruswarp to Whitby - 1.5 miles, via the Rail & Riverside Path. 07/09/23</b></div><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgEugIhIn6JViZVGu5HT7OhFXCieDXH3saq8cWn6Is937BQCZpQnOhK3L-ewnBP9fhf8X7IFwGQbV8GAwut1idtgA8E_6dzb-cy4Z0pJujgK3xCaLD2DKaqkdSb5qN_TI1JJMSQdNBhZMtN1Hos4xX--p5qM02BptVTE6BxxPNmM9ZC1HqU4VSxwcVmwA/s2560/P1950023.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgEugIhIn6JViZVGu5HT7OhFXCieDXH3saq8cWn6Is937BQCZpQnOhK3L-ewnBP9fhf8X7IFwGQbV8GAwut1idtgA8E_6dzb-cy4Z0pJujgK3xCaLD2DKaqkdSb5qN_TI1JJMSQdNBhZMtN1Hos4xX--p5qM02BptVTE6BxxPNmM9ZC1HqU4VSxwcVmwA/w200-h150/P1950023.JPG" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Esk View cottage might be the<br /> best letting we've scored so far!</td></tr></tbody></table>Back in May, I pontificated some on the real value of a holiday break away from home, having let the disappointing opening of the year pass away and getting the spirits lifted with a warm week away on the Yorkshire Coast to get my walking year going properly, and three months on from the revivifying benefits of my Spring Jollies, I can tell you that exactly the same benefit can be felt at the End Of Summer, having endured two of the most frustrating months of poor weather, low energy and lacking motivation, heading away from the persistent gloom and changeability that has blighted July and August to be rewarded with the bright and warm week and the universe knew I spiritually needed. It’s another Friday-Friday let that we’re taking, going back to the coastal edge of the North York Moors after Mum expressed an interest in staying in the vicinity of Whitby, and I pulled up a very plausible pair of walks on the moors that got plotted when I was first seeking out rail trails at the start of my walking escapades in 2012, having managed to find a cottage at a significant reduction in price for the week after the end of the schools Summer break, just outside the town in the village of Ruswarp (which is pronounced <i>Ruh-sup</i>, if you were wondering), in a peaceful little idyll of its own, away from the tight streets and general throng of visitors that comes with this most beloved of coastal settlements. Even arriving having passed over moors under the heaviest of damp palls hanging in the air via the A169 does not do anything to temper our enthusiasm that we feel for Esk View cottage, and even on arrival we know that we’ve scored ourselves a gem that will be absolutely ideal for our rest and relaxation needs, amply sized and quietly out of the way at the end of its close, right on the north bank of the river Esk, with its own terrace and directly across from the railway bridge, which means that there will be entertainment to be had, even when settled in at our holiday base, be it on the rails above the water’s surface, or on the banks and their surroundings. <span></span><p></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p>I was already aware of the setting when the booking was made, as every letting we take needs to be judiciously studied beforehand, and since I’ve become wedded to using Live Rail Record for all my train observing needs, our trainspotting could be done with some amount of precision, without too much aimless waiting around in anticipation of the next service being due, but I don’t think I was prepared for just how entertaining it would be to have the North Yorkshire Moors railway services tootling past your backyard as they share the Esk Valley line with Network Rail, as there’s something so bracing about the sound and smell of steam trains in your atmosphere. It would not be a lie to note that nearly every service got observed as it went past across the course of the week, with LMS 5428 ‘Eric Treacy’ being our regular steam turn initially, with diesels 31128 ‘Charybdis’ and D7628 ‘Sybilla’ being the alternates in the mornings and late afternoon, and the Black 5 gets observed from all available angles when I'm venturing out especially to Ruswarp station or from the road bridge, with the only observational disappointments being the southward aspect placing us opposite the sun and the fact that all services into Whitby run tender first, and there’s no real risk of train ennui setting in across the week either, as the last couple of days feature SR 926 ‘Repton’ as the steam operator. Of course, there’s real trains as well, running the local Northern service to Teesside, and way beyond on some occasions, and it’s good to see that the line has class 158 and 156 Sprinter units running on it, to give the local travellers some amount of comfort on the 90+ minute ride out to Middlesborough, despite them being over 30 years old at this point, as they’re a step up from the 150s that I’d expected to see running this essentially rural service, I’d just which there were a few more of them operating daily, and also running a service that’s viably accessible from West Yorkshire, but we won’t be seeing the latter as long as the NYMR exists and the Malton - Pickering line remains absent from the rail landscape. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8-pshGmSjIzGEOCWA9HELQ9oURuzwbMdS_qnrgR4QlY9Y0QVe20zfMgHjFO0xAXuH-mdFYsNpYZj8R7sh4X15CLJDP7uNvErlguWw-OkbvKLLy0t26n6Y2rSQH1dKmEHOqOVVrqHKgcDvUOxGNfIo1mNLl_bNGvnQ5ccbmgMYbEELWFPVKGRjcVey_5A/s2560/P1940523.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsIDmlGPYBj7DCSeOYCHEb0tEM4wTIx1-cDJwkwVw-Lw2hmod5Z1bLVywHJlQczoTIU1SNafa3nPJQeYUM4mDXirZipnupRzY44swjKEs8D71RGT0yMtGnFGByqGtHvjd0t7ja-oMcWHpajSKAAi2zRcGdo3fsuz5t4YGLnddtx02y2z2RntMdejzkQ5k/s2560/P2000788.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsIDmlGPYBj7DCSeOYCHEb0tEM4wTIx1-cDJwkwVw-Lw2hmod5Z1bLVywHJlQczoTIU1SNafa3nPJQeYUM4mDXirZipnupRzY44swjKEs8D71RGT0yMtGnFGByqGtHvjd0t7ja-oMcWHpajSKAAi2zRcGdo3fsuz5t4YGLnddtx02y2z2RntMdejzkQ5k/s320/P2000788.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">926 on the Esk Bridge.</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Of course, it would be remiss of us to not use the preserved railway when its railhead at Grosmont (pronounced Grow-mont, it seems) is only 20 minutes' drive from our base, so the entirety of our Tuesday can be spent riding the rails in the lower Esk Valley and over the moors to Ryedale, once we’ve eaten the cost of tickets for the NYMR, which aren’t cheap for a day’s outing, but do offer you the option of being used an annual pass, which virtually guarantees we shall be making a return trip in 2024 while they get all the tourist money up front, so as to cover the costs of the operation that have been hurting them since the Pandemic years and continue into this current age of everything being ridiculously expensive. There are four locomotives to run on the variety of trains on offer when we arrive at 10.30am, but the initial diesel run to Whitby is delayed as 31128 dies on cue, and 5428 has to be switched onto our service so that the surprisingly high number of day-trippers can be run out for their excursion to the coast, while we all-day riders can stay for as long as it takes to get a brew at No.54 Bistro and pick up lunchtime supplies at the Co-op (as the desired F'n'C box option is far too pricey), before we run back to Grosmont and endure another long shunting session as trains need their engines swapped over again, and BR Standard tank 80136 can take us south, three hours after our initial boarding. The 18 miles down to Pickering is a trip we know well, having done it a whole lot in the mid 1980s, and most recently in 2016, but it's not a jaunt that I'll ever tire of, pulling up the climb to Goathland and then tootling merrily down through Newtondale, and then back again on a surprisingly rapid turnaround, filling out the afternoon with enough distance to feel like you're getting your money's worth, and still having time for a second jaunt to Whitby and back with diesel haulage from D7628 before the whole operation runs out of available services, concluding at 5.45pm, only 20 minutes behind schedule despite all the shuffling of trains that we were compelled to endure earlier in the day.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwc9cuay3RltPuHtSW10pAWFE3BlgxZ-ntCXiWfygbkNm8Oj_r_dgYNYakM5Tb-MzLXd4dKz_23I8iq04m9sfigG2-uspeyvFCXjqHwWtILUUc9dWvnAkwRD-ED4GOrTeJrkJ085-lly5nHKzSKNQn6s6YvG1gTR1X2advMz14xHDh6O4RqiHoV0PQAUQ/s2560/P1980666.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwc9cuay3RltPuHtSW10pAWFE3BlgxZ-ntCXiWfygbkNm8Oj_r_dgYNYakM5Tb-MzLXd4dKz_23I8iq04m9sfigG2-uspeyvFCXjqHwWtILUUc9dWvnAkwRD-ED4GOrTeJrkJ085-lly5nHKzSKNQn6s6YvG1gTR1X2advMz14xHDh6O4RqiHoV0PQAUQ/s320/P1980666.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">5428 at Grosmont.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIywcUlGVuvjpSIYC4MF0AGfx3Q1n_87dyEJ7jFnKJDpSZ-7S_hv1sOKTpg1RorJ7iRu6DaWlRxwPvSIXqt07mbOtRqj8dZm2yA1Rb7j8ZSPrq2Jdw52e4zyk631287MIT5fzt02Yk7phXwBfU8M3GTY-bKhEyXtk4lwDfqML0Hyi_9ceflAhPCDTvdWc/s2560/P1980756.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIywcUlGVuvjpSIYC4MF0AGfx3Q1n_87dyEJ7jFnKJDpSZ-7S_hv1sOKTpg1RorJ7iRu6DaWlRxwPvSIXqt07mbOtRqj8dZm2yA1Rb7j8ZSPrq2Jdw52e4zyk631287MIT5fzt02Yk7phXwBfU8M3GTY-bKhEyXtk4lwDfqML0Hyi_9ceflAhPCDTvdWc/s320/P1980756.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">5428 at Whitby.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyPP3Mn2SLG1Joky-ntG4jKdbz_OMGZ2ohO7M63kbg70lt5-Clzg679Ma-px2WycbLOd7NxV23mxYPiJZNepJjgl0US50VEkS7lThJ4CqCJvnUVq1BZmOVpmp9xdoqjg6U6SIruYqevo1N8yXBkxFNmpTVsnN8orE-JfBRAT4E80M9Sc3BzxR9gfTTnYw/s2560/P1980883.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyPP3Mn2SLG1Joky-ntG4jKdbz_OMGZ2ohO7M63kbg70lt5-Clzg679Ma-px2WycbLOd7NxV23mxYPiJZNepJjgl0US50VEkS7lThJ4CqCJvnUVq1BZmOVpmp9xdoqjg6U6SIruYqevo1N8yXBkxFNmpTVsnN8orE-JfBRAT4E80M9Sc3BzxR9gfTTnYw/s320/P1980883.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">80136 at Grosmont.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAOw6MgEgt2tC1JlQGAdkTjfhmhyArzdItyq35jk1uOL-O8xhUufHBVOaPu2cSzu26SNvLttU0IDqezxbtrZv4irqVUVOp3gjKuRnoXLsAkD5rcUfmiXGDjKv2ljl-VweufLcPOpjp28XZzC5wrhKhnF0Q1dSVMitI9AknmzZK9Qvsb3gfAW0j96AQNdQ/s2560/P1980913.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAOw6MgEgt2tC1JlQGAdkTjfhmhyArzdItyq35jk1uOL-O8xhUufHBVOaPu2cSzu26SNvLttU0IDqezxbtrZv4irqVUVOp3gjKuRnoXLsAkD5rcUfmiXGDjKv2ljl-VweufLcPOpjp28XZzC5wrhKhnF0Q1dSVMitI9AknmzZK9Qvsb3gfAW0j96AQNdQ/s320/P1980913.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">31466 at Levisham.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihRiEwUs5s5yG6mByPXr4G0M5oq3Kf6tiITZwQLyO94aNuYgmwHU1REIUmof7jsYxIRT3W99CkjJoGA6IZF9IRGFY2cdgUozY4jFvQzRwKCokvdC6O-M7XtvXlN35hHgCzpPWwW2UFRqma92Vd4m-q_K3WMwG7wjBLNOD27_0kZxBrevgHL20xVQsUpcI/s2560/P1980952.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihRiEwUs5s5yG6mByPXr4G0M5oq3Kf6tiITZwQLyO94aNuYgmwHU1REIUmof7jsYxIRT3W99CkjJoGA6IZF9IRGFY2cdgUozY4jFvQzRwKCokvdC6O-M7XtvXlN35hHgCzpPWwW2UFRqma92Vd4m-q_K3WMwG7wjBLNOD27_0kZxBrevgHL20xVQsUpcI/s320/P1980952.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">80136 at Pickering.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVhVms18sU1qgsXUj-b7xhzjDF2MTVXmXcGT79d-MQrlZEhNrjNJ5mOpZ286vPKKabpS8MIJX1Cr5spbACP7ziHAOz3nJAWgbUIenIlcFDpBI16CxvItbj49NEmlRr8-D-2kWYp_m0PjRAnD62-UeLP8Kyo2kwJnQNDl8y3LkTGqihlVnRjDnBFbh7rks/s2560/P1990227.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVhVms18sU1qgsXUj-b7xhzjDF2MTVXmXcGT79d-MQrlZEhNrjNJ5mOpZ286vPKKabpS8MIJX1Cr5spbACP7ziHAOz3nJAWgbUIenIlcFDpBI16CxvItbj49NEmlRr8-D-2kWYp_m0PjRAnD62-UeLP8Kyo2kwJnQNDl8y3LkTGqihlVnRjDnBFbh7rks/s320/P1990227.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">D7628 at Whitby.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">The behaviour of, and around the river Esk is our other point of intense interest, as we observe the rise and fall of the waters thanks to the tidal effect of being so close to the coast, with a obviously huge range to observe as the rise of the sea causes the freshwater flow to back up twice a day, which is all intensely fascinating to see with fresh eyes when you are use to the relatively predictable flows of the water-courses of West Yorkshire, and such a dynamic waterway ensures we have birdlife aplenty to watch at relatively close range, which almost causes as much interest as the trains as both seabirds and regular riverside wildlife in our stretch, convincing me further that Twitching could easily be a hobby of mine that's never been properly revealed. Obviously ducks are the main feature as this year's families of fledgling Mallards vie for supremacy on the grassy banks, while the Sparrow and Blue Tits in the local hedges emerge to demolish the nut supplies from the local bird-feeders every morning, while Robins, unphotographable Wrens, and Pigeons, that I will charitably credit as Rock Doves, make irregular appearances around the deckings, while we also see those most imperious of birds, in their manners at least, in Jackdaws and Herring Gulls strutting around on the various railings and perches thick they are also trying to make the boldest territorial statement as possible. Heron sightings are common, and not nearly as unusual as they felt before I started spending my time out of doors, and I'm absurdly happy that our sightings of a posing Cormorant and the spindly legged Little Egret are both called from memory, meaning that my time spent with my RSPB book of European Birdlife has not been wasteful, while there's also a sole Moorhen and an almost fully grown Bewick's Swan cygnet floating around too, but our boldest sighting of the lot is a Kingfisher, and not just its bright blue streak darting by at speed, as our most colourful of birds parks itself on the far riverbank in plain sight to be photographed almost at will, at the maximum magnification my camera can achieve.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQC4fr2DI9Q6Dl4DYDKEixXrECqH9bKS4F2dlrZWPrOYkFOElYSbAlV-TpkeDaSAJUIe1TzidFgreH9wFLyH6_4KnYQdERh27XpqKTTr-yGWXk79LmiSWIbqDO1MYUW2yNVLviOGs26zH0BTbKJThzSsp38y2elVaz-_t098f1POO59n5q2SfUjLlfQCE/s2560/P1940504.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQC4fr2DI9Q6Dl4DYDKEixXrECqH9bKS4F2dlrZWPrOYkFOElYSbAlV-TpkeDaSAJUIe1TzidFgreH9wFLyH6_4KnYQdERh27XpqKTTr-yGWXk79LmiSWIbqDO1MYUW2yNVLviOGs26zH0BTbKJThzSsp38y2elVaz-_t098f1POO59n5q2SfUjLlfQCE/s320/P1940504.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cormorant.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ceo0A2PvjC7xxq8mQjpEuZbOBF1sJIwDB03zeB4QN3QmO1V1YpnQHqg_RW-v1ozHIK6YDN8PBtFY26P02GE2BCoEq9XV3npE1ADubBF8JkMo4YVPtq_1_d6VMq62ntmZIrMwA2Vclwjwrtw0mBMUkymSWLU5xwNpTrlpqsc-u_S2iVyxGxjR8PHTgls/s2560/P1940507.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ceo0A2PvjC7xxq8mQjpEuZbOBF1sJIwDB03zeB4QN3QmO1V1YpnQHqg_RW-v1ozHIK6YDN8PBtFY26P02GE2BCoEq9XV3npE1ADubBF8JkMo4YVPtq_1_d6VMq62ntmZIrMwA2Vclwjwrtw0mBMUkymSWLU5xwNpTrlpqsc-u_S2iVyxGxjR8PHTgls/s320/P1940507.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Little Egret.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs3K5shlPSrw_vYkCI7OpXHCcv7fWdQ4BbeuUDp1OHJp4MtnQh_j8brmChBH9CZFfZUQUn97v_u9W3IZh_v84Y6ZgXqTGFZf1wj-8nldciz71PwCo8HgCyXMIj4fHh-GNZaiD4GZAr7pQhsl74M0pekVOHrOYQU5BCGfOyRakxJTh7_XPjD6CMiTwg5Wg/s2560/P1940578.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs3K5shlPSrw_vYkCI7OpXHCcv7fWdQ4BbeuUDp1OHJp4MtnQh_j8brmChBH9CZFfZUQUn97v_u9W3IZh_v84Y6ZgXqTGFZf1wj-8nldciz71PwCo8HgCyXMIj4fHh-GNZaiD4GZAr7pQhsl74M0pekVOHrOYQU5BCGfOyRakxJTh7_XPjD6CMiTwg5Wg/s320/P1940578.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Heron.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR-ENeUHlNrPtNneAj49i1OIBly4wl_9-MZ5kw4n-MVNnNvS-8dizhwzOswr0D8TKktxFHPD-reQHqD_GoMtX35HUvQPhHZgMJdxWm9XCc7iCismhLlzfSQEbZIuJhtGv3MTDQiy-YU5K_uXvdaOJlMrxc8mgP46dowpCGbLeezs-hrAWhzsA4n1teyiM/s2560/P1940583a.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR-ENeUHlNrPtNneAj49i1OIBly4wl_9-MZ5kw4n-MVNnNvS-8dizhwzOswr0D8TKktxFHPD-reQHqD_GoMtX35HUvQPhHZgMJdxWm9XCc7iCismhLlzfSQEbZIuJhtGv3MTDQiy-YU5K_uXvdaOJlMrxc8mgP46dowpCGbLeezs-hrAWhzsA4n1teyiM/s320/P1940583a.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kingfisher.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-56Sk2Ksgqq_nAjsG9ZQfvFmTplmq6KVJa1-Vq07ib7Co_DZXPIegIkDEkcp7e7Ja5pdN0QnQn9KkHKUf_nYQ5dd0OmF5VpQMVJlAEs2YgrpF4iNn_DxjEbX7ccZ1q-hG8UiE1jGHajM-F_dNqjOZ3ZOTZGZMhMe97N0A8USgDr6cN_d7OAQQoXxzMUU/s2560/P1940593.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-56Sk2Ksgqq_nAjsG9ZQfvFmTplmq6KVJa1-Vq07ib7Co_DZXPIegIkDEkcp7e7Ja5pdN0QnQn9KkHKUf_nYQ5dd0OmF5VpQMVJlAEs2YgrpF4iNn_DxjEbX7ccZ1q-hG8UiE1jGHajM-F_dNqjOZ3ZOTZGZMhMe97N0A8USgDr6cN_d7OAQQoXxzMUU/s320/P1940593.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robin.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHsHIBop5pf34x7cfzuJBu-oRCIUAmArDpoHCRdX6WF6TChyphenhyphenbQ2FZ74lVSEA8hRoqP7y670F1_59BJLbUBMxZCD7OjucHW2JrdB9nU7Ux76A4cyLD4l6MCDkSS7eqv2TAGa7ueFAjn0W70vV9drDP-NBDYMPsHSww-vZrTAMjPV701uOv64QT4CaEYS4Y/s2560/P2000691.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHsHIBop5pf34x7cfzuJBu-oRCIUAmArDpoHCRdX6WF6TChyphenhyphenbQ2FZ74lVSEA8hRoqP7y670F1_59BJLbUBMxZCD7OjucHW2JrdB9nU7Ux76A4cyLD4l6MCDkSS7eqv2TAGa7ueFAjn0W70vV9drDP-NBDYMPsHSww-vZrTAMjPV701uOv64QT4CaEYS4Y/s320/P2000691.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Herring Gull.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">The other consideration which came with our property letting, was the wide sky panorama to the south, which would hopefully allow for some stargazing after a long summer where no sighting were made since Venus dropped from view at the start of July, and cloud buried the possibility if seeing anything for over seven weeks, and while we might be too late for the August Blue Moon, or the recent opposition of Saturn, we still have the latter boldly rising high in the south-east, parked in Aquarius and teasing an oval shape when photographed with my camera that's really not up to the task of astro-photography, which is just as like likely to be motion blur as it is actually sighting the rings. The waning gibbous moon, and Jupiter also rise in the east at the start of the week, making a relatively close approach in the constellation of Aries over the nights of the 3rd and 4th, to be spotted through the trees as staying up to the small hours to snare the best possible views feels like a fool's errand to, though the clear skies and some excellent placement allows me to capture maybe my best view yet of the the four Galilean moons as they orbit their way around, and having these planets back in our sights in the late Summer aspect has it feeling like we've come full circle since I started making my regular observations in the fading months of 2022. Otherwise, the skies are the darkest I've experienced since staying in Northumberland in 2010, but there's no sign of the Milky Way or the Andromeda galaxy to be had from down here, and I'll not be having Mum drive us out onto the moors for a night sky session, despite the excellent reputation of the National Park for lack of light pollution, and thus we'll have to be satisfied with the Summer Triangle, namely Deneb in Cygnus, Vega in Lyra and Altair in Aquila, as it takes pride of place at the sky's apex whenever we head out for a gaze, while the rest of our Summer panorama feels slightly disappointing, confirming the lesson that Patrick Moore taught is years ago, that the time of year when stargazing is most appealing as an outdoor task is also the time when the skies are at their most visually barren and in a state of perpetual twilight. </p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWA235jHjgSBpp9RxmlhhE8aTwUDyg2H7CJ6dxjcRL1UMVNKOK0Nq6VOrsxK8rg_peCnfbQgAID8a9D8Sb52E3ljeul9Nw5I1qIOlk95Ba-GIvCqtq92dRODNa92gl4uU1z2dhpsn5_cRsxnXaMcEYAwQtJTb0a9emUjPIIatIT_fJWhDadBb42UorKK4/s3264/P1940859.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWA235jHjgSBpp9RxmlhhE8aTwUDyg2H7CJ6dxjcRL1UMVNKOK0Nq6VOrsxK8rg_peCnfbQgAID8a9D8Sb52E3ljeul9Nw5I1qIOlk95Ba-GIvCqtq92dRODNa92gl4uU1z2dhpsn5_cRsxnXaMcEYAwQtJTb0a9emUjPIIatIT_fJWhDadBb42UorKK4/s320/P1940859.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Summer Triangle: Deneb, Vega and Altair 2/9</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC8VXKIE22U8H8mq1jRNpCKyxnyHHeUmogv6HGzYBnMdXFNomXXkoHRok06VhAUlHTeTTmuVembGrnuGWRbggdjViTWw0plAhMGoeoSf_bqm08aCKSbH6dbca3A4FcWUOSCUGzCtpdhxqsiMKr4WJUitqRU3cNnuZFzLdO30receZw4GP7u7wgnv9afbk/s3264/P1940870.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPcNqDeRnP2ihpzut6-2C2m7JQwVaWhL1bxxDWy4FKyPpK5AiKXLI4y03mazVuyTdisGW5miUWr37T8RdnpySF6ECwEgJq16u02fFaCVLwXOZ6plobiGU_P-lnAPXScV-jtS7XMJN5X9tfd_VdA7YQPPBu5vaX3UAq-TPxy68ngBCzpnI11Fusake4Grg/s2560/P1980127.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPcNqDeRnP2ihpzut6-2C2m7JQwVaWhL1bxxDWy4FKyPpK5AiKXLI4y03mazVuyTdisGW5miUWr37T8RdnpySF6ECwEgJq16u02fFaCVLwXOZ6plobiGU_P-lnAPXScV-jtS7XMJN5X9tfd_VdA7YQPPBu5vaX3UAq-TPxy68ngBCzpnI11Fusake4Grg/s320/P1980127.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moon and Jupiter 3/9</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div><br /><span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0IKug7MbhouNdBUpwYAZQgIHct8fLSI44BxFk1cNump4NI1eUAEBaGmmexBfpBkbOkobGBJ8Uu4AqwTXdN0YGlf8GKTqeLOCF1_hN3wlCSS0m42k2Plba-nrKu1w3iSmci8bw4fre55exVLP1ZTc4ggLnIgQR5c-tcWAnTPQPWC8lpM0Y8MyvY98HyuM/s2560/P1980132.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0IKug7MbhouNdBUpwYAZQgIHct8fLSI44BxFk1cNump4NI1eUAEBaGmmexBfpBkbOkobGBJ8Uu4AqwTXdN0YGlf8GKTqeLOCF1_hN3wlCSS0m42k2Plba-nrKu1w3iSmci8bw4fre55exVLP1ZTc4ggLnIgQR5c-tcWAnTPQPWC8lpM0Y8MyvY98HyuM/s320/P1980132.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jupiter and the Galilean Moons 3/9</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></div><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfq7S3Q4YJNygw2FLY-XDqwStAs8gJtM_HN_L-2oxPn-29gZVRTEuHw2Tt-Pj0INQWxZPecigCvOCq-lfSuwo_CZqv5TqncHRzbuSQd7MSdk2IzOXnVoIZkW5Pye6rK3WmxsEaPE63xHghGCzdX1x6ZW5lx6_PoaHb9XXcJKgHtJMsf5Aob6f6JNQDZ_U/s3264/P1980611.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfq7S3Q4YJNygw2FLY-XDqwStAs8gJtM_HN_L-2oxPn-29gZVRTEuHw2Tt-Pj0INQWxZPecigCvOCq-lfSuwo_CZqv5TqncHRzbuSQd7MSdk2IzOXnVoIZkW5Pye6rK3WmxsEaPE63xHghGCzdX1x6ZW5lx6_PoaHb9XXcJKgHtJMsf5Aob6f6JNQDZ_U/s320/P1980611.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moon and Jupiter 4/9</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">I probably ought to share some thoughts on the other aspects of our break away, which also featured a planned encounter with Mum's old friends from Skipton, who came out to Whitby for a long weekend of their own, who we could meet up with on Saturday afternoon to join the tourist throng on the last weekend of the Summer holidays, and to have a stroll around the harbour and the old town, to catch up over coffee in the Cornish Bakery and a fish supper at Trencher's restaurant, and their presence also give Mum some bonus company while I'm out on the moors on Sunday, and grants us permission to entertain in the evening as they come around for dinner, getting in our proper meal quotient for the week. Monday afternoon has us take our first beach opportunity, as we ride out to enjoy the seasonal sunshine at Sandsend, parking up by East Row beck and taking a stroll on the sands as I show up the benefit of multi-purpose footwear and Mum finds the value of walking with a stick on uneven surfaces, taking in the coastal views and air as we seek Whitby Jet, or any other interesting stones, on the beach before the inevitable breaking for drinks at Sandside Cafe, high above the sea wall, to contemplate the temporal distance back to our previous visits here, in 2000 and 1982. After our failure to do so in May, we need to test out the fare of the local Pub, taking Thursday lunch in The Bridge in Ruswarp, and I'll have to drop a strong recommendation on their process and portion sizes, with the Hot Meat sandwich with Gravy being an excellent way of getting rid of the Sunday Roast offcuts and proving fortification for another bonus round of walking as the Rail and River-side path that runs downstream to Whitby needs to be paced, to tie our residence hear to where we walked in the Spring, entirely manageable as a short stroll out, feeling like the sort of path that simply needs to exist to satisfy casual curiosity, and hugging close to the railway line, despite not being offered as a right of way on any map.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ5S_j4yCAo1-rt_RlO0gFI0tcQ40Hb-PcM7AFWI-_LdZxMBbSaxkPL4e3fMWjtXEawti7zn5sY3ZCFDMlmLp83-OlAs2FCvhVuCrwOTtCzicbBIHdvmh7zfYNQJo3jLlW2KdtKS4MTDvF6U8VxApqkNMv3TlojCB_pBkFJI1qulVHhbSKvUyh3rwmct8/s2560/P1940828.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ5S_j4yCAo1-rt_RlO0gFI0tcQ40Hb-PcM7AFWI-_LdZxMBbSaxkPL4e3fMWjtXEawti7zn5sY3ZCFDMlmLp83-OlAs2FCvhVuCrwOTtCzicbBIHdvmh7zfYNQJo3jLlW2KdtKS4MTDvF6U8VxApqkNMv3TlojCB_pBkFJI1qulVHhbSKvUyh3rwmct8/s320/P1940828.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Whitby Old Town.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ScNnyopIB9oRRLPUpLhPW5EKaILntlNBchouIPYkDJAB35HFnCBmgfaicGQr7dHR69hqq9fm44A8NQW_nbEsbfaPNMh31kX8pfrnUQUiKYvqFsglm42OrG3eHttGhCJ7527vAU_pxVIgFt2ame4AFV3cFtbsPaLx8-cIAWq7jx1hRjE_CAdGv90AYYo/s2560/P1940841.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ScNnyopIB9oRRLPUpLhPW5EKaILntlNBchouIPYkDJAB35HFnCBmgfaicGQr7dHR69hqq9fm44A8NQW_nbEsbfaPNMh31kX8pfrnUQUiKYvqFsglm42OrG3eHttGhCJ7527vAU_pxVIgFt2ame4AFV3cFtbsPaLx8-cIAWq7jx1hRjE_CAdGv90AYYo/s320/P1940841.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Whitby Harbour.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwiS68Gf2AKdYPJ8wCNZ8wlfY0eQpdPfy3VqWVXboMcefaYkS5LFLtSDtSq-RZVgMOpWuPYAq3hu5NCLTGZFv53J02nDuZDpvt7jE8aGGDi-IYGjw5Z5YC7saMex7I8CRQwwmugil8__oMrBJkbWNgROAy8n1ezb_dq2QaUqIALc2MBW0oRhUUAuU4rt8/s2560/P1980448.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwiS68Gf2AKdYPJ8wCNZ8wlfY0eQpdPfy3VqWVXboMcefaYkS5LFLtSDtSq-RZVgMOpWuPYAq3hu5NCLTGZFv53J02nDuZDpvt7jE8aGGDi-IYGjw5Z5YC7saMex7I8CRQwwmugil8__oMrBJkbWNgROAy8n1ezb_dq2QaUqIALc2MBW0oRhUUAuU4rt8/s320/P1980448.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">East Row Beck, Sandsend.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvuwQ593ZrJpt8Tiy68_-YAgGqfeExOA4JJ56iLjvblQFnMkj2cirhqOCjuqzfE0r1yv_ZQGX3W6krYOsLMtztEvj21qynAb1Vg8MXdsdMelTslwOUveWhCuq9twFc6jUGHfMfhLWAh7DZz3gP721OIxf7H9mdMBHzohjDMakpXebNjTcx03Op1haAxko/s2560/P1980472.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvuwQ593ZrJpt8Tiy68_-YAgGqfeExOA4JJ56iLjvblQFnMkj2cirhqOCjuqzfE0r1yv_ZQGX3W6krYOsLMtztEvj21qynAb1Vg8MXdsdMelTslwOUveWhCuq9twFc6jUGHfMfhLWAh7DZz3gP721OIxf7H9mdMBHzohjDMakpXebNjTcx03Op1haAxko/s320/P1980472.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sandsend Beach.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO_38h3cTMoO6Y0o-1Qeuk8QGqyp0dGQwtxdiv4fRc14Ak3erkJ53p2F-0sBWx735R3F8B3LkcfM0mtNkjyXYhKc6F3OCG2wXNl9kfRhaBbeGcAcV3mQOo3iIZl1susLe4XNlbvbOd3L2VDEkrkXGBW4zhoWuo1SdZCHL-Ve4uRW-RlKPYf9ObH__uWJ0/s2560/P2000825.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO_38h3cTMoO6Y0o-1Qeuk8QGqyp0dGQwtxdiv4fRc14Ak3erkJ53p2F-0sBWx735R3F8B3LkcfM0mtNkjyXYhKc6F3OCG2wXNl9kfRhaBbeGcAcV3mQOo3iIZl1susLe4XNlbvbOd3L2VDEkrkXGBW4zhoWuo1SdZCHL-Ve4uRW-RlKPYf9ObH__uWJ0/s320/P2000825.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Bridge Inn, Ruswarp.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifQB2hbyRP0eI0-YXqd8sqZEg-yq9xiJkXqdBI_1rw9RvenL-EJvMA_tuVNqvOP5iSez8cmKFfvVT3OhG62wVo9pDeDcyCFpUCW_PVhp3Es6NE2vMKzGbf2D82O0sVWpwAjzJLGvSFDfu5Al8gmUFbNxx0m420jcowyv37kWiD5Gr4YncHoXQa5ekgsLY/s2560/P2000834.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifQB2hbyRP0eI0-YXqd8sqZEg-yq9xiJkXqdBI_1rw9RvenL-EJvMA_tuVNqvOP5iSez8cmKFfvVT3OhG62wVo9pDeDcyCFpUCW_PVhp3Es6NE2vMKzGbf2D82O0sVWpwAjzJLGvSFDfu5Al8gmUFbNxx0m420jcowyv37kWiD5Gr4YncHoXQa5ekgsLY/s320/P2000834.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ruswarp Station.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">It's only a forty minute trip, and not one delayed by trainspotting as nothing is scheduled to pass in our window, through there's plenty of interest to be had as we go, taking in the shift of the Esk from freshwater to saltwater, and passing under the high redbrick spans of Larpool viaduct, which will never gets old regardless of how many times it's encountered, from up close or afar, and progressing down to the view of Whitby Abbey rising above the harbour and town from as far back as the passage under the spans of the A171 bypass road, and coming on down by the marinas and the extensive carparks at the dockside and on the old railway goods yards, where more fish than is readily imaginable used to be shipped out inland, generations ago. Mum can pick me up as I arrive at the town station, and we can drive out to West Cliff for our second coast visit, landing among the high terraces of the new town and descending for a beach walk down the cliff paths by Whitby Pavilion and along to Battery Point, where the inevitable ice-cream break needs to be made, before we walk along the West Pier and watch the atmospheric sea mist drift in to shroud the Abbey in a dramatic and Bram Stoker-inspiring fashion before we circuit back up the Khyber Pass steps and up to the Whalebone Arches and the Captain Cook monument, having witness just how quickly the mood of the coastal weather can change. Finally, taking the long way around homewards on Friday allows us to visit Mount Grace priory, splendid in its isolation below the wooded slopes of the Cleveland Hills despite its proximity to the A19, where the Carthusian monastery proves to be an absolute revelation to us, completely different in character to every other abbey complex we've visited, as the enforced solitude of the monks creates something quite different from the fraternities of other brotherhoods, established in the 15th century with only a modestly scaled church and the reconstructed monks' cell presents an appearance of an apartment and garden dwelling that's quite at odds with the impression of enforced austerity and poverty that we'd both had about the 'silent' orders.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh47c8lId-2AqSxslUrb1EsEpk70Ok84OyVFh8K5GNWJllHWcZCF7ZJEQHxahfSWVhRsz16LwRAJQismdDCSgUku-Zc7zlMTqCXZRQHHblie0_BYXyAWv4Dh1AzinHsuJPfFVnZoNFWq01qXOANjGiG5w113ETqpGcOug7eOfQkBxBo8gjAWRf_fJxRyOs/s2560/P2000873.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh47c8lId-2AqSxslUrb1EsEpk70Ok84OyVFh8K5GNWJllHWcZCF7ZJEQHxahfSWVhRsz16LwRAJQismdDCSgUku-Zc7zlMTqCXZRQHHblie0_BYXyAWv4Dh1AzinHsuJPfFVnZoNFWq01qXOANjGiG5w113ETqpGcOug7eOfQkBxBo8gjAWRf_fJxRyOs/s320/P2000873.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Larpool Viaduct.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSJ7GfONBnfvshyphenhyphenboAQtQ62agWyGaLsqMsiJk3JABtKqGAoM0428u5YBLTcicyajBfNOQXf7z07Z2n-LFACbZu6Cy1OedMCmNaW_i4-KlXKzo6No6r4JAhbaoIWSbxYZ1mkixnZn934nt9E37q0g7R2qhp1AaoTix-4ZBTVzY1UbjBqdbUU1P58ITa198/s2560/P2000900.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSJ7GfONBnfvshyphenhyphenboAQtQ62agWyGaLsqMsiJk3JABtKqGAoM0428u5YBLTcicyajBfNOQXf7z07Z2n-LFACbZu6Cy1OedMCmNaW_i4-KlXKzo6No6r4JAhbaoIWSbxYZ1mkixnZn934nt9E37q0g7R2qhp1AaoTix-4ZBTVzY1UbjBqdbUU1P58ITa198/s320/P2000900.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Larpool Viaduct, again.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUVFKdNw3n3A2WMCAHm1cap9oQRcNtFRMLylen6-Y8fyjjASCe3zq5xRo8fO4PCCop1XnN-5vJZa7dyWGdy1E60bXM6qt9gpBqvEddZxaudRaiQ-V4QerBaxCO5woHxitnqGj2rlnBbzmXGYQg4hBmztfCbjON7zwRgnH0Y0vp_Fl9xbOT1tJajzztTCc/s2560/P2000947.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUVFKdNw3n3A2WMCAHm1cap9oQRcNtFRMLylen6-Y8fyjjASCe3zq5xRo8fO4PCCop1XnN-5vJZa7dyWGdy1E60bXM6qt9gpBqvEddZxaudRaiQ-V4QerBaxCO5woHxitnqGj2rlnBbzmXGYQg4hBmztfCbjON7zwRgnH0Y0vp_Fl9xbOT1tJajzztTCc/s320/P2000947.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The A171 Bypass Bridge.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5XklfXBQi6LiiAU-2uEI8KqwZTQnbkGkYHQbUAmOgbQ_HdXnndpT3gGqVLR7PXWMG9oClePSt8Fo4LDPHZgmMZ79jq4YmQ21gRV4sA1Q0po1Az4IJbL2QWZBF5U_7w0L1tuArXDB7YBCA1zefdR0rs1ga4kM5QE3VOAJtyTnYhwuPg_9izVlhufdYLXs/s2560/P2010002.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5XklfXBQi6LiiAU-2uEI8KqwZTQnbkGkYHQbUAmOgbQ_HdXnndpT3gGqVLR7PXWMG9oClePSt8Fo4LDPHZgmMZ79jq4YmQ21gRV4sA1Q0po1Az4IJbL2QWZBF5U_7w0L1tuArXDB7YBCA1zefdR0rs1ga4kM5QE3VOAJtyTnYhwuPg_9izVlhufdYLXs/s320/P2010002.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Goods Shed and former Goods Yards, Whitby.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Hoa65hg_SunJCmeIlVUpVe564uHB7lmFGNTqsXHd48qpS70lU_y4UBm4sMAGniu_gzVkJ0BPMaJa4vHcocGAr8seiwK0Wco0W2P1qa1N882aHs3Iriw7QhGqeyRWf-N6l3NRnorydlBJPBaXAY4pjX403x0iHVfoPtESR1JH2YkhrIXO9mPvYYxWwEc/s2560/P2010030.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Hoa65hg_SunJCmeIlVUpVe564uHB7lmFGNTqsXHd48qpS70lU_y4UBm4sMAGniu_gzVkJ0BPMaJa4vHcocGAr8seiwK0Wco0W2P1qa1N882aHs3Iriw7QhGqeyRWf-N6l3NRnorydlBJPBaXAY4pjX403x0iHVfoPtESR1JH2YkhrIXO9mPvYYxWwEc/s320/P2010030.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The West Cliff terraces.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlpElZYVir1-6fJ9ZWJfpZlwEk79ShDDyqEuJWYorpmV1Yy_rOyhhoDorlnk0mczCnk2k6Blgyo0NKbtNmsersuU60N0zzC68NbkdPx-N2qvxI0et4-yFxhY-yRLjDdwpU6jv4EbFPU9xuLnmHKKpw3eBkg4B48nYQIyjfuTo0oM0MUOBHOCUVpqnDFlE/s2560/P2010060.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlpElZYVir1-6fJ9ZWJfpZlwEk79ShDDyqEuJWYorpmV1Yy_rOyhhoDorlnk0mczCnk2k6Blgyo0NKbtNmsersuU60N0zzC68NbkdPx-N2qvxI0et4-yFxhY-yRLjDdwpU6jv4EbFPU9xuLnmHKKpw3eBkg4B48nYQIyjfuTo0oM0MUOBHOCUVpqnDFlE/s320/P2010060.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">West Cliff Beach.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJXuCjpZ5tpX_XYtPdo228JNDo4hJD0dFEnLqDVOPllKV5je9c8Ok54kPjlAX1vCA-q9Dy1HGKTuDSQJK0ntLuQOIo-XTYiZ7q1m3kA0MnDRWrMQSzP-lVmkeO5rMIn9uenDhUE-nVG4umptJv96bx3qq7cSKsibMr2CqmX0EUdP-TVoMMipvSYqT8LGQ/s2560/P2010161.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJXuCjpZ5tpX_XYtPdo228JNDo4hJD0dFEnLqDVOPllKV5je9c8Ok54kPjlAX1vCA-q9Dy1HGKTuDSQJK0ntLuQOIo-XTYiZ7q1m3kA0MnDRWrMQSzP-lVmkeO5rMIn9uenDhUE-nVG4umptJv96bx3qq7cSKsibMr2CqmX0EUdP-TVoMMipvSYqT8LGQ/s320/P2010161.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Whalebone Arch, with Sea Mist.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZGvhoPpG1tRWA8Zl3ZyWXhnFenafi6qVGgwH6GKTUIR5QO0CT2CbgA2_3lwDYTgUU3MB895OhHwya3QcqF1pvMit8plMUALCwuD9zmUkEI81qYrAL2niWzMHJ3DYksNSnsU0WNZxbzoLHR3bhc_sWZYWhcEMUivKyXUMjjwaS4AMVsk6KYbEXsJ075vo/s2560/P2010269.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZGvhoPpG1tRWA8Zl3ZyWXhnFenafi6qVGgwH6GKTUIR5QO0CT2CbgA2_3lwDYTgUU3MB895OhHwya3QcqF1pvMit8plMUALCwuD9zmUkEI81qYrAL2niWzMHJ3DYksNSnsU0WNZxbzoLHR3bhc_sWZYWhcEMUivKyXUMjjwaS4AMVsk6KYbEXsJ075vo/s320/P2010269.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mount Grace Priory church.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIvDmquz-K7wVl8-KhNx9trmBOtzyMsdMtLJMBJ33uyDcKRe9ePKgWhy2wZTJRp0Zu2dvErpEriyi2a9Av5xf1sdBQQGK8ylHuch1sKMd8fojzJgREBfz-xl3yNhy76aYpkEFoOdyThPSKkxdgJALP8BREKIQ78JHVEa77YHmdinkom-b9-ZbRufftSvU/s2560/P2010335.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIvDmquz-K7wVl8-KhNx9trmBOtzyMsdMtLJMBJ33uyDcKRe9ePKgWhy2wZTJRp0Zu2dvErpEriyi2a9Av5xf1sdBQQGK8ylHuch1sKMd8fojzJgREBfz-xl3yNhy76aYpkEFoOdyThPSKkxdgJALP8BREKIQ78JHVEa77YHmdinkom-b9-ZbRufftSvU/s320/P2010335.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Inner Cloister, with Monk's Cell.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEHWknf5s7ZtxvpySmXJa-eu5ADV0g5CfR3rCrLAoh-OS6WTZPEKbgOxan-9tG896Ps6Y3uBB9deJJMSsC5JxVYaIo_iNJC2LEorYe3hpa1hGxa7oZEiMocWDqvWJlb-U8s6NS35upGTMNu8mH8CwcVbjvHjPeipSH9gu-XNK7446r9_VpO_SyWNiPLPw/s2560/P2010377.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEHWknf5s7ZtxvpySmXJa-eu5ADV0g5CfR3rCrLAoh-OS6WTZPEKbgOxan-9tG896Ps6Y3uBB9deJJMSsC5JxVYaIo_iNJC2LEorYe3hpa1hGxa7oZEiMocWDqvWJlb-U8s6NS35upGTMNu8mH8CwcVbjvHjPeipSH9gu-XNK7446r9_VpO_SyWNiPLPw/s320/P2010377.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The reconstructed Monks Cell, with garden.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">The benefit of a good holiday really cannot be understated, like I said back in May and at the headline of this piece, as a stretch in a comfortable and unfamiliar location allows the disappointments of an absolutely garbage Summer season can be cast away, and you can focus entirely on doing what you enjoy doing most, putting your work life and over-familiar surrounding away to recharge your brain before the press into Autumn comes along, and even if the End of Summer probes to be as disappointing as the spell that preceded it, we have this week to recall most positively, as both Mum and I feel, in its immediate wake, that this has been the best week away that we've had together, one that we'll be recalling for a good while.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>5,000 Miles Cumulative Total: 6139.6 miles</b></div><div>2023 Total: 217.4 miles</div><div>Up Country Total: 5,647.8 miles</div><div>Solo Total: 5797 miles</div><div>5,000 in my 40s Total: 4739.5 miles</div><div><br /></div><div>Next Up: Getting back into it in West Yorkshire!</div><div><br /></div></div>Christopher Wrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09743749271457169317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527420385844253776.post-77692437512824508842023-09-07T18:03:00.116+01:002023-10-06T11:40:28.542+01:00Rosedale Railways #2: Rosedale Circular 06/09/23<div style="text-align: left;"><b>11.4 miles, from Blakey Junction, via Glead Holes. Slead Shoe Bents, Low Blakey Moor,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Sherriff's Pit, Thorgill Head, Thorgill Bank, Hobb Crag, Bank Top, Chimney Bank,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Rosedale Abbey, Abbey heads, Bell End, Plane Trees, School Row, Hill Cottages,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Low Baring, Stone Kilns, Iron Kilns, Black Houses, Dale Head, Nab Scar, Reeking Gill,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Seven Head, Cross Gill, and Blakey Swang.</b></div><p style="text-align: left;">Two warm and pleasant days off from the trail are spent, filled with activity before we get back to the business of the walking plan for this round of Summer Jollies, and we did not expect moorland mist to be on our menu in the midst of our warm spell, as it hangs in the air for the full duration of our 23+ mile ride out onto the moorland top, during which Mum demonstrates an amount of fearlessness in her motoring that belies her years as we tool our way up to the crest of Blakey Ridge again, to resume our exploration of the railway and ironworking that took place in the moorland edges of Rosedale, which falls away to the west and south of the road we ride the high road. We alight at 9.45am at Blakey Junction, with a 5 hour trip in our sights as we descend beside the infilled cutting that passed under the ridge road, down to the site of the Little Blakey hamlet that stood by the division of the railway lines around both sides of Rosedale, of which nought but feint foundation remnants remain in the landscape, and we'll head south from here, down the western branch, for reasons that will become apparent as we start our circular tour, with the mist already burning off as we pass through the gate by the end of the long switchback siding, with mist still obscuring views to the east, and the kiln complexes at the end of the eastern branch, which will get much of the day's attention. It's a steady contour-hugging walk to enjoy as we progress south, at about 360m with only the slightest of declines as we trot away on a decent cinder track surface, with sleeper markings still present underfoot as we look over the valley of Rosedale, trying to get some context of the landscape below as move on among the banks of purple heather that illuminate in the sunshine behind us, settling into the shallow cuttings that run atop the edge of the Glead Holes edge, and looking down across the long rib of Middle Ridge, where it looks like a huge piece of the valley side sloughed its way downhill in antiquity, leaving a scarred and wild landscape in its wake, one not caused by human mining or quarrying activity, with our surroundings becoming more steadily apparent as we track south. <span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAXHTn-4a63VUP4oW8QS8mDGn5WsiCJFKp4uIyHwdm5dBIYNgiaEoBFw7H-pm7FuPu9IKv3fMA2pYnFqHgTPQftv6rjVobde3Ef62k7RZFZUFYGG4F1lN2KiA7IkHW6sOxbNZiOpKEdFNOSGOUFMkkwIwpWoOm4AeFdC2Yzww4lXdYrJfhCYu-AG0z2Ss/s2560/P1990312.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAXHTn-4a63VUP4oW8QS8mDGn5WsiCJFKp4uIyHwdm5dBIYNgiaEoBFw7H-pm7FuPu9IKv3fMA2pYnFqHgTPQftv6rjVobde3Ef62k7RZFZUFYGG4F1lN2KiA7IkHW6sOxbNZiOpKEdFNOSGOUFMkkwIwpWoOm4AeFdC2Yzww4lXdYrJfhCYu-AG0z2Ss/s320/P1990312.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Misty Morning view of Rosedale from Blakey Junction.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilQMdByCm73dC0r9MmNo_vJRPA0jxIdVbQfC7CxWCmh7Gpnr2UoaN2i_b6YzmmoEGWxBctbWA9VcRxz_2rMi43Kigi_nXfz2QnhZ6yd042rEMg2xq8l7JQ5CdLdiwl1a_kQZXLMxsYH9STWuI72hX1X-TR8fmytlrldDiiZ3zDsf-NK98LV5P0axDcR0Y/s2560/P1990327.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilQMdByCm73dC0r9MmNo_vJRPA0jxIdVbQfC7CxWCmh7Gpnr2UoaN2i_b6YzmmoEGWxBctbWA9VcRxz_2rMi43Kigi_nXfz2QnhZ6yd042rEMg2xq8l7JQ5CdLdiwl1a_kQZXLMxsYH9STWuI72hX1X-TR8fmytlrldDiiZ3zDsf-NK98LV5P0axDcR0Y/s320/P1990327.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Rosedale Western Branch, at the end of the Switchback Siding..</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyfDO1ohc7XdDbQvZD4iD909c43MGPRtgDteOCPI3YyAY4kZY7oK0bRdLGRuUzGfh4OC4e7chwEew1g_nS3g0szLSn2HDS2qh6m_u8fy8mfUB4C5gktmjODL8J0FqrqVfhsYwKrcK7HOyV6z6-HJ_q0pYxf_XyvyP5xa3Sp0y_PByGzhxNq7MBmLNOfH4/s2560/P1990349.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyfDO1ohc7XdDbQvZD4iD909c43MGPRtgDteOCPI3YyAY4kZY7oK0bRdLGRuUzGfh4OC4e7chwEew1g_nS3g0szLSn2HDS2qh6m_u8fy8mfUB4C5gktmjODL8J0FqrqVfhsYwKrcK7HOyV6z6-HJ_q0pYxf_XyvyP5xa3Sp0y_PByGzhxNq7MBmLNOfH4/s320/P1990349.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Awaiting the Views as we progress southwards on the cinder track.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn6ETfU41vqy_Zeqv5aOfYrjvDcRo_XiIJoMREwXMqMpAWw8HYmQ_HNGRxscJwdM5xTeCpVdUBM_6MswIppXIVsmlVEAbKlOwDS0uOKVPbczM8Z9oLtM3UjE_r23UmfyCyzT2-jYyfOkxBOffEqmoMllIN4buDlrYTg7W-F26_QD_mYERUHras6YzzPMY/s2560/P1990368.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn6ETfU41vqy_Zeqv5aOfYrjvDcRo_XiIJoMREwXMqMpAWw8HYmQ_HNGRxscJwdM5xTeCpVdUBM_6MswIppXIVsmlVEAbKlOwDS0uOKVPbczM8Z9oLtM3UjE_r23UmfyCyzT2-jYyfOkxBOffEqmoMllIN4buDlrYTg7W-F26_QD_mYERUHras6YzzPMY/s320/P1990368.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Middle Ridge, below Gilead Holes.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">The lumps of Bell Top and Abbey Heads rise in the valley's centre, reminding us that there's a longer walk down the valley side than the brain has imagined, while the pair of lines to the kilns and mines on the east side demonstrate a much greater distance apart in height than is apparent on the map, which will demand some judicious choice of route when we get around there, while the path forward demonstrates two clear moorland nabs to be passed above ahead of the southern apex, to give us more useful visual context as the interesting parts of eastern Rosedale start to pass behind us and I find joy in finding other people up on these bridleways, enjoying the solitude on a midweek morning, in the wake of the school summer holidays. A corner turn brings us upon the site of Sherriff's Pit, the only deep mine on the moorland, with its uncapped 82m shaft still open to the 500m long drift mine that cut in below from Thorgill, with a small amount of the manager's house and the foundations of the winding house complexes still enduring, along with and interpretative board and rusted iron silhouette to give visitors a feel for wat is no more as they take a break on the available bench, ahead of the sweep of the line around to Thorgill Head and above the fall of its back into the valley, giving us a trek around the high moorland apron that feels a lot like our previous trek, elevating us above Thorgill Bank and the eponymous hamlet below as the line moves easterly, giving us grand end-on view of the railhead on the eastern valley side. We then turn with the trackbed to resume south, with the quiet idyll being disturbed by the sound of roadworks on the lanes leading north out from Rosedale Abbey, which might cause route issues in our future, though more immediately all traces of the mist have been burned off as we gain views up, down and across the valley, passing through the shallow cuttings and low embankments that lead us to the staring bench above Hobb Cragg and the village at the valley's heart, giving us context of Rosedale as a whole, about level with the mid point and only a brief way on from the railhead on the western valley side, which arrives as quickly as it had felt far away. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMrYSe_gdha3aV1BP0h1Zte13RUTMAuEvjhffRLyyyILjBja9P5ErC5NX_sGProb80bHgCnPSgdNXYrQC2grEGxj7dd3TFwj-JcJl72BhvZrmStn8Ifa9Ojy96TZJNa0ofptY37_24xamzpgcJwxIvh8sToAg0c4KcsgxyFM3Qezl_WNVlNDF0Y7Hl7ao/s2560/P1990410.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMrYSe_gdha3aV1BP0h1Zte13RUTMAuEvjhffRLyyyILjBja9P5ErC5NX_sGProb80bHgCnPSgdNXYrQC2grEGxj7dd3TFwj-JcJl72BhvZrmStn8Ifa9Ojy96TZJNa0ofptY37_24xamzpgcJwxIvh8sToAg0c4KcsgxyFM3Qezl_WNVlNDF0Y7Hl7ao/s320/P1990410.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two Nabs to come on the Western Branch, Thorgill Bank & Chimney Bank.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoYdVz9BDKNpP9QVx3vbFSM2Kvnr2NLhUKt4wq-FMoMGsL7Ox1F2QgSGj0IREvESqg8zHe5HMlWy8WOuGDRlrryTtkQ6hhGdsXr1B-SI398eDziP7EqUX2iDlkdbh-fxXFlS7LP7MOybZe7svbzUoN3lYRQbsCRZ9c-mmiW0540M0aoWIC3J0n1NyM8yM/s2560/P1990452.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoYdVz9BDKNpP9QVx3vbFSM2Kvnr2NLhUKt4wq-FMoMGsL7Ox1F2QgSGj0IREvESqg8zHe5HMlWy8WOuGDRlrryTtkQ6hhGdsXr1B-SI398eDziP7EqUX2iDlkdbh-fxXFlS7LP7MOybZe7svbzUoN3lYRQbsCRZ9c-mmiW0540M0aoWIC3J0n1NyM8yM/s320/P1990452.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eastern Rosedale Finally Illuminated.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4IsD4iZaF2o6P1sX4uxEKC7H7GTdPD9zAnYBsLjPnbWO3arP7Elyfda7rNmvofUooVe7Bq-iIO3UKa5bUyuOXPAN9QbHGiAgxzm6_HHg0emY0heyo9dIfnTiBgnHF89pe1R3Gqgp4fXG4KxM6zM8R89t0CBQkeQbWky2BIc8g6ENNnighlvg4FLeZJ60/s2560/P1990497.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4IsD4iZaF2o6P1sX4uxEKC7H7GTdPD9zAnYBsLjPnbWO3arP7Elyfda7rNmvofUooVe7Bq-iIO3UKa5bUyuOXPAN9QbHGiAgxzm6_HHg0emY0heyo9dIfnTiBgnHF89pe1R3Gqgp4fXG4KxM6zM8R89t0CBQkeQbWky2BIc8g6ENNnighlvg4FLeZJ60/s320/P1990497.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sherrif's Pit, above Thorgill.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs9US7BVCrXuHQ-O02nAVRiRWsxk1M3y9uJXDng44JgX3OaxQh97WzN9maVWYujQL6Nf9WBWUcszY3QacfNVHHBOlh8WSc5zfkEpwVsrDs6c0h8KKcUqftIA_57H3TgXaaBaHBVLPQ6SD5m02inEg1MFNGLTRW6g3LqVr7768Sp0SqJwBVl27hET5Y1lw/s2560/P1990565.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs9US7BVCrXuHQ-O02nAVRiRWsxk1M3y9uJXDng44JgX3OaxQh97WzN9maVWYujQL6Nf9WBWUcszY3QacfNVHHBOlh8WSc5zfkEpwVsrDs6c0h8KKcUqftIA_57H3TgXaaBaHBVLPQ6SD5m02inEg1MFNGLTRW6g3LqVr7768Sp0SqJwBVl27hET5Y1lw/s320/P1990565.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Embankment across Thorgill Head.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiORCTnwm96nQ1xg3Gqr1qnnzIefOjDz1X-6tJPz7vUIyNWW-zmN0-b7URtTXk_SbEUfKJQg26RDJPxpsyfxWvOSwVkFxukH2FME8BcUbEbBpS6bEDWdiVLzJfxOp2z7q6l2JIZTD5vwy8UiSTzEIVALHjRNPCc606mEBeS6nFN3LrapnV6z7QAJ8xMpTg/s2560/P1990622.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiORCTnwm96nQ1xg3Gqr1qnnzIefOjDz1X-6tJPz7vUIyNWW-zmN0-b7URtTXk_SbEUfKJQg26RDJPxpsyfxWvOSwVkFxukH2FME8BcUbEbBpS6bEDWdiVLzJfxOp2z7q6l2JIZTD5vwy8UiSTzEIVALHjRNPCc606mEBeS6nFN3LrapnV6z7QAJ8xMpTg/s320/P1990622.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The view to the north of Rosedale, above Thorgill Bank.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvkOoN5fsCecRwMLX7Zqo-sUUqKBMhAedKGB5La_068tmVCIM4Emna9SzrZl52gE3GXsee-XP2ll25BL6oC5QnkO8MDC4dqQCY3hECL03FMNrc-bFSBPjE1AoIPZMNWfhdIHivnR9nj1nnHhFLbbnpTY-_TY6iPvBGieeMvAfhnLoHJIz-zn0KjYB1NLY/s2560/P1990655.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvkOoN5fsCecRwMLX7Zqo-sUUqKBMhAedKGB5La_068tmVCIM4Emna9SzrZl52gE3GXsee-XP2ll25BL6oC5QnkO8MDC4dqQCY3hECL03FMNrc-bFSBPjE1AoIPZMNWfhdIHivnR9nj1nnHhFLbbnpTY-_TY6iPvBGieeMvAfhnLoHJIz-zn0KjYB1NLY/s320/P1990655.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rosedale Abbey village, in the Valley Landscape.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIOeWTmkGCxlUHUgrd68z0DRkiGe1zMscOp0QXkfSnnrIUwKFM0wVyfqfszrzD2zo4_9vpXMuTMLlroHxF1mbO6Vabl7aPsIF51H631diSSKBeHG08FLaN9wnjxWpm7Tq3-7n9TECpnp2sPloEj7kh4j28giF3xbjKwcwTedud-Qb9VRb7MUmDeVrLems/s2560/P1990686.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIOeWTmkGCxlUHUgrd68z0DRkiGe1zMscOp0QXkfSnnrIUwKFM0wVyfqfszrzD2zo4_9vpXMuTMLlroHxF1mbO6Vabl7aPsIF51H631diSSKBeHG08FLaN9wnjxWpm7Tq3-7n9TECpnp2sPloEj7kh4j28giF3xbjKwcwTedud-Qb9VRb7MUmDeVrLems/s320/P1990686.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking North, across the Purpling Heather Moors.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">The sole large tree and the apparent farm that's actually the remains of the railway terrace stand on the high valley side, with the path moving away from the railhead, but not before we've observed the remains of the engine shed with its inspection pit still visible, where the line's trio of locomotives were stabled during their service on these isolated high lines, while below we find the remains of the western kilns, where ironstone was baked in the process of calcination to reduce its mass and start the process of purification before being shipped for smelting on Teesside, around which an almost lunar landscape resides, of spoil tipped off the valley side, and the remnants of mining in the valley below. Our high path ends its steady descent here, by the interpretative model and starts its very rapid descent instead as we join Chimney Bank as it drops rapidly downhill, with us taking baby steps as we pass north-eastwards through the disturbed moorland grasses that cover the quarried valley side, finding them to offer a more favourable walking surface than the tarmac as we come around the switchback corner that leads us into the rural landscape of the valley floor, continuing to decline as we come to the bank's foot at the White Horse farm inn, revealing why we chose the anti-clockwise turn around after shedding 125m in less than half a mile, ahead of the final slither downhill under the cover of trees to make passage over the River Seven via Bow bridge, and our proper arrival in Rosedale Abbey village. It was once an actual abbey site in the past, apparently, one of at least six in the North York Moors area, though now it has more of the look of a model village that doesn't quite square with having been the heart of an industrial community of more that 5,000 a century ago, passing the cornmill that's now the site of the caravan park and passing through the pair of village greens among the cottages ad tearooms, with the school and St Lawrence's church adjacent, where more interpretative boards provide local history, ahead of taking lunch in the shade before we resume the push up the eastern valley side, to be found up New Road, beyond the old non-conformist chapel.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKVyKX6XyVhnBHfEpa32I9hu9wKQmlSVos3cge8a6jKgB248mjASri0Y8NO6GHFmv13kiuO_8Mozm073SAYnkUUBD00HeJpQzeWw67CiJNyuK1ATVZNd2R-8kHJ-IyX4IV7Yds4M3fo2sBf2hjk6ANoue2Cp5sTdCsOdUHrqnFlYAXsYtx5YI4LqOXEUc/s2560/P1990708.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKVyKX6XyVhnBHfEpa32I9hu9wKQmlSVos3cge8a6jKgB248mjASri0Y8NO6GHFmv13kiuO_8Mozm073SAYnkUUBD00HeJpQzeWw67CiJNyuK1ATVZNd2R-8kHJ-IyX4IV7Yds4M3fo2sBf2hjk6ANoue2Cp5sTdCsOdUHrqnFlYAXsYtx5YI4LqOXEUc/s320/P1990708.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Engine Shed Remnants, near the Bank Top Railhead.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMzNv5fnTmvHkwILlexGdhSUZMSjrjxNJ8QpDM3-V3-0xe7lteSEdWXGSfo49s4m30GYUJ0QyctjAHX2CrTRjJUCupSD4HM2HV6B7faFn2yX9Fs_9ZGlG_7kerNgHeVOUuTznAzUD53qRdsfYjgvzDvxSYZohlyXXeNtkxIad1FHeE8WNMwgnCv8otUF8/s2560/P1990755.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMzNv5fnTmvHkwILlexGdhSUZMSjrjxNJ8QpDM3-V3-0xe7lteSEdWXGSfo49s4m30GYUJ0QyctjAHX2CrTRjJUCupSD4HM2HV6B7faFn2yX9Fs_9ZGlG_7kerNgHeVOUuTznAzUD53qRdsfYjgvzDvxSYZohlyXXeNtkxIad1FHeE8WNMwgnCv8otUF8/s320/P1990755.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bank Top Kilns.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjll2fk698hBKIRyMNOnkq7AmkvAfoqXd3M2Bk4g1t6c7T1uXKyfYXqN_uaaTHmu0vCKZAox6EMX-G7sl1tQ3KybltQTE8X5VZ5tJQUH_rSm5muGb3J3beNXyru5xEhmIIvKjbe-Y0-OtKCbosfb3vS-2ZiCIHSFEcjUBJCMgEiOcKwh7GL2uXQYY5UCvM/s2560/P1990791.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjll2fk698hBKIRyMNOnkq7AmkvAfoqXd3M2Bk4g1t6c7T1uXKyfYXqN_uaaTHmu0vCKZAox6EMX-G7sl1tQ3KybltQTE8X5VZ5tJQUH_rSm5muGb3J3beNXyru5xEhmIIvKjbe-Y0-OtKCbosfb3vS-2ZiCIHSFEcjUBJCMgEiOcKwh7GL2uXQYY5UCvM/s320/P1990791.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chimney Bank, among the ironworking remnants.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQgq6SKPOq8LawhZNzBxXD60qfH4WvGVpRFqZUDIWUe6fc7SHZZtphencrUfoAZ2n1rhGf65OXPgM9ek1WSHZDCpQPWwHxP2_2H8kSnByMZGlB3pqjCW9-W8CNz_jrlZsWwmRQMJ4o92MlF6934VAtNGAABDKaESqkTrsSfqghuhT4_xHOQRnWOBMN_TY/s2560/P1990832.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQgq6SKPOq8LawhZNzBxXD60qfH4WvGVpRFqZUDIWUe6fc7SHZZtphencrUfoAZ2n1rhGf65OXPgM9ek1WSHZDCpQPWwHxP2_2H8kSnByMZGlB3pqjCW9-W8CNz_jrlZsWwmRQMJ4o92MlF6934VAtNGAABDKaESqkTrsSfqghuhT4_xHOQRnWOBMN_TY/s320/P1990832.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chimney Bank, descending into rural Rosedale.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWDDNTCCnMNzIG8O9xIPf_fKMe8YCmwlmoe3nhtzOD-UMtE3FzL7rMBf6KSnursYP9YrA6edZxpjTP_KGXVT2fcfouITEaM155C6ipFqpM9BpIIM0nxk8YIif6s4lnhmwucvOfjpieXH1ZJv7CvBGQ-5cvAgMM3NaCDCHtEUL6YxU4ML5nOXfregK1MOU/s2560/P1990864.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWDDNTCCnMNzIG8O9xIPf_fKMe8YCmwlmoe3nhtzOD-UMtE3FzL7rMBf6KSnursYP9YrA6edZxpjTP_KGXVT2fcfouITEaM155C6ipFqpM9BpIIM0nxk8YIif6s4lnhmwucvOfjpieXH1ZJv7CvBGQ-5cvAgMM3NaCDCHtEUL6YxU4ML5nOXfregK1MOU/s320/P1990864.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The White Horse Farm inn, Rosedale Abbey.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOcykhAXjaaKw2PjeBPCGvlwP_YjiGAPg7FfgsUkdB0z-TlIQLOTypzraVsybp_vzRLrXlIKOXtRD6pJnTTs53Q9mWb2OLiNYsX15d-nMKcyWCr_KUO7lDM2ZsCxPTQj5sjffyYI3ojXBnOeRrHShiQ10pOmq1wBWhMXWpi5xtpeNRnFdT5jCRqVbQslk/s2560/P1990882.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOcykhAXjaaKw2PjeBPCGvlwP_YjiGAPg7FfgsUkdB0z-TlIQLOTypzraVsybp_vzRLrXlIKOXtRD6pJnTTs53Q9mWb2OLiNYsX15d-nMKcyWCr_KUO7lDM2ZsCxPTQj5sjffyYI3ojXBnOeRrHShiQ10pOmq1wBWhMXWpi5xtpeNRnFdT5jCRqVbQslk/s320/P1990882.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bow Bridge, on the River Seven.</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU05qMD3BjpntsrWbbGuN-RrDvhTsZe7pKywIBkdP9CtDDLXRs9H7xw1kMEVj2YwiMvGoZVuGx9aqWJmIOSTU_uo5WFWubt1we1zwQwPKv8_3Q4Z1v7_rTQBKamlMUB99z85XHv2LTuHx-cgcX3VVcCZv2wBBsMLooYbyZFU-Ay8vgHNCy8wSLRNSriN0/s2560/P1990897.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU05qMD3BjpntsrWbbGuN-RrDvhTsZe7pKywIBkdP9CtDDLXRs9H7xw1kMEVj2YwiMvGoZVuGx9aqWJmIOSTU_uo5WFWubt1we1zwQwPKv8_3Q4Z1v7_rTQBKamlMUB99z85XHv2LTuHx-cgcX3VVcCZv2wBBsMLooYbyZFU-Ay8vgHNCy8wSLRNSriN0/s320/P1990897.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rosedale Abbey, first Village Green.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju9YIVt4tGXTX7pG8NRyedRukznjXNxEXfariYDKxt-4Esev1jTJttDKx74cw9MmIyd-LMik8hni9TgxYe7qb-RUB1b8W3P6X0g9Iy6zpipVSyhTL2_IqVoq63JsIVoem_lOKwPP1wNK07XYVZIXhzNhJcaCJ73OWfi-lLadQN5BxvXDmhxs3I5OZFGJY/s2560/P1990920.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju9YIVt4tGXTX7pG8NRyedRukznjXNxEXfariYDKxt-4Esev1jTJttDKx74cw9MmIyd-LMik8hni9TgxYe7qb-RUB1b8W3P6X0g9Iy6zpipVSyhTL2_IqVoq63JsIVoem_lOKwPP1wNK07XYVZIXhzNhJcaCJ73OWfi-lLadQN5BxvXDmhxs3I5OZFGJY/s320/P1990920.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rosedale Abbey, second Village Green.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">The road is apparently closed for resurfacing, but a query with the workmen reveals that it is open for foot traffic, which is a relief, allowing us to track on as planned, starting the steady rise among the high hedges and increasingly unpleasant heat as we pass the high lump of Abbey Head and alongside the fall of Northdale Beck, which advertises the presence of the eastern branch of upper Rosedale that we won't be tracing today, before we come up below the looming Bell Plantation upon Bell Top, meeting the men who regard me suspiciously as they do their tarmacking and we come by Bell End farm, which entertains me enormously, ahead of falling into the wooded groove that leads up Bell End Green beyond. Elevation enough has been gained to reconnect us with the landscape of Rosedale was we look south and west, progressing northwest as we join the Daleside Road past Grove farm, and again finding the path to be longer than expected as we decline unexpectedly to the stray terrace at Plane Trees cottages and the crossing of Gill Beck, before we come upon the long School Row terrace and the village hall for the very poorly defined settlement of East Rosedale, beyond which we get to rising again, pretty steeply to meet the pair of Hill Cottages terraces, forming an industrial-type street on the high fringe above the valley, right at the residential limit, ahead of our turn off the roads, ahead of the chapel, to resume the railway exploration. The apparent farmstead beside the rising bridleway is actually the office of the old coal depot, with the staithes still in place behind it, where coal was brought to the valley from the pits on the moorland, and our passage joins the rail trail by what remains of the Low Baring terrace, by another lunar landscape of spoil piles above the line and scatterings of debris off the valley side, from whence we get sight of the finish line on the high western side of the valley, as we come around to the brow on which the trackbed sits, much lower down than on the other side, at about 250m elevation, meaning that there's a lot of uphill, to the tune of 120m, to do as we run up, and down, the valley to get back there during the next couple of hours.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjU8NLKtC4KbkUfsl7Mq35IqfxAE02UQqL0t9G6QUWrPJCNTSKpiYKzx4q71g-3nMDsA1AK_AfEYt0h5q2OiNNg_1XdQblDDNZXOCm-hE4Oq3jcosF75BrAW414DVTIYi2_ujqnRkgAmRnF_5F8pZyAibuN8Pp8bXKzSBDshH2BZlPhS26J_flVMBiE-4/s2560/P1990933.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjU8NLKtC4KbkUfsl7Mq35IqfxAE02UQqL0t9G6QUWrPJCNTSKpiYKzx4q71g-3nMDsA1AK_AfEYt0h5q2OiNNg_1XdQblDDNZXOCm-hE4Oq3jcosF75BrAW414DVTIYi2_ujqnRkgAmRnF_5F8pZyAibuN8Pp8bXKzSBDshH2BZlPhS26J_flVMBiE-4/s320/P1990933.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Road Up, but accessible to Foot Traffic.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE2fjTfauKHybEovFxPwZtq6dDpdSH52A1BiIIUOkuwuRB_ATYWeK3XE6ahQbd2eN520PlrU7iRcQRfpZZVbNcz4EH1E-BIHT2KqSJNzLxJKd288Jnisq-BKaY7rUcSqTINaG35pKBZzfqJ7ETqll3WUDt2LkblNU7FOmWcP3zEfzdSe22s9bU5sZLBqA/s2560/P1990953.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE2fjTfauKHybEovFxPwZtq6dDpdSH52A1BiIIUOkuwuRB_ATYWeK3XE6ahQbd2eN520PlrU7iRcQRfpZZVbNcz4EH1E-BIHT2KqSJNzLxJKd288Jnisq-BKaY7rUcSqTINaG35pKBZzfqJ7ETqll3WUDt2LkblNU7FOmWcP3zEfzdSe22s9bU5sZLBqA/s320/P1990953.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bell Plantation, above Bell Top and Bell End.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNY5J805TIZ4Iqq-PC9Tcdt2xlk_Hcof6eo5ZcXHs_Uqh3GzrBxJq2za2RPNZ8VZqCAr-LtpxJwJ7ovkNrE_ejOm_RpD8V2Okl8OCs2H1kQK1A1XCUwcJCv2ZuWloqet6RJDDRiq93d7IR0JpaN3oMLKisS3tCmYFIdzf0IAaWaA1gpxfGJ2ylHD06ibI/s2560/P1990977.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNY5J805TIZ4Iqq-PC9Tcdt2xlk_Hcof6eo5ZcXHs_Uqh3GzrBxJq2za2RPNZ8VZqCAr-LtpxJwJ7ovkNrE_ejOm_RpD8V2Okl8OCs2H1kQK1A1XCUwcJCv2ZuWloqet6RJDDRiq93d7IR0JpaN3oMLKisS3tCmYFIdzf0IAaWaA1gpxfGJ2ylHD06ibI/s320/P1990977.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Western Rosedale, viewed from Bell End Green.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0VKQ7SAVfcgkvTMBXjlZOLiyB3V6ghtwU_JBNzwjrUK5gwIL0MgU2s6-Wmh_KNl98KiPHf0gkkJ8MPZde2dCginRpUJjiWZ5gFAYz6yYqycmerMvkRCMk9joY6k7ISOZxOEe76QKKShPgXR67RBERs16Qeext6xiaitXw1SXxMMJP9EigA5ExQpLddCc/s2560/P2000023.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0VKQ7SAVfcgkvTMBXjlZOLiyB3V6ghtwU_JBNzwjrUK5gwIL0MgU2s6-Wmh_KNl98KiPHf0gkkJ8MPZde2dCginRpUJjiWZ5gFAYz6yYqycmerMvkRCMk9joY6k7ISOZxOEe76QKKShPgXR67RBERs16Qeext6xiaitXw1SXxMMJP9EigA5ExQpLddCc/s320/P2000023.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Village Hall, and School Row terrace, East Rosedale,</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjVq-E9gD3XDZBQoWANuDsOKdDeREVYqH7-_00ln-luTExCZHakfpVlZQXWXHIVB-ehZjLdhNYsMUFgs0kwVTmeJ04YbmXmEw3SgMx-sNBjn1QeBmBrqeiE8CyEVukRomZ4JYm1tTcqFqrdALSHDJ0QZ95B55cvAt8DH3QvKdJ8nZhj6kDnCypeqEs9U4/s2560/P2000052.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjVq-E9gD3XDZBQoWANuDsOKdDeREVYqH7-_00ln-luTExCZHakfpVlZQXWXHIVB-ehZjLdhNYsMUFgs0kwVTmeJ04YbmXmEw3SgMx-sNBjn1QeBmBrqeiE8CyEVukRomZ4JYm1tTcqFqrdALSHDJ0QZ95B55cvAt8DH3QvKdJ8nZhj6kDnCypeqEs9U4/s320/P2000052.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Hill Cottages terraces, Eastern Rosedale.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixEGH9AIL99MSJUDHwRubySRyRstmn3mthh9xa5IjJnz9svwWyj6wmsIBcdsRtqGt4L4_CM5LVyqEwn5v-7QvQprBGD7GQFi8OJSRLN0rWGlhZAHeGdFb8rSugtiY3kEqQH8CNqUVO3b9QqVOl16g5mJN4VsDuETWh6R_2uTBmNnEW50_0e0LrcCdhBg4/s2560/P2000084.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixEGH9AIL99MSJUDHwRubySRyRstmn3mthh9xa5IjJnz9svwWyj6wmsIBcdsRtqGt4L4_CM5LVyqEwn5v-7QvQprBGD7GQFi8OJSRLN0rWGlhZAHeGdFb8rSugtiY3kEqQH8CNqUVO3b9QqVOl16g5mJN4VsDuETWh6R_2uTBmNnEW50_0e0LrcCdhBg4/s320/P2000084.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Coal Oddice and Staithes, Low Baring.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrgOzWuLZqD1-ExB3AIv2vQ5pbwvZvlLqKd3bvrUT7YGIjqvWGa6iqX5JMix1020la8U8K3BEu8WRm6lxPuQ0UEFt-Wp6tVpPbBFg32Vo0XO2GHeCYAMs2fVuFqNmM7DDVIb-oHNVVhPYS34EgglSd1t-zLyIaVKsU7A_OakKXhS586dzHOT4gxos6elk/s2560/P2000099.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrgOzWuLZqD1-ExB3AIv2vQ5pbwvZvlLqKd3bvrUT7YGIjqvWGa6iqX5JMix1020la8U8K3BEu8WRm6lxPuQ0UEFt-Wp6tVpPbBFg32Vo0XO2GHeCYAMs2fVuFqNmM7DDVIb-oHNVVhPYS34EgglSd1t-zLyIaVKsU7A_OakKXhS586dzHOT4gxos6elk/s320/P2000099.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Low Baring terrace remnants, and spoil heaps, at the Eastern Branch railhead.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">Post-industrial interest immediately arrives beyond the first corner, though as the many arches of the so-called Stone Kilns arrive, where ironstone was fed into the tops from the high line adjacent to the many drift mines, and the calcined stone was loaded for export below, all looking like a construction far older than the 160 years that it is, a place to break and takin in the works of another age, as par rangers tootle by on their offroad vehicle, before we move on, not a whole lot further along below the roughly cragged hillside to meet the Iron Kilns, the younger of the pair, looking at once both more purposefully industrial and yet plausibly medieval at the same time, as it a castle remnant got left up here. It's definitely something to ponder as we move on, with these massive structures looming large behind us, and the remains of the High Baring Terrace and the East Mines complex above becoming apparent, especially as we come around over the fall of Gill Beck and loon back from the be-chimneyed remains of the Black Houses cottages, how 19th century industry could leave its mark on the landscape in such a romantic-looking way, when 20th century post-industrial landscapes have demanded their remnants be scoured out of existence and their grounds reclaimed and detoxified, a thought pondered so much we almost miss the junction with the upper line as it sharply descends to meet the main track once around the next hillside corner. The need to keep a move on is hampered by the heat, and distinct lack of a breeze as we press on above the plantation that rises right up the gill that the railway has to pass around on a high embankment as it flows down towards Dale Head, not at the dale's head incidentally, which in turn leads us below the high cliffs of The Nab, from where another good contextual view around Rosedale opens out, with the wild valley head lying ahead, with another low embankment keeping us on this plausibly unstable-feeling valley side, and leading us into the shallow cutting that offers just enough shade for us to water in, before deciding that we will travel bottle-in-hand from now on, above the diminishing fields and last few farmsteads below.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTWHHvste0DNx-Vtt5306OO-J1mVadaYpl80HxoNoNVEyxcNqgUYsPEDTTZOb6IxseUF6uN0XsIKE3qV9RZvbohMgdopMvixYE6Y1ZxdKoTyDkLxsaKeGPaEShg_5EqWNDoXje3Xif0-8jAf95Un4Vd5Dq-KRhdrvS20-5SsFP2arOujDE267rWGzTfeg/s2560/P2000153.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFragfWz3cU1m-FDfyorRbjqxZSagYDBaMldCYpdyECMCZwcpEbYU54y9nnHnYB4fO_lo6oqcqOGEvTzA3DhrTDyJZ5nkBGACJhOmX6r4h7V_9GUXVRG3hGeM7-zWARZWdb1Vvm1rDC2im-5-mVQ7p3NA1RnV8SbIFGveYPwTcBlYyrN27jNEjdJ0eIII/s2560/P2000248.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFragfWz3cU1m-FDfyorRbjqxZSagYDBaMldCYpdyECMCZwcpEbYU54y9nnHnYB4fO_lo6oqcqOGEvTzA3DhrTDyJZ5nkBGACJhOmX6r4h7V_9GUXVRG3hGeM7-zWARZWdb1Vvm1rDC2im-5-mVQ7p3NA1RnV8SbIFGveYPwTcBlYyrN27jNEjdJ0eIII/s320/P2000248.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The High Baring terrace remnants.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7_J8cWw5KELEVJMjNThjpKeYHjTcZz7JvuQySqXRYrt1K8cxoy7HQXs6XVWiexqbRyA-GmubCZdbHM3iBjkPUMjmrT_Gz8SfBkxPShodkmaiMzAan6kUsJm8S21JI1qucfC3OwLfQQ9UZHK8vaaKoQhpRp55aPHwYb21FuEjG1qFZnGLJMRDWx7vIqls/s2560/P2000284.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7_J8cWw5KELEVJMjNThjpKeYHjTcZz7JvuQySqXRYrt1K8cxoy7HQXs6XVWiexqbRyA-GmubCZdbHM3iBjkPUMjmrT_Gz8SfBkxPShodkmaiMzAan6kUsJm8S21JI1qucfC3OwLfQQ9UZHK8vaaKoQhpRp55aPHwYb21FuEjG1qFZnGLJMRDWx7vIqls/s320/P2000284.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Black House cottages, and the Romantic Industrial Ruins.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgypixLbylQQ4aEP5jiIRoKeH_lznaSi8vz66nV22Iv_ndAg8kEKNIi2lgglJUe6PwJnWOZQX3V1LZsdT6HbgKJe6xBluz4IX-sXg6Jp6i5qZksWC4WnfSXwUxMIxseuAmj12Db9gkvK6EJKTak3W2PfqIKBEa91Ldl4j5LcLrLzXJ2491Tbujnc5dij8/s2560/P2000298.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgypixLbylQQ4aEP5jiIRoKeH_lznaSi8vz66nV22Iv_ndAg8kEKNIi2lgglJUe6PwJnWOZQX3V1LZsdT6HbgKJe6xBluz4IX-sXg6Jp6i5qZksWC4WnfSXwUxMIxseuAmj12Db9gkvK6EJKTak3W2PfqIKBEa91Ldl4j5LcLrLzXJ2491Tbujnc5dij8/s320/P2000298.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Retaining Walls and the merging High Line of the Eastern Branch.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1f3MYtQCdualH9S9NYX3c72LbdxTrSyjSJcyzKZGWeRJMdsun4WDbP6SV0SSAYYkrsaqF-6KSN6zk8z0chLUe6aDkeYnNjhRn7zn1nQilIUXocbuPm9AK9XS8O0wMnEI4rEIwii5C-YP-ynK9jgx4v590TypWuWgBTlazzATumPYngpQN960E9LersFs/s2560/P2000326.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1f3MYtQCdualH9S9NYX3c72LbdxTrSyjSJcyzKZGWeRJMdsun4WDbP6SV0SSAYYkrsaqF-6KSN6zk8z0chLUe6aDkeYnNjhRn7zn1nQilIUXocbuPm9AK9XS8O0wMnEI4rEIwii5C-YP-ynK9jgx4v590TypWuWgBTlazzATumPYngpQN960E9LersFs/s320/P2000326.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Dale Head Embankment.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-pRkkD3x3DsLFPcq9kwYDJSbdArxa8NGsaOPl_RCmW9UNxEGBA5WInTJARIihAIMkOU0yxWNNjUnU2gnm19NVZOq3D6dwf4yufZOuU2y5KwiMyOhFBq9eRfIycw05hdC5sMCnDMSx55UM58QJD7NUyX5JH9YrdvIPRwwSi0J6929o7o4RVswLFBpd81Y/s2560/P2000365.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-pRkkD3x3DsLFPcq9kwYDJSbdArxa8NGsaOPl_RCmW9UNxEGBA5WInTJARIihAIMkOU0yxWNNjUnU2gnm19NVZOq3D6dwf4yufZOuU2y5KwiMyOhFBq9eRfIycw05hdC5sMCnDMSx55UM58QJD7NUyX5JH9YrdvIPRwwSi0J6929o7o4RVswLFBpd81Y/s320/P2000365.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Around The Nab, and the view to the Valley Head.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">The next push, among heather gathering around the rail-side, after so long among moorland grasses is across the embankment that rises over Reeking Gill, the next massive structure that makes you realise the economic viability of the local mining operation (560,000 tonnes in 1873!) to demand this much effort to render it accessible, noting an obvious post-usage slip in the surface ahead of another shadow-casting cutting that turns us around towards the top of the valley proper, on among the heather and long grasses, and towards the only section of the old lines where the trackbed is no longer walkable, where reeds and a wetland landscape have overtaken it, forcing us onto an undulating gravel track at its side. The actual Rosedale Head lies beyond, and another embankment crosses it descending gill, via what must have been one of the sharpest curves on Britain's railways, passing us over the young river Seven and over the downfall of Cross Gill in not a whole lot of chains-worth of radius, more descriptively moving from north-westerly passage to south-easterly as we land back on the western side of Rosedale, and on to the most obvious rise on the whole Rosedale complex, uphill towards a water tower that fed the thirsty locomotives when hauling fully loaded trains back towards Blakey Junction. The final stretch is on beyond, with the house opposite the Lion Inn on the ridge road now plainly ahead and above as we press on, carrying the impression gained of the whole of Rosedale in my head as we rise over the heather and grass, and among the moorland pools of Blakey Swang as we push back up towards the high road, with that last mile feeling longer than it should as the track up to the pub and down into the valley towards Moorland Farm give the impression of proximity a whole 10 minutes before we get sight of the view that we didn't get at the start of the day, where we meet the rise back to the car park and weather station, to complete the circuit at 3pm, right on the schedule we had expected.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCKy_AkNLMEJsgmngpm4CRWzUPaAybOwO418IgweLVgAr63mh4dhI8h7Dz5TxwjmKnCppuaFDnh4EL-UKft2ilXNdJPGU4rgRFLsVWR_IVXzQY4YF2IyHMZEmtTrFbgco8QA1-kxETnVXI-RyamTjr1uuUmtgsk9BgAY77MU509V4lWof83j8Zj2UFdcA/s2560/P2000408.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIgWZtLdChPlt6ThHkG--sJmJvr4si3mN-y85FagnLHOu7UL2UdD98-3s6iEVj0f50V0891HSk2qYrWkRSqjY0XG7oogfKbmhk4DEcoPAG8z2jZ6MCnO3DwT88fKTRj2us6SIBnivWxS0vbtd9VOAsgfrmSh2UcW1B3xswMP63SqGhuPS8R0Qv5kuByMk/s320/P2000451.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Downstream Rosedale from the Greenhead Brow reveal,</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfuvZWWxadRap4Y_j8U_7LuTG34PnPFL7GL61DvGLB6EMv747Dp2rOi_8h0BZcMW20EAS6yWDDRuln4YEjEOFfK59umaLwrcZysmDrlmVga28EzRWU9-4em51pgTZj7Hp1RfiJ_rERy8pKg2AvbLj33uIiUMCzDaOmjNdwpoFXivqMdJx6cU7nkAqJzH8/s2560/P2000477.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfuvZWWxadRap4Y_j8U_7LuTG34PnPFL7GL61DvGLB6EMv747Dp2rOi_8h0BZcMW20EAS6yWDDRuln4YEjEOFfK59umaLwrcZysmDrlmVga28EzRWU9-4em51pgTZj7Hp1RfiJ_rERy8pKg2AvbLj33uIiUMCzDaOmjNdwpoFXivqMdJx6cU7nkAqJzH8/s320/P2000477.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Wetland Landscape consumes the Eastern Branch trackbed.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPwco1jbaslRVQb9CtsQ_W7BUA1fsIz03irXAx0HfzLuzAk6vqp9Z1vo-X-bwtfiNoATWWebiXV_Uvvyj476ZFVOKVirOb9H0EzfPr7hSUX4SbPGINMqRfL5MvWbmMQrJ8C3405H3UotY8gHEmtJDSNT-LTfmLs3rS5C9SgKiYTRvN2RoUBqg8XPGdaQc/s2560/P2000498.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPwco1jbaslRVQb9CtsQ_W7BUA1fsIz03irXAx0HfzLuzAk6vqp9Z1vo-X-bwtfiNoATWWebiXV_Uvvyj476ZFVOKVirOb9H0EzfPr7hSUX4SbPGINMqRfL5MvWbmMQrJ8C3405H3UotY8gHEmtJDSNT-LTfmLs3rS5C9SgKiYTRvN2RoUBqg8XPGdaQc/s320/P2000498.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Rosedale Head embankment, and the Crazy Curvature.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibxVCKd7s8-qyMpOvDcipJzAA9Q8RvT-VsBTtF1cN0MwdLLsoj8HuqZXx2yHQp6TDq4MnX-nNxA50X2yBKd30cUWLFfg2RgTQYLKJIdrK4i_ySKen8xR5XZLKAGBwBxgzTyzzkLrCGIxPg1ypFkoyGvL-uSrZ8K1Yc6UblLk0ukbcBzviaFmOE2vfVAnY/s2560/P2000530.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibxVCKd7s8-qyMpOvDcipJzAA9Q8RvT-VsBTtF1cN0MwdLLsoj8HuqZXx2yHQp6TDq4MnX-nNxA50X2yBKd30cUWLFfg2RgTQYLKJIdrK4i_ySKen8xR5XZLKAGBwBxgzTyzzkLrCGIxPg1ypFkoyGvL-uSrZ8K1Yc6UblLk0ukbcBzviaFmOE2vfVAnY/s320/P2000530.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All interesting points in Rosedale visible from Rosedale Head.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoIPreSLi25a3Fjt0rKFfWFz3qB1lsVbAEpIcO954o7k7YfVj60lpzq_qUg6tZTRArK9rDLNvenXX86w8ujWTYz3uNAU4BlfD2EZY1elaO_2wwBuUDMLdFgtRCWXV095UbkFyINkg7u6iplhr6085km2zxV_mR4KPUIz6k5PwGNuc3psuwit5TaeeF5a4/s2560/P2000568.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuTDw1GJSDAqTHL0TJTwcH3sx1RwDGpa4HJTxoeo4YHg2DpVwjCjeBAc0WhAL07ewMTEbYTQDYUyM-PCvW28XrGlACIRyWNct-ox4w_Q7Fsc0Q7HygErpNkwx_a9vC2CEPsuLy0-TizvICyPmS2JiYZlzSc7SS8bCCUJldqEazu6KciQ3JG4l4pyIY_TA/s320/P2000599.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Lion Inn's companion house, above Blakey Swang.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuzZbdTqTN3jZCESQouwyHm5Od1F65ajStmmvkbAkrgw2SGDeKtr0LtzX4x4AB-bZMh51bTqsKhIPDMsALgrYmrJDM9isZpaRx0XdrUYV1M3uIeuSdcXDc88afzo_3wpq_3h95aQzo3c0tPi8I4ddch8h0N18Q4iGT34vu6OG9h3_TTb3-_eHHsYQWhzc/s2560/P2000650.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuzZbdTqTN3jZCESQouwyHm5Od1F65ajStmmvkbAkrgw2SGDeKtr0LtzX4x4AB-bZMh51bTqsKhIPDMsALgrYmrJDM9isZpaRx0XdrUYV1M3uIeuSdcXDc88afzo_3wpq_3h95aQzo3c0tPi8I4ddch8h0N18Q4iGT34vu6OG9h3_TTb3-_eHHsYQWhzc/s320/P2000650.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Last Gate of the Day is not the End of the Circuit, it seems.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ6nmMj1klqfdT40WtwY7ScQ4_6p5CTbQJsyIGkT8MtrRJGV29uP1YgMGal-lr8S-f6KJC_nmHllMbUzpxo9rSpEzlstZ7_CY6AuD_3ItYJ9QqzltJ83DTNbRJtAkiFZ7ajR_GwgFpxXle02aaz-du6t0qCjppAkDYQPLraSs3ExjPhbAM0dlL-X6_Ors/s2560/P2000677.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div>Christopher Wrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09743749271457169317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527420385844253776.post-81755989316785388302023-09-04T20:11:00.038+01:002023-09-10T16:08:55.045+01:00Rosedale Railways #1: Battersby to Blakey Junction 03/09/23<div style="text-align: left;"><b>10.4 miles, via Bank Foot, Park Plantation, Ingleby Incline, Greenhow Moor,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Bloworth Crossing, Farndale Moor, Wares Gill, Middle Head, Dale Head, Gill Beck,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Esklet, Oak Beck Head, High Blakey Moor, Blakey Gill, and Blakey Ridge. </b></div><p style="text-align: left;">Late Summer Jollies arrive, not a moment too soon, and we're off to stay in Ruswarp, a stone's throw up the Esk Valley from Whitby to operate as our base as Mum and I get in a week of relaxation and I can target some walking on the North York Moors, having trailed the coastal railway path and dropped feet on my OL27 plate for the first time in the Spring, it's time to get onto the OL26 map for the first time as the 20 miles of the Rosedale Railways on the remote High Moors, demand my attention as a complete change of scenery from all my day tripping from home, and not least because I've had them on my walking target list for longer than I can immediately recall. They're not especially local to where we're staying of course, and instead of using the Parental Taxi privileges to get to the start line, we'll catch a train up the Esk Valley line instead, starting out relatively late due to the scheduling of the Sunday services, and already in the grip of warm Summer conditions that we haven't seen the like of in two months, having snared a cheap ride for only £3 and travelling along a line I've seen in part before, having ridden the NYMR section to Grosmont in 2016, and as far as Danby back in 1985 in order to visit the National Park centre <i>(Oh Hi, School Trip Memories!)</i> and thence it's a dawdle into the unknown, beyond the head of the valley and into the catchment of the Tees where we can alight at Battersby, that odd junction station where all services have to reverse, in the apparent middle of nowhere. We'll depart here at 11.25am, away from the station complex and the long terraces of railway cottages shadowing the start of the branch line as it split off towards the moors, looming large on the southern horizon, a wholly industrial line constructed by the NER in 1858 to service the distant ironstone mines in Rosedale, creating a significant freight interchange in this landscape where the only immediate remnant to see is the crossing house on Stone Stoup Hill, from whence we have to follow the turns of the local lanes with the trackbed inaccessible through the fields, allowing attention to wander to scoping our surroundings, placing the Captain Cook monument on Easby Moor, and the anvil peak of Roseberry Topping behind us to the north, while a trio of prominent moorland tops rise like knuckles on the edge of the Cleveland Hills to the southwest of us.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyMIHHFA8t1zgXuFC4MVzE7MUofm3ChhLOFqxRPVWHo0KvxhQBQOCyC8jhRsvF7fmZnGPMqnjkLUFUs3XUWs3LWv-QvtlnP1dUmPDx9_-PGaLu_f2wYhPjaupPBwEp43cDGvgtPE9Ld3kUoTgFutxJbEZmFKDHwWZ67bxAHk0uyii_fksBppb1j6WafSU/s2560/P1950047.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyMIHHFA8t1zgXuFC4MVzE7MUofm3ChhLOFqxRPVWHo0KvxhQBQOCyC8jhRsvF7fmZnGPMqnjkLUFUs3XUWs3LWv-QvtlnP1dUmPDx9_-PGaLu_f2wYhPjaupPBwEp43cDGvgtPE9Ld3kUoTgFutxJbEZmFKDHwWZ67bxAHk0uyii_fksBppb1j6WafSU/s320/P1950047.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Battersby Station.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwz0waxT8rnVaQKwJVK_9yP1jf42W7XepXgJjqLUAVrmXGTEpkM3u9vX-z2jVo74mcxlVd9ys0pW2F04euqDzy9DUGAGLRHLGmacW0JBRQck4zrAnzPkDzAEDwugBI3RFepfOQ1cRXy1ht-m0Eq4v8tmhxGhqp0l91ZqxRCyuM4bLx4p5rupm-ZvbE05Y/s2560/P1950066.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwz0waxT8rnVaQKwJVK_9yP1jf42W7XepXgJjqLUAVrmXGTEpkM3u9vX-z2jVo74mcxlVd9ys0pW2F04euqDzy9DUGAGLRHLGmacW0JBRQck4zrAnzPkDzAEDwugBI3RFepfOQ1cRXy1ht-m0Eq4v8tmhxGhqp0l91ZqxRCyuM4bLx4p5rupm-ZvbE05Y/s320/P1950066.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Battersby Junction Railway terrace.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKef__acsgMKiZQcHSGmiNakBeqGKzhUyqv-ChpOcVUbFrPGakY50kboJrllHqBYL_h-t72v161-Mv3T0mXVZoAH2nWRMCxJknyTWbqrOhGywVDmVAOtqQB74SD8reiyk9f2fV1QUdfIXqku-MW-bk5YsNRevOz73PFAE1jA3OYVOxqDJG4MZg6umF3Wo/s2560/P1950095.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKef__acsgMKiZQcHSGmiNakBeqGKzhUyqv-ChpOcVUbFrPGakY50kboJrllHqBYL_h-t72v161-Mv3T0mXVZoAH2nWRMCxJknyTWbqrOhGywVDmVAOtqQB74SD8reiyk9f2fV1QUdfIXqku-MW-bk5YsNRevOz73PFAE1jA3OYVOxqDJG4MZg6umF3Wo/s320/P1950095.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Stone Stoup Hill crossing house.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmryGpw5LbnZR5LdB0GGSfgFE7HUMlLBL_qyRRsvAoBs2LgyMBoyxvAdxdXiMbMe9rKR-oL68XNwXL0iJwCUoNVd0gXDASYthwl8ijU6wrl9cPlUXUIUUmzNLjGvjq6e-8tY29P1OaPL6SDVCC5iIxwZOvf6YxReJd7O3AfySyEXJgfuF9Cp_8PmSTD0o/s2560/P1950120.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmryGpw5LbnZR5LdB0GGSfgFE7HUMlLBL_qyRRsvAoBs2LgyMBoyxvAdxdXiMbMe9rKR-oL68XNwXL0iJwCUoNVd0gXDASYthwl8ijU6wrl9cPlUXUIUUmzNLjGvjq6e-8tY29P1OaPL6SDVCC5iIxwZOvf6YxReJd7O3AfySyEXJgfuF9Cp_8PmSTD0o/s320/P1950120.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Ingleby Greenhow Valley, among the Cleveland Hills.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">Our railway path can begin as we arrive near Bank Foot farm, passing another crossing house and meeting the arrow-straight and level track that aims itself into the valley of Ingleby Beck, with its high sandstone edges rising all around as we pace on in the relative shade provided by the steeply rising bank of Park Plantation to east of us, knowing that it's quite a trek along here before we get to see much of anything by the way pf heavy engineering, but enjoying the flat surface as we know what's to come later on, and pondering why the North York Moors haven't drawn my attention until now, in my twelfth walking year as the faces we can observe from here match any to be witnessed in the Pennines. Something to see is eventually met at Incline Foot, as we meet a quartet of cottages, now owned by the Forestry Commission, which once oversaw the marshalling yard where loads of ironstone to be shipped to the furnaces on Teesside and the empty wagons to be filled with it were shuffled for nearly 70 years, demonstrating the scale of the operation of this standard gauge railway that proves to have been far more than the tramway system that I'd expected of it, and all the engineering, and the walk's effort focus can be found beyond as we come around to the Ingleby Incline itself, rising over 200m in a straight line up the valley side to the moorland level in less than a mile, at gradients that were clearly too steep for hauled trains, and was cable worked for it entire lifetime. Straight up is the only walking option, to test out my lungs and stamina in my post-Covid condition, turning on the power but not generating a lot of speed, with the brain breaking down the ascent into four different sections of varying steepness as we rise above the treeline and let the other pair of walkers on the track rip me off as I keep things steady, passing above the tree line and watching the south-westward vista across to the valley head open out, aiming for the gate that looks like the first mental target and frequently looking back in order to contextually locate ourselves with regards the towns of nearby Teesside, only 15 miles away to the north of us, as the going, heat and stern breeze all take their toll. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSOLWsQilpYK6KVhvR_LZH6raYHyz-Klog3FHyElEy7KQx-zPBSZpFp7Jth7rdaP5GjjTVsO9antQeMmhieNRMzeVx6lpkAbmqMGJkdN8qkI2JmrgBqrM7zHoJ5v4SDGfEnwH0NT3LZea0fD2ULLhjWh1mMUQI5RL__Kf1f9-LmPF9NBQJoeFJnc_lpeM/s2560/P1950154.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSOLWsQilpYK6KVhvR_LZH6raYHyz-Klog3FHyElEy7KQx-zPBSZpFp7Jth7rdaP5GjjTVsO9antQeMmhieNRMzeVx6lpkAbmqMGJkdN8qkI2JmrgBqrM7zHoJ5v4SDGfEnwH0NT3LZea0fD2ULLhjWh1mMUQI5RL__Kf1f9-LmPF9NBQJoeFJnc_lpeM/s320/P1950154.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Crossing House at Bank Foot.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyBAdk6XRuQk1ZxZLJ1pYEphp3ON_lGIEAlOYDNn2s3RLRUyBDKpxRkpZKu5BgFyo9nQO_zvnKaf3kmPG5T8Ty9eSw7wDoG183sr__D-ZtPmhL0kjL0jjUQAcCi5LRvFbY9rmHJhrN-nbBuE6RCmMgCS4DA4qBa4FkEece5tMzeDrBgvWDcYSHDmP5o98/s2560/P1950193.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyBAdk6XRuQk1ZxZLJ1pYEphp3ON_lGIEAlOYDNn2s3RLRUyBDKpxRkpZKu5BgFyo9nQO_zvnKaf3kmPG5T8Ty9eSw7wDoG183sr__D-ZtPmhL0kjL0jjUQAcCi5LRvFbY9rmHJhrN-nbBuE6RCmMgCS4DA4qBa4FkEece5tMzeDrBgvWDcYSHDmP5o98/s320/P1950193.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Rosedale Railway sets its course toward the High Moors.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo-6eSI9sRMKw81zClkt-eh0_1gtRjgeRUxOQUnqToHWJ-B1kvydHF3_J5LD81C2FwuCiOHIyXOnPgj5YyybinPOxPYnkgVxuATVJXWMs4QT9xBAium9oLbQavrqqF4_vkaPwl0jNYCHVW_Av2Y6qGiEl8Uc8jHF-HAIEGkrldVEXopNk5aNDqhp2jqYw/s2560/P1950223.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo-6eSI9sRMKw81zClkt-eh0_1gtRjgeRUxOQUnqToHWJ-B1kvydHF3_J5LD81C2FwuCiOHIyXOnPgj5YyybinPOxPYnkgVxuATVJXWMs4QT9xBAium9oLbQavrqqF4_vkaPwl0jNYCHVW_Av2Y6qGiEl8Uc8jHF-HAIEGkrldVEXopNk5aNDqhp2jqYw/s320/P1950223.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Railway Cottages at Incline Foot.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFulnh_9XFHcN0I1jCgPaTK-6N-yJKsli9vTEKlAHZsyS9EjlBM9v0dmGkmR7zz6glZQ0-CHXBefo23yOXPSrIEvSnzagTpyKlXvjwDQ2pWk5zWIp6FsFznch56CU2ktNU3OZLqxCHkidJELCqN5mZZiwiKS7Gvm2jbY08aqv-CsAnEG9C2Ij1Cg09ie8/s2560/P1950255.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFulnh_9XFHcN0I1jCgPaTK-6N-yJKsli9vTEKlAHZsyS9EjlBM9v0dmGkmR7zz6glZQ0-CHXBefo23yOXPSrIEvSnzagTpyKlXvjwDQ2pWk5zWIp6FsFznch56CU2ktNU3OZLqxCHkidJELCqN5mZZiwiKS7Gvm2jbY08aqv-CsAnEG9C2Ij1Cg09ie8/s320/P1950255.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Ingleby Incline presents 200+m of ascent in less than a mile.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcX7W0X49yHARpRhK3XCYcC9pzmuhrphtJTEiu1bp2tEBb7qxZ4LluLIZllstbn_VcQ040Woc76yyz-qvjzSdzD7grco4gFTSZEe8MoKMmjVf4DWTc2MM87KfvkE9AO0rFIUcE6Bw92E7k3CH5qDvvJ2V9Ze3F4wipvzYsEa_8GeoGfiR6GeFB64AaqQ0/s2560/P1950275.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcX7W0X49yHARpRhK3XCYcC9pzmuhrphtJTEiu1bp2tEBb7qxZ4LluLIZllstbn_VcQ040Woc76yyz-qvjzSdzD7grco4gFTSZEe8MoKMmjVf4DWTc2MM87KfvkE9AO0rFIUcE6Bw92E7k3CH5qDvvJ2V9Ze3F4wipvzYsEa_8GeoGfiR6GeFB64AaqQ0/s320/P1950275.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Slowly Rising above the Treeline.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwbtIE8QtEkJPoW87JjbojlEcGQWm1Nb92rqEKHzoY_YZRYE0U5IC-MmjYoQWWyBmgQUq-h4OttROJOkiJxIz7T1LgH63qr-RJlG9ROmsPnVEvD3lCWQ71YYZHtwViWKLTc6DEmiY2mZQ-kimkY7nh1SBDSwdp2krPEPB23VpY6lvJ8FL09WvafNwy-Tk/s2560/P1950302.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwbtIE8QtEkJPoW87JjbojlEcGQWm1Nb92rqEKHzoY_YZRYE0U5IC-MmjYoQWWyBmgQUq-h4OttROJOkiJxIz7T1LgH63qr-RJlG9ROmsPnVEvD3lCWQ71YYZHtwViWKLTc6DEmiY2mZQ-kimkY7nh1SBDSwdp2krPEPB23VpY6lvJ8FL09WvafNwy-Tk/s320/P1950302.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The view back from the moorland gate, to contextualise Teesside.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">It's even slower going on the top half, as we arrive below and the rough and worked out crags of Greenhow Bank, where Jet was mined out in the distant past, and we also arrive amongst the sea of purpling heather, demonstrating our altitude as we enter rough cuttings that offer some shade from the wind, but not the sun a it shines directly ahead of us, pausing enough to correctly place Middlesborough and Stockton into the Teesside horizon, before we press on up the final section, never quite finding the extra gear to complete the ascent, and finding the surface never all that happy for walking on, rendering me glad that I'm not of an age to have been expected to work in its construction, operation or maintenance, and feeling happy to have started out already 190m up from sea level as the 410m top is met. 35 minutes to do the climb feels like what I was expecting, and we can immediately find somewhere to sit among the ruined buildings at Incline Top, in order to take lunch and water thoroughly, grateful for the fact that a contextual model, in rusted iron naturally explains the operations hereabouts, as we'd not have gathered that without assistance, and the nature of the moorland railway beyond becomes apparent as we set off south-easterly, on a level track again across Greenhow Moor, putting the Tees catchment and the tops of the Cleveland Hills behind us and shifting though shallow cuttings and over the track's 414m summit, to meet our long passage around the high edges of Farndale, tangling with the Cleveland Way route as it comes in from the west, down from Round Hill, the 454m moorland summit. A shallow rise of an embankment takes us up to Bloworth Crossing, a formerly staffed site on the long, and longitudinal, moorland track from Kildale to Gillamoor that the modern world didn't adopt as a road, beyond which the wild moor awaits as we come across a higher embankment across the fall of the Low Bloworth beck, before we start with the tightly curved passages of the contour hugging path around Farndale, having the views evolve with each passage through the shallow cutting, looking far to the southeast, as the valley falls away towards the Derwent valley in the distant south, and pondering whereabouts on the Yorkshire Wolds hills might be landing on our remote horizon, rising above the valley throat, sadly not immediately recognisable as nothing in this locality describes a familiar shape of any kind.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGjhw9H-IpQ2DhKb35S1LdhrD7qlXbk0aIzAZiSOFXVleQcfqD4gfwlQ2VSXmoUgWIXlsHl0VH-laareopthcX038L9arhf2SoxG5uU8gmyrd1j8dDycr8axI7YX5oJk5zRW39h-U2L1p_WKN-7l3iahJUEsxGpP-dReyiuCUti16_BVMl_K27_DMEfxE/s2560/P1950320.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrhByNIFPHApZJkw3Paqivl0G2feXbHCRAJvqOqIfy0MjlE18AUIBOeRQMsoVGBvrMD_NQsEfYr5ke-15JxFxE31evt-wjUaLKiPSwidrkrmq63-3pR9JQfXPOOhWFdgBi8vzKHbznVop8Hdv1Y05Wxib9R-I2QCl5zz_3deLqZJCX1jMnyIPIfJ1c7m8/s320/P1950364.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The view back, just shy of the Summit.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmmfXaHWfbyeTIJg_7Z0YsSgSFHOxobv-rt7Iu_0T-SvDSsm5QD4cZpNUQMI7yc67EJyZvD7e5-ERpOetvRgyFXOzK_Rsb4sErq-A4TCpBGYIphmYDMM3n5iiUNpVSiwLgaY1t0rhVAFMNWUV8vq9qQKYHFR7KAze2kbxnBeAArWfzEyJpbHhw_uBoUCw/s2560/P1950401.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmmfXaHWfbyeTIJg_7Z0YsSgSFHOxobv-rt7Iu_0T-SvDSsm5QD4cZpNUQMI7yc67EJyZvD7e5-ERpOetvRgyFXOzK_Rsb4sErq-A4TCpBGYIphmYDMM3n5iiUNpVSiwLgaY1t0rhVAFMNWUV8vq9qQKYHFR7KAze2kbxnBeAArWfzEyJpbHhw_uBoUCw/s320/P1950401.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The ruins at Incline Top, and the contextual model.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgJRvWW8ppaE1kqn9i63YOCNuxCI8ntmGEBF9HU0gW3ModXhIJqWuoAufuUjH7uiXLSL6wENjYdPLEcHLJCHoSNo230b_jYZf1yZdm3ImuwWdj2w7XjZIMv3DGvX0gEo9rMWs8k6tZhhL6EcY7HWB1ajfB-nSeArZSCq85Afis4YJRve55FB0XZlQQ2-M/s2560/P1950433.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgJRvWW8ppaE1kqn9i63YOCNuxCI8ntmGEBF9HU0gW3ModXhIJqWuoAufuUjH7uiXLSL6wENjYdPLEcHLJCHoSNo230b_jYZf1yZdm3ImuwWdj2w7XjZIMv3DGvX0gEo9rMWs8k6tZhhL6EcY7HWB1ajfB-nSeArZSCq85Afis4YJRve55FB0XZlQQ2-M/s320/P1950433.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The transitional cutting across the Moorland Crest, into Farndale.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu8mBF_-ZdjTvEfHgSlEh1QM-TmXrtNJma3dO7vNVsZDlCXljKOAUxFwg5NPX2am9E-y3OvqULnJ_7sPvNWO6Dkgdd_Q3PemtF6RcvGuv_ArYrkBUcKcm1AkyVlBDk-QWbV7LkFZrF34FWDxhHR6kj5D4bCaJh_YV-C7eIWmPJILMUn9AaShkG20yQ8ME/s2560/P1950475.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu8mBF_-ZdjTvEfHgSlEh1QM-TmXrtNJma3dO7vNVsZDlCXljKOAUxFwg5NPX2am9E-y3OvqULnJ_7sPvNWO6Dkgdd_Q3PemtF6RcvGuv_ArYrkBUcKcm1AkyVlBDk-QWbV7LkFZrF34FWDxhHR6kj5D4bCaJh_YV-C7eIWmPJILMUn9AaShkG20yQ8ME/s320/P1950475.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bloworth Crossing, on the only moorland track to be seen up here.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXYn2tB-zaTVlstNw5gAwdAyabHdsg57ObU4a4CaP2glgROYF-jzBhXwMcBWsoaTUAIYmAg1NW5lj8zIHx5P8ZI2VJW2YulXfPhweScy--w5kTsetqZX3k0-7EEOW96rl1mR5VAJQGJjqsK2HquoIhEhNUdtTI0xbZP5u6wsAfs7iKGEXdDSoYPBdbD2U/s2560/P1950504.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXYn2tB-zaTVlstNw5gAwdAyabHdsg57ObU4a4CaP2glgROYF-jzBhXwMcBWsoaTUAIYmAg1NW5lj8zIHx5P8ZI2VJW2YulXfPhweScy--w5kTsetqZX3k0-7EEOW96rl1mR5VAJQGJjqsK2HquoIhEhNUdtTI0xbZP5u6wsAfs7iKGEXdDSoYPBdbD2U/s320/P1950504.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Passing through the cutting leading to the contour path above Farndale.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">Settling a railway line in at a consistent altitude of 370m for seven miles and hanging with the contour isn't just a matter of dropping tracks and ballast on the moorland surface, of course, but every inch needs engineering to just stabilise the trackbed, allow for drainage and make viable passage as the landscape rises and falls around the plotted level, and around the heads of Farndale, this is obviously the case, as an embankment lifts us above Wares Gill and a cutting digs us through the rise of Middle Head, scouring a way around the lower edge of the north-south water-shedding ridge on the North York Moors, the one which the Lyke Wake Walk passes over (and No, you'll not catch me approaching that one any time soon), noting the drainage ditches stained red by iron as we pass above the streams falling to form the local river Dove. Another thing to always note on the moors is the birdlife, having already seen plenty in the Esk Valley, as up here we are exclusively in the realm of the Meadow Pippit and the Willow Grouse which flit around and hide among the long grass as we plough on above the edge of Farndale, having some difficulty with doing our mid-day check in with Mum despite having a mast on the visible horizon to the west of us, which might have this moorland feeling very lonely indeed, is it wasn't for the presence of other walkers and riders up here on the moor, enjoying the good weather that has arrived on the last weekend of the Summer holidays, so taking a watering break in the sunshine before the long press resumes. The variation to our views comes as we pass onto the embankment that rises over Esklets, with the moorland falling away to the northeast of us as we pass across the upper headwaters of the river Esk itself, just one of many heads it has but offering another moorland structure to admire as we progress, allowing ourselves a small feeling of being close to our holiday base camp as the only other moorland track to be seen up here passes out of upper Farndale and down towards West Ayton and Castleton, with the long level drag leading us eventually around to the first appreciable climb that we've made since attaining the moorland, as the wide apron above Farndale noticeably narrows and the nab ends beyond Oak Beck Head demand a rise to make another dramatic corner of a radius that seem wholly unsuitable for full sized trains, especially ones hauling heavy freight at altitude.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFsZnJvExdGh3bGv66xvbs1WhOtvDzkZtR4ECe-j7wm_6shVl3QTgGy__Zxd7a2rfSSmFSligS2jdgN8EbbE5S4zc2rPOnjFs33W5BGuOkNWRnO-1E6TnL80J5p5vUjFluAoino-7UrwJKIgYBRSu_X3ztyqTW4Y6wHCbbKxfli0qZAMkyWWybMvf3NsQ/s2560/P1950532.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFsZnJvExdGh3bGv66xvbs1WhOtvDzkZtR4ECe-j7wm_6shVl3QTgGy__Zxd7a2rfSSmFSligS2jdgN8EbbE5S4zc2rPOnjFs33W5BGuOkNWRnO-1E6TnL80J5p5vUjFluAoino-7UrwJKIgYBRSu_X3ztyqTW4Y6wHCbbKxfli0qZAMkyWWybMvf3NsQ/s320/P1950532.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Embankment above Wares Gill.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh186QoKtAPOqsCVomPfzvn05JzsMRAQG-ysgj_nKDZOLUdF25nfRXNf5LzNToFRi-EkQSpPxXIo8X2FjYPKisadp1EvjAlkuBbKILBChSI0bd84N41DZXyz6pN_OR32LyhT6_OZBzgVSN6-E0HT0vM9L85RmdARahaqDis12uq8utjX7shKrzcDzE09do/s2560/P1950567.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh186QoKtAPOqsCVomPfzvn05JzsMRAQG-ysgj_nKDZOLUdF25nfRXNf5LzNToFRi-EkQSpPxXIo8X2FjYPKisadp1EvjAlkuBbKILBChSI0bd84N41DZXyz6pN_OR32LyhT6_OZBzgVSN6-E0HT0vM9L85RmdARahaqDis12uq8utjX7shKrzcDzE09do/s320/P1950567.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Passage round Middle Head.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiicALaDdM3ATMCBcY6n6HoLe7cxld7LHpsjv1aBfgIsYj8cKHKKsccNVq1_rIqZq9jGOxuUMk8y5fE69mC2c1FO1xKX1heLAcR-Au2Zk-O7aVb6kC-b2Dq5VcH9iq0ug9_AVPqgjykIZ8lH7H5dGvlSpFEvkk414iGIjG_9rBhq0POzSrM90uh2XD04UM/s2560/P1950603.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiicALaDdM3ATMCBcY6n6HoLe7cxld7LHpsjv1aBfgIsYj8cKHKKsccNVq1_rIqZq9jGOxuUMk8y5fE69mC2c1FO1xKX1heLAcR-Au2Zk-O7aVb6kC-b2Dq5VcH9iq0ug9_AVPqgjykIZ8lH7H5dGvlSpFEvkk414iGIjG_9rBhq0POzSrM90uh2XD04UM/s320/P1950603.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Downfall towards Farndale, and the River Dove.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglM6P-remXaZY63UC5X5-bCBYKOqPUEBah7qvii1QC1rddIWD9BI20JUpB18LaAtpyW2FUALp2O2vD_uEdiTMn1-UaJyKx1RP4w-9frM3iFtZHs1Ff-P7R419P-qNnUuKld8JAA4qlJidw3OaNgHnF0XQRNjaXzIyAY6p-jdyixesKKrYZ8Sw-FdhIqDY/s2560/P1950636.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglM6P-remXaZY63UC5X5-bCBYKOqPUEBah7qvii1QC1rddIWD9BI20JUpB18LaAtpyW2FUALp2O2vD_uEdiTMn1-UaJyKx1RP4w-9frM3iFtZHs1Ff-P7R419P-qNnUuKld8JAA4qlJidw3OaNgHnF0XQRNjaXzIyAY6p-jdyixesKKrYZ8Sw-FdhIqDY/s320/P1950636.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grouse Spotting in the Moorland Landscape.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpsVzinnBa4ts5ZhQGQ9P6lrpjtoiBnGjoiwybMJMklrmvYMR_tyARF3xYtSznn4CaoZDHiY8Upw0ciXE1IB0FzkGqEzFTWsof56UOLjoojLRRh5Ljf9xbglounQl8dVhEYogGwHCwG_1ODSFyi7ECxlMl5oA963zbSidsbbg_Z5-Fv_saFHYINx3ct_I/s2560/P1950791.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpsVzinnBa4ts5ZhQGQ9P6lrpjtoiBnGjoiwybMJMklrmvYMR_tyARF3xYtSznn4CaoZDHiY8Upw0ciXE1IB0FzkGqEzFTWsof56UOLjoojLRRh5Ljf9xbglounQl8dVhEYogGwHCwG_1ODSFyi7ECxlMl5oA963zbSidsbbg_Z5-Fv_saFHYINx3ct_I/s320/P1950791.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The rise above Oak Beck Head to Blakey High Moor.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">The cutting passage at the top of this rise brings us around to the edge of High Blakey Moor, below a landscape that's apparently littered with pre-intensive industrial coal pits, with Farndale looking opened out below, but still home to little more than scattered farmsteads after all these miles of observation, while the view out of the valley evolves to add the Howardian Hills, obscuring the westward fall of the Derwent valley, as we rise around the final cutting and sharp turn of the day to finally place a building onto our local horizon in the east, namely the Lion inn atop Blakey Ridge, meaning that we're coming around to the end of the day and that those distant glimpses of cars we saw reflecting the sunlight many miles backwere indeed in today's future. We've one last embankment and beck traversal to complete as we come down above Gill Wath, falling away down towards the properly rural inhabited lower half of Farndale, with the hamlet of Church Houses barely discernible at the valley floor, as we come around below the fall from the ridge top, where numerous ancient tumuli still litter the hilltops, taking us above a ring of craggy edges on the moorland apron and giving a direct sightline out of the valley to Drax Power Station, the only object below the Vale of York to be visible at this remove, with the grouse still hiding among the moorland grass and one large raptor, that's not a Kestrel or Buzzard, floating around on the rising warm air. Past the shortcut turn to the pub up the hill, it's an uphill press towards the day's end at Blakey Junction, which has been visible for as long as the tavern on the hill, though not quite so prominent as a weather station and the rise of the road out of Farndale, with our friendly bridleway track leading us up alongside ditches filled with contained moorland water and past the now obscured branch of the line towards Blakey Pit, where much of the coal necessary for the ironworks was mined locally and not imported before we come up by the unfilled bridge on the Blakey Ridge Road, beyond which the branches to the mines and kilns in neighbouring Rosedale split off, just beyond the roadside car parks</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvoKK4oQz_Be1WRSXwCYQU616I_EKl37bzf7-ZQ_lshV6Krhq_eILblph2syZszoLBXQnbgHFnxHBMufZfm1XGBhRZVhPLZDriHQkHiLjcCYSjU6Q_I1-TgC301beMRIkHC8C6HDI47crr2OvL6mSAZ3OjjJ2ha_aFfugPTEO55Z187d3whFjatZJiUpw/s2560/P1950824.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDFKgbsiQ8WHwrj4CbWswrF1GbDRz3ZNwp4lthIvQphRmqPLmEJlu6QshJ0BcPe3yhmPgxm36JMDWC7Bc6H19fek_kBKw3lZqQoII59JB33GaN23V00PIWUADehBTpxd3ywWKgiQgLJmF_iCtWQiTc59-FYkuQtOrKJg27a1rDsUSPzIFpHTxRfUBxgkA/s320/P1970001.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blakey Junction, left under the Ridge Road, right to Blakey Pits.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">That's all for the second leg of this trek, though, as our day's break lands here, at 4pm, which feel like excellent progress in hot and exposed conditions that have been unlike all my West Yorkshire trips, and it's also pleasing to know that my Parental Taxi has also gotten here without difficulty, with Mum having negotiated her way here via the Guisborough Road, Danby and Castleton and demonstrated her mettle as a moorland driver at the first attempt, which is just as well as we're going the be back up here in three days time and she's going to get a lot more experience of driving this long circuit as my Moorland exploits bring me back to tour as much of the Rosedale iron-workings as can be fitted into a single day.</p><div style="text-align: left;"><div><br /></div><div><b>5,000 Miles Cumulative Total: 6126.7 miles</b></div><div>2023 Total: 204.5 miles</div><div>Up Country Total: 5,634.9 miles</div><div>Solo Total: 5784.1 miles</div><div>5,000 in my 40s Total: 4726.6 miles</div><div><br /></div></div>Christopher Wrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09743749271457169317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527420385844253776.post-81537733946818743782023-08-30T20:10:00.276+01:002023-09-10T14:59:48.066+01:00Morley to Wakefield (Westgate) 28/08/23<div style="text-align: left;"><b>12.5 miles, via Gillroyd, Burn Knolls, Glen Mills, Tingley Common, Tingley, Black Gates,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Ardsley Common, The Fall, Lingwell Gate, Langley, Lofthouse Hill, Stanley (Canal Hill,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Lee Mount, Lake Lock), Stanley Ferry, Park Hill colliery, Eastmoor, Northgate,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Bus Station, and Coronation Gardens. </b></div><p style="text-align: left;">If August Bank Holiday Weekend had failed to provide a walkable weekend, we might have rioted, but we are pared the consequences of that, despite the fact of both Saturday and Sunday presenting better weather than forecast, though with a few intense downpours in amongst, while Monday, when we did choose to leave the house gave us gloomier coverage than projected, albeit with no rain, so altogether a mixed bag of a Long Weekend, where the additional days of inactivity at the start felt like a bit of a bonus, having had a rough week at work, delving into the latest project that will certainly wear us out, physically moving half of the hospital libraries files around in order to condense our workspace. I'm recovered enough to go once our mandated extra day off comes along, with four more orphaned destinations in our locality targeted as we arrive at Morley Station at 9.55am, having a fresh-ish route to the south figured out as we rise up the steps from Valley Road to Albert Road and trot out past the old Morley Main colliery site to the merger with Peel Street, in order to find the ginnel that sneaks its way between the houses on Denshaw Drive and Crescent and across to Wide Lane opposite the Gillroyd terrace, before another passage leads us into the site of Gillroyd Mill, and the pavements of Millside Walk and Millbeck Approach can lead us down to Magpie Lane. Rise beyond along Peacock Green into the suburban knot on Burn Knolls where every road has a bird's name, with this lane seeming to set off with purpose before petering out by the playing fields that are home to Morley Town FC, which are crossed to meet Ingleborough Drive, which in turn leads us to the secret passage into the back of the Topcliffe Grove close, itself built on the site of Glen Mills, through which we pass to meet Topcliffe Lane, ending our novel trek in sight of the enduring mills on this hillside as we join the old railway path that leads over to Capitol business park, between to West Ardley Colliery site and the Ardsley railway triangle, hone now to the yards of AvailableCar.com and the Tradeteam distribution depot.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ifQrl-HAkLWZgLjpdhO46dIWh6tndkiE1q30jzFFGg_yn6uvQJHYSDXdRqsFdonpfPT2nH5-tPyllDzws1p660Qdms28GGPEaFeWEvn_8uLynv8o5NFghl7PjwBTQXVWSr_3JP5VsGVbSz5wL4mpyL4b2aru9LJMLWtVHbrSzz8mkezNA-pDI7UlO9Y/s2560/P1910830.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ifQrl-HAkLWZgLjpdhO46dIWh6tndkiE1q30jzFFGg_yn6uvQJHYSDXdRqsFdonpfPT2nH5-tPyllDzws1p660Qdms28GGPEaFeWEvn_8uLynv8o5NFghl7PjwBTQXVWSr_3JP5VsGVbSz5wL4mpyL4b2aru9LJMLWtVHbrSzz8mkezNA-pDI7UlO9Y/s320/P1910830.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Novel Path Awaits, from Peel Street through the Denshaws.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjpJ5ETmWBUQc172rFe57gIs4NpGqG-1_LBfHoDxAKjhFoX18Q0zAADyglk-D14nOvgksMkYJoxrwXR1t39xMHa_ZYbBkvnWJ5AgbvMpMpCW7nv8bCYJWaKJD8kJa-Z9C4NyYBZbIj0w7tLpb5Sfqpc0cjpPLX20YN0hJVmbN_O_UJvdk5VDtsGPby0Qc/s2560/P1910851.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjpJ5ETmWBUQc172rFe57gIs4NpGqG-1_LBfHoDxAKjhFoX18Q0zAADyglk-D14nOvgksMkYJoxrwXR1t39xMHa_ZYbBkvnWJ5AgbvMpMpCW7nv8bCYJWaKJD8kJa-Z9C4NyYBZbIj0w7tLpb5Sfqpc0cjpPLX20YN0hJVmbN_O_UJvdk5VDtsGPby0Qc/s320/P1910851.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Millside Walk, on the Gillroyd Mill site.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY0ENhkOEOOZ5Mcw4YQ8jP7R7sjxJr2kLffvyVEl81muFYWSkuOc-rKXNCqFqU_557FbjzrsxmUNLcKWRkj0QhrljMKbMUOVWNEE6Ab3Y7NuNt34Vx3f2_T0H5alzD8FgH2h-JE3rS3hdo9QefTfytICPE91aV3V7fQur-iY60VVYe8Io64ftsCMaxJTM/s2560/P1910876.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY0ENhkOEOOZ5Mcw4YQ8jP7R7sjxJr2kLffvyVEl81muFYWSkuOc-rKXNCqFqU_557FbjzrsxmUNLcKWRkj0QhrljMKbMUOVWNEE6Ab3Y7NuNt34Vx3f2_T0H5alzD8FgH2h-JE3rS3hdo9QefTfytICPE91aV3V7fQur-iY60VVYe8Io64ftsCMaxJTM/s320/P1910876.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peacock Green in the 'Birds' Estate.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidxX32qEALNJaa_ovzdJfN3Z1KsaisJ6XwmbUxrudhqhmsTZHVu4g6Hc1-OdWCHS-kERzVnxmL5uphXNhsk0XBAigdK0oQM4crzAyDMRHy1fTt9Drp3Cn_ft8Vj7Nrxin1T8SwR9oQddp1qP3DpU8CFqK2k2kWzg6CWIjKxwWTqnu_k9TTbXSzviFurpI/s2560/P1910897.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidxX32qEALNJaa_ovzdJfN3Z1KsaisJ6XwmbUxrudhqhmsTZHVu4g6Hc1-OdWCHS-kERzVnxmL5uphXNhsk0XBAigdK0oQM4crzAyDMRHy1fTt9Drp3Cn_ft8Vj7Nrxin1T8SwR9oQddp1qP3DpU8CFqK2k2kWzg6CWIjKxwWTqnu_k9TTbXSzviFurpI/s320/P1910897.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Topcliffe Grove on the Glen Mills site.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6zfU9qahRB0c_3fVU1ygcODdvjmtADV_OsSXL3eL6OjCY_2pDAODB_PvtKfY7__0VOb0ahDd7gDtZPDipq_4WvfsgXyNE7l9AsiYlH6qJt5ZMAq3QW46jVWEoeDIhwK9ITAj68plE9GDdE5Mk98pZZoSWWUTrSML-wIgWnTzorEp9vnLzWLhIwcus_g0/s2560/P1910933.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6zfU9qahRB0c_3fVU1ygcODdvjmtADV_OsSXL3eL6OjCY_2pDAODB_PvtKfY7__0VOb0ahDd7gDtZPDipq_4WvfsgXyNE7l9AsiYlH6qJt5ZMAq3QW46jVWEoeDIhwK9ITAj68plE9GDdE5Mk98pZZoSWWUTrSML-wIgWnTzorEp9vnLzWLhIwcus_g0/s320/P1910933.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Railway Path to Capitol Park.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">Novel footfalls won't be forthcoming as we descend down to the A653 Dewsbury Road by the highways maintenance depot and the Tingley station site, crossing to pass around the eastern side of the Tingley Common interchange and passing under the M62 before we join the side of the A650 Bradford Road, which we've already tramped our way down this year, and even with it still reasonably close in our memories still has me forgetting the landscape which has us forgetting about the presence Black Gates estate, but not the former tavern and its miniature railway, oddly, as we pass over the A654 Thorpe Lane end and progress on through this mentally telescoped landscape towards the Country Baskets mill at the road apex. We'll detour off to pass the East & West Ardsley Social club, in its own secluded little nook, before we turn down Common Lane to resume on familiar pavements, passing out of the confining terraces and appreciating the better conditions that we had on our last trip as we follow the suburban ribbon downhill towards the angles of terraces at Ardsley Common, which once serviced the extensive railway yards and the Ironworks complex in this quarter, all gone now as suburbia continues its local encroachments, and our path gets original again as we turn on to Moor Knoll Lane to rise up past the enduring open fields and the urban woodlands that have thankfully been planted on the undevelopable hillside fringes. Rising up past the RSPCA's Leeds & Wakefield kennels, and the Sharp electronics plant before coming up between the suburban reach of East Ardsley and the declining terraces of The Fall(uh), we land at the top of Main Steet by the Bedford Arms, and then cross by East Ardsley Primary school and descend again down Cave Lane, visibly projecting us over to the Wakefield side of the local hills for the first time and finding more outlying terraces and cottages on this lane than expected before it becomes the dirt track that we walked on the Leeds Country Way, a mere 11 (eleven!) years ago, and it's looking a whole lot greener in the summer conditions of today.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm4qVqZunVt6am5WPkFasQeM4rT4v27Ntec6aHXKLigRj5bZd7AUk3tYRR41qpZ4oI-ce2oxjeaiudHZuKtJsq1BSuxtdE0DdgkaI_MmIhM3343krx5i5RhO-AoMgTS8CAQLEl-eKoye7hZ1Er2XtGhWbXg51ZMbF-tAggZDKJBYfaFNkaHnDcrbYTVbE/s2560/P1910972.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm4qVqZunVt6am5WPkFasQeM4rT4v27Ntec6aHXKLigRj5bZd7AUk3tYRR41qpZ4oI-ce2oxjeaiudHZuKtJsq1BSuxtdE0DdgkaI_MmIhM3343krx5i5RhO-AoMgTS8CAQLEl-eKoye7hZ1Er2XtGhWbXg51ZMbF-tAggZDKJBYfaFNkaHnDcrbYTVbE/s320/P1910972.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bradford Road, Tingley.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTuser--v_MWgTsCPtgKnw-qr0s3yAW4EHyduoI3bQw8My8OS7VfonnwOo6CbTSi-9gsGK0ZwtDuW2DIE-x0bPPcOEpLoLc9Z7uOCVPVeCLXxOPLxcHb-hGg6fdKhlORSFcAb4JFQ4fr7HQNWG1TBHR7J85pjRvlzJZ4Ba3fkUoVGe8oBIZW9R7tf0yUY/s2560/P1920014.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTuser--v_MWgTsCPtgKnw-qr0s3yAW4EHyduoI3bQw8My8OS7VfonnwOo6CbTSi-9gsGK0ZwtDuW2DIE-x0bPPcOEpLoLc9Z7uOCVPVeCLXxOPLxcHb-hGg6fdKhlORSFcAb4JFQ4fr7HQNWG1TBHR7J85pjRvlzJZ4Ba3fkUoVGe8oBIZW9R7tf0yUY/s320/P1920014.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Black Gates House (and miniature railway?).</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf1HjxQvV6AEDGYLphw2s5PZvLbzAIrBJzwi6N--ywRLPsH-ECG60p_zX7DHBoShZ-E-Zy4R5KCcNHhQlAWayBTjk-BSLY8OK-0D1DISTqT702OzUt8H3eFRjjSQ8kGzXfLWembhtq5QejUJ0GKfc_dVEsPQpYfwaSvXY1pWagOIxPWb2XyOP3i4JBq7Y/s2560/P1920037.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf1HjxQvV6AEDGYLphw2s5PZvLbzAIrBJzwi6N--ywRLPsH-ECG60p_zX7DHBoShZ-E-Zy4R5KCcNHhQlAWayBTjk-BSLY8OK-0D1DISTqT702OzUt8H3eFRjjSQ8kGzXfLWembhtq5QejUJ0GKfc_dVEsPQpYfwaSvXY1pWagOIxPWb2XyOP3i4JBq7Y/s320/P1920037.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">East & West Ardsley Social Club.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0ugNUtZJd9yWDcdmHxK4TU5ciwcNc_hZfYo-uD6awMHm-sW8isoKapozLp2gdjwl147ZLNJv0BQB6xvAvyPK0L8eHVHzYFmV_JaU7Q1eMc5m7S6aE4xmzXwzYAQZj_C23DJoEdHHemej4yApQMR1aHcnqBbF2r0kWd-psVMcRdhhNyorArEjgia1Xfio/s2560/P1920063.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0ugNUtZJd9yWDcdmHxK4TU5ciwcNc_hZfYo-uD6awMHm-sW8isoKapozLp2gdjwl147ZLNJv0BQB6xvAvyPK0L8eHVHzYFmV_JaU7Q1eMc5m7S6aE4xmzXwzYAQZj_C23DJoEdHHemej4yApQMR1aHcnqBbF2r0kWd-psVMcRdhhNyorArEjgia1Xfio/s320/P1920063.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Long Terraces of Ardsley Common.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwW6vEiBZQMRko1cGooySVLI4Ohl7TCXtQeH4h_28tyU0HIqePqpHzJo8dUQSc8ciAqd-1J89J7Q6IzXEcVl0HBwrqVB4GpCp29P8-o2m_5A-Uy9EDEdOudEzj1q_7KTYMEKp1i6yDfqTKntW6Ey08zzRER-vocWbTg0F15SX-geLTmgV_7A7ikegd1cQ/s2560/P1920094.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwW6vEiBZQMRko1cGooySVLI4Ohl7TCXtQeH4h_28tyU0HIqePqpHzJo8dUQSc8ciAqd-1J89J7Q6IzXEcVl0HBwrqVB4GpCp29P8-o2m_5A-Uy9EDEdOudEzj1q_7KTYMEKp1i6yDfqTKntW6Ey08zzRER-vocWbTg0F15SX-geLTmgV_7A7ikegd1cQ/s320/P1920094.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The rise up Moor Knoll Lane to East Ardsley - The Fall.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipGSLQ88zmbUazljM0IbAsPK0BBTEmS7lBasReHSLf24nGJ22JlvOoSO8sEBFEiglX5HEy6ScNnThe61Gg7mCH0FoBPJciMxlT_RknGwyWqAfzPKrqv9wz4Bl0XYRBYo4Z_QfqhkQEZDoJ2SMPypHZceJcJ6zXhMmW9rIX9XSTwmup-pEti8nU3gtrtbg/s2560/P1920132.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipGSLQ88zmbUazljM0IbAsPK0BBTEmS7lBasReHSLf24nGJ22JlvOoSO8sEBFEiglX5HEy6ScNnThe61Gg7mCH0FoBPJciMxlT_RknGwyWqAfzPKrqv9wz4Bl0XYRBYo4Z_QfqhkQEZDoJ2SMPypHZceJcJ6zXhMmW9rIX9XSTwmup-pEti8nU3gtrtbg/s320/P1920132.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Surprising Amount of habitation on Cave Lane.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">We pass among fields by the motorway and around a reedy pond before we enter the woods at Spring Lane Sidings, next to the railway, where we turn down to exit to Lingwell Gate Lane, passing under the M1 to leave Leeds District and hang an immediate left by terrace and chapel at Lingwell Gate to follow Castle Gate Lane, the path of the Wakefield Way from only 8 (eight!) years back, over the railway line and past the Lingwell Nook Lane corner, carrying on up the rise around the fields to the north of Lofthouse Colliery and the abandoned Lofthouse Hill golf course, passing across the E&WYUR remnants and noting the large plots of rhubarb that we are passing seem to have been left to grow wild or have been overcome by brightly coloured weeds. Pass Castle Gate farm and let Shop Lane guide us into the hamlet of Langley, meeting the Wakefield Way path again as Westgate lane lane leads us between playing fields and allotment gardens to the A61 Leeds Road at Lofthouse Hill, our midway point along the borough's long distance circular trail, orphaned into Tier 2 that we'll adopt into Tier 1 as we cross over and join the farm tracks that lead east, knowing that there's a southward turn to make somewhere down here, as a right of way is projected on the map, though where it lines up with reality seems rather debatable. Aiming down a field boundary to the only notable shed on these fields seems like the right way to go, to the eastern boundary of the long-lost Lofthouse Park, where part of the development therein has an access point to the track we're following, declining down towards Lee Moor Beck and then slipping up onto an embankment to pass over it, a track where local dog walkers convince me I'm nit trespassing, and also gets me thinking that this might be an abandoned, or never completed, stretch of railway that reached north of the Nagger Lines, a theory that become wholly plausible as we emerge onto Canal Lane between Lofthouse Gate and Stanley, tangling with our trek route to Normanton again as we press east past the primary academy and on among the terraces and suburbia upon Canal Hill, a name I've never quite been able to square with the elevated location.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqK95NahYV93iaW2N-VzM0sIV3w9dQ2UKSt48uPlHbFnud1zNSbnnp4aDAwwJ7nK15Z-LHVT2VB5xVmF07njilsSHTH8nmL-r3kEeDE-kB0DmLKluLMNzAlNaG0NWwSi5N94lFNVUjxgGFYkbyzSBF9bThCoRg_fmKOQuwjDoV69mGf08oWGzFNKEDuxE/s2560/P1930016.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqK95NahYV93iaW2N-VzM0sIV3w9dQ2UKSt48uPlHbFnud1zNSbnnp4aDAwwJ7nK15Z-LHVT2VB5xVmF07njilsSHTH8nmL-r3kEeDE-kB0DmLKluLMNzAlNaG0NWwSi5N94lFNVUjxgGFYkbyzSBF9bThCoRg_fmKOQuwjDoV69mGf08oWGzFNKEDuxE/s320/P1930016.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spring Lane Sidings woods.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8c2zhPtKWN4nHQ4Q3oa667Pg0PQe2nGeqhMVaZNjUVz6sJdsqEHcKXOB19EBespV2NVQB0Gv7Ng9SXjVx8gh6Pa9qdgU0SmYVU4q3hDgYSmn9p7R044N75XTx7xUQLU5WTBxNdUiqfcBVyUMvZp4syKtveiNMoKduZ5vJi2r22uwazSCkn9chAHIpPmY/s2560/P1930062.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8c2zhPtKWN4nHQ4Q3oa667Pg0PQe2nGeqhMVaZNjUVz6sJdsqEHcKXOB19EBespV2NVQB0Gv7Ng9SXjVx8gh6Pa9qdgU0SmYVU4q3hDgYSmn9p7R044N75XTx7xUQLU5WTBxNdUiqfcBVyUMvZp4syKtveiNMoKduZ5vJi2r22uwazSCkn9chAHIpPmY/s320/P1930062.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fallow Rhubarb Fields and Railway Remnants </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn6K9vumnSA5PGjDSTlsMFsG0M5oAZpATIHyPz0TElxJKkgEDjeqeWL7K9Jpr69ZT8fxw-eNT_DWUFuK76nriuwP2YhW535_3brDk11bWdz_G5YXjpFVjSOJHYgfHMQcyCZI9mRyYI6ITKDr5JRsxayEcB-jF4a0dpzHNBkKJ5dcm0vu9CcifSSUuyNS0/s2560/P1930076.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn6K9vumnSA5PGjDSTlsMFsG0M5oAZpATIHyPz0TElxJKkgEDjeqeWL7K9Jpr69ZT8fxw-eNT_DWUFuK76nriuwP2YhW535_3brDk11bWdz_G5YXjpFVjSOJHYgfHMQcyCZI9mRyYI6ITKDr5JRsxayEcB-jF4a0dpzHNBkKJ5dcm0vu9CcifSSUuyNS0/s320/P1930076.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shop Lane and Langley hamlet.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiERJge5ejQDFljyrOb3rv8P7Glaa5jUD6LOIVfC2tKocjlNBgj1LJ0hTEh3ogzsjAykGv8vC3AvqWd1HWgCH7oPQYDe1VsjjIv5OM0p0kHfCWBcQc7GwIEeSfD1LhEybGPlZBhVu0vX8AZ0VqmEI5P3k3FUKyUD-8ppo1wIGzas1OAH61VcNl1Rcqvg9Y/s2560/P1930098.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiERJge5ejQDFljyrOb3rv8P7Glaa5jUD6LOIVfC2tKocjlNBgj1LJ0hTEh3ogzsjAykGv8vC3AvqWd1HWgCH7oPQYDe1VsjjIv5OM0p0kHfCWBcQc7GwIEeSfD1LhEybGPlZBhVu0vX8AZ0VqmEI5P3k3FUKyUD-8ppo1wIGzas1OAH61VcNl1Rcqvg9Y/s320/P1930098.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lofthouse Hill on the Leeds Road.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiICpi3nIQlw789yNtD4ASyEQrcXv31HQ7klwnUVf8WqwV6a6RrI4ZHcKyXHTz-hJ39z1gXFjJOs3lVasMJGHAzcFWkT_BkmjOd4alxSDZ_E3ocAMpvlRB8RY5BanTlvABqZd35VRjWNTTvPiit_CkHLfQzHwFTtuFdCe0VBpWfrWSY_z2YrITvme9ofqU/s2560/P1930125.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiICpi3nIQlw789yNtD4ASyEQrcXv31HQ7klwnUVf8WqwV6a6RrI4ZHcKyXHTz-hJ39z1gXFjJOs3lVasMJGHAzcFWkT_BkmjOd4alxSDZ_E3ocAMpvlRB8RY5BanTlvABqZd35VRjWNTTvPiit_CkHLfQzHwFTtuFdCe0VBpWfrWSY_z2YrITvme9ofqU/s320/P1930125.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The one barn in the landscape will be our guide.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijvpBqylwSnCIrixc9K0F_HLA_lYZsqLa6kyFVvid3-1Fm-aYUO0o3Lu4T1dNxNIJToqLYp1PkB3gkKlrZ_SRDZ54U6vnqa_Wt52STr4nnIwLmqq1xcdZJQHtaJXKNeDw9pL2-QVNQb85enwvlHeAK1cn6Cxhc3GhVp29YkXrv9feXDF0G_Z6Pa9n_AK0/s2560/P1930150.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijvpBqylwSnCIrixc9K0F_HLA_lYZsqLa6kyFVvid3-1Fm-aYUO0o3Lu4T1dNxNIJToqLYp1PkB3gkKlrZ_SRDZ54U6vnqa_Wt52STr4nnIwLmqq1xcdZJQHtaJXKNeDw9pL2-QVNQb85enwvlHeAK1cn6Cxhc3GhVp29YkXrv9feXDF0G_Z6Pa9n_AK0/s320/P1930150.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Railway(?) Embankment north of Canal Lane.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">I'm pretty sure that this hillside perch is actually the Calder watershed, rapidly falling away to the south through the urban spread of Stanley, which we will continue through, passing the close that I'm sure that the field route ought to have brought us to, and along in front of the terraces that seem to have been deliberately placed for southerly views, above the suburbs below, taking us around to Mount Road, where we pass over the former Outwood-Cutsyke line at Lee Mount, dropping down past the Methodist Chapel to meet Lake Lock Road, where passage through Stanley Cemetery leads us to the yard of the now absent St Peter's church, where only foundations and the 1953 coronation memorial clock remain. Break for a late lunch here, having progressed so far without stopping, before dropping out onto A642 Aberford Road, and failing to get sight of the route that supposedly leads down to the banks of the Calder, revising the route on the fly to descend the main road along Stanley's riverfront to meet Water Lane, passing down to the waterworks entrance and joining the contained Trans Pennine trail footpath as it heads south to the driveway that leads into Smalley Bight farm, where we'll cross over the Nagger Lines and trace the previously unseen field boundary path beyond that leads us down to Ferry Lane, where the urban spread of eastern Wakefield seems to have reached its furthest extent, with Nellie Spindler Drive having arrived in the landscape between the canal vintage terraces. The bus stop here marks our second orphan of Tier 2 to render local, as we started a trek from Stanley Ferry here in 2014, and we'll make for the Aire & Calder Navigation's towpath via Ward Lane past the sawmill and woodyard to meet the canal cut at Ramsden's Bridge(s), and heading south alongside the moorings that seem to be mostly permanent residences for the alleged boaters, pondering the appeal of such a lifestyle before the trail path is forced away, into the post industrial landscape that sits above it, beyond the Stanley Ferry Flash nature reserve and along to the Park Hill Colliery site, just west of Wellbeck Bridge and our turn to pass over the A6194 Neil Fox Way, where the suburban growth has yet to reach in the four years since we first circuited in this direction.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJj-iFIPsgqcW2_DOTMYxU_ecrGGcuLvNZJB4gnlHB24eTLGEjV4nZ_czNw5WaFlW_Hz1g-9B09E6gkpTc4Pt6w-9fCB0jrBq1nN-V3EhukTP2jyjARQcTA2uW7wH0cGCBj7yZD1TnyNMmHbQ5COFmwui3ORRU4-qkC9YxoLDVcqqQPc3CYYnWhCppQJg/s2560/P1930177.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy02pz6WQluEjSNqFWOJ0eJgKIs5YLyvycYlSWHKVdvDExTEyNWV61492_csO-5ba32Bh4bW8oYwCea1AQyi_r2YfVdw2jOPUh2V75oyg6loydkMUQ4zG_sASRsBSv3kWmjmzQBdQOweCCL-WDLlp5_JH3f6tBrJaw7LDyFxAgmzKsz4oKh5xPvfglXhg/s2560/P1940036.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy02pz6WQluEjSNqFWOJ0eJgKIs5YLyvycYlSWHKVdvDExTEyNWV61492_csO-5ba32Bh4bW8oYwCea1AQyi_r2YfVdw2jOPUh2V75oyg6loydkMUQ4zG_sASRsBSv3kWmjmzQBdQOweCCL-WDLlp5_JH3f6tBrJaw7LDyFxAgmzKsz4oKh5xPvfglXhg/s320/P1940036.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stanley Parish Church was here.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdjr8cLRUqwfLeUzp25QDtiqD7YvowNvNPrjO40O84DtSZCTO0lX_LbaxVWeN88Kg56iGZfVCXYPVyt_jRO6yJzAe21dYVvgQ3OvatmltsuHqPComA7Vv6ktlON1ZUSk2Zhds5duyoe7jYmZK-M0nKMOwnz0zTRTc3T1uC95G1hRFEqP7NjPMZOD6OneY/s2560/P1940072.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdjr8cLRUqwfLeUzp25QDtiqD7YvowNvNPrjO40O84DtSZCTO0lX_LbaxVWeN88Kg56iGZfVCXYPVyt_jRO6yJzAe21dYVvgQ3OvatmltsuHqPComA7Vv6ktlON1ZUSk2Zhds5duyoe7jYmZK-M0nKMOwnz0zTRTc3T1uC95G1hRFEqP7NjPMZOD6OneY/s320/P1940072.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Smalley Bight Farm.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPgQ_fYGpi92Hzc7ov3vHeeXhdb78GvtKu_lhedlh-UWVwSWTVCBmUvbwUhT7HRrzFcUq_bDkeU6D3vzm1vzNEfbrIs88ZqBXvFVzwABwKbiVqJLtylGz_OcJSFnK-k4gtKZ8AXb6e8A8Y6x4CXOLSKlxXCznwszVYpWfs2ounZVCp_ahwz8RRnlC6pvM/s2560/P1940110.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvjV77asJMeN-jB9j2aHCOdMPv0DN_UfNj_sZmr542YcYDKGM0nbHNpzTjln3jlMK7Wp4NFIgNiLD730BWSIhNKIarZ6tsNI4toBnwfwP0_aMGCkSYMn15FHI-a6HWNjdkZB894AQTc-RCo8tF1S0ZzbT32gXeABinVwm6OW_ekjZ8rkRnAwKhQoftv7Q/s2560/P1940176.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvjV77asJMeN-jB9j2aHCOdMPv0DN_UfNj_sZmr542YcYDKGM0nbHNpzTjln3jlMK7Wp4NFIgNiLD730BWSIhNKIarZ6tsNI4toBnwfwP0_aMGCkSYMn15FHI-a6HWNjdkZB894AQTc-RCo8tF1S0ZzbT32gXeABinVwm6OW_ekjZ8rkRnAwKhQoftv7Q/s320/P1940176.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Park Hill Colliery site, on Neil Fox Way</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">Across Wakefield's eastern relief road, a rough and unofficial footpath strikes a route across the still un-developed fields, on a heading directly into the northern portion of the Eastmoor estate, landing in the play area or garage access space off Gisburn Avenue, and thanks to son judicious pre-planning, we've gotten our path into the city ready from here, downward to Windhill Drive and on past the bus terminal circus, on along the long curved sweep to Queen Elizabeth Drive and out past the old health centre and the QE2 park, and out to the A642 Stanley Road again, at the corner at the bottom of Pinderfields Hospital's site. Switch sides and head down to Trinity Methodist church and the Fox 'n' Grapes inn, and the swing around with the lane to enter the Northgate ward, passing along the long terraced front on Jacob's Well road and tangling with the A61 as the terraces reaching down from Pinder's Fields terminate opposite the vast pile of the Trinity Walk shopping centre, with the towers and spires of the city only become apparent along here, as we come in by the Lightwaves Leisure centre and cross over Marsh Way to meet Wakefield Bus station, the third orphaned Tier 2 destination of the day, which would present the easy finish line for trip straight home, if it wasn't for one significant omission on my walking tours. This is to be rectified by taking that familiar track, down Upper York Street, across Northgate itself, and down Rishworth Street to Coronation Gardens, and thence down Cliff Parade between County Hall, Court house and Town Hall and through the Burgage Square development to land us at Westgate station, where none of our local trails have ever landed us before, despite seven previous visits, and a 2.25pm finish ought to land us in time for an express ride to Leeds that should have had us back to Morley in only 35 minutes, but signalling delays and vanished connections on a non-strike day conspire for it to take 95 instead, which might show why this town is actually best accessed by bus.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-GPtYroAkBdvp6nIrMENx-RfFS73LILjUor-v6cx9rHVsAo4Jk6O2YjYPD2Qpn-9thQhPeNUPEwD5fa5_dj1QOaEOtrXZJauFxMgAdNndza4UD7zo4lWTcuK-GOssBHyuwQWRY6TNgp5X_EwSbroEC20wmWtthyISi04JACVlTqk0suD5W46PgeDsvfU/s2560/P1940208.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-GPtYroAkBdvp6nIrMENx-RfFS73LILjUor-v6cx9rHVsAo4Jk6O2YjYPD2Qpn-9thQhPeNUPEwD5fa5_dj1QOaEOtrXZJauFxMgAdNndza4UD7zo4lWTcuK-GOssBHyuwQWRY6TNgp5X_EwSbroEC20wmWtthyISi04JACVlTqk0suD5W46PgeDsvfU/s320/P1940208.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Windhill Drive, Eastmoor.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieLdcBh7c8gSUxRLOL8blEABl6wDx9Dd9k5d2vzWCG8vg0KFdAqEXRE02ZZmsnOB6XSt1zfvzgk6KVE4MWd5ATZlSxUO6xnoSCKmOaDbrB-O2VvEO4RDJsU0sVa8gFGwVeIs1MRg4ZBWoURDmBWWKyni30J4BZ_ze2wgDZVoLNXN_32HtyhZxb6BnByyg/s2560/P1940242.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieLdcBh7c8gSUxRLOL8blEABl6wDx9Dd9k5d2vzWCG8vg0KFdAqEXRE02ZZmsnOB6XSt1zfvzgk6KVE4MWd5ATZlSxUO6xnoSCKmOaDbrB-O2VvEO4RDJsU0sVa8gFGwVeIs1MRg4ZBWoURDmBWWKyni30J4BZ_ze2wgDZVoLNXN_32HtyhZxb6BnByyg/s320/P1940242.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Queen Elizabeth Park, Eastmoor.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRNJ3o-fFYbzz_cG2jqQWxGMlVngBbtxGg0ByTWz8w8qhzU-PSmhdyc644AOZ2ndo4MTwDapBfd0NWgp9b6mhs75SpC7c2oj92txkKZ9NyEAVrOelgKkibR3PzOT6vvVnu-ZXIhe1PdK9XNEF237nA2dLjmU3PtEjz6DIzFYAPI1NSv8oaTEhgfwjn8mY/s2560/P1940269.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRNJ3o-fFYbzz_cG2jqQWxGMlVngBbtxGg0ByTWz8w8qhzU-PSmhdyc644AOZ2ndo4MTwDapBfd0NWgp9b6mhs75SpC7c2oj92txkKZ9NyEAVrOelgKkibR3PzOT6vvVnu-ZXIhe1PdK9XNEF237nA2dLjmU3PtEjz6DIzFYAPI1NSv8oaTEhgfwjn8mY/s320/P1940269.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jakob's Well Drive, and the Trinity Walk centre.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEzcStdi3t0CZcmmR0T1TSJtb-GaZ6YJCyAOuBBWy_2TWbFQrkfmIc0FfLiuXVYI31UV4niLsh5lAPqToJvHKfqb6Ng0u5WCqXeUd6nrxAE1sLOupuT0YxfdLU9aL0X09UMgFpmB3Oll21lPB_OQ5DMqbkbjuC0IIzwIeyFL83d8nzGTDCzYMIxOdt7pU/s2560/P1940297.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEzcStdi3t0CZcmmR0T1TSJtb-GaZ6YJCyAOuBBWy_2TWbFQrkfmIc0FfLiuXVYI31UV4niLsh5lAPqToJvHKfqb6Ng0u5WCqXeUd6nrxAE1sLOupuT0YxfdLU9aL0X09UMgFpmB3Oll21lPB_OQ5DMqbkbjuC0IIzwIeyFL83d8nzGTDCzYMIxOdt7pU/s320/P1940297.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wakefield Bus Station.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvEV51Ucl0lrJwnH4e-eca9yakS79xiav5HqHn0hsAslw4HH2Do-9qI1LD-5Rv6rMFYzGbd9TqwkOeZAGWRcalE-SEsqBzlXCym-yI68F1oppyK8drxsaoMGfjonlrBU8GtKdk7n7g9CSLOucMOLzxE5aEqrSkXKkflwsA7UXOIHzZEK1Gnta4wtJUcrc/s2560/P1940329.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFvwDirflWvDjUtItMrnUbNoD2nQWYBGrIN7xlmIaljde2BYvdntvb7VFS6YuuuSJ6FkFa7Ke6N4FCvM9gpPZ7zGC0HhUcWLhGg3AinnpI1xtdberVVz7-JCId0wN40yHQRlBIThYBIvhmyatYzD9vqNpeRkT0TDIBu8-sqvRclG4NIe1G7aJMoO7Yh5E/s320/P1940359.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wakefield Westgate station is local at last.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b>5,000 Miles Cumulative Total: 6116.3 miles</b><br />2023 Total: 194.1 miles<br />Up Country Total: 5,624.5 miles<br />Solo Total: 5773.7 miles<br />5,000 in my 40s Total: 4716.2 miles</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Destinations Moved from Tier 2 to Tier 1: Lofthouse Hill, Stanley Ferry, Wakefield Bus Station, </div><div style="text-align: left;"> Wakefield Westgate Station.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Next Up: Late Summer Jollies, seeking the Industrial Heritage of the North Yorkshire Moors.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Christopher Wrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09743749271457169317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527420385844253776.post-75712861781105713862023-08-20T16:44:00.089+01:002023-09-04T20:59:33.264+01:00Morley to Oakenshaw 19/08/23<div style="text-align: left;"><b>10.8 miles, via Bruntcliffe, Howden Clough, Upper Batley, Cross Bank, Healey, Staincliffe,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Moorside,</b><b> Heckmondwike (Spen), Lower Popeley, Liversedge (Spen), Littletown, Royds Park,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Rawfolds, Cleckheaton (central), Chain Bar, and Cleckheaton & District Golf Course.</b></div><p style="text-align: left;">The first pair of weekends in August are lost to poor weather, not catastrophically wet but fundamentally uninspiring when energy levels are low, having endured two busy weeks at work in the LGI, launching a new collection routine after finally closing down our mostly empty library in the Clarendon Wing and concentrating service into a single office, which would have proved hard work for me come the weekends regardless of our current conditions, which has me feeling that the 2020-esque second half of the season which we might have hoped for is most likely going to be replaced by a 2021 styled Summer of disappointment and junked plans. Honestly, though, the inertia de to reduced stamina is more troubling to this August than the weather has been so far, as both weekends promoted activity that I could have engaged in, but didn't, with engineering possessions on the railway prompting the belief that the new footbridge spans at White Rose station were finally due to be installed, and the BBC Proms bringing a concert, albeit one of chamber music, to Dewsbury Town Hall, about as ever as we'll get to home, but the lack of trains to use on a Sunday, coupled to the busing shenanigans that would have been otherwise necessary to get there, meant that it might as well have been on the Moon for how accessible it would have been for me. So August is well on its way, and almost on its way out once we can get to our first trip of the month, pulling up the shortest available on on the slate to get busy with the other season specific trend for 2023, as Shuffling the Tiers has also revealed a whole bunch of Tier 2 destinations, now abandoned far from its outer perimeter and now looking lost among the extensive reaches of the trails of Tier 1, where to my tidy mind feels they ought to be, and that's why we will be 'Gathering The Orphans' in Season 12 as well, and we've got three of them to aim for today, scattered across North Kirklees, and in the Spen Valley.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAIJ_jYpb-L2NKIWPNbppQf0SiuFReR6odkwIeKgbGUett47jrlvE7HxSlCMwYdy1-IX3Yp4LP0VItjsoZeFxNN2UaNymyZgUHqy3FijU3osb8iVB9GikrSwWGZ6kxZvqKyNCbFwxVdhEAG07T6zKe5JwP_dmMHJ2FgIAmKwC7ygOE5hBYSmOLZyfPX-o/s2560/P1900476.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAIJ_jYpb-L2NKIWPNbppQf0SiuFReR6odkwIeKgbGUett47jrlvE7HxSlCMwYdy1-IX3Yp4LP0VItjsoZeFxNN2UaNymyZgUHqy3FijU3osb8iVB9GikrSwWGZ6kxZvqKyNCbFwxVdhEAG07T6zKe5JwP_dmMHJ2FgIAmKwC7ygOE5hBYSmOLZyfPX-o/s320/P1900476.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Big Crane in the White Rose Station landscape 07/08</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghfx7PrUk-Cpr8vpHOPQ3kVoxbiurcPmzpqR8Zqwb4C6M1hiah0lRxmyE0LFfY4sGF4-KKokWhuRlVfM65fkLvJAYn7c7QYo9oEmQN8HRbp_-hBQ_VmxJX02itd2YMG5CvigH840QfwH7eXwNblN3MiKCrpwZTLQfC9aIrTXswIvoksiG_wOdDWXBDBbE/s2560/P1900655.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghfx7PrUk-Cpr8vpHOPQ3kVoxbiurcPmzpqR8Zqwb4C6M1hiah0lRxmyE0LFfY4sGF4-KKokWhuRlVfM65fkLvJAYn7c7QYo9oEmQN8HRbp_-hBQ_VmxJX02itd2YMG5CvigH840QfwH7eXwNblN3MiKCrpwZTLQfC9aIrTXswIvoksiG_wOdDWXBDBbE/s320/P1900655.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Footbridge installed at White Rose 15/08</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijQDBSfADdrKIOfDX8tfrxx_BxuC2Hk3TQY1sLdvhWRpsPYu3u3B6cxmcNS3vA4HuohhlmhZULpkR1TM45I55QZ5dbKmKrdUhG77L1AD4gkaTWekTqhuaylSFHZmXvXQmwm8KFEJ5DP15__gvXYdbkXd8-MYh280H0DA06r8BHOi0d7hoLxkwANi5jy0c/s2560/P1900701.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijQDBSfADdrKIOfDX8tfrxx_BxuC2Hk3TQY1sLdvhWRpsPYu3u3B6cxmcNS3vA4HuohhlmhZULpkR1TM45I55QZ5dbKmKrdUhG77L1AD4gkaTWekTqhuaylSFHZmXvXQmwm8KFEJ5DP15__gvXYdbkXd8-MYh280H0DA06r8BHOi0d7hoLxkwANi5jy0c/s320/P1900701.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alternate View from a Moving Train 17/08</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">We ought to get the walking, really. and as we're heading west from Morley. we'll be using our alternate start line at Morley Hole for this trip, as there's not much point doing an excessive tramp across the town where there's so little novel to see for the mileage walked, and thus we launch off at 10.10am, with the weather being actually bright and warm-ish as we not much to go by way of original footfalls as the rise of the A643 Bruntcliffe Road offers itself for the initial going, and beyond the roadworks, we could almost autopilot our way up, past Cemetery, Academy and Joiner's on the way up to the A650 crossroads, through Bruntcliffe itself and out of town over the M62. Howden Clough Road is also plenty familiar by now as we pass the stray terraces at the top of the decline that we drift down, through the coating of woodlands that reach up the valley side. which have grown to completely obscure the eponymous mill, where we bottom out and rise again to Howden Clough village-let at the edge of greater Batley, passing the Mann's Buildings terraces and hanging a left onto Upper Batley Low Lane, still on local paths around between the terraces and down to the railway embankment remnant at the Windmill Lane corner, before we finally get onto a path not walked from home, previously seen of course, but walked southerly for the change up, above the fall of Howden Clough and Howley Beck. It's all fields for a bit, past Still House farm and down to the dog walking park at the top edge of Upper Batley, where the suburbia of modest and grander means gathers, and the novelty is lost again, as we cross Upper Batley Lane and pass down among the Villas to the top of Carlinghow Hill, where we descend through the roughly hewn rock and down past Batley's grammar school and former hospital, down to the remains of the Birstall railway branch and the old Carlinghow station house, all raked above the valley floor.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj61Pz3FB8qruMxtpPzMXKCzt9d9sQ1RPlOBfqS6fz8f4wfTsVhJjTo6tg49-EstSGi-o6hUhDymIiYlM6gxSpf9jFk00jcxqSEOwfC8sioadnMsz4SjHPA6nPN0jp0XqI1IUIr4Gd059H4ZzXGt6eJ4RB2dulPeeDz8RC7zEIGW6MdzvICtMp2eoWUuLg/s2560/P1900751.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj61Pz3FB8qruMxtpPzMXKCzt9d9sQ1RPlOBfqS6fz8f4wfTsVhJjTo6tg49-EstSGi-o6hUhDymIiYlM6gxSpf9jFk00jcxqSEOwfC8sioadnMsz4SjHPA6nPN0jp0XqI1IUIr4Gd059H4ZzXGt6eJ4RB2dulPeeDz8RC7zEIGW6MdzvICtMp2eoWUuLg/s320/P1900751.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roadworks promote interest on Bruntcliffe Road.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwTBcykmvByHFIDTRQ5Bhwyms_q0A2LSPqTDvVS1uVQQUkWSkILlXjYgDTl5zKhnfR1w1Ya7T6gQnSaFPws41DzBIvR8wvxB4LDT4uHcp2KvR_x8DBVky-DwlvtO_PEjUuq1-vLCZfXgBDKoALNjF-j16Qx4iUuWiDT2KuyPYesgkDqLACPxb7di9Hnyg/s2560/P1900782.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwTBcykmvByHFIDTRQ5Bhwyms_q0A2LSPqTDvVS1uVQQUkWSkILlXjYgDTl5zKhnfR1w1Ya7T6gQnSaFPws41DzBIvR8wvxB4LDT4uHcp2KvR_x8DBVky-DwlvtO_PEjUuq1-vLCZfXgBDKoALNjF-j16Qx4iUuWiDT2KuyPYesgkDqLACPxb7di9Hnyg/s320/P1900782.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Howden Clough Road, Bruntcliffe.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfRGLgzBkqwUsQiUWD_hGOA9awLDflciNQQCyZ25RKXIkXPGhs4_5Xws3uNv8qOc8xujkOB2z4QF1yL_SBWM7QFWjp5EmlcKGdRP6VP5uPd_m9P0-61DILUn54Vqzmc8Se_4aXijPZ9voG2a8dqReskNEnZ5GAXz51gjBJThayLskhSFqq47AR2fpXFm8/s2560/P1900806.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfRGLgzBkqwUsQiUWD_hGOA9awLDflciNQQCyZ25RKXIkXPGhs4_5Xws3uNv8qOc8xujkOB2z4QF1yL_SBWM7QFWjp5EmlcKGdRP6VP5uPd_m9P0-61DILUn54Vqzmc8Se_4aXijPZ9voG2a8dqReskNEnZ5GAXz51gjBJThayLskhSFqq47AR2fpXFm8/s320/P1900806.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Howden Clough Road falls and rises.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3t2R_6Y4uqllEB-UCjYy2Bluwi7j-ZwqI4ex5RScYWrT6n3Iu4EZA_43DKYCnragT_lvd6lBiUELyee-XsCzWgAAl1dL_VZD9qnb1Rw7x8HBytLYVUf8VvWLgAGMETbpPDqLN6AC4ZbxxYSMrOyu9POUjsneqAVdMLyksN1I_IiKiKPX79wjd7F3QyRE/s2560/P1900827.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3t2R_6Y4uqllEB-UCjYy2Bluwi7j-ZwqI4ex5RScYWrT6n3Iu4EZA_43DKYCnragT_lvd6lBiUELyee-XsCzWgAAl1dL_VZD9qnb1Rw7x8HBytLYVUf8VvWLgAGMETbpPDqLN6AC4ZbxxYSMrOyu9POUjsneqAVdMLyksN1I_IiKiKPX79wjd7F3QyRE/s320/P1900827.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Upper Batley Low Lane terraces, Howden Clough</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZeb1AvDsmvT3RBTui2bpDZ-vQUUMjDzeYlO6qSoVKZU4dAVMbyI7PX0sVDi_uZN5dtVnnibb_NzE_lLhd4k3YWtLDRGloZzXdKnk_3goLHhgpfv3K4-N6ezgAKl8KCtwBZVQkR1Ozy7mkB-66vFcMxc-E3JlV4OnDIUjfFmYth-m9XZsXSe2SdLz2bvU/s2560/P1900862.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZeb1AvDsmvT3RBTui2bpDZ-vQUUMjDzeYlO6qSoVKZU4dAVMbyI7PX0sVDi_uZN5dtVnnibb_NzE_lLhd4k3YWtLDRGloZzXdKnk_3goLHhgpfv3K4-N6ezgAKl8KCtwBZVQkR1Ozy7mkB-66vFcMxc-E3JlV4OnDIUjfFmYth-m9XZsXSe2SdLz2bvU/s320/P1900862.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Upper Batley.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD0m3q9EsQIpPxNbEsKRy4-2bxDe5tJ4DvWlNbp7acxbJNDx7AvFfIQewYWltpv-HAFzWr01yBlMtht4BUkM6WdRTIgBU3vEaz6o66NTFVj_29nKaRkE_eZBq7rbVmWSmiDBnTL_H-Y7YJ3aQqJqtA319ix0Qvkb-Ci1HXNFCiUQfvrSF0rM9d8LGWUFs/s2560/P1900894.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD0m3q9EsQIpPxNbEsKRy4-2bxDe5tJ4DvWlNbp7acxbJNDx7AvFfIQewYWltpv-HAFzWr01yBlMtht4BUkM6WdRTIgBU3vEaz6o66NTFVj_29nKaRkE_eZBq7rbVmWSmiDBnTL_H-Y7YJ3aQqJqtA319ix0Qvkb-Ci1HXNFCiUQfvrSF0rM9d8LGWUFs/s320/P1900894.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carlinghow Station House.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">Novelty resumes across the A652 Bradford Road, passing up among the low rise council flats on Centenary Way, up to Cross Bank Road, and around to Carlinghow Lane to seek the way uphill, found at the top of the South Bank Road close, where the old track of Coal Pit Lane leads above the playing fields and beyond the terrace ends to rise uphill among the fields, getting rather green and forgotten about by the modern world, aside from the tethered goat and sheep on mowing duty, which draw us in behind the suburban back gardens of Healey, a nice green lane to transition us between previously seen corners, with us emerging onto Healey Lane down from the George Inn. Deighton Lane leads us past the allotments and over West Park Road into the suburban hinterland that we call Staincliffe, up past Christ Church on the hillcrest and down the familiar Staincliffe Hall Road to the passage over the A638 Halifax Road by the Burcher's Arms and its notable ghost sign palimpsest, and thence down Dewbury Gate Road past Staincliffe Rec and on betwixt greater Dewsbury and Heckmondwike, formally entering the latter as we shift off onto Moor End Road, cresting us down into the Spen valley, twisting its way downhill among rural outliers, terraces and suburbs, past anther George Inn and down towards the north edge of the Moorside Estate. This steeply directs us down to the B6117 Heckmondwike Road, where our south-westerly passage shifts to a north-westerly one, passing up the eastern valley's suburban front opposite the chemical works and the builders suppliers in the old goods yard to land at the Walkley Lane bridge at the south end of the Heckmondwike railway cutting, our first orphaned destination of the day, where we'll pass down to the trackbed level and find that the deep cutting is wildly overgrown compared to our last visit, and passage up gets challenging enough to feel like you might get lost in the burgeoning before we reach the drier and firmly ballasted alignment in it leafy seclusion through the stone-lined cutting from Brunswick Road bridge along to the High Street tunnel.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjpMvqyk-0RjKhA_qufxxHNw7pELkJLSEpnzvkHSLnfZAlejHzP85emaOZMH0zRImkXf1OJ3QJXBfmGx5mLXLyma3G8-Gc4Cfk0nbsBhLu9lGdbloDWrwTWcEmzTEsYSLQ0uOO6pxlM1O8W1T-Z8wf-lPU3KOCllj8O9uIdyfGHT_A5DSeTVAMCSWDVOc/s2560/P1900925.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjpMvqyk-0RjKhA_qufxxHNw7pELkJLSEpnzvkHSLnfZAlejHzP85emaOZMH0zRImkXf1OJ3QJXBfmGx5mLXLyma3G8-Gc4Cfk0nbsBhLu9lGdbloDWrwTWcEmzTEsYSLQ0uOO6pxlM1O8W1T-Z8wf-lPU3KOCllj8O9uIdyfGHT_A5DSeTVAMCSWDVOc/s320/P1900925.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coal Pit Lane.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPF9pc7QseC-wJxwYr2RPIRc7orW2rfsPZgECmzGw7OiVBuDPaC2yrySsgUQoHXBUegQqCdQiL2EDLSxnIGWMwfkTxDa024nFxku_UuiuGTptbTZU19Y_u4Vvu-h-JhvZD8Cb7E0Y8aS4-XYNII1BJkI6wUqT4eUn0rhmURupkR2H9rR1n8EMVBy172Fw/s2560/P1900969.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPF9pc7QseC-wJxwYr2RPIRc7orW2rfsPZgECmzGw7OiVBuDPaC2yrySsgUQoHXBUegQqCdQiL2EDLSxnIGWMwfkTxDa024nFxku_UuiuGTptbTZU19Y_u4Vvu-h-JhvZD8Cb7E0Y8aS4-XYNII1BJkI6wUqT4eUn0rhmURupkR2H9rR1n8EMVBy172Fw/s320/P1900969.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The George Inn, Healey. </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpjChBMQWd0GOol3M6uscHnqp3l5w23qTDgHk7HYUOJ2Z82HlQduegi3wTi_8B5hEHNAX0kla5t9teZz9R3cfGUwON6R5oYplaqlyjLQPaw6uWb67m8NiTnVcNesJW3zKLxX_exsDAdzykEme-RbtSrUhNBVAet4L57k7br-O25vLUaHH-lRb9hn7wmeQ/s2560/P1910003.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpjChBMQWd0GOol3M6uscHnqp3l5w23qTDgHk7HYUOJ2Z82HlQduegi3wTi_8B5hEHNAX0kla5t9teZz9R3cfGUwON6R5oYplaqlyjLQPaw6uWb67m8NiTnVcNesJW3zKLxX_exsDAdzykEme-RbtSrUhNBVAet4L57k7br-O25vLUaHH-lRb9hn7wmeQ/s320/P1910003.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christ Church (and school), Staincliffe.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfaXwcU2D6Sw1G39N5G-vGVjkzR1zJf6_N7YM12nNkzjQ9FAZI0j2XpZmPF9IRFyHG2EIjQAfTEGBsQnKbAMeefMwK_L2IpPZYt_xGEkg_1ekKBjzteYLVtSnDvivD9NkzFqR3bXxc4VYkos8hTnChFoK20SIYEkqbpOvfa8MkTEeNKTflTybPLtVrVlQ/s2560/P1910038.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfaXwcU2D6Sw1G39N5G-vGVjkzR1zJf6_N7YM12nNkzjQ9FAZI0j2XpZmPF9IRFyHG2EIjQAfTEGBsQnKbAMeefMwK_L2IpPZYt_xGEkg_1ekKBjzteYLVtSnDvivD9NkzFqR3bXxc4VYkos8hTnChFoK20SIYEkqbpOvfa8MkTEeNKTflTybPLtVrVlQ/s320/P1910038.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moor End Lane, Dewsbury Moorside.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizyLLEgqpAyIzUhoUjUyPTm579w0J4snAfa87ZTFnEyc2KWhLpQzCArSGJFBkzfrb8TkjTiiZ5Oeij01Y9y3UceE0avZV4_oj7Q1u8tpknlcvisI1JEDJjoxBKqGmshwJSZXrwoRwJpbtipksfA5pOmkleeM_JyIf8OZ1OrA81RKTQPRQsKlgBe5EfAZY/s2560/P1910078.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizyLLEgqpAyIzUhoUjUyPTm579w0J4snAfa87ZTFnEyc2KWhLpQzCArSGJFBkzfrb8TkjTiiZ5Oeij01Y9y3UceE0avZV4_oj7Q1u8tpknlcvisI1JEDJjoxBKqGmshwJSZXrwoRwJpbtipksfA5pOmkleeM_JyIf8OZ1OrA81RKTQPRQsKlgBe5EfAZY/s320/P1910078.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Heckmondwike Deep Cutting.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3gmC315sia-KMDWq1vJxs6VhXpvGIZ9J9i2X7_qG4ObgFVksGNT6e6zu3Q5ZKbXmCLWMbZzAGqfkb0jqEEJho_VihuHRusXbTB4oh7liww4vpsVYgWWmUfAolgGnw59zm66rVCnNtuuz8jtPvucWwau_kPeTWI6KGSSJV28s1lyAZhRg1VJtjBqK5Db4/s2560/P1910131.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3gmC315sia-KMDWq1vJxs6VhXpvGIZ9J9i2X7_qG4ObgFVksGNT6e6zu3Q5ZKbXmCLWMbZzAGqfkb0jqEEJho_VihuHRusXbTB4oh7liww4vpsVYgWWmUfAolgGnw59zm66rVCnNtuuz8jtPvucWwau_kPeTWI6KGSSJV28s1lyAZhRg1VJtjBqK5Db4/s320/P1910131.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Church Street bridge, Heckmondwike.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">This passage land us in Old Station Court, the urbanisation of Heckmondwike Spen station, and this trip's purpose becomes apparent, to tag the Spen Valley Ringway and the many bridges of its preserved cutting into my local sphere, on my third traversal and fifth actual visit, which means I'll probably never tire of its yellow stones and dark bricks arching overhead, and walking among them as it pushes us below the town and out into the pleasingly secluded greenery beyond, under the A62 Leeds Road bridge at Lower Popeley and through Thornleigh Drive close on the site of the oil depot, before we move into the Liversedge Spen station site and break for lunch at the Listing Lane bridge. Gloom threatens to set in as we resume, as distant clouds spotted a while back gather overhead, but it blows out alsmost as soon as it arrives, and we're barely past the Littletown estate before we back in sunshine and quitting the Ringway at Royds Park, out second 2012 vintage orphaned destination to bring local as we drop down the perimeter with Edercliffe Crescent, passing the health centre on the corner and crossing the A638 Bradford Road by the Princess Mary Athletics Stadium, and then setting off up Primrose Lane to pass over the River Spen and rise up past the fields of Hartshead AFC and come upon the Spen Valley Greenway as it passes over, soon joined as we scurry up the embankment. We'll tag this one as local too as we progress north-westwards, to catch up again with most of the upper section that we didn't see in 2021, passing above the still open and non suburban or industrial fields south of Cleckheaton, where the metal-worked flock of sheep are still present at the trackside, untouched by the light-fingered brigade, ahead of our wander on into the town, it's suburban splurge being mostly hidden from view by trees, passing over the A641 Westgate bridge and landing in Cleckheaton Central station site, opposite Tesco and the town's philosophical wall (which isn't as good as Goldthorpe's!).</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCiiZxwYOOwecEOrkqYTElHyI-pcRFkEAA5rLF_wgidBkXWs8fcQAX-fL36jU6wq94EbN8723KrJAOaw0rSEOsmVVV8VJQJjaVWnwo8PjGL86N_aTTf3dQAOFdC-ax50ffEji28fA0BhsdI2TV-yHGp3T9MB6OXtJKEHC1yF2GgwSI9tZ_WRDUSBbNxv8/s2560/P1910187.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO6tzHSUBsJbbB-7HmTyS8ww_zRtjqK0xeRiKzt5HFbWzu2MHrNSW6hIHTiuidB5VQoIyG3LTNEDHvkybKZ03pPYffM6a32OeyzM68Dzv1dexApOqGal6e3jXONMy2D-yal18gOLp-og-2dkxRjTJMgbw1bVTFdkgR-G9rZHy2nvAK3g__cdBcJsOTPb0/s320/P1910258.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Listing Lane Bridge, Liversedge (Spen).</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBhQrbIue6xC1qs60UOaAUFwK1_bcglBJO8YYA0N4tiRm6EC1zRTXMU3_Ml5Rt-BZ2lAR64bSMgFUa-KOnew9cWhUnQwPTbA6YfjxqNAijc6Ni0aXwSJeid7eRe_ldCDny-Hy4WJ732scLYT0taVPmxffOexFZ_yPOuOxYPDaE0lJr6fXrH4LXwOgl8-A/s2560/P1910297.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3mkgTgDijfx6U_FLh9R_dANL_mqy95wcDMxZHzbh4b0tLHADjOE-E_rcJW1tY-jnD1AwZfzFs4DfTdmqFGUgoYwopOt3yOpsb6LYSv9VNFMNlqlyzmZyhcLjAjCMM2DenGHSxEzF8Xs9AVYzUc3aOXaoA_UQNqmvKIU_q-ubsLdv82DZ01q6s5gCvTio/s320/P1910334.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Primrose Lane Bridge.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghXTZio1hqvVEO2MDhcHa73ZCS--zDFHPUx4_RjtLNaRzfNgmil3pecuUGDAGMNyTs7EMPXreB3HiiE5FxxzB6nX4etqJ0CO9gJ9Q3zmSjAIIhdxgO-sQOeKArADgrJyfMXTmAcVVR8eWsK5kLGdy-b-jPsR29DQOx18-m-yz76WBAQXLB5-L8qo6HjpY/s2560/P1910374.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghXTZio1hqvVEO2MDhcHa73ZCS--zDFHPUx4_RjtLNaRzfNgmil3pecuUGDAGMNyTs7EMPXreB3HiiE5FxxzB6nX4etqJ0CO9gJ9Q3zmSjAIIhdxgO-sQOeKArADgrJyfMXTmAcVVR8eWsK5kLGdy-b-jPsR29DQOx18-m-yz76WBAQXLB5-L8qo6HjpY/s320/P1910374.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The flock of metal sheep endures.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIZJgWsJ9GTZFii4RojzmIvzbgFYoJsip9tLKxiuTWjpUKmtk0xKThcbxbTJW81K28E91_eYLJUCT-bbE55E1xxcdyoWg0HTLi3x0hNhP_5R6zzC_Qlw_FpUy6s4N3W-7Dvxv3I2eaCkBCS2PCLqe8dB9I-TQ_SGcGbAZRIxDwkIvrls8w2xXjyBr_oTk/s2560/P1910431.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIZJgWsJ9GTZFii4RojzmIvzbgFYoJsip9tLKxiuTWjpUKmtk0xKThcbxbTJW81K28E91_eYLJUCT-bbE55E1xxcdyoWg0HTLi3x0hNhP_5R6zzC_Qlw_FpUy6s4N3W-7Dvxv3I2eaCkBCS2PCLqe8dB9I-TQ_SGcGbAZRIxDwkIvrls8w2xXjyBr_oTk/s320/P1910431.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cleckheaton Central Station.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">The void to the west of the line, beyond the station has overgrown completely since we came here 11 years ago, and turns out that it wasn't the good yard either, so the broadness of the span of Whitcliffe Road road bridge above seems unnecessary, though the width of the cutting might be due to the feed into the actual goods yard on the supermarket car park site, all things to ponder as we push out of town behind the suburban edges, finding this length of the Greenway to maybe be the busiest part, with cycling club types out on force to disrupt the amblers, on the stretch over Whitechapel Road and under Snelsins bridge, ahead of the passage over the M62, west of Chain Bar. The impact of three weeks of busy-ness at work, but no proper exercise ifs felt as we rest and water for a while at the north end, before we press onwards, through the woods and over the A58 Whitehall Road and into the greenery proper once more, in amongst the fairways of Cleckheaton & District Golf Course, where the eagle eyed can spot the access for the old coal mining works and the concealed beck flowing below, and otherwise surge over the embankment and settle into the cutting that lies beyond as the Greenway makes its pitch for the top of the Spen Valley, noting the surviving gradient post and mile markers ahead of the occupation bridges and the approach to Oakenshaw tunnel which we pass through, to enjoy the chilled air within. We quit the railway path here and rise up the steps to Green Lane, keeping us just out of Bradford district as we turn back to Wyke Lane, to associate ourselves among the farmsteads and the suburban outliers that we last saw at the end of leg #2 of the Kirklees Way, pressing directly east and downhill, past the junction from which Oakenshaw Cross has been controversially removed down to the A638 Bradford Road, opposite St Andrew's church, landing only the shortest of stretches away from my trip over to Low Moor but crossed off today as the last of my orphaned destinations on this trajectory, and we'll wrap here at 2,25pm, with this stray trio of orange dots on my map now rendered in red, and buses away conveniently available in both directions.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5khy0uaZNSbWVUz7J6qtcmlYLg0KKGwoF_ah3pNJyAWz8wBllgvus_e9psxxHFJZFcAOqMd6Y2GyhKqNz03NSuxNEIx1W25wwXUbDR3o0NuSm3NXcDxzFDdpaeCws7n3FUx61qC-iyG4ScbPr0fn28tUc5KnYROnFDR4_3-gbMLxYBr0WPWoMVxegjMM/s2560/P1910471.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5khy0uaZNSbWVUz7J6qtcmlYLg0KKGwoF_ah3pNJyAWz8wBllgvus_e9psxxHFJZFcAOqMd6Y2GyhKqNz03NSuxNEIx1W25wwXUbDR3o0NuSm3NXcDxzFDdpaeCws7n3FUx61qC-iyG4ScbPr0fn28tUc5KnYROnFDR4_3-gbMLxYBr0WPWoMVxegjMM/s320/P1910471.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wide cutting beyond Whitcliffe Road bridge.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8A7ZSNN6isnW4jrY-oV24Ddw6djveAtzdeayWbmRF9Esuk6p5cfetM6hPw37G5nnte0B4vbTAr8CWAfjsHCAHL00GeXN7zGCWJi17U0dGiN2HYp2q-2Ps7x6EyiIqh-HrFY8zfmPhLORslMZFk2HofrX8RMX0goFW0B25rUsrWmnHvv8EkDKUPh_2s20/s2560/P1910512.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8A7ZSNN6isnW4jrY-oV24Ddw6djveAtzdeayWbmRF9Esuk6p5cfetM6hPw37G5nnte0B4vbTAr8CWAfjsHCAHL00GeXN7zGCWJi17U0dGiN2HYp2q-2Ps7x6EyiIqh-HrFY8zfmPhLORslMZFk2HofrX8RMX0goFW0B25rUsrWmnHvv8EkDKUPh_2s20/s320/P1910512.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Snelsins Bridge almost concealed.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglHqTz0JjqAOtP5cZxrHn50oJh3hBJUx-fjKz8QmlEkdgqgjJvfiS4NgwJwaOrgZqK4Baw89OZQnMyrafzQP6GWNeN7US9ST2YB9siOWg7vMTX8GTjfzXRgSKlDurThlyxr4Fltc3kz9uTe1oqQXVHZe40xtE8VA8oEg03aHkxPZN5h_A2u3Lg5v1yjZk/s2560/P1910557.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglHqTz0JjqAOtP5cZxrHn50oJh3hBJUx-fjKz8QmlEkdgqgjJvfiS4NgwJwaOrgZqK4Baw89OZQnMyrafzQP6GWNeN7US9ST2YB9siOWg7vMTX8GTjfzXRgSKlDurThlyxr4Fltc3kz9uTe1oqQXVHZe40xtE8VA8oEg03aHkxPZN5h_A2u3Lg5v1yjZk/s320/P1910557.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Rhodes Pit Occupation Bridge.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsqR34fKv0FsopgCM2PhWxmik5ARDBGMlvuCOSN3hn_VngwF2nCYDM6PgBqpcuaetPueIYngXUfSVi434TJL1tZySfngS9E-C-ovum9syaayZapLimLZgQrLL3GGQ42dIOmqXdXR7aPztudUWmcCOdMy8S-3SHr_Wb62Ja4KGiXh6w8FuffC7HdP63w-Y/s2560/P1910602.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsqR34fKv0FsopgCM2PhWxmik5ARDBGMlvuCOSN3hn_VngwF2nCYDM6PgBqpcuaetPueIYngXUfSVi434TJL1tZySfngS9E-C-ovum9syaayZapLimLZgQrLL3GGQ42dIOmqXdXR7aPztudUWmcCOdMy8S-3SHr_Wb62Ja4KGiXh6w8FuffC7HdP63w-Y/s320/P1910602.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One Mile Marker, south of Low Moor.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE7d4wTF2aeBD2ZGlKXDq4dw1bbF9bw0FWoWz_aoEUuCuO_1Jzmq_rhvgeJphB46pZUlCXieLQYqsQmqnVjOdRvJIw-RrcHNv9NY9MMuOSlBEyQYR0-gXDOlOpYzPVSd1cOMna0FGHy5PRYswDflOS0cbhECIwA9LZZWZ5cKBl-37quW8s6-7mYD_bccU/s2560/P1910652.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE7d4wTF2aeBD2ZGlKXDq4dw1bbF9bw0FWoWz_aoEUuCuO_1Jzmq_rhvgeJphB46pZUlCXieLQYqsQmqnVjOdRvJIw-RrcHNv9NY9MMuOSlBEyQYR0-gXDOlOpYzPVSd1cOMna0FGHy5PRYswDflOS0cbhECIwA9LZZWZ5cKBl-37quW8s6-7mYD_bccU/s320/P1910652.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oakenshaw Tunnel id pleasingly chilly.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSy8GE5HRotpQI_z38IzwI3wzQDg78GuZY2ZNMUansNCghHHCtAs3rA1E_C3h-uj6L86yKGnonvUUxeQ0nTL8xyUn38hyHAhqj2yzLfKzzvPiyfq7LJPU00-36tFwpF6OoQZZiCHcqnYPFRVpS9Pps-r2QdimWZkQQG8VqQ3cjBeib5OSfWV9sb8fgzCI/s2560/P1910692.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSy8GE5HRotpQI_z38IzwI3wzQDg78GuZY2ZNMUansNCghHHCtAs3rA1E_C3h-uj6L86yKGnonvUUxeQ0nTL8xyUn38hyHAhqj2yzLfKzzvPiyfq7LJPU00-36tFwpF6OoQZZiCHcqnYPFRVpS9Pps-r2QdimWZkQQG8VqQ3cjBeib5OSfWV9sb8fgzCI/s320/P1910692.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oakenshaw Cross has gone (and not without controversy!).</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>5,000 Miles Cumulative Total: 6103.8 miles</b></div><div>2023 Total: 181.6 miles</div><div>Up Country Total: 5,612 miles</div><div>Solo Total: 5761.2 miles</div><div>5,000 in my 40s Total: 4704.2 miles</div><div><br /></div><div>Destinations Moved from Tier 2 to Tier 1: Heckmondwike, Liversedge, Oakenshaw</div><div><br /></div><div>Next Up: August Bank Holiday Weekend needs to Yield Mileage.</div><div><br /></div></div>Christopher Wrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09743749271457169317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527420385844253776.post-28507065030844277432023-07-30T15:32:00.146+01:002023-09-02T20:43:57.529+01:00Morley to Apperley Bridge 29/07/23<div style="text-align: left;"><b>11.7 miles, via Morley Bottoms, Morley Hole, Dean Wood, Gildersome, Andrew Hill,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Lumb Bottom, Manor Golf Course, Doles Wood, Tong, Daffels Wood, Bankhouse (Bottom),</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Pudsey (Greenside & Cemetery), Owlcotes Centre, Farsley, The Green, Calverley,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> West Wood, and Calverley Cutting.</b></div><p style="text-align: left;">It transpires that hurrying back Up Country after my jaunt down to Leicestershire proved to be a complete waste if time as the fourth week of July got lost under an almost constant dousing of rain, keeping me at home to settle into domestic tasks and characteristic bursts of lethargy, as I pondered how we could be experiencing so much gloom, wetness and air temperatures that rarely breach 20C in the UK, when southern Europe is baking, and indeed burning, as a heatwave in excess of 40C has settled in, with us sat protected by the jet stream ensuring that we have the apparently miserable summer while Spain, Italy and especially Greece suffer something much, much worse. July's fifth weekend thus presents us with the first opportunity to drop feet in West Yorkshire for the first time in a literal month, while an almost nice day of weather settles in on Saturday morning as we drop in at Morley station for a 9.30am launch, noting that the new development below has moved on a bit in the last week, gaining steel frame towers to accommodate the new lifts, after building work went rather quiet after the soft opening of a month ago, and the route forward sends us up Station Road again, where the re-roofing of Dartmouth Mill continues at a snails pace still, and the factory-mill opposite the rec seems to have new foundations laid where the demolished lean-to annex once stood. Travel proper gets underway past Morley Bottoms as we rise from Brunswick Street sharply up Bank Street for bit of route variation to find that Victoria Road work is up, opposite the primary school, for some roadworks which are sure to cause come bus shenanigans in the coming days, before we keep things varied with a trot up Nepshaw Lane, the old road that leads to the new suburban enclave at Farm Hill Road, which leads us back to the trail of Asquith Avenue, our unavoidable route over the M621 and through Dean Wood before we shift onto Gilhusum Road to pass again through the industrial estate dominated by the Sainsbury's-Argos depot and Johnson's Hotel Laundry complex. <span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgki0TjSqi-NHCaXfXyt_psz5lPbHkgoMyXybRi3cMdIkS50IWcsYzTBfo6XEnNbRTJpBSev93Z0Qbxi36qbyZzyWZasdKRu6flaAMQhKlyijVnM4IB92ZgDVpMGxEYqoJ6cNZiW1gDHq8mhGIq5Wa9IjfTIpLJn1mjNHVj6MalIgLmVHdLWov87XcJpuY/s2560/P1890173.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgki0TjSqi-NHCaXfXyt_psz5lPbHkgoMyXybRi3cMdIkS50IWcsYzTBfo6XEnNbRTJpBSev93Z0Qbxi36qbyZzyWZasdKRu6flaAMQhKlyijVnM4IB92ZgDVpMGxEYqoJ6cNZiW1gDHq8mhGIq5Wa9IjfTIpLJn1mjNHVj6MalIgLmVHdLWov87XcJpuY/s320/P1890173.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Lift Towers installed at Morley Station.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLBH-1AtPGMyfgJycRcLeZq0LWgqJnrASA-OJb5w0yOjKlndbgC_o4GpChhbnr1YCFnwt8oRiC7hBFEHhM4oJ2O_JQeIut3jOFX4JKTmzbv1emPxX0yZIPqPnXxtNvyLL3kaYJKMiwwZKoNFUANYZBbqeDHYA19kMjmK0Ezchll17Ebyju7Itb3FcJI8I/s2560/P1890189.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPNmsHJ-lpC1U0rRJFMnM8CPeyGBB8slupJ8bBDwIX-7ueGj0xon7HRb1tGsxaqKUvdGo7aHhpUvkJUhMvphqk1JZG5uUClQTmSqKRqfhG_3VXZ6WJA_d8n0Zm_jx12gyuT9S7EXyHPJCeYSY_kCJFtP0MKTj5u95HmDYKyB-RZGhsx-xk7f9v4JzOQBY/s320/P1890223.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Victoria Road Up at Morley Hole.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqI1xCu-VSXnQgzpicOT0q5yJG-ipfj9y166-nMKmev4Uah1a8ElfL-4h8rgmsU4S-xwE9Oh61TDqo6WXIQhrQlHvHj5Whoj5_0eHuBzdzlkDtch50IlGpnocX1DRbBph_QDv0YYQOJrbEnEwQBl6lZKtOXr2_VGS64aBTU8Y6wLOmvMhdnp6TfeyhPbI/s2560/P1890263.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqI1xCu-VSXnQgzpicOT0q5yJG-ipfj9y166-nMKmev4Uah1a8ElfL-4h8rgmsU4S-xwE9Oh61TDqo6WXIQhrQlHvHj5Whoj5_0eHuBzdzlkDtch50IlGpnocX1DRbBph_QDv0YYQOJrbEnEwQBl6lZKtOXr2_VGS64aBTU8Y6wLOmvMhdnp6TfeyhPbI/s320/P1890263.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gilhusum Road industrial estate.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">It also offers an alternate path around to Geldard Road, as beyond the A62 Gildersome awaits and we need to find novel route around that too, which starts by heading north on College Road, and then shifting east as Parkway leads us into the council estate that surrounds it, shifting us over to Finkle Lane and the older faces of the village which continue as we land onto Street Lane where we could ponder the possibility of tracking the Leeds Country Way to our destination as pass the end of Woodhead Lane, an idea discounted as we head on past the Friends Meeting house, and the shopping parade to the turn onto Church Street to pass St Peter's and track on almost as far as the New Inn and the Baptist chapel. A ginnel slips us away, behind the back gardens and across Greenfield Avenue as our eastward tack leads us into the fields, and actually onto the LCW path again as we field walk into the countryside, following the fall off Andrew Hill down to the crossing of Andrew Beck and the switch off the route, which confounded me in 2012, to head on through the fields, uphill in the direction of Dirghlington, among rough greenery, mining remnants and an equestrian enclosure before we discover the hard track that leads up to Old Lane, where we pass the Smithy cottage and descend to the Lumb Bottom Terrace. Turn up the steps through the Lumb Hall Close to come out onto the A58 Whitehall Road, which needs to be crossed so that we might make footfall up the Back Lane to Lumb Hall itself, its 17th century self annoyingly getting hidden away before we meet the footpath that passes across Manor Golf course, a route previously seen on a track to Apperley Bridge, but not seen from home previously, traced as it leads down, away from the risks posed by golfers, to the passage over Ringshaw Beck below the trees of Doles Wood before we rise again, and really set the feel for the day, landing in Bradford district on the rise up along the field boundaries toward Tong village on the hillcrest.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTeJ2ma8riFpHYnkdYJdYvAyQg9Km_5UI6tVM9ol2Ze1JusHU6oBRxrykHMHihSnVTXIiXtRlJXnMomhq9ts1aOjddFvLHxXelqI1mmY0k45N7LocrnUMztkanpiBLvH5ZVQEWz6lJK08G-ukVKZx5hSS7HvIUivXTCXWAj5Chup1qoT87rTqJFEls3A4/s2560/P1890290.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTeJ2ma8riFpHYnkdYJdYvAyQg9Km_5UI6tVM9ol2Ze1JusHU6oBRxrykHMHihSnVTXIiXtRlJXnMomhq9ts1aOjddFvLHxXelqI1mmY0k45N7LocrnUMztkanpiBLvH5ZVQEWz6lJK08G-ukVKZx5hSS7HvIUivXTCXWAj5Chup1qoT87rTqJFEls3A4/s320/P1890290.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Parkway, Gildersome.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmXranS7mBU6g747PIns_7Y-S4_GN5wuX_a7scF7uffUD5_GZO07PvFGYgE1arPFcPF63I4wyvC2nG9TTypzgo4FQ1pmfFEq9RchmOWgo1gAxNT639fm8qj8uenloaZT7Rm7Pdhv8jFob9CKgpDcbVQJE9-BDWcpkH3Vy_QET_Smce_t7MYAWJouNVuus/s2560/P1890327.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmXranS7mBU6g747PIns_7Y-S4_GN5wuX_a7scF7uffUD5_GZO07PvFGYgE1arPFcPF63I4wyvC2nG9TTypzgo4FQ1pmfFEq9RchmOWgo1gAxNT639fm8qj8uenloaZT7Rm7Pdhv8jFob9CKgpDcbVQJE9-BDWcpkH3Vy_QET_Smce_t7MYAWJouNVuus/s320/P1890327.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The New Inn, Church Street, Gildersome.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy2ZBNNizeac0KKntgIap9-4KY_4OFTyZsz7sXi9-yAGCxC54dt4JeZUno7XXm_9IA4XOJmfhUal95x13nbqSlZvGmqGfPvvGJRLHNXyNwOIkgJPDCqcWFNBuM3LeApzKznLOivfeHDn9Xeocx52BO6QLofNXeqxzRV4EPQMLiZBL_G5EqqZ1DfSXK4Mg/s2560/P1890349.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy2ZBNNizeac0KKntgIap9-4KY_4OFTyZsz7sXi9-yAGCxC54dt4JeZUno7XXm_9IA4XOJmfhUal95x13nbqSlZvGmqGfPvvGJRLHNXyNwOIkgJPDCqcWFNBuM3LeApzKznLOivfeHDn9Xeocx52BO6QLofNXeqxzRV4EPQMLiZBL_G5EqqZ1DfSXK4Mg/s320/P1890349.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Andrew Hill and the LCW route.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0xcdtwLsObc-tdL_GtpQ7Ek8c7L5j2wTkVEoSxhmKWIxf1h1I7W_Nix47zHQmvg_og37-gLOGPh4XNytQTkBllyvWNCLOIrtJrr6r2rK39FmCtPQVYqqaddxT3jEeTq5UAWKLTdnwoudgMl7BapSYYsOWWTmj5jDkEAKnn_VVBJw_t1z4fHm_sUfKaa0/s2560/P1890376.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkR_DqDsq8JK-oJNXCe6yyjm6D6LkYorxt14Ue_6_hYVdFgbDg1uQL1I-ep73Z4_AiaysAYCalCtw47MC-lVW93sEOzMr_eoyehJsFmqpVZozOisHf6-IaOF5LIcuLiFXx-ip6h238cJhZAcxKTQaic0tCmroy_6heTKpiFNl6IHZMZnHZ61heMJUYbjY/s320/P1890463.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The field walk to Tong.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">Benches by the Village hall afford an elevenses spot for us before we pass through this village that always seems to feature on a local passage to the northwest taking us past the Greyhound inn, the cricket club and the pinfold before we pass onto Keeper Lane as it passes over the hilltop to east of the grounds of Tong Hall, with its herd of alpacas, before descending down into the spread of Daffels Wood, finding the declining path to be rather more challenging than is was in 2016, but ensuring this time to make proper note of the remains of the embankment of the colliery tramway that passed over the bridleway, ahead of the crossing over the multiple streams the form Pudsey Beck at the Fulneck Valley floor. Back in Leeds borough, it's a pleasing greenspace to experience still, despite the bizarre idea of putting the Bradford Western relief road into it in the future which we'll pass out of on the steep climb up to Bankhouse Bottom and its rural terrace, the first actually testing one of the day, where we turn on the gentler climb up to the Bankhouse inn, where many morning walkers are already watering, where Bankhouse Lane is met, to take us among the high fields that the suburban growth of Pudsey still haven't claimed, where the fine view back toward Tong Hall is preferred before we drop down back into the urban landscape. It's surprising to find that there a few novel route across Pudsey to be found, so it's all a bit familiar to track north along Greenside again, among this stoney little township, and finding reason to detour with Station Street over to the Royal Hotel and the enduring void where Greenside tunnel endures, partially obscured by an infilling attempt but apparently preserved for future posterity, before we head on again, past the Kings Arms to meet Chapeltown and the Commercial inn, at the west end of the High Street, to finally find a new pavement after we' set off up Uppermoor, turning onto Tofts Lane as it leads us past Pudsey's cricket ground, before we move into the landscape of low-rise flats that have filled the grounds of the Victorian Meadowhurst House.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwPm8ahfus-qXWFg57zqaaBzWKoLBiW69ntlXm9m46-zdtrt7Hhsp_kc7CuiEGie5P8_Dnybcz_dNowNVQLJAJ6B7E5TxGNMNjwdNT1BdqV0HR7TdGzDr9YNWwvxK6VpEny30cqZp-7Ze-5ZrsrntE-S3xEenAwvEyrB5XvCv1w1rCBValy1dAILSs_So/s2560/P1890493.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTtuVavnNSZwurrjBDipoRTfnnwIVSFBwVLjLPc03V1YiNgku1DZSvQ4uJDOz8nsCRs3uyLlJ9JxKS0o0edizfhPq9e_i0N5m371vWDw327k0Nn-M88jVqNI0DT49FfK6YFHRspag5h2NcDwg0lIeRaV6tLXOkpyNgYiKrAfISakOAW3CTZqh7hHwhpvQ/s320/P1890549.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Colliery Tramway remnants on Keeper Lane.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3aEfxYtmR8aAJUTXCLi5BTZKat_f0AEXh9HgSiJt_Dupuf-qzVRJzMDyJ88-uil5L0Cukm2LAk7echuHGv288XG5a8-lyKJTkKA-rrUvZ8oCOneCofeSoPLOQCGhyGgXCpAU_pCKPJhZVUMwSKMIS4pOtlCFPiYRWfkaBSMoFKvcjP6a7Gqj6bw8Wa9Y/s2560/P1890586.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHnC6L5VAOao-D8x60WmjDBcGZEjrrj4P9ycDdlK7jRG7Jb2wMHlyJvQnEOp0hmcXEGQO3_ErNO1w14JMrLjuZerlH_-r2H9jqZUTq_AYv6Xab9sJMwY_0M_3YEru3pAK2yUQuKJ-174MOMZekZGQo_sWnFIm9lqnmjDgbQRvojTEJYFq2zhrMqU2LSZY/s320/P1890626.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cresting Bankhouse lane into Pudsey.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4IUzh0nzxJjkhK2bip2_2AxKxbMXzwnjQw31B9ruyA58S12sH2xvrgvkzKIghN-3vSnHHh476Bm28ZV4XjCti0W78JyIRTFyvCvXOdADGMkw6X-8SwRMFNoDwMXEfqwNM5-VGG7Un3itU4n0pbOWDJsp_w_G0ACL6souJNNCGf18WRTXednydIDGVf7I/s2560/P1890647.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4IUzh0nzxJjkhK2bip2_2AxKxbMXzwnjQw31B9ruyA58S12sH2xvrgvkzKIghN-3vSnHHh476Bm28ZV4XjCti0W78JyIRTFyvCvXOdADGMkw6X-8SwRMFNoDwMXEfqwNM5-VGG7Un3itU4n0pbOWDJsp_w_G0ACL6souJNNCGf18WRTXednydIDGVf7I/s320/P1890647.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Greenside Tunnel, Pudsey.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj56jZNwbhsWGl7I2vMT5DGFOCcspZBLij4QXi_B_YyrmBE8VA__znaVyFnIRkMrZ8o6bI5Ehfenhwn1TYxpAxvZRRcPMnUdWfS4VCa4sEM3xij4kuUAtFE0M3k8-5uY-NBewrppaDlfLWv8uDPAKwN0ZictV8hhORQgTMS2ICLZ38U3SAyPDAhEud-YFQ/s2560/P1890690.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj56jZNwbhsWGl7I2vMT5DGFOCcspZBLij4QXi_B_YyrmBE8VA__znaVyFnIRkMrZ8o6bI5Ehfenhwn1TYxpAxvZRRcPMnUdWfS4VCa4sEM3xij4kuUAtFE0M3k8-5uY-NBewrppaDlfLWv8uDPAKwN0ZictV8hhORQgTMS2ICLZ38U3SAyPDAhEud-YFQ/s320/P1890690.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tofts Lane for route variation.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">Through the trees beyond, we meet Pudsey Cemetery, which we'll pass through to keep the route fresh, moving over to the mortuary chapel complex with its prominent local spire, which is about as derelict as these things can get, with the passage below it towering archway still passable before we descend the main boulevard to Cemetery Road, which is crossed after the Aire Valley view to come gets its first reveal. and then it's down among the terrace ends and council houses along Lodge Road and Westvale Drive ahead of our passage under the A647 Stanningley Bypass via the footway to Primrose Hill primary school, and thence it's on down the mosaic decorated path below the roadside that leads to the Owlcotes shopping centre. This surely isn't intended as a traversable path, but that's how I'll use it as it takes around past M&S, B&M and AS&DA as we are lead to the other access route up from New Pudsey station, where we'll turn under the railway, with the path that leads shoppers through an industrial estate enclosure and over Bagley Beck, down from Bradford Road, which in turn crossed as we meet Old Road, the southern end previously unseen as we trot into Farsley. meeting a lot of terraces and their ends that seem to have all been constructed off of different blueprints on the 19th century, ahead of the decent starting to kick in, past the library, the constitutional club and our lunch break spot, in the yard of St John's church. The declining Town Street seems awash with bars and boutiques, like the hipsters who did over Chapel Allerton have done their handiwork here too, giving it all a bit of a revivified feel as we come down to Sunny Bank Mill complex, and the tangle of previous route by The Green at the War Memorial corner, beyond which all suggestions of new route finding are abandoned as we rise with Calverley Lane, up the recreation ground and the suburban edge, beyond which the wooded fall of the Aire Valley towards Rodley, Horsforth and Bramley is revealed again, before the A6120 Leeds outer ring road is crossed, ahead of the Palmer Plants & Landscape garden centre complex, and the continuing rise of the A6156 above the river valley.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirQpCnr3OOprA6gywlxqcUle5tHe28aQWo5yBR3nxsui2g11qkOPaitEQCFYl0837LTdoKRaWDDrzVy_9N8HaIQq5-Mbr3OiH85PMHfOK453kyGIfQl3WadImR6DR2rhMgeXO-Aw4q618AYbRytmDBcTI9fX3r72rtFN-ddrqymhbexheYkAJSsNa_aZg/s2560/P1890718.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirQpCnr3OOprA6gywlxqcUle5tHe28aQWo5yBR3nxsui2g11qkOPaitEQCFYl0837LTdoKRaWDDrzVy_9N8HaIQq5-Mbr3OiH85PMHfOK453kyGIfQl3WadImR6DR2rhMgeXO-Aw4q618AYbRytmDBcTI9fX3r72rtFN-ddrqymhbexheYkAJSsNa_aZg/s320/P1890718.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pudsey Cemetery Mortuary Chapel.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifpEpHpOPcAwr_27Omq3wzkrqc08eA9iERA6LwkrNYW7pYTNPoExjSS4TfTKHkdYTZat-vEUEXtRTkPWmpHld7N-egefKf-3v3iUNoTvouZl4QHM4e6dJ2VeNrU_99yO5LvXzioiOOAxl8lwrHU646XqDCUwVLSvWK8NBbo3FYd4N43n7pcvcOgTcAdso/s2560/P1890755.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifpEpHpOPcAwr_27Omq3wzkrqc08eA9iERA6LwkrNYW7pYTNPoExjSS4TfTKHkdYTZat-vEUEXtRTkPWmpHld7N-egefKf-3v3iUNoTvouZl4QHM4e6dJ2VeNrU_99yO5LvXzioiOOAxl8lwrHU646XqDCUwVLSvWK8NBbo3FYd4N43n7pcvcOgTcAdso/s320/P1890755.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lodge Road Pudsey.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY0cNgXRyJnWlP8uNIVAENRxy6I7M6KgF6H57SWohAZerSEJoIParEzElybJLWaVULa2MWP6qzo2A1VSGroUDJgUMtxsJURmEl9g2wXBuDta2cnlEL4AT6YOpkaWhADdNmYfJFiv1Ko4bGYpqvYb08NU7CpObGk__-8RjgoGQ91G5A9zsAzZwN4xFwFZs/s2560/P1890783.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY0cNgXRyJnWlP8uNIVAENRxy6I7M6KgF6H57SWohAZerSEJoIParEzElybJLWaVULa2MWP6qzo2A1VSGroUDJgUMtxsJURmEl9g2wXBuDta2cnlEL4AT6YOpkaWhADdNmYfJFiv1Ko4bGYpqvYb08NU7CpObGk__-8RjgoGQ91G5A9zsAzZwN4xFwFZs/s320/P1890783.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Mosaic Wall, by Stanningley Bypass.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0kw9iBjDNqvgzQ44wlQLQ82jzTNtMuwFQ2hE4aEsC9GVf7A3mNjaMAhvR_yKDfwwNLbqH02WXVdwjQBlUWpKvKe3NGTCs-VkP8dn0d8Oe4F4ZF_DFGvlXRCaS1KZcwnTG8UHGngA7iedDCtgO_6j0DLhZTLg4QAq4K4sCGWHwSfVTXowXFmcZ5jF2LN4/s2560/P1890804.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0kw9iBjDNqvgzQ44wlQLQ82jzTNtMuwFQ2hE4aEsC9GVf7A3mNjaMAhvR_yKDfwwNLbqH02WXVdwjQBlUWpKvKe3NGTCs-VkP8dn0d8Oe4F4ZF_DFGvlXRCaS1KZcwnTG8UHGngA7iedDCtgO_6j0DLhZTLg4QAq4K4sCGWHwSfVTXowXFmcZ5jF2LN4/s320/P1890804.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Owlcotes Shopping Centre.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJlBFYb-CesC9eVOSr2Vz3DaGkVlFEkkkW5sc5Rp6ixW2AqcQeriZcAS99kLjvO55NHtuAVAJ2h7hFXF0rheUabS6NBpv2dhhgFfVJKW66HKpIYPlcGecESrqHLsqJOGS_d5S8wFA7O1Tph5YTFxRX1-2riDqQjbx9oPD6GGDrmkytcPpNjKbTbimjWOo/s2560/P1890830.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJlBFYb-CesC9eVOSr2Vz3DaGkVlFEkkkW5sc5Rp6ixW2AqcQeriZcAS99kLjvO55NHtuAVAJ2h7hFXF0rheUabS6NBpv2dhhgFfVJKW66HKpIYPlcGecESrqHLsqJOGS_d5S8wFA7O1Tph5YTFxRX1-2riDqQjbx9oPD6GGDrmkytcPpNjKbTbimjWOo/s320/P1890830.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Passing under the Leeds & Bradford Line.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Q-G_Yzfn_lJpvTaOfuRVFQRSAD9Tb_nyvj3bhB3XlRPav69CmWirRiCM0G95fig04pjrIeFNHA6cc4si-XjMjFSuDkvMLPIwB-Uo81N5ovXSx7igo8TMJciM8Kpmk5DJbySvy9ZOCazBbiDfXEvDXLMyL-n3Dbtju19npuIXzv5IAiIyCS-YoF-r5CI/s2560/P1890863.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Q-G_Yzfn_lJpvTaOfuRVFQRSAD9Tb_nyvj3bhB3XlRPav69CmWirRiCM0G95fig04pjrIeFNHA6cc4si-XjMjFSuDkvMLPIwB-Uo81N5ovXSx7igo8TMJciM8Kpmk5DJbySvy9ZOCazBbiDfXEvDXLMyL-n3Dbtju19npuIXzv5IAiIyCS-YoF-r5CI/s320/P1890863.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old Road, Farsley.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyuamCht3AxOlOC8idzbUX8GWamMfibXgp-TK7wClk00jAOntXwbRo09EHo0QRs9Mg0Y0zh4EiOxGBqqfq7gScSb_d9o135q1LevAbw0JIP__MzyCuDtqB0oWIdke7aQLe42ao_dIBmTe3F7eRkOhf6ioAa9lejPCZEUhlYD0zfYvBoiKG-fFn0grPuIM/s2560/P1890917.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyuamCht3AxOlOC8idzbUX8GWamMfibXgp-TK7wClk00jAOntXwbRo09EHo0QRs9Mg0Y0zh4EiOxGBqqfq7gScSb_d9o135q1LevAbw0JIP__MzyCuDtqB0oWIdke7aQLe42ao_dIBmTe3F7eRkOhf6ioAa9lejPCZEUhlYD0zfYvBoiKG-fFn0grPuIM/s320/P1890917.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6bGKm6ZQqfygr8trqi5QWeEzzTVLJD6WtdqtmWhNrhuelpsmzhhPxOsj3uLYMUbky2wDMrG2fuBhlnlqnbtMsGyppNGe3emXebQpuA5a8rofSqd_oH4hD6x48Gx1RebWxyOrCoQY_KgEFiMl-okMxtkkg6-wxRa2FozyUS9JAoQ0xH_D5i1V5aRiJIRM/s2560/P1890965.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6bGKm6ZQqfygr8trqi5QWeEzzTVLJD6WtdqtmWhNrhuelpsmzhhPxOsj3uLYMUbky2wDMrG2fuBhlnlqnbtMsGyppNGe3emXebQpuA5a8rofSqd_oH4hD6x48Gx1RebWxyOrCoQY_KgEFiMl-okMxtkkg6-wxRa2FozyUS9JAoQ0xH_D5i1V5aRiJIRM/s320/P1890965.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Airedale views from Calverley Lane.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">Views are absorbed and speeding traffic is avoided before the fields are quit and the lane leads into Calverley again, arriving by the Calverley Arms and taking us on alongside the A657 and the Brookleigh House boundary wall simultaneously, though we don't stay on Town Gate as the alternative variation, Capel and Rushton Streets lead us up through the stoney suburbia and up to Victoria and Chapel Streets, where the Parkside school. and the Calverley Victoria park can be passed, with cricket field's boundary being traversed while their club's game is in full swing as we head back around to the War Memorial and the A657 Carr Road to vary up all the possible route across the village that we could make. Our final descent to the Aire comes past the New Inn at the suburban edge as the bridleway down into West Wood is joined, leading under the Clara Drive bridge and into the roughly hewn rocks of Calverley Cutting, and down the steep incline that doesn't seem to have ever had an industrial purpose, to provide some majestic Summer woodland on the way down to our re-association with the LCW path, ahead of passage over the Leeds & Liverpool canal and our arrival in the urban corner of Apperley Bridge, and Bradford district once again, where attention wanders to the state of the river Aire, even before we've gotten to the A658 Harrogate Road. It's apparent that flood defence work is ongoing out here, building up the wall on the southern bank, around the new and old bridges, with the latter by the George & Dragon inn getting some extensive protective work done to it, probably putting it beyond traffic use, and inaccessible today as we roam around, past the cycle shop and hand car wash, and on to find some high retaining walls have been built to contain a new flood containment plain that has been formally established on the playing fields below the Stansfield Arms, beside the rising main road.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrtM54-r2ReiW2K4QhllOvSDW4CcrU-QNmFWVp45Hv4eVG-tMblPu-cypcE-BXUHhMEHGr3CRlgUr65wQ42Jp_aj3eGSpqJu1_RmjY7WaBYJVBsyEmIulJ7XXw07jIVsFWg4YFVsSvjH4hfnpd2D5lbaVTxbRNgpj7oPkB1fnQ6ICV0XS4JkXAPJXSXyM/s2560/P1900006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrtM54-r2ReiW2K4QhllOvSDW4CcrU-QNmFWVp45Hv4eVG-tMblPu-cypcE-BXUHhMEHGr3CRlgUr65wQ42Jp_aj3eGSpqJu1_RmjY7WaBYJVBsyEmIulJ7XXw07jIVsFWg4YFVsSvjH4hfnpd2D5lbaVTxbRNgpj7oPkB1fnQ6ICV0XS4JkXAPJXSXyM/s320/P1900006.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Calverley Arms.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikKCKTxcVTpwJobegA7Rqce7Xmj7QXktJIKNccd9mJE63nvQW4XXcm-ubXGLOn7-bpJ5QpVHptnQ6cLyURMOOniE5n-zKCqDFiS6G_Ok8WP46PCGwBPRSYtJjFERLxReYIehNtLSFrl5DKaC9Rn5VDaKSHeVuK3kck8aMgbc8cDPpoPzGBOXz-3K2545Q/s2560/P1900060.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikKCKTxcVTpwJobegA7Rqce7Xmj7QXktJIKNccd9mJE63nvQW4XXcm-ubXGLOn7-bpJ5QpVHptnQ6cLyURMOOniE5n-zKCqDFiS6G_Ok8WP46PCGwBPRSYtJjFERLxReYIehNtLSFrl5DKaC9Rn5VDaKSHeVuK3kck8aMgbc8cDPpoPzGBOXz-3K2545Q/s320/P1900060.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Calverley Victoria Park.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheC8MEcnHyBlskjhEwc-zQ0JE9lW9LDCc_Mmpb0AWNR3pB3YiwwsrlvJhfyBmCgYEXT5HV8RO-92vV90qPtRfdEcowKOsUwWeemX0QErzbO_vf8eCKoYBT7cHYJPjIf_ByQbQJhzL-HBWf3o7RT32fIyXHrOrCPZV9Jv2S-vJWFfyA6E127V6XVpJXdMg/s2560/P1900108.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheC8MEcnHyBlskjhEwc-zQ0JE9lW9LDCc_Mmpb0AWNR3pB3YiwwsrlvJhfyBmCgYEXT5HV8RO-92vV90qPtRfdEcowKOsUwWeemX0QErzbO_vf8eCKoYBT7cHYJPjIf_ByQbQJhzL-HBWf3o7RT32fIyXHrOrCPZV9Jv2S-vJWFfyA6E127V6XVpJXdMg/s320/P1900108.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clara Drive Bridge, Calverley Cutting.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMP1X98kVir0MSNbn01MgiVD-jB-nCKeGxFErRNRaT9U6RWeCZcI-ikFwMiNf9rYtmaCM6ALsTQB6f17jLh1pJnApKK-9EUmrlIpQ6Sqq62M7NSdig9BCVA98kZm6sAwXzUsZUUBKZG23o8FDuxOVrXYzAdAJv2v8XINpGW8lpQh6uXxfij9KQlUTIC2Q/s2560/P1900143.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQwtTmt8D96wSDLPGdAxqnm6L5xXsYYmI4X2TLHtzViVSpJK969C_3YT9s0msAeCNkcM1VtHNCYxGGJ2aCLRD7kpJHI30XiQdk0LC3O31dKFUDmI11cTPzReTwruxqvwYLMK3z8CCv5EV4-IwbHwVjZJYSFHgdkD79PdvYcEhopgoJdcbqVKeCMirwud4/s320/P1900182.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flood Wall under construction, Apperley Bridge.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKF9s3gt-8CWpVuEwprWnV-GVEEnKUDqgQruNMgKhd70KsFBRNzYc9kRmpsY7G3o5Yx6bvooGBvWDNcWrmBL0dZIdNdol6Dn6v-rMd7bhuI39DDfw0qAUbLD0tmaSHr2WThzTdIFObiTeGULKjhqPfxqgY9HHwiKBCfdaF05kcJvZ2Y52FIjHkUHKT8aI/s2560/P1900197.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKF9s3gt-8CWpVuEwprWnV-GVEEnKUDqgQruNMgKhd70KsFBRNzYc9kRmpsY7G3o5Yx6bvooGBvWDNcWrmBL0dZIdNdol6Dn6v-rMd7bhuI39DDfw0qAUbLD0tmaSHr2WThzTdIFObiTeGULKjhqPfxqgY9HHwiKBCfdaF05kcJvZ2Y52FIjHkUHKT8aI/s320/P1900197.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flood prevention measures around the old Apperley Bridge.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiodhk2ADzXrPyTYQ_pqZIZLXlOSlPQDA7iHF9CSgqKzZ0U1AnkVzuzqtrJq-Fwfm-GIMA0ieQXlLaMr72aopsGye0gSredzWtVGMmURkZ1u6h1VkbvV6D4fqZQPjW6Ysz-LrsC4bETJdmoVRUWGiH6Or_bemHVYKd9AdYNOJnlO6-r8MUk1N-5d8UleYU/s2560/P1900253.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiodhk2ADzXrPyTYQ_pqZIZLXlOSlPQDA7iHF9CSgqKzZ0U1AnkVzuzqtrJq-Fwfm-GIMA0ieQXlLaMr72aopsGye0gSredzWtVGMmURkZ1u6h1VkbvV6D4fqZQPjW6Ysz-LrsC4bETJdmoVRUWGiH6Or_bemHVYKd9AdYNOJnlO6-r8MUk1N-5d8UleYU/s320/P1900253.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flood Wall containing the field below the Stansfield Arms.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">It's a short trot uphill and along the approach road to get to Apperley Bridge station, where the way beyond into Esholt waterworks feels like it ought to be publicly accessible, and the trip to Airedale can resolve at 2.25pm, with trains available in both direction despite it being a train strike day (a ride from Leeds turns out to be an entirely different matter, and after a Spring of Shuffling the Tiers. today's jaunt really does a number on rearranging some distant locations, as despite only moving one destination to my local tier, getting the Harrogate to Apperley Bridge walk into the second tier sets waves go much further afield. It doesn't just move the two location along that track into the second tier, namely Pool in Wharfedale and Weeton closer to home, but it also draws the two trails that we blazed to the north from their into the third tier, and by extension works a chunk of the fourth tier, notionally far from home to being not quite so remote, placing both Darley and Brimham Rocks, on either side of Nidderdale one step closer to Morley, illustrating how we are still travelling considerable distances without ever getting too far from the localities of West Yorkshire. ~~~ While we're in the vicinity, it's also worth noting the other flood prevention, or management works that have been going on downstream towards Leeds, first observed when I travelled up to Skipton the other weekend but properly regarded, where a dam and hydro seem to being constructed above Horsforth and Rodley, in order to allow the river to overspill in a managed space, and the long-fallow plating fields at Kirkstall seem to be getting a similar treatment, finally being abandoned to officially become wetlands and managed pools, contained behind supposed secure flood walls at the side of the railway line, which I'm sure will be tested in due course.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT0bkGz9fmw95qnRVbMDBaNelrihtRjFMSP3_nOm5U56Z_bO2wgLFiE04m0pB_WVJVdAPKamf6z9dnBjaNMc_3n3NTsno9SdqfAfiH2foQ7aXMzzsP7aZT5K2GwC6d8PzZ4pnkGBqqJR07AvL3xHCdywKX3Gl0bpaJb2GyKxxXxNlqNyrqA2_mxB_g_ZU/s2560/P1900342.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT0bkGz9fmw95qnRVbMDBaNelrihtRjFMSP3_nOm5U56Z_bO2wgLFiE04m0pB_WVJVdAPKamf6z9dnBjaNMc_3n3NTsno9SdqfAfiH2foQ7aXMzzsP7aZT5K2GwC6d8PzZ4pnkGBqqJR07AvL3xHCdywKX3Gl0bpaJb2GyKxxXxNlqNyrqA2_mxB_g_ZU/s320/P1900342.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flood management measures under construction downstream from Apperley Bridge.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV98KZB4nZCPCFUmF_RdWQNOf5Gt176BVXMHtmjQ4DOpnx7ZnCZv7B_1t-ff2pKnoX_SDHHBwMmP0bWvfyNUYBD_47cY942NgkcO0K_hwsvbnC47yEcDGt1yachBFMvMH2UdfR1eME3diky0SoN-C_mVZBpgSVX9wMyUO5ZY7yYiXUcjvyT79U21jbiCo/s2560/P1900353.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV98KZB4nZCPCFUmF_RdWQNOf5Gt176BVXMHtmjQ4DOpnx7ZnCZv7B_1t-ff2pKnoX_SDHHBwMmP0bWvfyNUYBD_47cY942NgkcO0K_hwsvbnC47yEcDGt1yachBFMvMH2UdfR1eME3diky0SoN-C_mVZBpgSVX9wMyUO5ZY7yYiXUcjvyT79U21jbiCo/s320/P1900353.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Same Site, Different Angle, from a Moving Train.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>5,000 Miles Cumulative Total: 6093 miles</b></div><div>2023 Total: 170.8 miles</div><div>Up Country Total: 5,601.2 miles</div><div>Solo Total: 5750.4 miles</div><div>5,000 in my 40s Total: 4693.4 miles</div><div><br /></div><div>Destinations Moved from Tier 2 to Tier 1: Apperley Bridge</div><div>Destinations Moved from Tier 3 to Tier 2: Pool in Wharfedale, Weeton</div><div>Destinations Moved from Tier 4 to Tier 3: Darley</div><div><br /></div><div>Trails moved from Tier 3 to Tier 2: 1</div><div>Trails moved from Tier 4 to Tier 3: 2</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Next Up: Seizing the Day, whenever it makes itself available.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Christopher Wrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09743749271457169317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527420385844253776.post-14488799580541715222023-07-20T14:54:00.560+01:002023-08-06T21:18:23.490+01:00Syston to Humberstone 19/07/23<div style="text-align: left;"><b>11.1 miles, via Lewin Bridge, Shipley Hill, Ratcliffe Mill, Ratcliffe on the Wreake,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Thrussington, Rearsby, East Goscote, Queniborough, Syson Grange, Barkby, Barkby Thorpe,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> 'Thorpebury in the Limes', Hamilton, Nether Hall, and Humberstone Garden Suburb. </b></div><p style="text-align: left;">After our Three Day Weekend, we immediately shift over into our Nine Day Weekend, or early Summer break, which I'm spending Down Country with the intent of getting into the gradual tidy-up and clear-out at Mum's house, which has now entered its fifth year and continues its minimal progress as me get into more yard work than planned, as there are hedges and trees to be trimmed, a lawn to be mown and a lot of weeding and pruning to be done, all of which turn out to be major tasks when we both have only about 90 minutes of active stamina to be working with, and she at least has the excuse of being north of 80, while I'm still trying to toil through the post-Covid experience. The legs can still go though, as seemingly the most enduring power source in my body, and when Mum has a day of church synod business in Nottingham, I have the opportunity to walk in the Old Country again, getting dropped off somewhere that's convenient for her whilst en route, and that transpires to be at The Gate Hangs Well inn, on the old Fosse Way to the north of Syston village on the banks of the river Wreake, where we won't be tilting any further up the Roman Road and up the ridge towards Six Hills among the traffic on the A46, but will instead take a bit of a tour around the other major river valley in Leicestershire before tilting for home, to see how greater Leicester is swelling outwards, far beyond the city's boundaries. So we alight at 9.30, at the northernmost extremity of Syston's parish, and set off north, immediately crossing the river Wreake via Lewin's bridge, and strike into the riverside meadows, where the local cattle are only too happy to usher me on my way away from them, over a drainage ditch and under the A607 via the flood relief passages and into the fields beyond, where big birds in the raptor fashion are disturbed and the ridged and furrowed fields make for some heavy going as we press on to re-join the riverbank, passing below the wooded tumulus of Shipley Hill as we push south of the Soar - Wreake watershed ridge. Heading upstream, we enter the woods along the tightening riverside, which gets us into some dense vegetation and undergrowth as the walkable space diminishes, which gets out boots and trews dampened up nicely while the route finding starts to get a bit speculative, having us feeling rather lost when a fallen tree blocks the path, despite being directly across the reedy channel from Beedles Lake golf course, and it's a fight to get back on track before we find the ROW pulling us away from the river and alongside a concealed farmstead as we are drawn on to Broome Lane, ending our off-roading exploits a step or two away from Ratcliffe corn mill, its cottages and phantom canal bridge.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8w3hQA9e698FUqJX9KdZYkOXh8zwkjLme_5jrNa8LYfITBJO_3ZJs8fDKJA4rLx85rIi01aJJbLmQbWae6PcKQiBPHN061Xqb1AqQBs4c_9nqy_EZPnGi9jLR658ZPyzKLXvkAneiy115sK9ZgIwDhZPfSihIHdMn62cRSeItkL_QboJQ49cx2SY9g7Q/s2560/P1870794.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8w3hQA9e698FUqJX9KdZYkOXh8zwkjLme_5jrNa8LYfITBJO_3ZJs8fDKJA4rLx85rIi01aJJbLmQbWae6PcKQiBPHN061Xqb1AqQBs4c_9nqy_EZPnGi9jLR658ZPyzKLXvkAneiy115sK9ZgIwDhZPfSihIHdMn62cRSeItkL_QboJQ49cx2SY9g7Q/s320/P1870794.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Local Cows see me on my way, away from The Gate Hangs Well.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUY8aRi9DFFtak8FotlN4_COclhn2CLU9J_ZWW1dJiPyPh1BzoSONgH_Anad0GdxCVjb_AerK0SljuZeuCGsqKWYW7ToUBsQj8IwxNl3XHCJ2-Eo90gDM1BuL02VEDT7ew_McpKXvDhU1mAKbvizifC2TQ744y1ujw8hob3Apb_U6izo1lZqYqW46b-sY/s2560/P1870813.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUY8aRi9DFFtak8FotlN4_COclhn2CLU9J_ZWW1dJiPyPh1BzoSONgH_Anad0GdxCVjb_AerK0SljuZeuCGsqKWYW7ToUBsQj8IwxNl3XHCJ2-Eo90gDM1BuL02VEDT7ew_McpKXvDhU1mAKbvizifC2TQ744y1ujw8hob3Apb_U6izo1lZqYqW46b-sY/s320/P1870813.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shipley Hill and the ridge & furrowed field walk.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtBRpSueN9Glvl19qgcuKSzvxiAVoA8Ihs4rrzIK66uOBTxU8XQkB94bkr-Z17ZJuoRtBJnRvCL0IwpUlFGzAEqDadmshv7c0KecPrNSYvaOz3uV-tYpSuPTX1fDVWMmhTk1AZf-nuP2-BdHyRzXFuSe7rK_wlEeEuZs48KJyYG8TSWFBJZDiIk4vIf10/s2560/P1870836.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtBRpSueN9Glvl19qgcuKSzvxiAVoA8Ihs4rrzIK66uOBTxU8XQkB94bkr-Z17ZJuoRtBJnRvCL0IwpUlFGzAEqDadmshv7c0KecPrNSYvaOz3uV-tYpSuPTX1fDVWMmhTk1AZf-nuP2-BdHyRzXFuSe7rK_wlEeEuZs48KJyYG8TSWFBJZDiIk4vIf10/s320/P1870836.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the banks on the Wreake, heading into the woods.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVwGbFuH3pXP-CzQP2sRma1jp63sBh0-iBxvGvmphZgZ-BQ_SHzFRcvb__zKAeHpVgvFGEnfspoNyz9SkTdcVM-wRN2kipieNCXKO-wbK3-CmFNp2NXkSMbrD-wZkPXiOUDMe3ldSRNbOtWaeBpWp1RRcAP3FZLzxgAWfN2GD59h5qdQ-81kDv1oXUQBw/s2560/P1870864.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVwGbFuH3pXP-CzQP2sRma1jp63sBh0-iBxvGvmphZgZ-BQ_SHzFRcvb__zKAeHpVgvFGEnfspoNyz9SkTdcVM-wRN2kipieNCXKO-wbK3-CmFNp2NXkSMbrD-wZkPXiOUDMe3ldSRNbOtWaeBpWp1RRcAP3FZLzxgAWfN2GD59h5qdQ-81kDv1oXUQBw/s320/P1870864.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lots of vegetation to fight through, across the river from Beedles Lake Golf Course.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfu9Ql3YvuOwVBJ-49LlAxe4J4MjUeGNE2XG_72EQwObui2HKPQm4YRT862AMR6ciS82fGge8Wd1qGusvkDviQOnnVUMSEeX-vOuUMkVZH2os3iXTkFKWSE_jgavY0XCM-WWG4ga5LK_tTA9nkzx0A8caI-1M08plxqA33egd85wmjE31BvcIssXcOLNQ/s2560/P1870886.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfu9Ql3YvuOwVBJ-49LlAxe4J4MjUeGNE2XG_72EQwObui2HKPQm4YRT862AMR6ciS82fGge8Wd1qGusvkDviQOnnVUMSEeX-vOuUMkVZH2os3iXTkFKWSE_jgavY0XCM-WWG4ga5LK_tTA9nkzx0A8caI-1M08plxqA33egd85wmjE31BvcIssXcOLNQ/s320/P1870886.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The phantom canal bridge on Broome Lane, Ratcliffe Mill.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">We pass away from this uphill, towards the first village of the day, taking a right onto Main Street in the shadow of Ratcliffe Hall and its farm, and continuing northerly among the modestly scaled village of Ratcliffe on the Wreake as it reaches out by the village hall up from St Botolph's church on its bluff, with its slender spire rising high above this settlement that hasn't seen much suburban swelling on its perch to the north of the Wreake valley with its old farmsteads still in place among the few later arrivals and outliers that stretch along the lane, with the riverside fields opening out to the southeast as carry on into the countryside on a north-easterly trajectory. It's turning out to be a nicer day than expected as we press on along Thrussington Road beyond the extensive Ratcliff Equestrian farm, where we find ourselves on terrain from 5 years back as we cross over the Leicestershire Round path, past the lane's only notable kink as it heads cross country towards Rearsby Mill, and finding that local folk also walk, run and cycle along these roads and among these fields too as only a couple of cottages are to be otherwise found at the roadside before we are greeted into Thrussington village some distance beyond, with farmsteads sat along the Ratcliffe Road before the more suburban heart is met beyond. The 40 year-old joke of referring to it as the 'Heavy Feathered Songster' still endures for me as we come up to the Rearsby Road corner, crossing by the Blue Lion inn and tagging this as the last village in an 8-mile quadrant to the northeast of Leicester to receive a visit from me on my travels, before immediately turning south and away from it to pass its local industrial crafting plant, and over the Wreake in the shadow of Holy Trinity church, and setting off to the southern side of the valley among the fields of recently herded cattle, judging by the amount of mud on the lane, and carrying on across the flood plain on an elevated pavement, illustrating just how busy this minor channel can get and taking us along to the Syston & Peterborough railway line, which is crossed by the old Rearsby Station. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-MiuGQUExOf2aJDoldXwf7CSlgQgh9C3yBbdphCNuXnlq8ZYgojHpIwXf2ZtdpcjGbZK9QSDookLk_i2SIkDjp9wtoENly_Jr1ClIgF0PIrDHrQoHB-r7W71azzSiOSvs-8yhm0EXCx5qXYGrEpADIDgVtUN8Cs88sf7sHnStfy5WxZta-9yI_cFbBbU/s2560/P1870913.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-MiuGQUExOf2aJDoldXwf7CSlgQgh9C3yBbdphCNuXnlq8ZYgojHpIwXf2ZtdpcjGbZK9QSDookLk_i2SIkDjp9wtoENly_Jr1ClIgF0PIrDHrQoHB-r7W71azzSiOSvs-8yhm0EXCx5qXYGrEpADIDgVtUN8Cs88sf7sHnStfy5WxZta-9yI_cFbBbU/s320/P1870913.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">St Botolph's church, Ratcliff on the Wreake.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAoKZHhPrVwumz4fNmlOVA3xGlctXJ8YoKeNuoaOTV5UX5X6bGPerBBqvdMD3jTutnLbxsnr-hxzPUKSqwIK5HZPm9Gw8iNCBrTseZD9ua7Q3ToLENaYi8n2f3GKbhqNFYFoIGo97bBvtN1NdjTtMqtZDUx3_wckIWxKNVOVyXNa7VFbDBlOH4wDVLFqU/s2560/P1870954.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAoKZHhPrVwumz4fNmlOVA3xGlctXJ8YoKeNuoaOTV5UX5X6bGPerBBqvdMD3jTutnLbxsnr-hxzPUKSqwIK5HZPm9Gw8iNCBrTseZD9ua7Q3ToLENaYi8n2f3GKbhqNFYFoIGo97bBvtN1NdjTtMqtZDUx3_wckIWxKNVOVyXNa7VFbDBlOH4wDVLFqU/s320/P1870954.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Wreake Valley, from Thrussington Road.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglAwlJAuAhrbpuRPogrD6lLj6RvI6DMqiMKiFe7rk37dHv_EEuTCF6UwfEPkOIdcNVVxOX1mc5FpLP-vREtx-GBiKC6xOyW82gHkI96OskdsoRjCFc39Juy7L3ic7Ww0eMuuaNzxJjQahifhMw9LAQJz1AO9Rj0Z-xI_kbOI44_iYMgmjXCTXvGIF5VHU/s2560/P1870975.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglAwlJAuAhrbpuRPogrD6lLj6RvI6DMqiMKiFe7rk37dHv_EEuTCF6UwfEPkOIdcNVVxOX1mc5FpLP-vREtx-GBiKC6xOyW82gHkI96OskdsoRjCFc39Juy7L3ic7Ww0eMuuaNzxJjQahifhMw9LAQJz1AO9Rj0Z-xI_kbOI44_iYMgmjXCTXvGIF5VHU/s320/P1870975.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The way of the Leicestershire round, towards Rearsby Mill.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi87ZytLhntxGRjNWmaTYKBxmyzjjeztRp1FYtSzMBMs-RrGUvnbOrTIPz4hHus0HddCrmSEncIbUgFyYS2AMV01MrVu8isMj7r86TNrLEkhZv28GvwuKc_a6iP3rGvMuv-mzItL4F5jS-PZ5W_2f625pEyeO2S20nSBQlJmLWvpTPjPonX2B_Mg9WxLOk/s2560/P1880012.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi87ZytLhntxGRjNWmaTYKBxmyzjjeztRp1FYtSzMBMs-RrGUvnbOrTIPz4hHus0HddCrmSEncIbUgFyYS2AMV01MrVu8isMj7r86TNrLEkhZv28GvwuKc_a6iP3rGvMuv-mzItL4F5jS-PZ5W_2f625pEyeO2S20nSBQlJmLWvpTPjPonX2B_Mg9WxLOk/s320/P1880012.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ratcliffe Road, Thrussington,</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhasxCfg7qlLY657itN6GyuDwNy6GOxeMqk7-PQCEDnOlt7_tYOAO261KgjE0DAfb0oYj1P6s2ZUR8CbaS2xQW7zQQxRCqHd8byTenGON6KPAwn8Ri1hu1LD7SriEPY59rtcN9WhijLgKczlAgGgNSvtzrvmkEhD-nVJuKBvCZTBMkNHbQ5Ovcc9nTHwbM/s2560/P1880059.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhasxCfg7qlLY657itN6GyuDwNy6GOxeMqk7-PQCEDnOlt7_tYOAO261KgjE0DAfb0oYj1P6s2ZUR8CbaS2xQW7zQQxRCqHd8byTenGON6KPAwn8Ri1hu1LD7SriEPY59rtcN9WhijLgKczlAgGgNSvtzrvmkEhD-nVJuKBvCZTBMkNHbQ5Ovcc9nTHwbM/s320/P1880059.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elevated Pavement, the Wreake Bridge, and Holy Trinity, Thrussington.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikCvuawmFW6QN2rw4Upwsgz2J-L2-gc_L8uSu4RbH4-CZY7QF315Tbr7idePn3spCnVx7fDzBHwlElxsZcdl62AspnjW8Nnzb2Ul-Fvgjhu4TcZX2YHK1dPJsxswkm2VAAxXMX_zNTl-F-FHfuOmHMzDN-Dta4H3qkE5CP-fNws68-WB6B1brY1tiH27s/s2560/P1880106.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikCvuawmFW6QN2rw4Upwsgz2J-L2-gc_L8uSu4RbH4-CZY7QF315Tbr7idePn3spCnVx7fDzBHwlElxsZcdl62AspnjW8Nnzb2Ul-Fvgjhu4TcZX2YHK1dPJsxswkm2VAAxXMX_zNTl-F-FHfuOmHMzDN-Dta4H3qkE5CP-fNws68-WB6B1brY1tiH27s/s320/P1880106.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rearsby Station on the Syston & Peterborough Line.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">Back inside the Leistershire Round, and definitively heading back to base, we rise among Rearsby's suburban closes and the redevelopment of the nunnery in Church Leys house, to pass St Michael's church at a remove and come around to the waterfront features of the village along Brookside, taking in the rural atmosphere that endures around the village school before taking an elevenses break by the ford and packhorse bridge, with the weather glooming up markedly before we resume, following Brook Street out to the old bypassed Melton Road, landing by The Wheel inn and heading south as the village stretches out, past the end of Gaddesby Lane and the Horse & Groom in, which seems to be on the wrong side of the road in my mind. Rain threatens as we pass out of the village, taking a look back across the Wreake valley to the vicinity of where we were an hour or so ago, following a route I know well as My Dad's red-route to (and from) his workplace at the Rearsby automotive plant, passing into the open fields along the over-sized and under-used land as it transitions over to the edge of East Goscote, the village in the county which is wholly a late 20th century suburban entity, looking wholly of its period, and still growing it seems, among the fields to the north of Queniborough Brook, which is crossed before we come upon the A607 again, bypassing Rearsby and Syston, returning us to the latitude from whence we started out. Under the subway and around the island and then it's onto the minor roads again, as Rearsby Road leads us past the playing fields and into Queniborough village, an actually old settlement that has also become a suburban satellite of the greater city, with its Main Street hidden away in the east, and only the village hall giving the hint that it's not another suburb, as we progress over its crossroads and on southbound down Barkby Road, to find that another estate has landed, beyond the familiar urban boundary, filling out the fields down to the rugby club, where we join the road as it carries the traffic that likes to avoid passing through Syston, which sits to the west of us, with the Charnwood Forest Hills describing the horizon beyond.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfNfZL1qg94ABGs6v-ItFZf55BOZTSHpoWBXwIa2mFptDYBRzfOWmuRlFQ2jd7j6dNMjyTEFSe0oSEwz6rzJT2pYzl6wK_zXoVGiTRn0aT3f6I89oCqPfEL3bMLw_VXEOt0wCAgbL6gBaHTZEVH7W7Hpzo6bI6VK6Ygea9euvNLD6zUzIswD38hSipb1k/s2560/P1880146.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfNfZL1qg94ABGs6v-ItFZf55BOZTSHpoWBXwIa2mFptDYBRzfOWmuRlFQ2jd7j6dNMjyTEFSe0oSEwz6rzJT2pYzl6wK_zXoVGiTRn0aT3f6I89oCqPfEL3bMLw_VXEOt0wCAgbL6gBaHTZEVH7W7Hpzo6bI6VK6Ygea9euvNLD6zUzIswD38hSipb1k/s320/P1880146.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brookside, Rearsby.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAW414O3QPt0tZO5lT5RPdFFzaOcDly7yMV4bLveO3hDN2Nx03q3pkWSu0TcwDAnylAS1AvDO430ohxdwqS2Cq4dDRyrWdRB8zCQIKhnCzKLN7oGafOlQ00kONiMHS8lUJtQvNzY6Nf-pFnBC0sQwEZK1yoBZkGVoEHe6m6AyfKyy50Yx54zhPuJUpozk/s2560/P1880183.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAW414O3QPt0tZO5lT5RPdFFzaOcDly7yMV4bLveO3hDN2Nx03q3pkWSu0TcwDAnylAS1AvDO430ohxdwqS2Cq4dDRyrWdRB8zCQIKhnCzKLN7oGafOlQ00kONiMHS8lUJtQvNzY6Nf-pFnBC0sQwEZK1yoBZkGVoEHe6m6AyfKyy50Yx54zhPuJUpozk/s320/P1880183.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gaddesby Lane and Melton Road, Rearsby.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYpO-Fxo7WxnNlpVRUicfvT9Zzj5QAbyK417TaAhW0Pu9nVou1IFQr8I6jvvcZPPr0BzQ5gdAXif-F_PuFzkv9gMvS3VyIkzMFLWLFP2O9d-csqJ_llByCtmHRYxxnuPQJwZKGdwCha0FWNMmt8Y692jGlvZZoCrvsDQwmrag4TYclivfMSL-V-ObDfSY/s2560/P1880213.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYpO-Fxo7WxnNlpVRUicfvT9Zzj5QAbyK417TaAhW0Pu9nVou1IFQr8I6jvvcZPPr0BzQ5gdAXif-F_PuFzkv9gMvS3VyIkzMFLWLFP2O9d-csqJ_llByCtmHRYxxnuPQJwZKGdwCha0FWNMmt8Y692jGlvZZoCrvsDQwmrag4TYclivfMSL-V-ObDfSY/s320/P1880213.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Melton Road, East Goscote.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWakWLJ7rO8grbPjknhggzqQAFN4u1cmSOLMMEUsF7ivfnpQ8mXl9RdCuiOI_IQOli-OfcaDTeqD59b-E6j7jDkIxSZ3wJNMDGXs2X4o1fkLL6yZL-l2M5iH0lgRP1CG5Z6lAP2WyJDlK19F4bRMVT6AEMSs10_h_skUJ52nBwNv938A6HaN8hKO8AJWA/s2560/P1880245.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWakWLJ7rO8grbPjknhggzqQAFN4u1cmSOLMMEUsF7ivfnpQ8mXl9RdCuiOI_IQOli-OfcaDTeqD59b-E6j7jDkIxSZ3wJNMDGXs2X4o1fkLL6yZL-l2M5iH0lgRP1CG5Z6lAP2WyJDlK19F4bRMVT6AEMSs10_h_skUJ52nBwNv938A6HaN8hKO8AJWA/s320/P1880245.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Queniborough Brook.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-KHOUY0iMIB9NRTtHe1ZbxwIuPbsqhIUF72qX60X7c63llGAt6YnwCw4FTIwTs1WbGZPCsyh6peSWkmijiHgC6UJdZAtRyD1lGSRVAuwbPFk6Q_5UWWHq6BIQCPLUNoxItXKz_8K3PSyLNpDlurMwiUj1bkzVbUzNr2JnRsnwwM12RGRS5GHFg2IhIGs/s2560/P1880277.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-KHOUY0iMIB9NRTtHe1ZbxwIuPbsqhIUF72qX60X7c63llGAt6YnwCw4FTIwTs1WbGZPCsyh6peSWkmijiHgC6UJdZAtRyD1lGSRVAuwbPFk6Q_5UWWHq6BIQCPLUNoxItXKz_8K3PSyLNpDlurMwiUj1bkzVbUzNr2JnRsnwwM12RGRS5GHFg2IhIGs/s320/P1880277.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Crossroad, Queniborough.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht8hJ7-N4oBOAYQwb4jwoA5yLnY7fFsGVpGsR9P6OwybDnfkxR2LYuq2wgzUQJs_5b5ZkJW6GuXGAzydxnhLOvBHNHk2AA9fu1eSqN8UFlQ946LcKMDYGGTM-_0JTZGEGF_9aAYP2XVoNWooGnliY288XdAxm14PalG_ndtka88Fg6YhbwAdmXTvnWJOc/s2560/P1880307.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht8hJ7-N4oBOAYQwb4jwoA5yLnY7fFsGVpGsR9P6OwybDnfkxR2LYuq2wgzUQJs_5b5ZkJW6GuXGAzydxnhLOvBHNHk2AA9fu1eSqN8UFlQ946LcKMDYGGTM-_0JTZGEGF_9aAYP2XVoNWooGnliY288XdAxm14PalG_ndtka88Fg6YhbwAdmXTvnWJOc/s320/P1880307.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Suburbanisation in Queniborough.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">Passing the nursery and outlying cottages, it starts to brighten up a bit again, which is welcome, as there's not a lot else to see among these local hedges, and attention wanders towards Syston village, an appendage to greater Leicester and showing an eastern face that's wholly contemporary suburban and swelling still towards the Syston Grange farm crossroads, which needs traffic lights, and such developments will hold our gaze until Queniborough Road comes down by the lodge house and long wall of the grounds of Barkby Hall, and the cemetery at the top edge of Barkby village, the settlement that has resolutely resisted suburban additions, despite its proximity to the city. All its rural red-brick flavour endures on its Main Street, by the Malt Shovel, St Mary's church and the still active forge and smithy, and the kinks and corners of the lane are negotiated as we pass over Barkby Brook and through the local arbour that surrounds the local grazing meadows and cricket field beyond, which Thorpe Lane bisects and will always be noted as the home of the caged 'Dangerous Trees', many of which have grown to maturity after being so dubbed some 40(!) years ago, all of which need to be passed between as we rise up to the Queen Street corner at Barkby Thorpe, the farm hamlet on the hill rise that still service three farms. They are to be found around the King Street corner, with Thorpe Farm being home to popular pandemic-era meet-up spot Roots Café, while Manor and Hill Top still run most of the arable fields that still remain around-abouts, so close to the city. Its presence can be felt beyond the hedges among the undulations Hamilton Lane, as the rural landscape starts to break apart, with the 'Thorpebury in the Limes' development bringing the growth of the <i>de facto</i> city beyond its de jure boundary, where a suburban population might find themselves in the future, expecting the benefits of city dwelling while finding themselves under the governance of the Charnwood county borough, which for now merely continues the scarring of this corner of the county.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzEo3Zqe6CWGzf2qQDMmoMCsVDODxfrbUQDcYt9KB1ua7mCgIbkonHJxcQBW6TT1MH7o1C4c0HRCe6JamAbhYdbM96UDMdDX1DptaenGy-JTnpDq3ryf8TT1TdCPNEGxswef8jUMDzW4Ea672zSVLXC9Vktm2NW290za0ty0kIBaKmbE0r4WCH863qijE/s2560/P1880347.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzEo3Zqe6CWGzf2qQDMmoMCsVDODxfrbUQDcYt9KB1ua7mCgIbkonHJxcQBW6TT1MH7o1C4c0HRCe6JamAbhYdbM96UDMdDX1DptaenGy-JTnpDq3ryf8TT1TdCPNEGxswef8jUMDzW4Ea672zSVLXC9Vktm2NW290za0ty0kIBaKmbE0r4WCH863qijE/s320/P1880347.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Syston encroaces into the fields, from Barkby Road.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhExOORZuGMy-sNfcCBIO_v6jDl9GpCgiIaeyIBNV5hMCBhBTRSMZNCFuswcEmi7XTcUbXozHvRnwYQ2DM2hD4G3GX3DNAgYQf9x7yJYDIi7PdjdvorH0em3XCUP_xHbNht5O25sZjtJyllwcBH6_Nt65ACI_D07dNs19HdyqRUNkwrpLlCtFVKSTHmpVc/s2560/P1880392.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhExOORZuGMy-sNfcCBIO_v6jDl9GpCgiIaeyIBNV5hMCBhBTRSMZNCFuswcEmi7XTcUbXozHvRnwYQ2DM2hD4G3GX3DNAgYQf9x7yJYDIi7PdjdvorH0em3XCUP_xHbNht5O25sZjtJyllwcBH6_Nt65ACI_D07dNs19HdyqRUNkwrpLlCtFVKSTHmpVc/s320/P1880392.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The North Lodge house, Barkby Hall.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1BUINRBMqZN-mRiw7clU6ktJVJ8x8DLoc6xdBJGnj_h4P8dNzFwZXtmIiIUVtjeda9T2Sq1S7ylKREzQ9kIoCupZObIRua7M9AQ9pVUoumgYFNwRD04qoFFou6lpSNksGiw6R1zX2GSqJ0j5bX8df32A8baBfT49IEmp2MwL_HmUTuA0mbhNtqxXvmhc/s2560/P1880422.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1BUINRBMqZN-mRiw7clU6ktJVJ8x8DLoc6xdBJGnj_h4P8dNzFwZXtmIiIUVtjeda9T2Sq1S7ylKREzQ9kIoCupZObIRua7M9AQ9pVUoumgYFNwRD04qoFFou6lpSNksGiw6R1zX2GSqJ0j5bX8df32A8baBfT49IEmp2MwL_HmUTuA0mbhNtqxXvmhc/s320/P1880422.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Smithy and St Mary's church, Barkby.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT7WQXAfhk6wg74nNkO4kV0mhnT-jaMxWYP6zOomIq_-RWF115hQxTnA2gYZMW9Rr02bU35QZBXxlBfHexo2gbjclmmEH-2VUrmBg7H-c_IONwrJPZrpQN1YbwMEwvAG1Nq-kTNUmNqi3FQhomJ35KZ_pzDnbINAKrZM5c3RIqHSyjD7b7eu4b0zeGC1s/s2560/P1880486.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT7WQXAfhk6wg74nNkO4kV0mhnT-jaMxWYP6zOomIq_-RWF115hQxTnA2gYZMW9Rr02bU35QZBXxlBfHexo2gbjclmmEH-2VUrmBg7H-c_IONwrJPZrpQN1YbwMEwvAG1Nq-kTNUmNqi3FQhomJ35KZ_pzDnbINAKrZM5c3RIqHSyjD7b7eu4b0zeGC1s/s320/P1880486.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Barkby's 'Dangerous Trees', Thorpe Lane.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTjoUfRzUx0wKm44o9Q5YAPpZFF_FLLoIRJ1j30U_zQNe8IQXH0c9BWxzOgbg8lDrTEQ4vsYK7zfi28S4lovxR3cJyQM2dlfEOP7pztbPlpv_spFT4ZXD6XFInYNUTYI1yv9wlIiL0NaMLOQhTWnJfxI0yRRvLH0GL6seGWyCKGn1Na8-r4nMYLTazJA4/s2560/P1880544.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTjoUfRzUx0wKm44o9Q5YAPpZFF_FLLoIRJ1j30U_zQNe8IQXH0c9BWxzOgbg8lDrTEQ4vsYK7zfi28S4lovxR3cJyQM2dlfEOP7pztbPlpv_spFT4ZXD6XFInYNUTYI1yv9wlIiL0NaMLOQhTWnJfxI0yRRvLH0GL6seGWyCKGn1Na8-r4nMYLTazJA4/s320/P1880544.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hill Top Farm, Barkby Thorpe.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8XGLqmCTAUkT23ent8pybBkP8olbBtfozL1SSA_NhBD76w5dYdzOi-TLSAHOvHgmlCtMOI5ek_AUigaXVBUW8AeJ241MHKme2w7v6wdHQJo5clJueOTBEzW0sU7u2v5W7aNuh64ikxZNe0YajxIQipEswXl2sFMK1b6IBoPDr_dgq_t3lp5hsI3VUHfE/s2560/P1880585.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8XGLqmCTAUkT23ent8pybBkP8olbBtfozL1SSA_NhBD76w5dYdzOi-TLSAHOvHgmlCtMOI5ek_AUigaXVBUW8AeJ241MHKme2w7v6wdHQJo5clJueOTBEzW0sU7u2v5W7aNuh64ikxZNe0YajxIQipEswXl2sFMK1b6IBoPDr_dgq_t3lp5hsI3VUHfE/s320/P1880585.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Thorpebury in the Limes' bring suburban growth into the county.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">The Hamilton development marks the horizon across the shallow valley to the south as the road shifts east, still not properly acknowledged in my mind after 30 years in situ, and not having grown marked closer to the fields around the Hamilton Grounds farmstead, across the way from Picks Organic farm shop, and while the cattle grids on this lane may have gone, it remains tight and rural as it comes down to the lost village of Hamilton, where most of its lumps and bumps in the fields have been obscured by cut grass, and the passage over Melton Brook is noted as where My Dad once flooded his car by driving into the swollen stream on the way to work, possibly the daftest thing he ever did. We rise beyond, past the other Hamilton Grounds farm, where one of my nursery school teachers lived, if I recall, which now houses a kennels and dog school, next to another suburban close that has grown into the county, with the city boundary being crossed as we meet the Scraptoft Golf Club and Hamilton secondary school, ot the Orchard Mead academy as it know these days, meeting the corner of the Nether Hall estate and quitting Dad's Red Route to Rearsby as we turn onto Keyham Lane West to explore this northeastern corner of the city that I think I know well, no longer the urban boundary as the southern edge of the 90s Hamilton estate now faces the 60s Nether Hall, containing the Keyham Lodge primary school ahead of the turn down Chestnut Avenue. From here we seek the enclave of local significance that I'd never properly acknowledged, until now, namely the Humberstone Garden suburb, located along Laburnum Road and established as a housing association, and estate, by the workers of the Anchor Boot & Shoe cooperative in the 1880s and constructed in the early 20th century, it endures as a early garden city development, and an historic pre-council estate, an earlier vintage and quite a different style from what surrounds it, with its tenants hall, shops and community church still in use, and its Victorian era covenants still inherited by the residents after all these years, which went seemingly unacknowledged in the two decades that I lived locally.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi08G1AnhTp2pF7wPdwj_0ZX8avRW1kXm5Z4dPD3L7bhCfX_fMoIk6wvQZIlkCDZXUp6IwI8NqAssrXeBFSlLJF-AXGPEANoygmxeSyhWC3cmoE2XWJDmvdRr90Xrcu6E2Gg4slQyJdbs7ddkkKOOi39goVB50i8T-pkeozEqfvdrx7mgmgPaAqaUigDcc/s2560/P1880628.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi08G1AnhTp2pF7wPdwj_0ZX8avRW1kXm5Z4dPD3L7bhCfX_fMoIk6wvQZIlkCDZXUp6IwI8NqAssrXeBFSlLJF-AXGPEANoygmxeSyhWC3cmoE2XWJDmvdRr90Xrcu6E2Gg4slQyJdbs7ddkkKOOi39goVB50i8T-pkeozEqfvdrx7mgmgPaAqaUigDcc/s320/P1880628.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hamilton on the horizon, across Melton Brook.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSWWAzCe6ucpuHUhfFspn5-hoKxAxVU6k5NTTxzSrV3_-6Laeo--vyaUvj3ngwJUtMYK04GmMBIAoBcgd4gzLskbCCqTqxwVhnUwWoLNj-nNKr2gYbFRdOZoSPnYVFDRrMOZQv_VB3FOgRP66-qJD2yWA4mz62AY-1TUemy6Tcd-fFYZUzEBbZ2bo3RmM/s2560/P1880649.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSWWAzCe6ucpuHUhfFspn5-hoKxAxVU6k5NTTxzSrV3_-6Laeo--vyaUvj3ngwJUtMYK04GmMBIAoBcgd4gzLskbCCqTqxwVhnUwWoLNj-nNKr2gYbFRdOZoSPnYVFDRrMOZQv_VB3FOgRP66-qJD2yWA4mz62AY-1TUemy6Tcd-fFYZUzEBbZ2bo3RmM/s320/P1880649.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hamilton Grounds farm.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGnHDieNkxLOs02oBDW5oMKQ_eaDgCEz_fkrAYgsxwJQaM49seIXf2JvCI2T7DGO-bhwToxNEtE1M2nXngvZ7DMgAUAtEH8aXeveEDR20oym2OJ1XYmuXq05qLcc36a5Gzzc4iDmUAAxm_mx7UBWg0G0HDprxNWEkkMNIF2DAodNMX9Q95qShiYLFKzwQ/s2560/P1880687.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGnHDieNkxLOs02oBDW5oMKQ_eaDgCEz_fkrAYgsxwJQaM49seIXf2JvCI2T7DGO-bhwToxNEtE1M2nXngvZ7DMgAUAtEH8aXeveEDR20oym2OJ1XYmuXq05qLcc36a5Gzzc4iDmUAAxm_mx7UBWg0G0HDprxNWEkkMNIF2DAodNMX9Q95qShiYLFKzwQ/s320/P1880687.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hamilton Village lost beneath the mown grass.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDGLVbs4fgzOgzVrp2kTU9bfFd9oOw382RxUmpTHgPqavFnQk9gLGxnE_fD53YtvgCyBoZMZ2_mmIEUbSflnwufACiL8Y_nFNlyFws8tYnLVUg068lQGPAqnYQy3hiCu3HgY1VZ-ogOttJxwse1_ZU1jIOWvHQNLxQ4yyQOfYlQBGyJ_g62qoeRaOJCWc/s2560/P1880717.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDGLVbs4fgzOgzVrp2kTU9bfFd9oOw382RxUmpTHgPqavFnQk9gLGxnE_fD53YtvgCyBoZMZ2_mmIEUbSflnwufACiL8Y_nFNlyFws8tYnLVUg068lQGPAqnYQy3hiCu3HgY1VZ-ogOttJxwse1_ZU1jIOWvHQNLxQ4yyQOfYlQBGyJ_g62qoeRaOJCWc/s320/P1880717.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The other, and former, Hamilton Grounds farm.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoT0jS1YPbvAOzyki5jnEgF0yPCkxj86qpmPYlQS6ZD9Tcjq8AR3VBOoXBkuR42QDCIwq9TgAfrIoFwQjvcTWEo7foZwJuwe12mfGGxPg5OGELBWF8QWkLfE79OF6KuUR2I722vu9MfYaySTROj0C9IvCILk5caODxGOvgdEkEkhZwT-Qd2lttG9Acy0I/s2560/P1880751.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoT0jS1YPbvAOzyki5jnEgF0yPCkxj86qpmPYlQS6ZD9Tcjq8AR3VBOoXBkuR42QDCIwq9TgAfrIoFwQjvcTWEo7foZwJuwe12mfGGxPg5OGELBWF8QWkLfE79OF6KuUR2I722vu9MfYaySTROj0C9IvCILk5caODxGOvgdEkEkhZwT-Qd2lttG9Acy0I/s320/P1880751.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Keyham Lane West. between Nether Hall and Hamilton.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh10i7kWWPCT0bOkTzjZ2Zen75dhmb7EXFBsSRJfc7dI38WLBneFHR-Q1_c03SRy5_aDHPYHXr_WLZrEviI8jigus8QFWboKBoggDFQoEtL0Tss43ow9bvveVt_U7Bs_1hqlt0t2WlcwTp4uwfuu-DDO5NFLyXYd17LWm3T5t5YqYN1PtT3HeHdnRhLpgs/s2560/P1880790.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh10i7kWWPCT0bOkTzjZ2Zen75dhmb7EXFBsSRJfc7dI38WLBneFHR-Q1_c03SRy5_aDHPYHXr_WLZrEviI8jigus8QFWboKBoggDFQoEtL0Tss43ow9bvveVt_U7Bs_1hqlt0t2WlcwTp4uwfuu-DDO5NFLyXYd17LWm3T5t5YqYN1PtT3HeHdnRhLpgs/s320/P1880790.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Laburnum Road, Humberstone Garden Suburb.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9cqeMtw0ICgbdzJOy-E1oQR1jdnhh185DPzuEyMd1hPJCjBsY9qlCVuBaohVN5pU-OprWIBQ-_7mY2ccB6wsxnp24s_UcaYrGtlu46gTDLbgZ60CDhZX7TAkf_0dNecUF8G89p5k4fGv9gJxFNsD6PvVDHjZY-ka1NDAqFt5Bg_HCjnLGeuYYcAMXjZw/s2560/P1880814.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9cqeMtw0ICgbdzJOy-E1oQR1jdnhh185DPzuEyMd1hPJCjBsY9qlCVuBaohVN5pU-OprWIBQ-_7mY2ccB6wsxnp24s_UcaYrGtlu46gTDLbgZ60CDhZX7TAkf_0dNecUF8G89p5k4fGv9gJxFNsD6PvVDHjZY-ka1NDAqFt5Bg_HCjnLGeuYYcAMXjZw/s320/P1880814.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Humberstone Garden Suburb, looking east.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglN33SgL-AbaNkBGTBDfNMk1CtBP7rIb6CZp5lKK1vU_qS6L50Q4VaCfcR63C3wqOFFgAbXQyJ_VCaStwuc9mkqk5Q2O-BeJCKqSCOOX-Lbh6QgQ1sWYam1UnoWdGorZ88O-WkMuLH-iKGr4RNWALB0GikmLU12KHm2DPSBfdF_fXmRZJMdEW6M4C6TSQ/s2560/P1880843.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglN33SgL-AbaNkBGTBDfNMk1CtBP7rIb6CZp5lKK1vU_qS6L50Q4VaCfcR63C3wqOFFgAbXQyJ_VCaStwuc9mkqk5Q2O-BeJCKqSCOOX-Lbh6QgQ1sWYam1UnoWdGorZ88O-WkMuLH-iKGr4RNWALB0GikmLU12KHm2DPSBfdF_fXmRZJMdEW6M4C6TSQ/s320/P1880843.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The blighted houses on Hungarton Boulevard.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">The final few minutes of footfalls then follow as we emerge through the council estate, to meet Nether Hall Road, where the Moat Garage and the Moat Inn are now long gone, replaced by house and a drive-through McDonalds respectively, and the downhill push takes us along Hungarton Boulevard where the houses blighted by the construction of A863 Leicester Ring Road still remain, far too close to the road, and our route concludes after we've turned down Abbotts Road South to pass along among the suburban houses and across the Willow Brook to meet our regular Humberstone start and finish line, next to Abbotts Road URC, wrapping it up at 2pm, only a short trot from my home from home, and less than an hour ahead of the Parental Taxi's return as well, with the both of us having utilised our day off well.</p><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>5,000 Miles Cumulative Total: 6081.3 miles</b></div><div>2023 Total: 159.1 miles</div><div>Up Country Total: 5,589.5 miles</div><div>Solo Total: 5738.7 miles</div><div>5,000 in my 40s Total: 4681.1 miles</div><div><br /></div><div>Next Up: Getting Back in the Saddle, Up Country.</div><div><br /></div></div>Christopher Wrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09743749271457169317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527420385844253776.post-28807668128103366742023-07-10T19:48:00.020+01:002023-07-20T14:46:41.618+01:00July's Three Day Weekend 07-09/07/23<p>Alighting on the second weekend of July, we find that it's a long one, with an extra day booked off so that I might be able to have a weekend at My Sister's place without having to run the gauntlet of Friday commuter traffic, but as they have a situation with My Elder Niece having finished her GCSEs and My Younger Niece having a strike day which coincides with one of the warmest and brightest days in a short while, the opportunity is there for a whole family day out, giving them a plan to travel out from Bolton to Brimham Rocks in their new van, with me meeting them midway along by hopping the train to Skipton as the most practical and least time-consuming of the meet up options. It's relatively shocking to realise than almost 6 years have elapsed since I was last out here on the high north side of Nidderdale, though the landscape abounding on the upper limit of my Field of Walking Experience still seem totally familiar as My Sis ad I take a rather languid stroll around the rock formations and among the wild semi-moorland, while Dr G and the Girls get on with some bouldering in the sunshine, which could barely be counted as a proper walk as we amble about for the better part of three hours, wandering well past the limits of the National Trust site and regularly finding places in the shade to sit and contemplate the landscape and our place in it. I think we might be both feeling our age, as I continue to toil with my Post-Covid Experience and the struggles of balancing it with working life, while she contemplates her daughters on the cusp on actual adulthood and reflects on where she was at a similar time in her life, aided by the rediscovery of her old journals and diaries of the period and her desire to revisit the music and style choices of the very late 1980s, which carries us on a nostalgic wave as we wander and then travel away in the late afternoon, back over the Pennines via the East Lancs valley, at least while we're not trying to talk around the problems of the world that have expanded over the last 7 years. This weekend could easily be counted as an extension of the hiatus in my walking year when Saturday's plans fall apart thanks to a rum turn in the weather, with much more cloud and rain, and much less heat, passing over to prevent our planned jaunt down the green path of the Irwell valley coming to naught, so our travel to the city has four of us travelling to the Manchester Museum instead (without Younger Niece who's already becoming a social firefly), and I'm always going to be game for some natural history presented in an interesting way to fill my afternoon, before we pass another evening with takeout Mexican food, beers and a session in fron of the TV, catching up on the Tour de France and watching 'This is Spinal Tap' and 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' (and if you wish to see me act like a total normie, just observe my reactions to the latter of those, because What is Going On in that Movie!?).<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCSfJVQ0Ph12UF78U9atd2jVLXjiAHjaDbSZMRLwKrMhaRO4HHmSk9sXOvK02p4UGek05V2evRgS1xXg_Md8a9ssNl8XHc-2bMsZ8Av3V1_ucpUNwQHvbtbTrZlYh1rH0duYMndSStBkplmrrB884vTO7TVChxPmqvaLCiuLMRCeUqKR81G9Ux__qvzkg/s2560/P1870126.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCSfJVQ0Ph12UF78U9atd2jVLXjiAHjaDbSZMRLwKrMhaRO4HHmSk9sXOvK02p4UGek05V2evRgS1xXg_Md8a9ssNl8XHc-2bMsZ8Av3V1_ucpUNwQHvbtbTrZlYh1rH0duYMndSStBkplmrrB884vTO7TVChxPmqvaLCiuLMRCeUqKR81G9Ux__qvzkg/s320/P1870126.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brimham Rocks from a New Perspective #4.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcrjxaA2iqd2TEtvIJX5sLIvhql7dZzpoTjdYcQ4Up4Nrx-rPLbziicoxLUi06spXi1Vt9S11snQNVJnswWI76_o48kLRIjN8vILIP6jzolEOABG0RN5nu9RCjwNdU6fpqRb7XX-1aW37RsK5pNmTX7DmxT7fT8SVKzUj0QiXvNfndxWacwJCRGAnXUrY/s3264/P1870132.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcrjxaA2iqd2TEtvIJX5sLIvhql7dZzpoTjdYcQ4Up4Nrx-rPLbziicoxLUi06spXi1Vt9S11snQNVJnswWI76_o48kLRIjN8vILIP6jzolEOABG0RN5nu9RCjwNdU6fpqRb7XX-1aW37RsK5pNmTX7DmxT7fT8SVKzUj0QiXvNfndxWacwJCRGAnXUrY/s320/P1870132.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clear Friday Evening Skies reveal <br />Venus's last Hurrah, beyond Winter Hill.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIn8XZhXxfXd6L3ZzxrXRqsKBCdyI3tWnH3VBOfKw6BexejzGBZ13s6jfXRchHBgMclJI-6wmfpRiszsEoGXNI568PMgQb4aDeFJPeTLy6-WN374lZPNG1A5-uMf76uovLK_Tk1j1QV7P4of0LyUKXL2hgoEAaxiDpN9lY5aKz8EiINssRAiqvIZTMxS0/s2560/P1870140.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIn8XZhXxfXd6L3ZzxrXRqsKBCdyI3tWnH3VBOfKw6BexejzGBZ13s6jfXRchHBgMclJI-6wmfpRiszsEoGXNI568PMgQb4aDeFJPeTLy6-WN374lZPNG1A5-uMf76uovLK_Tk1j1QV7P4of0LyUKXL2hgoEAaxiDpN9lY5aKz8EiINssRAiqvIZTMxS0/s320/P1870140.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There's a T-Rex at Manchester Museum, and we're here for it!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b>5.3 miles, from Egerton, via Belmont Brook, Dunscar Golf Club, Holme's Clough, Horrocks Fold, Horrocks Hill, Horrocks Scout, Gale Brook, Dingle Reservoir and Longworth Clough. </b></div><p>Sunday Morning thus presents us with the only walking opportunity for the weekend, and I'll let My Sister take the lead as the window of passable weather looks pretty tight as we depart away from Egerton via the Blackburn Road at 9.50am, on the familiar trajectory down Longworth Lane to the passage over Delph Brook and on along the track that follows it downstream and Belmoint Brook upstream before taking a definitive shift to pass over and follow the latter downstream again, heading south, which a new trajectory in these parts, along the shaded green passage that could have been the beginnings of our route to the big city on a better sort of weekend. We are lead out to shadow Dunscar Golf Course, with the southern rib of Winter Hill rising beyond, before we settle below trees again, getting run out down the valley towards the A666 before taking a sharp turn south-westerly over the cleft of Holme's Clough and rising sharply uphill to meet one of the mill reservoirs that loiter in this landscape, meeting the path that follows around this site for angling as the northern most suburban edge of Bolton arrives across the fields as we rise on up to meet the A675 Belmont Road on the western side of the valley, meeting the farmstead hamlet of Horrocks Fold beyond, rising among its cottages and active farms to the view towards Manchester, shrouded in haze to the south. My Sister's experience of the many local paths during the 2020 lockdown comes in useful as we shift west, as does the local councils enhancement of many tracks for walking and cycling hereabouts as we rise among the arbour plantations and wild fields that spread over the reach of Horrocks Hill, above its eponymous farm and up the driveway to Scout Road on the edge of the moorlands that reach north across the mass of Winter Hill, from where a view down to the heart of Bolton can be nabbed, with its Town Hall tower standing prominent in amongst it (which was the stylistic template for Morley's, if you're interested).</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGdnx99PpP3PhG9oxCqzngs7e4xvtrAuO42M-orlUhWgblLxzp3E-lDl52E3b7w5l2Zwx3HD0vQwhQstAwyIdrVtFzI2ujgZ3Mu2OnYfeG96F7NJ2JUtMGMU0rwUjnrCCHHzw1egVenjTSZp9PJSXJbIsoNiTM1vnM38HuuKPapJxv13JvFVRQGxas8Dk/s2560/P1870150.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGdnx99PpP3PhG9oxCqzngs7e4xvtrAuO42M-orlUhWgblLxzp3E-lDl52E3b7w5l2Zwx3HD0vQwhQstAwyIdrVtFzI2ujgZ3Mu2OnYfeG96F7NJ2JUtMGMU0rwUjnrCCHHzw1egVenjTSZp9PJSXJbIsoNiTM1vnM38HuuKPapJxv13JvFVRQGxas8Dk/s320/P1870150.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Longworth Road, Egerton.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNESEyXCQXT7du50UMEvLQqHDt216_ITQ2chvJfcEcDgMXYWbNDSCYUtVE5Y0SrOpI7obBcKHan9v8ByWyaV7ettEDqMGu6dfgkYvsoCEuHZyJ5lgMobiL6v0q8wrKVLnMN1UKC-1etrZEO-F-qmPcREL441PyHvvKgg7rx4f-d_CODym5Yyca02e42fo/s2560/P1870166.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNESEyXCQXT7du50UMEvLQqHDt216_ITQ2chvJfcEcDgMXYWbNDSCYUtVE5Y0SrOpI7obBcKHan9v8ByWyaV7ettEDqMGu6dfgkYvsoCEuHZyJ5lgMobiL6v0q8wrKVLnMN1UKC-1etrZEO-F-qmPcREL441PyHvvKgg7rx4f-d_CODym5Yyca02e42fo/s320/P1870166.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Belmont Brook - Longworth Clough path.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFFE7zF3XvMiN5ykDm2IObvsB8A0ALQWCNaAT2yH5yfJL-exw10f_IapoRkXvEksnAgXRa5FDQhzY8sZCQ1NSwoP6u8T80LEaco5S2ArHvVyfCgUiVCUFZNYv6U0nnUdPWfGvz0mMT3SMWF1F3HxObKFzfiNy1ocPesTvmi6poBceMpaNaIZS_-mhjYjY/s2560/P1870184.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFFE7zF3XvMiN5ykDm2IObvsB8A0ALQWCNaAT2yH5yfJL-exw10f_IapoRkXvEksnAgXRa5FDQhzY8sZCQ1NSwoP6u8T80LEaco5S2ArHvVyfCgUiVCUFZNYv6U0nnUdPWfGvz0mMT3SMWF1F3HxObKFzfiNy1ocPesTvmi6poBceMpaNaIZS_-mhjYjY/s320/P1870184.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dunscar Golf Club.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAtl-QH-3-WPZEo_Ppx0BtIlbULXyKv0EPq2Lmc8ljTm0z5poyXt_1qAaodTXmiaEqLla9bmUkDIoP3OyeIcWCG34ITSfsqOt4DIWcPGoCvwc7WN914hM1pNfb5zIJCeZICrgC4ye1K96wmjAQqe4zgWdWRdtme6Pdl-fj9398uLybVKmAr6bPgUxOPzA/s2560/P1870214.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAtl-QH-3-WPZEo_Ppx0BtIlbULXyKv0EPq2Lmc8ljTm0z5poyXt_1qAaodTXmiaEqLla9bmUkDIoP3OyeIcWCG34ITSfsqOt4DIWcPGoCvwc7WN914hM1pNfb5zIJCeZICrgC4ye1K96wmjAQqe4zgWdWRdtme6Pdl-fj9398uLybVKmAr6bPgUxOPzA/s320/P1870214.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reservoir above Holme's Clough.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipnqmCED8srOuLxCY1xJ5gaaEEk_5TS2m_XelXWPRipRZZfdCuT6-BPM1cuC1eEHr2PEzz64KNVIFDkJ-RHq5Dz_Ugwy7npvnygzFoq--Qbx5Vk9rihoq8wV6YHqVj9Qy60HMJeK1wF1F8EndKMURJQ10mgUQJUieLSAC1ma3T_J1OSpKY-UKcpju7AUI/s2560/P1870235.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipnqmCED8srOuLxCY1xJ5gaaEEk_5TS2m_XelXWPRipRZZfdCuT6-BPM1cuC1eEHr2PEzz64KNVIFDkJ-RHq5Dz_Ugwy7npvnygzFoq--Qbx5Vk9rihoq8wV6YHqVj9Qy60HMJeK1wF1F8EndKMURJQ10mgUQJUieLSAC1ma3T_J1OSpKY-UKcpju7AUI/s320/P1870235.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Horrocks Fold.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4kSk14qPh_HPopi4GaCZtGaOwKCYF5wayU9pGCOtS6KuAVFuyAOG8jrVYP89LdGuHeezYafDnRXrFhZScBzmp3omV5PFDNyaVg5tZZJLW2Z7pXO8rNcJcNdEhZvwDC4JxfuTEh9bxOF9QAWYU-kVBM90VcxozVwH2NO8SdiSOTgfDaKX8u0u75F2WgiE/s2560/P1870253.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4kSk14qPh_HPopi4GaCZtGaOwKCYF5wayU9pGCOtS6KuAVFuyAOG8jrVYP89LdGuHeezYafDnRXrFhZScBzmp3omV5PFDNyaVg5tZZJLW2Z7pXO8rNcJcNdEhZvwDC4JxfuTEh9bxOF9QAWYU-kVBM90VcxozVwH2NO8SdiSOTgfDaKX8u0u75F2WgiE/s320/P1870253.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Among the plantations on Horrocks Hill.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4iFwZ3Nn7QxtR2QgmQPrAvf_loVuPqIXTcAgtaWPVbOSrsXPE4g83ZP6SDf_l30S-pFynws5Piei-lBpYswCoDQBKE-3_FeUCdw1JsEBx0dqSKPzCdkz5JRCa8Giz0500EklfXiGeyqXywof5q1CvUq_WHyeyCIefyZf9X-s1z0kkWUE2zNRh5JW5PjY/s2560/P1870269.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4iFwZ3Nn7QxtR2QgmQPrAvf_loVuPqIXTcAgtaWPVbOSrsXPE4g83ZP6SDf_l30S-pFynws5Piei-lBpYswCoDQBKE-3_FeUCdw1JsEBx0dqSKPzCdkz5JRCa8Giz0500EklfXiGeyqXywof5q1CvUq_WHyeyCIefyZf9X-s1z0kkWUE2zNRh5JW5PjY/s320/P1870269.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bolton regarded from Scout Road.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Our route reaches it maximum elevation as we rise northerly to the crest of Scout Road, where cars illuminate the Winter Hill horizon at night when viewed from across the valley as the road arrives among the quarries on the hillside edge at Horrocks scout and dives down sharply, passing the concealed home of the Bolton Gun club and offering us a previously unseen aspect over Egerton, and Delph reservoir across the valley, with Turton Heights and Cheetham Close rising above, framed by the further spread of the West Pennines, and My Sis is still improving the route back as we drop down the rough path that leads us to the Belmont Road again, landing by the parish boundary stone. We'll trot up the A675's pavement to the point where Gale Brook's downfall passes below, and set off along the track that lead to the paper mill in the valley, passing over and below the embankment dam containing Dingle Reservoir before we find that path that drops us into the woodlands of Longworth Clough, descending steeply and sketchily down past the boundary of the industrial site that is still proving resistant to urban redevelopment, wandering on into the sea of greenery overgrowth that does its best to obscure the paths, or at least the apparent viability of thereof as we bottom out by Belmont (or Eagley) Brook and seek the fooot bridge that leads us over to the far bank. That puts us on a familiar track back eastwards towards Egerton, where all paths to the the immediate west seem to have lead in the past, rather than along the main road when heading toward Belmont and Winter Hill. sealing the circle for the day as we emerge from the trees and rise to meet the path division to the south, and pass up below the Lower Critchley Fold farmstead to alight on the Longworth Road again, where steps can be retraced back to our start line, aside from detouring by the perimeter of Egerton Cricket club, where the crowds are out to enjoy their family fun day, with the decent spell of weather still enduring, to the benefit of all who'll be spending their afternoon out of doors, as we seal our circuit at 11.55am, thus not delaying anyone's lunchtime unnecessarily.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheraIQGqW9f556raVAaPYQIsnkzCqoFEvwDCIl3U3tNiOIK3CHBKvAADDeQsRAPzMAlZQPY_bCZB6nDIxpYheuCwb25RI68kG09LAkoztWVWRbH24i6_z8u5qebk4FVSeluD1BR_p5wkz7_ieNSZgNMS0XDPbofVZ7C1W8Z5d_7BbvTisGPCavg78ksvI/s2560/P1870284.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI8_GGgKgTLUd4nvcMBDgH5FVCMlrYNLtt3b4Vv-OQV_LWTc5wVuxD6ZigZr2QW3LWXrRzAOgB6WoA815C-m9OGvFbPuXJoiuXh658tdeu6yXN7h8pLPfTiOgY5rfGW4JY0Aagzmm7OhPQjX0qPayrUIL_0oCs6tuOMKWtuED6Gw6Iv4AY1kVV5iCnRcw/s320/P1870312.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Horrocks Scout Quarries, from below Scout Road.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4G--dwKL4op8VUD_aNZGYcpEoztSal0C2p2zgxOx_GDMghv-Gmoy6KI-_IHF6jLLcHAa7vPqohdYs_Ui-y5V8fIs008sKkHIdTwiKQyt1WWHKbWjfkd-MN4CY8WHoGKenRh2Lo0sNNlq7X72J7Ek2te0sxsLh9jYAwzrCKU7hOdPI7VtykuaNzcVotLY/s2560/P1870332.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpgYuIYVB68E64ZBqLSNiLBl4dgcRhmuuRf5itsyqv5kmWN-sJPSLgU5kTA3mjwWN32bO5cUs_VXPjnnwpbbUFTSoEDv5O-0c7dRUhkGyiXVwKKH7kvmtRpfu5fwcExSR-VrKg1e7vNKYBB60Z9s5o9upMSNyqooISYaAf_Q5vbklxcAzksNzEXZnu5F4/s320/P1870351.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tracing the Paper Mill enclosure, Longworth Clough.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnBF8uyEqYzZZZX0hsyKRkCrfYV55nUNSZvfLlhPAXoUOQ8IWc7kJSgFvMyt4pOa2931uXtz5O2pDOhXKkWEByj-6zXLrY4aCotggUWdTgkXGdMYk0NrJ9eRpLeMA1zlGq73giAscKJH7m1RDwTOVoYJG0ooXIyipMVAW2HL-mL8PppVLc8dqJW5yBtzs/s2560/P1870375.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnBF8uyEqYzZZZX0hsyKRkCrfYV55nUNSZvfLlhPAXoUOQ8IWc7kJSgFvMyt4pOa2931uXtz5O2pDOhXKkWEByj-6zXLrY4aCotggUWdTgkXGdMYk0NrJ9eRpLeMA1zlGq73giAscKJH7m1RDwTOVoYJG0ooXIyipMVAW2HL-mL8PppVLc8dqJW5yBtzs/s320/P1870375.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Belmont (or Eagley) Brook footbridge.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjno7FmizNFbBERDEqAhHLbmnL_4a9zJfdsLnAYOZ0yLRMAaWrF70Vb68SzU08KHbzYZlT1DEDF3Zg50PEE9D-7pF9vbx7EPRlPkankkSjugfQTqn2km8B52QCIBqwv7S8dye03gG5R25yjavjB1Udiz1B-irHzMNUH4DRLWwfTB9a0PNPElsCO3NfRzuA/s2560/P1870393.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjno7FmizNFbBERDEqAhHLbmnL_4a9zJfdsLnAYOZ0yLRMAaWrF70Vb68SzU08KHbzYZlT1DEDF3Zg50PEE9D-7pF9vbx7EPRlPkankkSjugfQTqn2km8B52QCIBqwv7S8dye03gG5R25yjavjB1Udiz1B-irHzMNUH4DRLWwfTB9a0PNPElsCO3NfRzuA/s320/P1870393.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tracing the paths of Longworth Clough, again.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijBWoT1LWzMSToWsGEaxkNoouyTfnHGS8EnlT-CBr5ssjt9wLE7Y0UiQO49ruP2ojPQdH3MgQZ-XBbqiGw-QQzRv7VdvHf7Gi3E78ppti5RWw08OKTIfQxHcm3nVsxU2LKmhE3VXw5ZchlqNXgYjz38RwW1PD8BmyJ5qo9uSgNgq7YYhHfF8XX8kVSuf8/s2560/P1870418.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijBWoT1LWzMSToWsGEaxkNoouyTfnHGS8EnlT-CBr5ssjt9wLE7Y0UiQO49ruP2ojPQdH3MgQZ-XBbqiGw-QQzRv7VdvHf7Gi3E78ppti5RWw08OKTIfQxHcm3nVsxU2LKmhE3VXw5ZchlqNXgYjz38RwW1PD8BmyJ5qo9uSgNgq7YYhHfF8XX8kVSuf8/s320/P1870418.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Egerton Cricket Club, with Famil Fun Day.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Having showered and gotten fed, with homemade panini (which we have now all learned is actually the Italian plural of panino), we'll wrap my visit early-ish allowing the Lancashire branch of my family to decamp for a full afternoon of fun at the Stockport climbing wall, and for me to seek the train rides homeward from Bolton, lamenting that Northern and TPE aren't really covering themselves in glory with the Sunday service provision on either route through Manchester Piccadilly, but boarding the Huddersfield - Hull train on the last leg does allow me to discover that the new Morley station is indeed long enough to accommodate a six carriage train, and that factoid makes the transport geek in me absurdly happy.</p><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;">5,000 Miles Cumulative Total: 6070.2 miles<br />2023 Total: 148 miles<br />Up Country Total: 5,589.5 miles<br />Solo Total: 5727.6 miles<br />5,000 in my 40s Total: 46670 miles</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Next Up: Down Country for a Longer Break, and finding a new trail somewhere therein.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Christopher Wrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09743749271457169317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527420385844253776.post-79376600751295803452023-07-02T17:27:00.175+01:002023-07-19T17:16:54.422+01:00Rumination: Morley Gets A New Station<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEafYDQGrKKV4X2ApN6dYwfE1CM05Fjs0CFDAt5c9B8rVnqzXwLYgyBn54J_w1PPKM4-WCU8iVEofHGbVL-V2rF9YnX50o6Jd5AX_Yh14vDPs850mX8_IjGnXE9cdM0D_rqCDU9ZePcCKUZSaf2jPCYVJ8qrsk3nq_Z7Bn_Iz5712L8nOgSEqpSkiD92U/s2560/P1860231.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEafYDQGrKKV4X2ApN6dYwfE1CM05Fjs0CFDAt5c9B8rVnqzXwLYgyBn54J_w1PPKM4-WCU8iVEofHGbVL-V2rF9YnX50o6Jd5AX_Yh14vDPs850mX8_IjGnXE9cdM0D_rqCDU9ZePcCKUZSaf2jPCYVJ8qrsk3nq_Z7Bn_Iz5712L8nOgSEqpSkiD92U/w200-h150/P1860231.JPG" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Station means Selfies!<br />at Morley 'New' Station.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">After a rough start to the year, we finally managed to get a good turn on the walking year as passed through May and June, but as the midway point on the year arrives, we need to have a rest from the regular weekends on the trail, as we already feel like we've been spreading ourselves rather thin with the efforts of keeping myself going through working and walking in the midst of the post-covid experience and having put a decent wad of miles downs so far, a rest feels overdue, before we refocus ourselves on the task in hand, namely getting a whole 300 (Three Hundred!) miles down on the year, a triumphant sounding amount that's still less than half of what I achieved in 2022. It doesn't mean that we don't have things to talk about though, as there's not been a shortage of things going on locally, even if we're going to have to cast our minds back a bit, which shouldn't be too much of problem considering the usual condition of this blog, to two weekends ago, when the engineering possession through Morley station was only on its second day, and I decided to stay in to dedicate myself to writing and housework on Sunday 18th June, with full anticipation that redevelopment progress was going to be slow and the main activity of the long week would be tidily spread out and thus easily observable on the casual. This turned out to be a poor choice, as when I rose on the early morning on the Monday and progressed down to the station to await the rail replacement bus, we found that a lot of activity had gone on since my passing by on Saturday morning, with the footbridge span removed and the 'up' platform completely dug out, with the rails and ballast on the Manchester-bound side also removed and the alignment partially flooded, (due to rain or the spill out from the concealed stream below) with drainage being apparently installed, which pretty definitively drops the curtain on the old L&NWR Morley Low station after almost 175 years, marking my arrival there on the Friday as the last of the in excess of 6,000 journeys that I must have made via it since arriving in town in 2007.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfrDwGX5_W7knGpeo_SpWKzNnqfGEl4AfLYdzyVTz3r6uoAIZkXWJKMseV8G1bf6tPA_Jv1NzBzKFTFB-_wN0b8WdVHmLsgskmjClwMOrIFrPVEMBO7xeBwY_26AKS6zFXBs9U-ZLA4APFcSWEn_IJBKs6zMBM-AEy39-b7avszGj9ywB4tktdXMG-SOc/s2560/P1830203.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfrDwGX5_W7knGpeo_SpWKzNnqfGEl4AfLYdzyVTz3r6uoAIZkXWJKMseV8G1bf6tPA_Jv1NzBzKFTFB-_wN0b8WdVHmLsgskmjClwMOrIFrPVEMBO7xeBwY_26AKS6zFXBs9U-ZLA4APFcSWEn_IJBKs6zMBM-AEy39-b7avszGj9ywB4tktdXMG-SOc/s320/P1830203.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My Last View of the active Morley Low station 16/06/23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz_xGjBHtsZxNuQhCKl-nH-ghz5k9coUsQNEbx8RyyS92cGgiGJWkatJp5ZBuHCynukn74CjiRkpUEw14-TRi7EySfJwlHPKTHccxRqKJKlRBum1F9gHF52MGtn65sZi9iWZVopFUr6Mn0kD1cRE57LRHDfuCUW5WcX9EbmzcKDxjl-Wf7X6LuAHAODa4/s2560/P1830951.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz_xGjBHtsZxNuQhCKl-nH-ghz5k9coUsQNEbx8RyyS92cGgiGJWkatJp5ZBuHCynukn74CjiRkpUEw14-TRi7EySfJwlHPKTHccxRqKJKlRBum1F9gHF52MGtn65sZi9iWZVopFUr6Mn0kD1cRE57LRHDfuCUW5WcX9EbmzcKDxjl-Wf7X6LuAHAODa4/s320/P1830951.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All Change at Morley, view #1, 19/06/23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhikMRdfJ4dm2X4Pc0uhn6K45tONwZa2YtjU3rQBwcidzxUD_Amp8QhPPaCzX15-V3pGavkN4Cfojme7qFO1MpDDehx4gtEApiuDIV_JrDzVXptymULYYbPlwDyeCppZBeOxCyvXkaGU6_qKSr1JZfHBNwWI6GeFH_XDb_Yimg0sNLFmDry-V-paCJJo48/s2560/P1830952.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhikMRdfJ4dm2X4Pc0uhn6K45tONwZa2YtjU3rQBwcidzxUD_Amp8QhPPaCzX15-V3pGavkN4Cfojme7qFO1MpDDehx4gtEApiuDIV_JrDzVXptymULYYbPlwDyeCppZBeOxCyvXkaGU6_qKSr1JZfHBNwWI6GeFH_XDb_Yimg0sNLFmDry-V-paCJJo48/s320/P1830952.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All Change at Morley Low, view #2, 19/06/23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVOHgugiyT8tsx8o3lsHm6Lh8FlqdzWW9YuzWgjO-2aVsvmvE43qXEtwd-HRSQ7cDv_0nA9-a9OD_PuoO3MPlI2sC0LJq91oi4zxjt1HBPM3tLTgs-kWRxGUh5Md14OOIWUcT4ZxB4zIIMk9PgwRGS4AT36OY5dDIY5UaKWjCBesKPOcrhk80iniCCqRE/s2560/P1830953.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVOHgugiyT8tsx8o3lsHm6Lh8FlqdzWW9YuzWgjO-2aVsvmvE43qXEtwd-HRSQ7cDv_0nA9-a9OD_PuoO3MPlI2sC0LJq91oi4zxjt1HBPM3tLTgs-kWRxGUh5Md14OOIWUcT4ZxB4zIIMk9PgwRGS4AT36OY5dDIY5UaKWjCBesKPOcrhk80iniCCqRE/s320/P1830953.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All Change at Morley Low, view #3, 19/06/23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">What thus follows turns into a regular attendance on site after work, regardless of where of I've been working or which bus I've been able to board for the late afternoon ride back up the hill from Leeds, in order to observe the heavy engineering as it progresses. which on the Monday evening sees a focus on digging out the ballast and trackbed on the 'Up' side, as part of altering the curve on the approach into Morley tunnel, to remove the speed limit through the station site, which probably impeded the camber of the track and also posed a problem to the future installation of electrification catenary, meaning that it had to be removed wholesale, work which is ongoing as the heavy jackhammer is brought out to remove more of the footbridge stub. For the Tuesday, the trains full of fresh aggregate return to the site, allowing the laying of ballast on the 'up' side and the re-laying of rails heading into the tunnel, illustrating just how much can be done when you get a lot of working men on the site, and a whole lot of materials shipped onto the site without having to work around a functioning railway, while on the Wednesday, there's also the small situation of getting the 'down' lines out as well, so the tunnel approach and the old station site can be wholly re-railed to allow the Novas and other TPEs to tilt through at speed as part of the ongoing Trans Pennine Route Upgrade plan. With all the new metals getting laid, all in situ by Thursday evening, with the tamping machine running through the station and a horde of workmen with spades following it to illustrate that a lot of heavy engineering still has a 19th century feel, it's easy to forget that there's a new station getting constructed as all this goes on, needing to be rendered functionally accessible before the turn of the weekend, and thus we have to turn our sights around to see what's going on to the northeast of the old station site, where the footbridge has gad stepped flights installed on both sides by the end of Thursday, and a tarmacked approach laid across the old car park site, and among the heavy plant, in place on Friday. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDf-CfUCo9OqatQXgeln11hEt0Fa4uxWK28jMFrxLenPquJ9_fmYGoGglppbM12lJhOfNKoW8xtRDe7huf8PADvw4EaCvg01i2d0GOluG0FrVxS7Aa6gwv050zzbhP3Zk6uYlBC_u00zTJQ2BNfO37iUTkP0RGJYR8xOG36NffDgFfsFxb9f6GhAL6fck/s2560/P1830997.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDf-CfUCo9OqatQXgeln11hEt0Fa4uxWK28jMFrxLenPquJ9_fmYGoGglppbM12lJhOfNKoW8xtRDe7huf8PADvw4EaCvg01i2d0GOluG0FrVxS7Aa6gwv050zzbhP3Zk6uYlBC_u00zTJQ2BNfO37iUTkP0RGJYR8xOG36NffDgFfsFxb9f6GhAL6fck/s320/P1830997.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Up' platform and line removed, 19/06/23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhscRL7z-853ouJKNJIwpMb3FrtY_dg-dtZwjM3olHUzaimtoJVSacQGFN8iPKvDTlUwu2JntWMXXpHOL8cyGa3eT9eowRq9HCAz3HIEcqE0wsly2U-KrI3GYryJYmb1sN4m-zvK1HKBHO2VtMBMl3m3fiWcF5oChsr-g9XrOFy7DbF-nA0TLRdN9_dJNs/s2560/P1840110.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhscRL7z-853ouJKNJIwpMb3FrtY_dg-dtZwjM3olHUzaimtoJVSacQGFN8iPKvDTlUwu2JntWMXXpHOL8cyGa3eT9eowRq9HCAz3HIEcqE0wsly2U-KrI3GYryJYmb1sN4m-zvK1HKBHO2VtMBMl3m3fiWcF5oChsr-g9XrOFy7DbF-nA0TLRdN9_dJNs/s320/P1840110.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Footbridge demolition still in progress, 19/06/23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEyh0lij0DUmZLIMJ8DGeDuJC2qvkitHIlr9R6Thg-Ex_r6o7yRctw94FNCNBcmvHER4Q4v2YLH7dmjdhgsThh3nSk8bEmryfs5_crogeqhdPZeAKxasNl6ZL7_ZUigIh9eR56vD5qDQJ2Lvq8ZPaZzmLidgg2WB7xnAPLdH82jKin5_lfzSb4frbWNfU/s2560/P1840203.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEyh0lij0DUmZLIMJ8DGeDuJC2qvkitHIlr9R6Thg-Ex_r6o7yRctw94FNCNBcmvHER4Q4v2YLH7dmjdhgsThh3nSk8bEmryfs5_crogeqhdPZeAKxasNl6ZL7_ZUigIh9eR56vD5qDQJ2Lvq8ZPaZzmLidgg2WB7xnAPLdH82jKin5_lfzSb4frbWNfU/s320/P1840203.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Ballast on the 'Up' side in the old Station site. 20/06/23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7qXIFw9Zytsf9WBNm3RzrIIgEL2e4PXH6Em1YtlrliapWyFdEv6O8A7cgCF8Dwmvc2gLYS4HPL8pBGKZlw1wpzSevQYscE4bzQ8LCBetsOwixHTbEr0VEm0VbIMB6LFrr0cRVuK_1Xt8vcWndT6oI8SFz00hqVBNFH3bl_4tmFhoeoecS-5x7yyHOM84/s2560/P1840365.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7qXIFw9Zytsf9WBNm3RzrIIgEL2e4PXH6Em1YtlrliapWyFdEv6O8A7cgCF8Dwmvc2gLYS4HPL8pBGKZlw1wpzSevQYscE4bzQ8LCBetsOwixHTbEr0VEm0VbIMB6LFrr0cRVuK_1Xt8vcWndT6oI8SFz00hqVBNFH3bl_4tmFhoeoecS-5x7yyHOM84/s320/P1840365.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spoil Train on the new 'Up side, with 'Down' line removed. 21/06/23 </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6VfSmbyrXahA28mgcR1J0LbNIaK_L6eFIGUgEnKMq1yDENNIJ6YZZFi6K54SWLJfNyLHcTC82IznuiMVZ5tb7RJRL4J2ZhBdKzfnSpneRlD2YBv_6VQ1_C5gstIW1xIR7kSmm7xlEoGv-ttfXt-pRBT1HqHtPK3ZKSzvATkXznhwU4nelWyF91lk8NiY/s2560/P1840682.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6VfSmbyrXahA28mgcR1J0LbNIaK_L6eFIGUgEnKMq1yDENNIJ6YZZFi6K54SWLJfNyLHcTC82IznuiMVZ5tb7RJRL4J2ZhBdKzfnSpneRlD2YBv_6VQ1_C5gstIW1xIR7kSmm7xlEoGv-ttfXt-pRBT1HqHtPK3ZKSzvATkXznhwU4nelWyF91lk8NiY/s320/P1840682.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Rails in place at Morley Low, with Tamping Machine, 22/06/23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRbX9wmWA1oDtBzsrQoihfKZEn5KG0gnOQqvaIbxHUy395i5tJ8NME7Fg-lasdSD09EbOoTKr9OOQaln79GbQ6RrKF_VD_UsPLpv4pYpDsMKAcpja861b8ZdOESx4yqbQILI1xAbLqSt2sv0U1YI6EfxfOlhvnnbzrQcK9_fj3g6nPhF9hp3-FBlkJu14/s2560/P1840809.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRbX9wmWA1oDtBzsrQoihfKZEn5KG0gnOQqvaIbxHUy395i5tJ8NME7Fg-lasdSD09EbOoTKr9OOQaln79GbQ6RrKF_VD_UsPLpv4pYpDsMKAcpja861b8ZdOESx4yqbQILI1xAbLqSt2sv0U1YI6EfxfOlhvnnbzrQcK9_fj3g6nPhF9hp3-FBlkJu14/s320/P1840809.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Accessible footbridge now in situ at Morley New station, 22/6/23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi48k_SI-Kaf6Ci_T4rliVi_YyaZjGH6aJvaPhurzZ3mSrwWUVrVlv8Iih9fIWYdzKzVqTU3IqmnV9-tOK3hZ0y8mTabw_q-6dCsX17yz3QrLw3FbVdyMh9syPKpxP88RFHy_PhOWWhO_Aq4ULO8DZO0eTjFz2UX8YRHDoTAP7LfAcO4FvDvYhWd2LiavA/s2560/P1840983.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi48k_SI-Kaf6Ci_T4rliVi_YyaZjGH6aJvaPhurzZ3mSrwWUVrVlv8Iih9fIWYdzKzVqTU3IqmnV9-tOK3hZ0y8mTabw_q-6dCsX17yz3QrLw3FbVdyMh9syPKpxP88RFHy_PhOWWhO_Aq4ULO8DZO0eTjFz2UX8YRHDoTAP7LfAcO4FvDvYhWd2LiavA/s320/P1840983.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Best available reverse angle over the new station, 23/06/23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">While we're taking all this interest in the New Morley station, it's also worth turning our gaze towards the very slowly progressing works at White Rose station to the north as well, where construction has been ongoing for 18 months, and stands apparently still far from final completion, despite work having started in late 2021, and this needs to be observed by alighting the buses on Churwell Hill and at the White Rose centre so we can get a much coverage of the site as is possible, where piles have been driven, canopies assembled and access towers built, but visible progress appears to be insanely slow, as if the impetus needed for rapid completion at Morley is entirely absent here. It doesn't look like we've even got much construction of the platforms as yet, and while the towers for the lifts and stairs cores have been in place for a while, the elevation of the footbridges has not yet taken place, as the metalwork appears to be on site and assembled, but no cranes are apparent as we pass by on Thursday and Friday evening, on the paths around the fields of Broad Oaks farm, pondering the very real probability that this is a project that could easily run on into 2024, meaning that even with modern construction techniques, the task of assembling platforms atop a pre-existing embankment might end up taking as long as the excavation of 2+ miles of Morley Tunnel in the 1840s. Otherwise, back on the Morley site, work appears to have quietened down as the weekend of the 24th-25th passes, with the work mostly looking like it's been set up to secure the access to the new platform beyond the car park and heavy plant storage, while no further work seems to be taking place to reuse or remove the 'Down' platform as yet, as a large generator or perhaps a pump now sits below where the footbridge stood, chugging away to its merry self, which makes it a certainty that we will have a wholly new station to use as the next week rolls around, just that bit further down the line than it was previously.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikhF9iHnVwl3T9e2E3fHInYc0lLhrAJ5M3U7yw7ofDWvDqkaF09OcTj_56WQHouVZPkTfDh5JOOz81tMHwj9lM8SnQDua4lCnN71AAsoHLreDERndSrXVmdpxHbmjTU34yEObzszvthOyL4cSvoW3b0MSG0EWabT0litX2SLeF6VzGNB6-oyXlnSZtvLg/s2560/P1840516.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikhF9iHnVwl3T9e2E3fHInYc0lLhrAJ5M3U7yw7ofDWvDqkaF09OcTj_56WQHouVZPkTfDh5JOOz81tMHwj9lM8SnQDua4lCnN71AAsoHLreDERndSrXVmdpxHbmjTU34yEObzszvthOyL4cSvoW3b0MSG0EWabT0litX2SLeF6VzGNB6-oyXlnSZtvLg/s320/P1840516.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White Rose 'Up' platform, from Churwell Hill 22/06/23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU_E9g08ccr2vWI1TTWx7rkaEOs-d_lZRa45rMnvo5XgYoDuxwn9hHme97wm7idjMX5o5VCKJ-tkQztAss3UST1unXnI4HM-ps8s_XAnzeNslPZtf06SpsVX6oOHN8CDlXwAdbDbI9p00zM59SEbDHZdgtoMUfo1l6mfIHy7tvjaRigcOX-yT9GviKmZE/s2560/P1840528.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU_E9g08ccr2vWI1TTWx7rkaEOs-d_lZRa45rMnvo5XgYoDuxwn9hHme97wm7idjMX5o5VCKJ-tkQztAss3UST1unXnI4HM-ps8s_XAnzeNslPZtf06SpsVX6oOHN8CDlXwAdbDbI9p00zM59SEbDHZdgtoMUfo1l6mfIHy7tvjaRigcOX-yT9GviKmZE/s320/P1840528.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White Rose 'Down' platform, from Churwell Hill 22/06/23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivOq4vpbTV-HbYeZCNNyT76VFZRVttmqdxX0xnkzDArTgGa1XyFniUZNdHT34fpFAhC8G-hroHqpfTZ0F4olJ-pPCWPuxkZ-D6m5NFPTlqwxJPCHU4nnivepJHUm16uZvTfIWKrM_VW6Z7TsrC75ikIALretXNeMX4wcUZJXh3YNkMHeEqrudIasL4jVo/s2560/P1840561.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivOq4vpbTV-HbYeZCNNyT76VFZRVttmqdxX0xnkzDArTgGa1XyFniUZNdHT34fpFAhC8G-hroHqpfTZ0F4olJ-pPCWPuxkZ-D6m5NFPTlqwxJPCHU4nnivepJHUm16uZvTfIWKrM_VW6Z7TsrC75ikIALretXNeMX4wcUZJXh3YNkMHeEqrudIasL4jVo/s320/P1840561.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White Rose station, with towers and footbridge (not in situ) 22/06/23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuroa1JPn9Ws_aKP9g-H-lv0QkL2-3TNsjXmcTx0UbT6p0TObthu4TaoGbudNHw5g2FpXrZCncn8D0mEbTXWf9EgVWrMcEBhD7F06a-EtbjEMNeu1Iq_rTOloFEDsYFLBwF5p06ZC7D87t5BamhYCQr5FH0FSH9eA1yOa3VUeGq_DmT-jR8r_ULqQ-cqM/s2560/P1840945.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuroa1JPn9Ws_aKP9g-H-lv0QkL2-3TNsjXmcTx0UbT6p0TObthu4TaoGbudNHw5g2FpXrZCncn8D0mEbTXWf9EgVWrMcEBhD7F06a-EtbjEMNeu1Iq_rTOloFEDsYFLBwF5p06ZC7D87t5BamhYCQr5FH0FSH9eA1yOa3VUeGq_DmT-jR8r_ULqQ-cqM/s320/P1840945.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White Rose station, from the footbridge - Broad Oaks path 23/06/23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPATXfjm7AAF7eBYF-FUVQfOwkStnzngFoXThI4P-4eMWWyHJP6Fy5PLgqaAjegI7ocPRD7mn2D40cWG3T4Q6nGAj3u2yTCn41pMBY-T8HjQoP1YuSZO3dkW-UfSdCnLBPWzkZ4clbn1jApRXFjI8Hs-hYqIr04MF229JIfKEOfVC-ANGySHzALXQiAjY/s2560/P1860176.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPATXfjm7AAF7eBYF-FUVQfOwkStnzngFoXThI4P-4eMWWyHJP6Fy5PLgqaAjegI7ocPRD7mn2D40cWG3T4Q6nGAj3u2yTCn41pMBY-T8HjQoP1YuSZO3dkW-UfSdCnLBPWzkZ4clbn1jApRXFjI8Hs-hYqIr04MF229JIfKEOfVC-ANGySHzALXQiAjY/s320/P1860176.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clear access to Morley New station established 25/06/23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY3--EOiD_oGCYPGEKfyoX_h0O55k-9lmZ9_y2fpLT5yG5jPnKR8RHaqA8FeqloHjm0J2uGXuVR9sWPeirPKECQp0oOKDoGaPUqle5hOy38LrwotjerUOtD3Xn8L6xoR2nUL-UvQf0Dl4XeOBc7m9fWfLTjjxS5hrRmH4KOIZmYO06XI5uq_nIxtHi8nw/s2560/P1860201.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY3--EOiD_oGCYPGEKfyoX_h0O55k-9lmZ9_y2fpLT5yG5jPnKR8RHaqA8FeqloHjm0J2uGXuVR9sWPeirPKECQp0oOKDoGaPUqle5hOy38LrwotjerUOtD3Xn8L6xoR2nUL-UvQf0Dl4XeOBc7m9fWfLTjjxS5hrRmH4KOIZmYO06XI5uq_nIxtHi8nw/s320/P1860201.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Morley Low's 'Down' Platform still endures, for now 25/06/23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">So Monday 26th June is thus our red letter day, and as I'm awake enough to be out of the house before 6am on the first day of my working week, I'll be heading down to observe the first services arrive at the new station, 75m further along the line than the old one and while there are still a lot of workmen on site, there seems to be little apparent hoopla to greet the commuters for the early train, which arrives at 6.17am to not be greeted by dignitaries, ribbon-cutting or bunting, and not even any detonators or a Geoff Marshall sighting, which is slightly disappointing, but might well have something to do with it not being finished yet, and being opened purely out of necessity after the old site was partially demolished. I'll troll around and observe the expresses pass through before travelling off to work on the third stopping service of the day, the 06.56, getting thanked for my patience by the Northern Rail staff as I ponder my first impressions, which have crystalised nicely once I return homeward on the 16.26 arrival in the evening, which is that I actually quite like the new station, which despite its increased distance from the town and long sloped walk away offers a site that's actually significantly larger than what it replaced, with apparently longer platforms, which are also deeper than they appeared when viewed from afar. It's also been good work to get the platform surface laid and increased quantities of shelters established too, which enhances the impression of getting an actual upgrade, though there are still significant shortcomings, the least of which being the lack of functioning display boards, and the absence of tannoy or ticket machines, because as we've observed the station is still a work in progress, with the footbridge not completed and the temporary scaffold step flights feeling rather rickety when a crowd ascends or descends, while the complete absence of lifts, with their cores not even in place yet rather spoils the promise of the fully accessible station that we were promised.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF41QVc2g_8kDz8Jd_LNVT9P-uR_kqo9tlkCQhhANtzhniAqjNR-sMHaqCUcrjn10ZL3Xf6JjCpV1_rk5ZVqE7FOMadsrISE8fLji0kS4UG_xzyp96OU4a6LajWhyGgtnISBAPgL5Xan1P2y4lRdHpM1zU8LzVsfgavfDFWkApDk0bHLBDze1cRFtC9y0/s2560/P1860219.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF41QVc2g_8kDz8Jd_LNVT9P-uR_kqo9tlkCQhhANtzhniAqjNR-sMHaqCUcrjn10ZL3Xf6JjCpV1_rk5ZVqE7FOMadsrISE8fLji0kS4UG_xzyp96OU4a6LajWhyGgtnISBAPgL5Xan1P2y4lRdHpM1zU8LzVsfgavfDFWkApDk0bHLBDze1cRFtC9y0/s320/P1860219.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Being among the first visitors to Morley 'New' station, 26/06/23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLvCe0LpogeQmzUKhOu4i3pmtUMUlWdvlHoKM0akFzaHg4MXaHTYaalsKGmVUQ9OMD03_HRO8g9w2ziIOUwkGj987PTCVRsvhNqtHoLxp65q2mbyKD_XFP7mrrEPNVHLKCljq0akFPOPvbj3BW-966cOeroAjOXWp87SUL1q-_b_mJDXMfIS1tsmjOEao/s2560/P1860263.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLvCe0LpogeQmzUKhOu4i3pmtUMUlWdvlHoKM0akFzaHg4MXaHTYaalsKGmVUQ9OMD03_HRO8g9w2ziIOUwkGj987PTCVRsvhNqtHoLxp65q2mbyKD_XFP7mrrEPNVHLKCljq0akFPOPvbj3BW-966cOeroAjOXWp87SUL1q-_b_mJDXMfIS1tsmjOEao/s320/P1860263.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Up' Platform from the 'Down' Platform 26/06/23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpPgCWJ4ivPm6xWcKTar0os0Ymzc8cll8Tdp9A5YPTb9rjac5nXiSi6KN8IFda1ORZltFNVinlqwS3oDezCifMVowztTnGrFjxGvbvX8n939tNLUlCvzOw01v56ZHt_pwuNGOjZxzFvPACL5bh3eCPnK6kbeUU-aGWVaKX3ajJq0PwogflaixGucfvFrI/s2560/P1860308.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpPgCWJ4ivPm6xWcKTar0os0Ymzc8cll8Tdp9A5YPTb9rjac5nXiSi6KN8IFda1ORZltFNVinlqwS3oDezCifMVowztTnGrFjxGvbvX8n939tNLUlCvzOw01v56ZHt_pwuNGOjZxzFvPACL5bh3eCPnK6kbeUU-aGWVaKX3ajJq0PwogflaixGucfvFrI/s320/P1860308.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 0617 to Leeds is the first train from Morley 'New' 26/06/23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOd_2J8A_0Ygl8GbrEa1qSGsZkElrdiM-7-g-hg83DODbolKxUEj9NKfOwBTGil__Hik-1x1K19KSvgiV3XInJYhPtZ2r8kNW028FtMryifmtpBElmvDpUk_dSTu4OEURYGt_4JU5JuoQDCScpSYLWogTNRIFyAyaU10BIAycBRcJ7ENFUaGtzrYxEzV8/s2560/P1860538.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOd_2J8A_0Ygl8GbrEa1qSGsZkElrdiM-7-g-hg83DODbolKxUEj9NKfOwBTGil__Hik-1x1K19KSvgiV3XInJYhPtZ2r8kNW028FtMryifmtpBElmvDpUk_dSTu4OEURYGt_4JU5JuoQDCScpSYLWogTNRIFyAyaU10BIAycBRcJ7ENFUaGtzrYxEzV8/s320/P1860538.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 'Down' Platform from the 'Up' Platform 26/06/23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2gwZm72LeLXpTQtlXxpjVgAkzNlyfrXQ1yAaa4odfcMhsHyizUqRyky_8sTozVWvNkZWNP4KiaT0lg-7suRKn5Nafij08Je0oqTy4XdzYXtCIpyVp-e_jVqWo0Rf_qd4zgqfN5OQtpovM45yxBgsfUgfpFaV-vk-pu_5GM7U0_6ntZlm6C2gjI22nlEU/s2560/P1860704.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2gwZm72LeLXpTQtlXxpjVgAkzNlyfrXQ1yAaa4odfcMhsHyizUqRyky_8sTozVWvNkZWNP4KiaT0lg-7suRKn5Nafij08Je0oqTy4XdzYXtCIpyVp-e_jVqWo0Rf_qd4zgqfN5OQtpovM45yxBgsfUgfpFaV-vk-pu_5GM7U0_6ntZlm6C2gjI22nlEU/s320/P1860704.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'New' Morley overview from the footbridge 26/06/23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQyOmvaW3xjVm2qmABc29n5sN22LL1oXqIIzd-NKHvly8KW8tvxbkh9cPIFsmKnrdEc5UXx_NMutf243yry4k--EJ2y7-qS-dcInXLK8rxCjCrB6icxcmLcL9RZSvkrexFIBQ-w-WAX6tHlkN6lA9EcJIIk9cr4BkqM39dHDbt-F3bwHqQ5Ri7u6mMLNA/s2560/P1860751.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQyOmvaW3xjVm2qmABc29n5sN22LL1oXqIIzd-NKHvly8KW8tvxbkh9cPIFsmKnrdEc5UXx_NMutf243yry4k--EJ2y7-qS-dcInXLK8rxCjCrB6icxcmLcL9RZSvkrexFIBQ-w-WAX6tHlkN6lA9EcJIIk9cr4BkqM39dHDbt-F3bwHqQ5Ri7u6mMLNA/s320/P1860751.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Morley Low now passes into History 26/06/23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">Of course, local opinion, or at least that which can be gleaned from the internet, seems to be universally negative, complaining of heritage being destroyed (which is really a problem dating back to the 60s), or bemoaning its remote location and lack of convenient access (which have been an issue since its construction in 1848), but I'll try to regard it more positively, through the eyes of someone who actually uses it and actively considers the social value of rail travel, to hope that the future of the Trans Pennine Route Upgrade might look away from the enhancement of express services and work to bring a more regular (like 3 trains an hour) local service and longer (like 5 or 6 carriage) trains on these lines to Leeds, Huddersfield and Calderdale, before electrification finally arrives on these metals in the 2030s. maybe?</p><p style="text-align: center;">~~~</p><p style="text-align: left;">Elsewhere, away from the wandering and observation of major civil engineering projects, June has also presented us with the unsurprisingly difficult business of attempting astronomy across the quarter of the year where night never seems to fall properly and the twilight arrives late and seems to endure almost until midnight, rendering it difficult to planet-spot from my vantage point at home, which makes for some rather challenging viewing across the month as Venus and Mars in Gemini and Cancer put on their final display in close proximity, with the latter passing within a degree on the Beehive Cluster (M44) on the 2nd, and the former reaching its greatest eastern elongation, to give maximum visibility across the evening on the 4th. Actually managing to capture Mars and the open cluster at a dim magnitude with my hand-held and underpowered camera might just be the most significant success for my sky-watching on the year so far, while the extended appearance of Venus seems like a bit feels like a disappointment as it's not all that bright until after 10pm when it's sitting very low in the sky. and it appearance in an alignment with Castor and Pollux the day prior seems more worthy of a jaunt out of the house and up the hill, and once Venus has moved to meet M44 on the 13th, it's too low in the sky and not dark enough to be at all visible from my perspective. The apparent closeness of Venus and Mars is then best visible around the Summer Solstice, on the 21st and 22nd, which coincides with the young moon passing by, neither of which are readily observable until well past 10pm as they rapidly sink below the apparent horizon, in skies that are still bright enough to render an extremely bright star like Regulus, in Leo, extremely difficult to spot, all of which sums up the difficulty of star-gazing at the point in the year when climatic conditions are best suited to being out and about to do it, which will probably put the crimp on this activity for a while, as I'm not chasing Mars or Venus as they reach their closest approach and pass out of visibility during July, and will probably await the reappearance of Saturn and Jupiter in the evening skies in the east come the Autumn.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUkjbj_J6m_l0FOO2ztFuAZngigU-J_M_odVqP06o46ecc8qD6oQaC5S0u1fLrKDK90kQV_hSY_Z8j8BfZFslroXPi2YnJozuexereAqv1Q8zEeKOv0j2rGUgQiBD9uOJlyAayPaS0o6FDjI5Uxtnn0Rr3reBmm_KTkrWJ4FrJXVU1ROMaBeL6RTpWRlk/s2048/P1800683.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUkjbj_J6m_l0FOO2ztFuAZngigU-J_M_odVqP06o46ecc8qD6oQaC5S0u1fLrKDK90kQV_hSY_Z8j8BfZFslroXPi2YnJozuexereAqv1Q8zEeKOv0j2rGUgQiBD9uOJlyAayPaS0o6FDjI5Uxtnn0Rr3reBmm_KTkrWJ4FrJXVU1ROMaBeL6RTpWRlk/s320/P1800683.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mars and the Beehive Cluster (M44), 02/06/23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_bEu-d_3wbrylHzZL3KZ0PMc4Qv9R3e4Nrw7NIWcBKKBa6mHB2etSv1BY7ye0ZhMKXytgH4vaGjzUN4mf7V4BJko1UW2FKLGoks9oQyhbjnigbLdr3svpmVg-nJ91hAiItSEUSGHlfXOTpZXCFyfA-OprX2v7KlU9GyQhGqtfh55weVLCtHwk2zym-74/s3264/P1810620.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_bEu-d_3wbrylHzZL3KZ0PMc4Qv9R3e4Nrw7NIWcBKKBa6mHB2etSv1BY7ye0ZhMKXytgH4vaGjzUN4mf7V4BJko1UW2FKLGoks9oQyhbjnigbLdr3svpmVg-nJ91hAiItSEUSGHlfXOTpZXCFyfA-OprX2v7KlU9GyQhGqtfh55weVLCtHwk2zym-74/s320/P1810620.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mars & Venus, and Castor & Pollux, 03/06/23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivt3aLoc-g97HTl6rqXS3SIWNUTRVA2_OdBZrCkXmS6pv9WmlEqXjpJ86xtHprBvN-hyEfS4oNstD6MiBKc8L7l86jPkMW4jA5JjGMGOHLFwJCE7Zcj_jk0PsCCmXYrwNkj1RXIUDH17L_v6Z66sVUtwreDbu02gK4E66Ofe5GpzGrj6po8YzauTenEA8/s2448/P1810663%20(1).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1836" data-original-width="2448" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivt3aLoc-g97HTl6rqXS3SIWNUTRVA2_OdBZrCkXmS6pv9WmlEqXjpJ86xtHprBvN-hyEfS4oNstD6MiBKc8L7l86jPkMW4jA5JjGMGOHLFwJCE7Zcj_jk0PsCCmXYrwNkj1RXIUDH17L_v6Z66sVUtwreDbu02gK4E66Ofe5GpzGrj6po8YzauTenEA8/s320/P1810663%20(1).JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Venus at greatest eastern elongation, 04/06/23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTUUIPW48VeHSUlvZML5a8WTJ7tzUBARWyCNwlIFWNkCoOwocPFJ3nPH8NIFdw-2ZHPK-w_VQGuRxBmSdrW5ZM3kd7hU7xVf_oCigiYexCiATCIDiRZ9wV4LXfHw3V0byLoKEu579XOMIilCD1glJA7NsA5iaSyyynnPrNXS9W8s8Si_G0AXyonn-bGCA/s3264/P1820938.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTUUIPW48VeHSUlvZML5a8WTJ7tzUBARWyCNwlIFWNkCoOwocPFJ3nPH8NIFdw-2ZHPK-w_VQGuRxBmSdrW5ZM3kd7hU7xVf_oCigiYexCiATCIDiRZ9wV4LXfHw3V0byLoKEu579XOMIilCD1glJA7NsA5iaSyyynnPrNXS9W8s8Si_G0AXyonn-bGCA/s320/P1820938.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mars and Venus, 17/06/23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtl5tkhYMpCoQZGMWfiPZ5my5takc-5RykNY9UIuTWUzyyGNdAEqJcSmz-O_6eHiru3M808mgpVIwNTZJp248wgNhsfKS08g-fgNn-BwLxiXVutvyH17C32FBX0A0gGTpN5mpoEKzfJeqKN2MqU4JEPJDyZrlwAA8m7iHXA0wX9j4aBdYKvp9AyGcpwqY/s3264/P1840467.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtl5tkhYMpCoQZGMWfiPZ5my5takc-5RykNY9UIuTWUzyyGNdAEqJcSmz-O_6eHiru3M808mgpVIwNTZJp248wgNhsfKS08g-fgNn-BwLxiXVutvyH17C32FBX0A0gGTpN5mpoEKzfJeqKN2MqU4JEPJDyZrlwAA8m7iHXA0wX9j4aBdYKvp9AyGcpwqY/s320/P1840467.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Venus and The Four Day Moon, 21/06/23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1yf0_2ueqrAf_9UnTzor4BV5Kkhl2ci9T8_O8ciTTfKcV_-tGRr2YTR_M1a4lPFbCi0qcz2Qb8E0cJ-_b1pU02qCEnU-gwfDF1jWjosNDtm4zk3UN_WmuQOkT2G5eHCxzE-wnKoDhCQCQTWzg8EATvezZPjhOCMCIsUPullnG15-1vZu5HvqoIqHbtyQ/s3264/P1840884.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1yf0_2ueqrAf_9UnTzor4BV5Kkhl2ci9T8_O8ciTTfKcV_-tGRr2YTR_M1a4lPFbCi0qcz2Qb8E0cJ-_b1pU02qCEnU-gwfDF1jWjosNDtm4zk3UN_WmuQOkT2G5eHCxzE-wnKoDhCQCQTWzg8EATvezZPjhOCMCIsUPullnG15-1vZu5HvqoIqHbtyQ/s320/P1840884.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Five Day Moon and Mars, 22/06/23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiie0QOBpwwU-DA0xMCTq3KEjCBiXVn0YGGzYCZmElWgwwvufDiQl7ORS3FOROL0ZoHNzGRPCYD4M4xbkhMpGkkyldXLT6ocri77edvwO5JZY9GRdVMB9DMcE2JwZjzAuBiBYEJW85Dq0m4StCSowspvVVKBKGhCijarQiKJPt9W5kzJW0NSieZoTzKmKA/s3264/P1840903.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiie0QOBpwwU-DA0xMCTq3KEjCBiXVn0YGGzYCZmElWgwwvufDiQl7ORS3FOROL0ZoHNzGRPCYD4M4xbkhMpGkkyldXLT6ocri77edvwO5JZY9GRdVMB9DMcE2JwZjzAuBiBYEJW85Dq0m4StCSowspvVVKBKGhCijarQiKJPt9W5kzJW0NSieZoTzKmKA/s320/P1840903.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Five Day Moon and Regulus, 22/06/23</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">Next Up: A Three Day Weekend Away, with My Sister.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>Christopher Wrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09743749271457169317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527420385844253776.post-28505501968905197762023-06-25T16:36:00.327+01:002023-07-02T12:15:04.963+01:00Morley to Deighton 24/06/23<div style="text-align: left;"><b>10.6 miles, via Morley Bottoms, Scatcherd Park, Dartmouth Park, St Andrews View,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Birkby Brow Wood, Howden Clough, Copley Hill, Birstall Smithies, White Lee, Westfield,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Lower Popeley, Liversedge (Mill Bridge), Headland, Low Fold, Upper Row, Lower Row,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Cooper Bridge, Bradley, Colne Bridge, Bradley Viaduct, and Whitacre Mill.</b></div><p style="text-align: left;">This past week certainly has been a busy one, with no trains to ride on my working days due to the engineering possession, and all my comings and goings to three hospital sites across the cities having to be on a variety of buses, with the potentially unlimited strike by Firstbus drivers only lasting two days in amongst to keep things manageable, which allowed me plenty of oppotrubites to stroll locally after work to see exaxtly what was going on at Morley station, and at the ongoing development at White Rose, tales which will probably ned to be recounted at another time as all that chatter could easliy derail the account of wandering for this weekend otherwise. We're hardly feeling full of beans as Summer arrives, rising late and strolling to our start line rather casually, turning our back on the developments at the station before we start out at 9.55am, with our eyes on the trail to the Colne valley that we imagined into existence after our failure of two weeks ago, heading west along station road, by Dartmouth Mill and the Rec, and noting that the factory redevelopment on the south side is indeed becoming residential as dormer windows emerge from its roof, ahead of the roll up to Morley Bottoms, where the closed off stub of Queen Street has been reopened to wreak havoc on the block paving, where we rise up to Scatcherd Park, passing below the Cenotaph and through Hopkins gardens to our way away up Queensway. It's all familiar going beyond too, past Morrisons and the Leisure centre, and up to the civic complex of fire station, police station and health centre on Corporation Street, which is passed as we join Scatcherd Lane, to take us past the Cricket and Rugby Union clubs and on to Dartmouth Park, which is shadowed as St Andrew Avenue leads up to its eponymous church and the A650 Bruntcliffe Road, which is crossed to finally make a new path, into the Lego house estate of St Andrews View, where Perry Way leads us over the crest to the reveal of the views to Emley Moor mast and the Calder catchment, ahead of the footbridge over the M62 and our winter astronomy spot.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYkgE0WE6iyzgVrfCS0ZPp73j40B5XukLP7IdKAYg3NbGN-Xwbt0u7wOFPcDPqhAeDZ-Vp1K60XycoZ6_F9ZO1uNAh9J7FEfw5l5kelRNt8VM11ngspimIBIRHW5kHo4_-6uG_wW_6OqWp4MCwa8Co38VL0wBdb7cEXTk3eri4N7WZ2EXx0HobaR6tkAg/s2560/P1850065.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYkgE0WE6iyzgVrfCS0ZPp73j40B5XukLP7IdKAYg3NbGN-Xwbt0u7wOFPcDPqhAeDZ-Vp1K60XycoZ6_F9ZO1uNAh9J7FEfw5l5kelRNt8VM11ngspimIBIRHW5kHo4_-6uG_wW_6OqWp4MCwa8Co38VL0wBdb7cEXTk3eri4N7WZ2EXx0HobaR6tkAg/s320/P1850065.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Station Road factory redevelopment continues.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjahVaGfmCiJhYJkAoGYqLRawpeQ3ZeOQ86D9jzZfXhiylOT7nGowBMVp-ZS4okzFzp1XHxiw1e8w5xCphfxbWmw_ly2JGK3WHB5zDIkd0K6mFLJck7EEHkRYVPsMvzSuSzruGGd85aQbvWt3tEzEpt5zvqzAzzSjDb5JK7x_1f6wJxdqSB78XvQPU-niY/s2560/P1850108.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjahVaGfmCiJhYJkAoGYqLRawpeQ3ZeOQ86D9jzZfXhiylOT7nGowBMVp-ZS4okzFzp1XHxiw1e8w5xCphfxbWmw_ly2JGK3WHB5zDIkd0K6mFLJck7EEHkRYVPsMvzSuSzruGGd85aQbvWt3tEzEpt5zvqzAzzSjDb5JK7x_1f6wJxdqSB78XvQPU-niY/s320/P1850108.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hopkins Gardens, Scatcherd Park.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipfGzh4MoblQ9A6BNFlAxPCViz-bnCPzey6EuhWjq9MaXJq3il2gv0pxlLW6y44tETa2TaEOV961pIc9BzVHTK9Vv9-k2JVQwjyZsYY0eyX01uWu4lDGeNpbT51128ReQ4szdXdZ6bNqwYvmtl6K4KPu9bd7uBw1gSPeQh6nPrxDcPL3kokodpI_xsYhk/s2560/P1850137.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipfGzh4MoblQ9A6BNFlAxPCViz-bnCPzey6EuhWjq9MaXJq3il2gv0pxlLW6y44tETa2TaEOV961pIc9BzVHTK9Vv9-k2JVQwjyZsYY0eyX01uWu4lDGeNpbT51128ReQ4szdXdZ6bNqwYvmtl6K4KPu9bd7uBw1gSPeQh6nPrxDcPL3kokodpI_xsYhk/s320/P1850137.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Rugby and Cricket Clubs, Scatcherd Lane.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDjQe_wu-YaEioglFpSBOTWBigbAE4Chu7_U9LDocJzBOe_ECXkXh0B-TOcmDy1O3JHAfyGq9ruVuOOd1XcfiD7P2nQS2BEsiithh2UV8Wo8GqzhqjGvc1vjt7xCk5YOY99QsU7hqiS8tzKXOhWyd3bqvQW0H5sthYOMiRTD55acF_kU-K_-qBSNwpnh8/s2560/P1850181.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDjQe_wu-YaEioglFpSBOTWBigbAE4Chu7_U9LDocJzBOe_ECXkXh0B-TOcmDy1O3JHAfyGq9ruVuOOd1XcfiD7P2nQS2BEsiithh2UV8Wo8GqzhqjGvc1vjt7xCk5YOY99QsU7hqiS8tzKXOhWyd3bqvQW0H5sthYOMiRTD55acF_kU-K_-qBSNwpnh8/s320/P1850181.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Perry Way, St Andrews View, and the Emley Moor horizon.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">Poppies abound on the field path beside the motorway, as we follow the track that leads into the woodland that conceals the old path route, which descends diagonally down to it southwest corner, we the Scott Lane track leads down to the Schole Croft farm track which is followed until we take the unmarked field path down into Birkby Brow wood, which has been traced a few times now and I'm now sure doesn't really exist as we head down the steep bank to meet the clear track, and the way down to the passage over Howden Beck and up the overgrown path to meet the apparently For Sale house at the eastern edge of Howden Clough by the side of the A643. It's back to familiar pavements as we continue our south-westerly press along the Leeds Road, through the upper reaches of greater Batley, beyond the Mann's Buildings terrace and the old farmstead ahead of the lost railway line and the playing fields on their perch atop Copley Hill, where we crest by the still derelict Clough House and then head downhill with the cricket field also elevated above us as we carry on down through the deep cutting and into greater Birstall with the footway arrangements getting weird ahead of us dropping out onto the A62 Huddersfield Road to the east of the town centre, where our main trajectory for the day offers itself to us. So hang a left and head down by the Methodist chapel and the Old Wine & Spirits Vaults, to meet Crilly's and the Greyhound in at the Birstall Smithies crossroads, where an electric green T-reg Ford Fiesta has to be noted in the car dealership, before Smithies Beck is passed over, secluded by trees and then its uphill again, rising past the Johnstone's Paints et al factory and into the long passage of greenery that leads up to the White Lee crossroads, where we can join the stretch of the Leeds & Huddersfield turnpike that we haven't trace before between the old pub and former colliery site, now home to 'Metallizers', with the hillside of Popeley Fields rising to the north of us.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0d5uKCTgQhc4pAnpVNBfCFvSyp1833lFpBeh7UWRZc72K3N8fJgzljW8Z76Z_ApOB36eeJhMu_fP8tY4HWUwI9EIMldIMfZcKfydcl4JcgGrwH6WtJ4VNyTUV5FvDT7NdFYtaoajn3_3UXIDnpthWBNs4aZ51Y7qj7YEJJYofSz-M6FDaRXNwjkQi26E/s2560/P1850230.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0d5uKCTgQhc4pAnpVNBfCFvSyp1833lFpBeh7UWRZc72K3N8fJgzljW8Z76Z_ApOB36eeJhMu_fP8tY4HWUwI9EIMldIMfZcKfydcl4JcgGrwH6WtJ4VNyTUV5FvDT7NdFYtaoajn3_3UXIDnpthWBNs4aZ51Y7qj7YEJJYofSz-M6FDaRXNwjkQi26E/s320/P1850230.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Woodland and Field Waling to Birkby Brow.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsaprEYBy2vCF1jHkqFlFZAV7ZTcm1N0VpOc_6muzuZP9eQafliTVMIRfXRbLOXQnx-ZpUC_Rv5VC9CrOluXIGvxQkM5Q3lkjzOBZ3Ah_k1O-EJVehJdv4BRhovmmO-cDE5kroH9-sjmdvCtn501iBmVuvesaF4BsaRLUyl_8i17UphUKdFR9Zi3YDG14/s2560/P1850272.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsaprEYBy2vCF1jHkqFlFZAV7ZTcm1N0VpOc_6muzuZP9eQafliTVMIRfXRbLOXQnx-ZpUC_Rv5VC9CrOluXIGvxQkM5Q3lkjzOBZ3Ah_k1O-EJVehJdv4BRhovmmO-cDE5kroH9-sjmdvCtn501iBmVuvesaF4BsaRLUyl_8i17UphUKdFR9Zi3YDG14/s320/P1850272.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Howley Beck.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Q0u68_7a-W0vMcAclJ05FlXb2naFzM-qG0WKqnMGbSl5lCWrYMkU6q53lIov23dlOzYD6HgkNQUa-qXqhzDpIM30sv8ch3MHdF8YCbVue0biE2qK9L-co2NaF_6aQGzWCdlQyg9ER9Ympsz_WHLTrgUc1wgfLshwJifsLE6FewF8SctiNa9Qm33jbL0/s2560/P1850298.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Q0u68_7a-W0vMcAclJ05FlXb2naFzM-qG0WKqnMGbSl5lCWrYMkU6q53lIov23dlOzYD6HgkNQUa-qXqhzDpIM30sv8ch3MHdF8YCbVue0biE2qK9L-co2NaF_6aQGzWCdlQyg9ER9Ympsz_WHLTrgUc1wgfLshwJifsLE6FewF8SctiNa9Qm33jbL0/s320/P1850298.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leeds Road, Howden Clough.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRp5Y9iIpNkeI958DCBUUZC43JBY8Jtx4-HyFhvkuZIF9y1JxLCIO7K2pLHQi6m4Ck256PGc-qkJSTXZ6hW1Te2cCouL3vUGXV9Hi5nit8uS6JIUPOoJVNajgYFjbUyvpMMJjASXzzx8KMNbdMHbS9hmjRVJoto2MUpagpRl38gWHTXC7XPccWwhorwV4/s2560/P1850330.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRp5Y9iIpNkeI958DCBUUZC43JBY8Jtx4-HyFhvkuZIF9y1JxLCIO7K2pLHQi6m4Ck256PGc-qkJSTXZ6hW1Te2cCouL3vUGXV9Hi5nit8uS6JIUPOoJVNajgYFjbUyvpMMJjASXzzx8KMNbdMHbS9hmjRVJoto2MUpagpRl38gWHTXC7XPccWwhorwV4/s320/P1850330.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Leeds Road cutting, Copley Hill.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR3jYVQdGRh3iEsoI_wO39SJUI4NV8fwTVDrIr-PwJlchjQIrogRlRxYTi1pOb650KSzz94BgBgiIx52r7oyM63tlRegIQWEUMFc4t38rtxWds1VxFC0HfwPC6uRVENCN_XhblYAGTuLsNhbJ_UJE5uc05jKzgzFDxqA74hU4eVezpwyc6mIsivzIZXOg/s2560/P1850351.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR3jYVQdGRh3iEsoI_wO39SJUI4NV8fwTVDrIr-PwJlchjQIrogRlRxYTi1pOb650KSzz94BgBgiIx52r7oyM63tlRegIQWEUMFc4t38rtxWds1VxFC0HfwPC6uRVENCN_XhblYAGTuLsNhbJ_UJE5uc05jKzgzFDxqA74hU4eVezpwyc6mIsivzIZXOg/s320/P1850351.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Old Wine & Spirits Vault, Birstall.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYPwd8MmSPWVUX5eITansq14qxHqt-lQUC6NsWInVfMLVF2nbgvNi6WZ85zgN0RfUeL29wFbgHluylZb-zsQoiZs8I2Giv54RwfOAkwE5KmXCdQOvu90tW9vJgrgwcMlVtW8_vGbnu2UR8Bp5Z9wPIy4mgvbCTT9PTxsR_pHVCzrOIG6FUF5fD1jkpJqA/s2560/P1850395.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYPwd8MmSPWVUX5eITansq14qxHqt-lQUC6NsWInVfMLVF2nbgvNi6WZ85zgN0RfUeL29wFbgHluylZb-zsQoiZs8I2Giv54RwfOAkwE5KmXCdQOvu90tW9vJgrgwcMlVtW8_vGbnu2UR8Bp5Z9wPIy4mgvbCTT9PTxsR_pHVCzrOIG6FUF5fD1jkpJqA/s320/P1850395.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">White Lee crossroads.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">The suburban outer edge of gretaer Batley passes as we rise over the road crest into the Spen Valley, offering brief views out to the Pennine horizon in the west, to the masts above the Colne - Calder division and further afield, before we transition with the decline of the road into greater Heckmondwike, not at all far from the Old Road passage that we've previously walked but getting a completely different aspect as we come down to the Six Lane Ends junction at Westfield and then plough on downhill to among the villas of Lower Popeley to pass over the Spen Valley Ringway on the L&NWR alignment, and to note the competitive booking of musical tribute acts at the Liversedge and Healds Hall hotels. The valley bottom arrives shortly after, as we arrive in the Mill Bridge corner of greater Liversedge, where the A638 Bradford Road is crossed, and an industrial landscape briefly takes over as we tangle with the A649 Halifax Road with the river Spen making the briefest of appearances, but only on one side of the road, before we head uphill again, past Charlie's Sports bar in the old WMC and up past the old Mission Hall, ahead of passage over the Spen Valley Greenway on the L&YR trackbed, and a tramp up past the Golden Fish restaurant which fills the air with aromas that remind me that it's already lunchtime, so a spot for that needs to be sought, beyond Headlands House and the toll bar at the division of the roads north of Roberttown. Fed and watered as the day's changeability passes into unbroken sunshine and warmth, we press on along the bypass road as it passes along the suburban western edge of Norristhorpe, among the many semis and past chapel and pub, both former, on the Lumb Lane corner, and up beyond the Sainburys Local and the Tamp & Steam ahead of the Child Lane corner at Low Fold, where greater Mirfield has crept up the hillside beyond to consume all the fields to the south of the A62 with suburbian development and light industrial plant.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIsuasDtQnncHIG9GN35qb8fGaUx-vqJFjJhls5AAzJD6lyiKfxQIlsFERHLvsXNgDOQe63LE9q3BJjyIdaMvBprwvlZ0thI_dT2M9SGCuSzOTEMZpsMvf5EGfYHRp5sdK0rSZwHlzTW4c2NM8uf_eUad3fV8zR8zQC8nzQcKXAmPi36uOoMPvpkzYFvM/s2560/P1850414.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIsuasDtQnncHIG9GN35qb8fGaUx-vqJFjJhls5AAzJD6lyiKfxQIlsFERHLvsXNgDOQe63LE9q3BJjyIdaMvBprwvlZ0thI_dT2M9SGCuSzOTEMZpsMvf5EGfYHRp5sdK0rSZwHlzTW4c2NM8uf_eUad3fV8zR8zQC8nzQcKXAmPi36uOoMPvpkzYFvM/s320/P1850414.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Greater Heckmondwike and Popeley Fields above the Spen Valley.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv7U_DXbHEFi369Cvq270iTjOrDDzWVuVy8vaW5x2PA-dmVc4JrxkCfdhVznnuXjKBXNuKSjqq6TiVM0zJPjtGER6XHoTtOC2D9clbIo8JIgmGqWdGmas7vAVvmGkjFcan0405FH6zIH08dGpNJ4ZPquQxtGyOldhAesmW4votKMl-VU0C1biutKj8n9g/s2560/P1850460.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv7U_DXbHEFi369Cvq270iTjOrDDzWVuVy8vaW5x2PA-dmVc4JrxkCfdhVznnuXjKBXNuKSjqq6TiVM0zJPjtGER6XHoTtOC2D9clbIo8JIgmGqWdGmas7vAVvmGkjFcan0405FH6zIH08dGpNJ4ZPquQxtGyOldhAesmW4votKMl-VU0C1biutKj8n9g/s320/P1850460.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leeds New Line, or Spen Valley Ringway, in the landscape.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcS7fqSDErqEHEZVz5Ouxuv9YOa8neTxXgR62Mn11wuwfcuYulP9k_BF2__P-KhA2hqaEW73cEdP4j4YnUQ8DP7yJu4FBpPKyrW9sXMTqxpXjVq_wtQFQ4w5-wdgawU2OI-mASITzmsgohCAqPRMTISimPhxsW5AV9Lzi8bOUUG4byw8ADeWJ_Ykb7feQ/s2560/P1850495.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6MB-yquSWRankxhrpiEL4y8XPIwIefHyL9Z5pC3DHSK1xnic4v96Dem5enKVHwD2dM9KDOZdN6bdsK9-9jh6DRBDRCbLJRsxj9PtCDPwh3um_MpfcVO04zo15K9StfTH8UnMtA_-_9721NBUEBmqbvoRxYBONWlRRbkFohsaNy2amJaELcbJ_nhzrrBE/s2560/P1850544.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6MB-yquSWRankxhrpiEL4y8XPIwIefHyL9Z5pC3DHSK1xnic4v96Dem5enKVHwD2dM9KDOZdN6bdsK9-9jh6DRBDRCbLJRsxj9PtCDPwh3um_MpfcVO04zo15K9StfTH8UnMtA_-_9721NBUEBmqbvoRxYBONWlRRbkFohsaNy2amJaELcbJ_nhzrrBE/s320/P1850544.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Suburbia between Norristhorpe and Roberttown.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIVXoYshKJ0V-TfGs-UehJzgbB1zVPqfn9Ss-C3qkU66aaUIko9DNHo53mopX81GoCc_-lUm9jzUwBChXvacja56wiGOA8JifC9ldPa4_olzwT9ppveReg5uR0TQEwv32HWOT9YsooY5K55xYZwowQZEqVNM01glYNqRoSi2Obq4RvuQ-Wp3-rrgLkSRA/s2560/P1850570.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIVXoYshKJ0V-TfGs-UehJzgbB1zVPqfn9Ss-C3qkU66aaUIko9DNHo53mopX81GoCc_-lUm9jzUwBChXvacja56wiGOA8JifC9ldPa4_olzwT9ppveReg5uR0TQEwv32HWOT9YsooY5K55xYZwowQZEqVNM01glYNqRoSi2Obq4RvuQ-Wp3-rrgLkSRA/s320/P1850570.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Low Fold and the close approach of greater Mirfield.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">At least there's a fun vintage motor garage up on this lane, as well as views that evolve to the west as we crest over the hillside and get direct sight to the Pole Moor and Fixby masts on the Colne - Calder division, before revealing a look way up Calderdale towards Great Manshead as we come down past Mirfield Garden centre and the White Gate inn and the bottom end of the Robberttown bypass at Upper Row, and then get a view to Meltham Moor above the Colne Valley as our novel trek along the A62 ends and tangles up with paths around the suburban enclave at Lower Row, west of Battyeford and clustered around the Stocks Bank Road end. The entanglement with the A644 follows and the way beyond, past the Shell garage and the Three Nuns steakhouse, and around the disused waterworks site has been traced far too many times, but it does present the red route into the Colne Valley, taking the decisive turn at the traffic island by the Dumb Steeple to pass under the Calder valley line at the site of Cooper Bridge station, and carrying on past the active waterworks to the passage over the Calder & Hebble navigation, and then over the Calder itself, where the mouth of the Huddersfield Broad Canal announces itself as we arrive in its greater settlement on the exact same path we burned into it from home in 2019. We need to vary things up then, as we pass Cooper Bridge Mill and rise to the White Cross junction at Bradley, quitting the A62 as we turn onto Colne Bridge Road, to pass into the landscape of depots and light industry at the valley floor, so we can pass over the railway line, the Broad Canal and the River Colne in short order before taking a right turn onto the Dalton Bank Road, past the Royal & Ancient inn and among the clustered houses of Colne Bridge on the rise up to the western end of the Calder Valley Greenway, on the old MR line to Newtown Goods, where a route from 2012 is joined to take us under the bridge that is now a tunnel and out onto Bradley Viaduct, high above river and canal once more.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGLkbuoumzutskbPPY6dNrWXaVhI_NtLEckEX8_rded81QtNsfQwJDPtuPmIxKfyu7pNZWTaRZnNjEskcIXbRX26HOj-WEDSIf6AY7JKq4QwIX2XfReuu4ax5SadhJsqm2rS0g6NYVqLwCeI_Z7JzQC9r4vWEAoUrNaSPGBlIhrm9Cyx5LEfh9-0ix-WE/s2560/P1850613.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGLkbuoumzutskbPPY6dNrWXaVhI_NtLEckEX8_rded81QtNsfQwJDPtuPmIxKfyu7pNZWTaRZnNjEskcIXbRX26HOj-WEDSIf6AY7JKq4QwIX2XfReuu4ax5SadhJsqm2rS0g6NYVqLwCeI_Z7JzQC9r4vWEAoUrNaSPGBlIhrm9Cyx5LEfh9-0ix-WE/s320/P1850613.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Colne - Calder division hills, above the A62.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2nFV272WaR0gOE4udTgVyLr_2XH-HNf1Z4gpBO8s-ldY6o2eJYmdoG3xar64qqjKEh1elnU25cNL-jVCzZDlBUuGgisiyCM_lEN1PoFbpi3r3952jWqqZyynnby7B8l7k1cNBR0vzbhgZrYl32oTUbnQJVpxurgfWmV4OZXvOhmYhMAj4i7lmMIc8fmI/s2560/P1850661.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2nFV272WaR0gOE4udTgVyLr_2XH-HNf1Z4gpBO8s-ldY6o2eJYmdoG3xar64qqjKEh1elnU25cNL-jVCzZDlBUuGgisiyCM_lEN1PoFbpi3r3952jWqqZyynnby7B8l7k1cNBR0vzbhgZrYl32oTUbnQJVpxurgfWmV4OZXvOhmYhMAj4i7lmMIc8fmI/s320/P1850661.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lower Row.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmVGNfn9DVg2_z_VJmS_hf9Gc9Pf1yxujxG3s5-GPQJuJk2IsIsOuPj0L4t6NLC8qeY0ScIa4hBUwhPMHwvdWwG3wIvE0nzUXP2bjnFblQU7a-mVUx7COawNG_HnGMEKQsjNNzEoUmtM-ZTpEI2P1iyMZDrgvPINZVTl6fEqkyJlXsZJ5mGa4ili_-ELo/s2560/P1850700.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmVGNfn9DVg2_z_VJmS_hf9Gc9Pf1yxujxG3s5-GPQJuJk2IsIsOuPj0L4t6NLC8qeY0ScIa4hBUwhPMHwvdWwG3wIvE0nzUXP2bjnFblQU7a-mVUx7COawNG_HnGMEKQsjNNzEoUmtM-ZTpEI2P1iyMZDrgvPINZVTl6fEqkyJlXsZJ5mGa4ili_-ELo/s320/P1850700.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Dumb Steeple island.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6o2HLHjseP0H1v1p5EyDODVMGSNmLvix1st7TtZ6zwwyxVKQDTndbdadiqzmTtSqAXUrH650kWm3WyZXTiUs0C-06r6fXdcLitVY8sh0rmS402eipSjxm2_Akx3Mth_SijxkinLw3byR684ZKQWYrhLUj3JsyAJZPpFxZ3KyDjw0XUfoMjbRVV9hvSzM/s2560/P1850735.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6o2HLHjseP0H1v1p5EyDODVMGSNmLvix1st7TtZ6zwwyxVKQDTndbdadiqzmTtSqAXUrH650kWm3WyZXTiUs0C-06r6fXdcLitVY8sh0rmS402eipSjxm2_Akx3Mth_SijxkinLw3byR684ZKQWYrhLUj3JsyAJZPpFxZ3KyDjw0XUfoMjbRVV9hvSzM/s320/P1850735.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The River Calder and the Huddersfield Broad canal, Cooper Bridge.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd6u4z-WNugxnFerxvUw9hQZG1_Sge-SFVPXay3r1XQHTM1b-ZM5-osUWkJskqW2KtUMU45CAWbhdPlPa-XfXsI5seH0mtfK1eU1RGJ_5Dl-av8Jz9gHuapxXNaetBdqYyAGl4c1vk-EbiRoZr4Ws0rzlxjAcIxlz8dZGCsdrxE0M2Zf1dumafbHgvHjo/s2560/P1850788.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd6u4z-WNugxnFerxvUw9hQZG1_Sge-SFVPXay3r1XQHTM1b-ZM5-osUWkJskqW2KtUMU45CAWbhdPlPa-XfXsI5seH0mtfK1eU1RGJ_5Dl-av8Jz9gHuapxXNaetBdqYyAGl4c1vk-EbiRoZr4Ws0rzlxjAcIxlz8dZGCsdrxE0M2Zf1dumafbHgvHjo/s320/P1850788.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Broad Canal and Colne Bridge Mill.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhELDovusFB7-rB_K2FDC2WV8XrMYi2IzSzuGbP7HvGzdIj1Gpacu7vaxoMiR2qZ7fFpFMKGwwrJP00G9OBA7epZg-9hOa9h3KfAinuNjsTtZ8tx95MVdOrH8VhH-HVt6WMGPll5hCgquNVTYm-fZJZV1j1CzgpRleNDOlv22mXs-VUN6kAkZuNNeIVRtY/s2560/P1850829.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhELDovusFB7-rB_K2FDC2WV8XrMYi2IzSzuGbP7HvGzdIj1Gpacu7vaxoMiR2qZ7fFpFMKGwwrJP00G9OBA7epZg-9hOa9h3KfAinuNjsTtZ8tx95MVdOrH8VhH-HVt6WMGPll5hCgquNVTYm-fZJZV1j1CzgpRleNDOlv22mXs-VUN6kAkZuNNeIVRtY/s320/P1850829.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Dalton Bank Road bridge is now a tunnel.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8DqM3VezAb99yFV8z4_YTMNMxHHRGdnI5Q6fJmRx65VzrGeLSfjDytCwWuUHOPXrLfK1QjtnykZgPSlq5tWHs_XPrv6XG1YMXL8VUMDbFMCKlqZBXB0q2_5i5St2tXfGxfPLEBMh6_85m9VSosk9UJDb45kEqU2v5D8DWUQqNtX7zkG2twihhW6AKpeY/s2560/P1850844.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8DqM3VezAb99yFV8z4_YTMNMxHHRGdnI5Q6fJmRx65VzrGeLSfjDytCwWuUHOPXrLfK1QjtnykZgPSlq5tWHs_XPrv6XG1YMXL8VUMDbFMCKlqZBXB0q2_5i5St2tXfGxfPLEBMh6_85m9VSosk9UJDb45kEqU2v5D8DWUQqNtX7zkG2twihhW6AKpeY/s320/P1850844.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bradley Viaduct above the Colne valley.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">It's not the most prepossessing sight when view from above so we need to have a bit of an explore while we're here, passing on into the woods to observe the remnants of the bridge abutment that stands steepling tall and unsecured above the contemporary railway, before we take the path that drops down under the viaduct to reveal the joy of all that blue engineering brick as it reaches its way across the valley, before we head down through the trees to meet the Broad Canal to be crossed at Bridge 5 and its towpath joined at Ladgrave Lock, dropping us among the local folks who stretch along this path, or quietly bask in the glade by Vernon Lock. A brief detour turns out to be a bit of a jaunt as the way down to Whitacre Mill viaduct, on the lost Kirkburton branch, is further along than expected, and the way back to the north bank via Bridge 7 feels fraught as if its decaying wooden deck could collapse under our feet at any moment, and so the rough and overgrown path by the railway embankment doesn't feel as challenging as it leads us back to the A62 by its broken bridge, where we cross the Leeds Road by Deighton Mill, and rise up past the terrace of railway cottages to arrive above Deighton station at 2.10pm, finally tagging it as a destination, leaving only one more in the county to be walked to on our travels (it's Crossflatts, btw). There's a decent window of time to park myself on the 'Down' platform, to finish my lunch and contemplate if the Trans-Pennine Route Upgrade is going to work its magic on this site too, as its 40+ years vintage and construction in wood is really starting to show its age with its platforms feeling rather warped and uneven, though I also wonder if it gets the patronage from the residents of the eastern reaches of this town to warrant it, as it seem under-served as the Bradford - Huddersfield local train passes by without stopping and the TPE services that do stop here in the mid afternoon only have one paying customer, and that would be me, adding my £2 to their coffers.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt7czDCRGT1exgJwXaYoiHPtQKEMRoyp83PWcYFNq0XBUIA4BcRu01-CYmXeYQLuEMbr1UoyjqZthPzlbyZZrnkyFYeRE220QtT3MJlj3TDeG1wUZpT-0YppWwpCaBn9Wv61y68l7nOh5KoLLztJvv0EmuHzGKrkKUfTd1vMZzToUiyrwMJb_VVKXgN5A/s2560/P1850886.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt7czDCRGT1exgJwXaYoiHPtQKEMRoyp83PWcYFNq0XBUIA4BcRu01-CYmXeYQLuEMbr1UoyjqZthPzlbyZZrnkyFYeRE220QtT3MJlj3TDeG1wUZpT-0YppWwpCaBn9Wv61y68l7nOh5KoLLztJvv0EmuHzGKrkKUfTd1vMZzToUiyrwMJb_VVKXgN5A/s320/P1850886.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The MR bridge abutment, above the line into Huddersfield.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAkght74v4xgurZmEa1IjQPqESH7taFfR8Izz0BPX7yfXFX2-MH_VvF0GMMudLZrEvuBSJVZLJCbsXL17r_Mz_YhkJ_RwFlwx5iRVy8E2usjdb4-Flg5IYl_v3lCipZOnMrnUtk6V5Oqx5Jp_GXq3VuP3ZCEyNBvEmYx40z6hr11zLzg2RKEHHZWeyeOE/s2560/P1850917.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAkght74v4xgurZmEa1IjQPqESH7taFfR8Izz0BPX7yfXFX2-MH_VvF0GMMudLZrEvuBSJVZLJCbsXL17r_Mz_YhkJ_RwFlwx5iRVy8E2usjdb4-Flg5IYl_v3lCipZOnMrnUtk6V5Oqx5Jp_GXq3VuP3ZCEyNBvEmYx40z6hr11zLzg2RKEHHZWeyeOE/s320/P1850917.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bradley Viaduct, from below.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy7jhOVIPLf-0RuiSu4zInIK1IJlbT3pgJCQWG_6zqfwTBfiNzfItG90sojvmfnfzx28mmnrmFszXyv-EZAXxXpSQR10kB-8iSt0s3gHCCA6PTaBEQenkOoC1upRzO8PNJ3cgjW5_KswKgfcD6IlZPqV2G2Namt6SzCAu7TteDOA0Oeq_8Pz2vS8xce_Q/s2560/P1850935.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy7jhOVIPLf-0RuiSu4zInIK1IJlbT3pgJCQWG_6zqfwTBfiNzfItG90sojvmfnfzx28mmnrmFszXyv-EZAXxXpSQR10kB-8iSt0s3gHCCA6PTaBEQenkOoC1upRzO8PNJ3cgjW5_KswKgfcD6IlZPqV2G2Namt6SzCAu7TteDOA0Oeq_8Pz2vS8xce_Q/s320/P1850935.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ladgrave Lock and bridge 5.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL2OmEEU7WWrEZASHoo3r6fdhxlxJKXdbcMlzwBRik9SrQ5sb55VdvdNWoN6v22mvBVssdP9FXHIZ3S03tspUOJIAa8R09YtQtsqBPN66GKzDGf4LxQzp0WXJqRFdOb5gQPD47FcABS61BNmtLSux5fnYcaXQ1pga5ELw9Nqlb4L8u4yETmEag8DZXQcQ/s2560/P1850962.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL2OmEEU7WWrEZASHoo3r6fdhxlxJKXdbcMlzwBRik9SrQ5sb55VdvdNWoN6v22mvBVssdP9FXHIZ3S03tspUOJIAa8R09YtQtsqBPN66GKzDGf4LxQzp0WXJqRFdOb5gQPD47FcABS61BNmtLSux5fnYcaXQ1pga5ELw9Nqlb4L8u4yETmEag8DZXQcQ/s320/P1850962.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bridge 7 and Whitacre Mill Viaduct.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxXIBV_PIw316k9NdGem1Wq06uo_CJBVu9e1TMms-i3W2jW8Lev7dYbeqN1nPyj_oeKMyQ--oK5ZW54BYmcH2usPgkiXU4mwO-DIzls08XxKduNMeFCatLH-dlmLszRjch_8EHtSUnJKvyRBMpwkiDv7C4WhP0A_BOhntTZc7lgHHyg8JUSg3HW7E2zlo/s2560/P1860001.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxXIBV_PIw316k9NdGem1Wq06uo_CJBVu9e1TMms-i3W2jW8Lev7dYbeqN1nPyj_oeKMyQ--oK5ZW54BYmcH2usPgkiXU4mwO-DIzls08XxKduNMeFCatLH-dlmLszRjch_8EHtSUnJKvyRBMpwkiDv7C4WhP0A_BOhntTZc7lgHHyg8JUSg3HW7E2zlo/s320/P1860001.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deighton Mill, Leeds Road.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlFHVNhFRB2iHqXByRpdeRzZJOqr7gMdbrDLr4OLnco0znW4uIZOtDpjdmUVnPQHvq5NmMQjvVYHVYmz-JBIA9WqYT-yG82KcSP7hRPH6FZwIjiDEPscivyptwgzgwzxjgmeZuaSoejxj_zw3Kj__dRP0bNYN_6qn32SlYiFjk84sKSk2ixGMRfUL-Zhg/s2560/P1860021.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlFHVNhFRB2iHqXByRpdeRzZJOqr7gMdbrDLr4OLnco0znW4uIZOtDpjdmUVnPQHvq5NmMQjvVYHVYmz-JBIA9WqYT-yG82KcSP7hRPH6FZwIjiDEPscivyptwgzgwzxjgmeZuaSoejxj_zw3Kj__dRP0bNYN_6qn32SlYiFjk84sKSk2ixGMRfUL-Zhg/s320/P1860021.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deighton station.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWtp6chr0Mfe1jlDfCVMo0jYGi7QxB2rCPHctbFXO0wmJpO-ccuqPEWYE5cAbEGci__7qRepPozl09US-aPyDtQg1mZ5NmBasQfPG8WtaOq5TtLhl2si1yz-Ezd9Q6ACUjmZovWTejPMLiHDy35hS0jd1liiXwsBLLTBo2J7KbZsovfm2n-TQImJR5jZA/s2560/P1860050.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWtp6chr0Mfe1jlDfCVMo0jYGi7QxB2rCPHctbFXO0wmJpO-ccuqPEWYE5cAbEGci__7qRepPozl09US-aPyDtQg1mZ5NmBasQfPG8WtaOq5TtLhl2si1yz-Ezd9Q6ACUjmZovWTejPMLiHDy35hS0jd1liiXwsBLLTBo2J7KbZsovfm2n-TQImJR5jZA/s320/P1860050.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Even local trains don't stop here!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">Incidentally, the train service can't get us back to Morley, for obvious reasons, but is refrigerator cold, which is most welcome as I've really felt the exertions of this trip, and a peer from the windows does let us see some more of what's been going on during the engineering work on this line, showing us that the Mirfield engine shed bridge has now gone, but the Heaton Lodge footbridge hasn't (yet), before our ride terminates at Batley, where a new crossover has been installed to allow a shuttle service to work on the line between Leeds and Ravensthorpe whenever either end of it might be closed off, the most immediately useful development of the week, to be regarded from afar before we minibus is back to Morley.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>5,000 Miles Cumulative Total: 6064.9 miles</b></div><div>2023 Total: 142.7 miles</div><div>Up Country Total: 5,584.2 miles</div><div>Solo Total: 5722.3 miles</div><div>5,000 in my 40s Total: 4664.7 miles</div><div><br /></div><div>Destinations Moved into Tier 1: Deighton</div><div>Trails moved from Tier 3 to Tier 2: 1</div><div><br /></div><div>Next Up: Honestly, I need to take a break...</div><div><br /></div></div>Christopher Wrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09743749271457169317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527420385844253776.post-91255127200677478672023-06-18T14:59:00.188+01:002023-07-01T09:55:52.637+01:00Morley to Low Moor 17/06/23<div style="text-align: left;"><b>8.6 miles, via Daisy Hill. Chapel Hill, Morley Hole, Bruntcliffe, Gildersome Street,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Adwalton, Moorside, Drighlington, Birkenshaw, Lodge Beck, Copley House, Chatts Wood,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Lower Woodlands, Dyehouse Fold, and Toad Holes. </b></div><p>Another 9-day engineering possession lands on the railway line through Morley as we arrive at the weekend bracketing the Top of the Year (already!), not that it will have that much impact on our plans, as we’re going to be walking from home for most of this year, and the difficulties will only become apparent on our return legs if we were to pick route that needed a pathway back via Leeds, Huddersfield or Calderdale, which we’re not up for today as energy levels are low while the days are at their longest, and we’ll be pulling the shortest possible trip up from our slate of plans. We might be planning to head west for today, but we need to linger at Morley station when we arrive, just ahead of 9am as there’s a whole lot to observe going on here, not least the fact that the line closure hasn’t been a factor in the installation of the new station footbridge which has had its support stanchions and deck installed while the line was still open last week, and removal of the old footbridge is going to be a primary objective over the next week, as well as track re-laying, as rails and sleepers are being removed on the ‘Up’ side toward Manchester, apparently only a few months after they were renewed. We’ll also visit our other vantage point while we are here, below the green space off Seven Hills Way, where the new station can be over-viewed, at least on the ‘Up’ side where it’s all fully surfaced, edged and fenced, with signage installed too and looking almost complete aside from the fact that it’s inaccessible due to a lack of steps on the footbridge, and no exits apparently existing to the Valley Road side, and it’s altogether difficult getting the looks that we had some months back from up here, as Spring growth of the vegetation atop the bank has gotten so thick and tall as to pose quite the obstacle to a short-arse like myself. <span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghAdC4GEoMHpIHCxZHSF78r4061O8tWj7OP9dSTajBIpedQ7rg7W9UV48hpfT4rTIoW_uMTH_11U0rz5Wl2RWnWznKSdmtGoUd7nMsluS5v3dUf4cC9VsVu3p5IGbgJ0SozepC_WSUOKTK5o5YxygkIUfT0eTfG2wUyZC3aeUxodVCvNRwf7v_XwxLngE/s2560/P1830211.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghAdC4GEoMHpIHCxZHSF78r4061O8tWj7OP9dSTajBIpedQ7rg7W9UV48hpfT4rTIoW_uMTH_11U0rz5Wl2RWnWznKSdmtGoUd7nMsluS5v3dUf4cC9VsVu3p5IGbgJ0SozepC_WSUOKTK5o5YxygkIUfT0eTfG2wUyZC3aeUxodVCvNRwf7v_XwxLngE/s320/P1830211.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another engineering possession occupies Morley Station.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_ZNs2eWykE5wZ-ni2x0hnExE92i_5vQ_i_JuuEk_xljtiZfzlqVIoKwNZBLtJtYjMMjoc90hSkl52chM-2dL64OqOBrTR3aXpXM6ucfGfVcOBwHkuL5Ug5xevmwVqTPwrzh5o5khA2bReUC0_ICBLImytxwu_pOaDQWqUJzc81v9ASN80tsCa_RY90UA/s2560/P1830234.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_ZNs2eWykE5wZ-ni2x0hnExE92i_5vQ_i_JuuEk_xljtiZfzlqVIoKwNZBLtJtYjMMjoc90hSkl52chM-2dL64OqOBrTR3aXpXM6ucfGfVcOBwHkuL5Ug5xevmwVqTPwrzh5o5khA2bReUC0_ICBLImytxwu_pOaDQWqUJzc81v9ASN80tsCa_RY90UA/s320/P1830234.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Morley New Station now has a footbridge, of sorts.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Y7JKz8myEO90Am79hMBWR0uQxQUNspjhoYWpckVIxmzMtUn5vAdXqsJc4DKWnJJKrYQ7au-3PedamB3NniLgS9b0ILKviIvcPTnhs8Qgoznt7XvO2fDonSduw3i0t5SLKBce--Jwjz-ZcWY4o_QnRQae0TERYipelZ6I1Kr3z5zGmt0kFDnxBOGGudA/s2560/P1830245.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Y7JKz8myEO90Am79hMBWR0uQxQUNspjhoYWpckVIxmzMtUn5vAdXqsJc4DKWnJJKrYQ7au-3PedamB3NniLgS9b0ILKviIvcPTnhs8Qgoznt7XvO2fDonSduw3i0t5SLKBce--Jwjz-ZcWY4o_QnRQae0TERYipelZ6I1Kr3z5zGmt0kFDnxBOGGudA/s320/P1830245.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Station overview from the Seven Hills Way vantage point.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOOcw5OM6ejIoetn-m7ABw3g9g7HR_1razJGtXipdLBNpKHGfd6fs2sv4ydgNiv-GZxN7-15MAwXrY1wiYq-BVSlhGMv-30-z7_v1knn91ugb9P6pyd-7kP2-RgXqSYt7pS7KbPEVoQoJo7-JNqAMFCnLS00fqyBFhrjMMLhSILPPwucSCZOdfiUEC8Es/s2560/P1830262.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOOcw5OM6ejIoetn-m7ABw3g9g7HR_1razJGtXipdLBNpKHGfd6fs2sv4ydgNiv-GZxN7-15MAwXrY1wiYq-BVSlhGMv-30-z7_v1knn91ugb9P6pyd-7kP2-RgXqSYt7pS7KbPEVoQoJo7-JNqAMFCnLS00fqyBFhrjMMLhSILPPwucSCZOdfiUEC8Es/s320/P1830262.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another New Station Overview.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>From atop Daisy Hill we get going on our route proper, westerly on the fall and rise of New Bank Street among the suburban houses and terraces, noting the chapel site has had its foundation dug out as we come upon Chapel Hill, crossing to meet Bank Street and descending to Brunswick Street behind the Conservative club and shopping parade to come out by Victoria Mills to pace the oft seen pavement around to Morley Hole, where a Mistle Thrush has to be noted as our ‘exotic’ bird of the day before we hit the rise of the A643 Bruntcliffe Road, heading up past the chippy for the umpteenth time. The day’s warm start, and the unbroken spell of warm weather we’ve been having ends comprehensively as we carry on past the cemetery and Academy, as murky cloud sets in from the south, which shows up as a feature for the day as we come up to the Bruntcliffe crossroads by the Toby Inn and land on the watershed ridge, joining the A650 Wakefield Road and seeing no hints of wider sunshine as we pass over the M621, not on the Leeds side or from the spread of Calderdale, and thus we feel a chill out for the first time in a while as we tramp on beyond the Gildersome Spur industrial estate and the new motorway ‘services’ ahead of the upper island of Junction 27. Across the A62 Gelderd Road and the pavements remain familiar as we pace on along the stub end of Bradford Road at Gildersome Street, drawing us on past the Old Brickworks and Premier Inn, onto the stretch of the B6135 that has Airedale and Calderdale views on both sides, which I don’t think I’ve ever seen in particularly good weather when travelling on foot, as we move on to meet Adwalton, where the New Inn looks in need of new business and new developments continue to fill odd corners, where we split onto the ginnel that sneaks between the gardens and suburban closes on the lead over to Penfield Road. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSzGpw2NxcJclQEs8NtM42zFYD6DoFmCeMQB6avcLd-35XAFj0DB8XYqtwVXfwd_qNnial-RD3YqBfwYaSCmNxFAeV2umh8Bw7lXXkykepV4Do_22donCYDFBQVdZsODOVIHA64i8WAgynLWEf8wRH0K7C3fPg8kKIpicZ2LI_RuFYGPo2sAW_DgdHlaU/s2560/P1830277.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSzGpw2NxcJclQEs8NtM42zFYD6DoFmCeMQB6avcLd-35XAFj0DB8XYqtwVXfwd_qNnial-RD3YqBfwYaSCmNxFAeV2umh8Bw7lXXkykepV4Do_22donCYDFBQVdZsODOVIHA64i8WAgynLWEf8wRH0K7C3fPg8kKIpicZ2LI_RuFYGPo2sAW_DgdHlaU/s320/P1830277.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Bank Street, Morley, from Daisy Hill.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ncFDmm2ji_InWut48gM1vZk_RrE1Zf3eN4NuSUiR7vyIhqEkrtwh-XI2wzunSI-LwHQvbmqezZ3luO-ADSk6JYTgVCCtc4Ciw4lnsWg1yAwX2NAjzg4-Y4JGxoF76Vbkw-VQk26nTIzo-w_fGTLjFEJnI09RSlbzGWVPJ8c9HpXAoadnsi4kFYLP3g4/s2560/P1830309.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ncFDmm2ji_InWut48gM1vZk_RrE1Zf3eN4NuSUiR7vyIhqEkrtwh-XI2wzunSI-LwHQvbmqezZ3luO-ADSk6JYTgVCCtc4Ciw4lnsWg1yAwX2NAjzg4-Y4JGxoF76Vbkw-VQk26nTIzo-w_fGTLjFEJnI09RSlbzGWVPJ8c9HpXAoadnsi4kFYLP3g4/s320/P1830309.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bank Street and Victoria Mills, Morley.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLhU1mKg6J8EIwFY2NEDiRVK362nWmz0fDRhQHetpoUg6q4jRsLB4GUqj9tDaZaKHIy5TuNUJloSYcQfo9G0H2Qk0RMz91mhzEtcC9HXaG9tnH5BVK4aGHpkmZeBRncv4Os4Ios24OvUUZzxOyQI0htnyZ3VChDBOO17PopZQxglZCn-3SHxcHiddV9Qc/s2560/P1830371.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLhU1mKg6J8EIwFY2NEDiRVK362nWmz0fDRhQHetpoUg6q4jRsLB4GUqj9tDaZaKHIy5TuNUJloSYcQfo9G0H2Qk0RMz91mhzEtcC9HXaG9tnH5BVK4aGHpkmZeBRncv4Os4Ios24OvUUZzxOyQI0htnyZ3VChDBOO17PopZQxglZCn-3SHxcHiddV9Qc/s320/P1830371.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bruntcliffe Lane and the Cross Roads.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh82e4yTr1ZBk20IV6NlPaEhqzx_d5KouoWEcqXC8twpLBS3f84_6D3c_wcteCG9-oy1UDjUFEGSIwwV3YP1VFRQbDB8B3x7orEcKBxZvSooYNJXoqJvznFYAMbiRkdokRsp2Td0XQbRk-ewGjPLrYvHL1ECf2m0XJ7TanrFPiuf5s_FfiICTyJjLuY9Fs/s2560/P1830394.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh82e4yTr1ZBk20IV6NlPaEhqzx_d5KouoWEcqXC8twpLBS3f84_6D3c_wcteCG9-oy1UDjUFEGSIwwV3YP1VFRQbDB8B3x7orEcKBxZvSooYNJXoqJvznFYAMbiRkdokRsp2Td0XQbRk-ewGjPLrYvHL1ECf2m0XJ7TanrFPiuf5s_FfiICTyJjLuY9Fs/s320/P1830394.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Junction 27 Services.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj3JFTFORQceiizVCwdyiYtW50Kb8d8apYT78d7dRHTQQ8-WkWI4VMGRvdL8RwstWp96_qSloiapiTgXmSuuwoHsdPQgPXTMPq340Oh0ARCfGh281QLfaYPbteURAu40W3HHMiU4VX9CUzIxqEn_Yb5WJZHcZ7-rF7KgimrSrdmuUPH4jZJZfGI0QCt7Q/s2560/P1830424.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj3JFTFORQceiizVCwdyiYtW50Kb8d8apYT78d7dRHTQQ8-WkWI4VMGRvdL8RwstWp96_qSloiapiTgXmSuuwoHsdPQgPXTMPq340Oh0ARCfGh281QLfaYPbteURAu40W3HHMiU4VX9CUzIxqEn_Yb5WJZHcZ7-rF7KgimrSrdmuUPH4jZJZfGI0QCt7Q/s320/P1830424.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Brickworks, Gildersome Street.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg441R4781UaUOD4uzS4znReJa1eqC6WHQvBfsekm0qith-cjqMpTtlxLxAv_FcQiFlvHYjOso0nEy-rjs7a4WdbJ1xrpbON_vR_acVjcyD5Bgh5WByg4dgKwXcVPy3_3bRFcd9QE4eD5_mAaoXYzc07ShIKKDgIO3O_w_IH_sId9HBCG6DZz3LorOF88A/s2560/P1830449.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg441R4781UaUOD4uzS4znReJa1eqC6WHQvBfsekm0qith-cjqMpTtlxLxAv_FcQiFlvHYjOso0nEy-rjs7a4WdbJ1xrpbON_vR_acVjcyD5Bgh5WByg4dgKwXcVPy3_3bRFcd9QE4eD5_mAaoXYzc07ShIKKDgIO3O_w_IH_sId9HBCG6DZz3LorOF88A/s320/P1830449.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wakefield Road, Adwalton.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Still no novel pavements are to be found as we join Moorside Road at the edge of Adwalton moor and overlooking the spread of Drighlington, taking an early elevenses break on a convenient bench by the exercise park before we press on past Moorside church and over the rise by the blasted rough plots of the Civil War Era battlefield, on to the Railway inn where a turn onto Hodgson Lane presents a road previously unseen at long last, past the nursery on the old goods yard site, the kitchen supply store and the rugby pitches to pass through the suburban southern edge of Drighlington on the way over to the A58 Whitehall Road. Back on familiar tracks, we tangle with the old railway embankment remains as we come across the A650 bypass road, and join the isolated half of Hodgson Lane as it shadows them as we meet the Kirklees Way route to be reverse walked for a good stretch of the remainder of this trip, on between the activity of the local farmsteads and down to the farmhouse which still looks in need of love after observing it nine years ago, and down to the field boundary walk that leads to the tightly confined path that passes in behind the back gardens of Sherburn Grove, on the suburban edge of Birkenshaw. Join Station Lane and turn south, incidentally avoiding a third station site meeting on the old Ardsley – Laisterdyke line, as it draws us down through the villas and rural terraces on the way over to the A651 Bradford Road which is met by the George inn and the old and new Co-op stores, with route memory taking us onto the turn into Oswald Street and the drop of the footpath beyond, definitively tilting us into the uppermost reaches of the Spen Valley, sharply downhill over the old tramway embankment that wanders the contour towards Bluehills farm, and on to the passage over Lodge Beck, and on through the meadows beyond, as Cleckheaton, Scholes and Wyke land on our local horizon. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Pc3JcGRllEXJf--IYrlYGGf1dSwgjov4QFwoQVvjVss7tG-tlGJw3lC_1VtaADcobNoXyjUq42Di7ZEaxSQ99zvLnon1RyYl9W1ua-h-JGzBOReE8BAONpwGE2wOhADooQyAnv4X4ziL9Nz2aeA9Uhgd2WNiBN3I1RmVBbRvzG0gUUcTA4_chSx_bZY/s2560/P1830482.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIBwm2QYcAWHzlgtT_yOHS7EcMXnZjnfj_8GKcFzU4vJVg_pKc2L923-TmKWAZOMurErRxNJNBXYcxt6yjbKVurJMZDZHcZazlYVL1g9iYjTqrvRynwqDtA2xit_bKpXj-v6cPUruklpSfDm87Ut6FG8L53gQqDP7SEuFA58GeKcwWr37CIIv0LmDSa-c/s2560/P1830541.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIBwm2QYcAWHzlgtT_yOHS7EcMXnZjnfj_8GKcFzU4vJVg_pKc2L923-TmKWAZOMurErRxNJNBXYcxt6yjbKVurJMZDZHcZazlYVL1g9iYjTqrvRynwqDtA2xit_bKpXj-v6cPUruklpSfDm87Ut6FG8L53gQqDP7SEuFA58GeKcwWr37CIIv0LmDSa-c/s320/P1830541.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hodgson Lane track, by the lost Ardsley - Laisterdyke line.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh26SKWaxLE415ohuxh_x1IHPIIely7swBUtTJ2mx7ixOEvAaomhGd8px3u8-3XbfoFmPHGvBVTbwY-b8Nh8_y-k_hBdP8d0-x1Vv5M-rNFFRETcQQJq_nivi1QoxNWMKhFWdCZgAyFL6Mpp2ecRO4mkbx60B-b4E-FMIoRGX9-bMseW3Pm5jLVl7H56Oc/s2560/P1830567.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh26SKWaxLE415ohuxh_x1IHPIIely7swBUtTJ2mx7ixOEvAaomhGd8px3u8-3XbfoFmPHGvBVTbwY-b8Nh8_y-k_hBdP8d0-x1Vv5M-rNFFRETcQQJq_nivi1QoxNWMKhFWdCZgAyFL6Mpp2ecRO4mkbx60B-b4E-FMIoRGX9-bMseW3Pm5jLVl7H56Oc/s320/P1830567.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Field Walking to Birkenshaw.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs_lZMsRcfq0fg9p7fIzEiyES0VkFWdgrrudSL6sRM0WDeDfX57jpoh0MKqnwkq9X8WFzZ9h25ZAHe8SrrbVUTd2OEseJNY5hdoJ5Uw3Zy-jo-f3R7qZubW2V4q4jEWpchO_7s8x0ZIEw47y4XsUP-9qyvpt-ERmx4-M-rr7lQgP3Wd07BhB4Guy_pIQg/s2560/P1830601.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs_lZMsRcfq0fg9p7fIzEiyES0VkFWdgrrudSL6sRM0WDeDfX57jpoh0MKqnwkq9X8WFzZ9h25ZAHe8SrrbVUTd2OEseJNY5hdoJ5Uw3Zy-jo-f3R7qZubW2V4q4jEWpchO_7s8x0ZIEw47y4XsUP-9qyvpt-ERmx4-M-rr7lQgP3Wd07BhB4Guy_pIQg/s320/P1830601.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bradford Road, Birkenshaw.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPF8HkHovoryT06zBj_lf_GVoyUV2dEWdGJP3dApdBLbDl1rhH_RrCaa0PqjMHYk1p05uJo58JxghIYMF_mkmpp8U-4ywYsm9hX71kjXvD2Ge3gjuRT6J_yOidrfe-kO4OGM37ag0pEVTIVJGNLGN-qCSxjHv5AYq4NAI3bRrt6tUI03-kXRm_-QuXouk/s2560/P1830631.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPF8HkHovoryT06zBj_lf_GVoyUV2dEWdGJP3dApdBLbDl1rhH_RrCaa0PqjMHYk1p05uJo58JxghIYMF_mkmpp8U-4ywYsm9hX71kjXvD2Ge3gjuRT6J_yOidrfe-kO4OGM37ag0pEVTIVJGNLGN-qCSxjHv5AYq4NAI3bRrt6tUI03-kXRm_-QuXouk/s320/P1830631.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lodge Beck</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">The ongoing route then hits the rising track, up by the still rough field of mining remnants, landing on the Hunsworth Road and getting back on our trajectory as we pass over the hillside rib and descend Lower Lane as it takes us through the farmstead cluster around Copley House, and then down the rough track that leads into a field full of livestock, where care to not disturb the sheep and lambs while descending is countered by trying to spy the remains of mining tramways that loiter among these open plots, needing to field walk without obvious tracks all the way down to Cockleshaw Beck and Chatts Wood, concealing its pleasant little glade. The way forward is kinda vague despite the Kirklees Way signage, through the trees and around below the mound behind Lower Chatts farm, which is itself a mining remnant, where the cows and calves scatter as we pass by, up the rise to the cottage on Cliff Hollins Lane, where the descent with the fall of High Royds beck is followed until we switch back so we don't carry on down to Oakenshaw, departing Kirklees and entering Bradford as we cross the stream and rise up among the stony terraces of Lower Woodlands and cross the Mill Carr Hill Road to join the bridlepaths of the local nature reserve, filling in the green space between the M606 and the Roydsdale Way industrial park. It's a proper wander we are on in this late stage, under the motorway and down the farm track past the Snake Hill cottage group down to Dyehouse Fold presenting a very rural face behind the suburbs of Oakenshaw and the industry of Low Moor, with Dyehouse Lane being met to leads us up the green passage by Toad Holes Beck to its eponymous nature reserve where we split again to meet Furnace Road, where what appears to be the GNR goods shed looms above the lane, and the suburban closes, such as Tramways and Trackside that sit off the edge of the Cleckheaton Road. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd_SsjT1EvUpKkAyzhhdCMJ11A3gCEzcNAQXaeCI96J5yUMxXNU9jLJLdvhIXFX97EkmAzfdAfCQaRcC80DMG4S_Lb0ilk1ECBLz_ngCf6g-HZatfxX-aIkw0kENjsGRWJxIZmRLPkLcbqpm9oBTF7t-kj7Hq6VNUBbBlyXccauPaz5rvCq9hKfBgeCdM/s2560/P1830664.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd_SsjT1EvUpKkAyzhhdCMJ11A3gCEzcNAQXaeCI96J5yUMxXNU9jLJLdvhIXFX97EkmAzfdAfCQaRcC80DMG4S_Lb0ilk1ECBLz_ngCf6g-HZatfxX-aIkw0kENjsGRWJxIZmRLPkLcbqpm9oBTF7t-kj7Hq6VNUBbBlyXccauPaz5rvCq9hKfBgeCdM/s320/P1830664.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the rise to Hunsworth Lane.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPqFtlkEWLsIHvOqxir2ASUntVxbAd_9EE7huP3DJvhKPs2JRUfELPS4fFqLlq6hAtYg2uJOh6KJyNU-K_ELtGrf5uuKFNwqGSgbotct4KwCt03sIADcoSEm8VoM6o545NoxeKoYMHKZ6Sh02ZmXlIjdiWTd44DQ2-1LId5dgHmH4tCDVTxHjf3ZLNVTk/s2560/P1830708.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPqFtlkEWLsIHvOqxir2ASUntVxbAd_9EE7huP3DJvhKPs2JRUfELPS4fFqLlq6hAtYg2uJOh6KJyNU-K_ELtGrf5uuKFNwqGSgbotct4KwCt03sIADcoSEm8VoM6o545NoxeKoYMHKZ6Sh02ZmXlIjdiWTd44DQ2-1LId5dgHmH4tCDVTxHjf3ZLNVTk/s320/P1830708.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Field Walking to Cockleshaw Beck and Chatts Wood.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikhCv69ejuO80L3qbhz2ObWDre-gVUksxlqZ2GgrMWooBRm3g26R2X_5NPVx7X46pJxsaLqVTYZVgmQ-BXe-eM8azHsjEWv0GoL19hdMA7q_PFGTdg_d9qiFCZlAQ_24WCor4w3SvSRezi7rfyItmon5_g7wYxIBC0_Ges-IIgV7rtSJ-s4TDKeGCxmd0/s2560/P1830749.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikhCv69ejuO80L3qbhz2ObWDre-gVUksxlqZ2GgrMWooBRm3g26R2X_5NPVx7X46pJxsaLqVTYZVgmQ-BXe-eM8azHsjEWv0GoL19hdMA7q_PFGTdg_d9qiFCZlAQ_24WCor4w3SvSRezi7rfyItmon5_g7wYxIBC0_Ges-IIgV7rtSJ-s4TDKeGCxmd0/s320/P1830749.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Disturbing the cattle at Lower Chatts farm.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCY2gMEvbJcGgo-QR_GrDtNrSuo73Bf92IME43WzFyGGTtm9yh6rpJp71lUWJj1L8RC1x7pgtWeCpNZMv58gbtJAx2AlKYg-0iterQceFE419A7QSs_gMlZ0dUzcvHAsY4x6KJzuLJMvNOfdUZRz3KOYmPVK6iO-joHpmZlrjxswQXKHFrKijf7W8Buyk/s2560/P1830788.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCY2gMEvbJcGgo-QR_GrDtNrSuo73Bf92IME43WzFyGGTtm9yh6rpJp71lUWJj1L8RC1x7pgtWeCpNZMv58gbtJAx2AlKYg-0iterQceFE419A7QSs_gMlZ0dUzcvHAsY4x6KJzuLJMvNOfdUZRz3KOYmPVK6iO-joHpmZlrjxswQXKHFrKijf7W8Buyk/s320/P1830788.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lower Woodlands, and Oakenshaw church.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPCvRldAmxEcmYt53firfexgwd9v-LcTeBPV3HD4HR3tZ_ml5a7nAYVJE9JIFDHZjIbHP-crkqzrlS1N9n7vf3EXPx2PEeNBNtoO-R0-yk6ABAN-klVpd0RdqsBbvrs1hFr55oIHAehuMm3kWmlosKJKnlzRLOhq8AQuxEZ90rReyfUDzkShwnvUzncxY/s2560/P1830832.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7psu-qjwN4tvumgy7Wn0cg9eHJDPBypl4tcm1_GTQevbUNA6toiGkQDqmwPO0FnBLaxI7uo2P9MbaGZobONIaaZZuVQ-FA1_6BZ-pNs2tZdfyS3R9TLrmkth_1fjscJLSgoL-xRAlqrU-t7fvXJ5AN7bLi9az5EW9OEJ3edEcuTKOCqX7j8_n2ONKbvU/s2560/P1830340.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7psu-qjwN4tvumgy7Wn0cg9eHJDPBypl4tcm1_GTQevbUNA6toiGkQDqmwPO0FnBLaxI7uo2P9MbaGZobONIaaZZuVQ-FA1_6BZ-pNs2tZdfyS3R9TLrmkth_1fjscJLSgoL-xRAlqrU-t7fvXJ5AN7bLi9az5EW9OEJ3edEcuTKOCqX7j8_n2ONKbvU/s320/P1830340.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Today's Bonus Bird is the Mistle Thrush.<br />(It does appear that I have become a Twitcher in 2023!)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>5,000 Miles Cumulative Total: 6054.3 miles</b></div><div>2023 Total: 132.1 miles</div><div>Up Country Total: 5,573.6 miles</div><div>Solo Total: 5711.7 miles</div><div>5,000 in my 40s Total: 4644.1 miles</div><div><br /></div><div>Destinations Moved into Tier 1: Low Moor</div><div>Trails moved from Tier 3 to Tier 2: 1</div><div><br /></div><div>Next Up: Aiming ourselves at the Colne Valley again, as Summer arrives.</div><div><br /></div></div>Christopher Wrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09743749271457169317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527420385844253776.post-34520710988427996102023-06-11T13:10:00.001+01:002023-06-18T16:26:39.741+01:00Morley to Mirfield 10/06/23<div style="text-align: left;"><b>10.4 miles, via Troy Hill, Fountain Street, Scotchman Lane, Howley Mill, Lady Anne Crossing,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Upper Batley, Batley, Clerk Green, Mount Pleasant, Batley Carr, Boothroyd, Moor Bottom,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Dewsbury Country Park, Ravensthorpe, Calder Bridge, Sands, The Beck, Hopton Bottom,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Lower Hopton, and Ledgard Bridge.</b></div><p style="text-align: left;">We seem to have arrived on the first hot spell of the year, in mid June, as we reach the end of my first worked five day week in a while, and there's no telling if the energy levels are going to keep up for regular walking days as we attempt to push on towards the Summer, as my body has gotten used to working shorter weeks through May, though we're not getting too ambitious with our planning yet as there are at least 14 destinations around West Yorkshire that could be plausibly walked from home and added to the local Tier of Relative Proximity, and we've sights set on three of them for today as we set out, aiming ourselves towards Kirklees district for the first time in a while. There's no morning chill to be had as we arrive at our start line, at Morley station naturally, at 9.05am, and thus attempts to stay ahead of the swell of warmth count for nought, despite getting out an hour earlier than usual, and I can already feel like I'm getting a work out as we set off away up Station Road, noting Dartmouth Mills getting reconstructive works after suffering a fire last year, and rise up the angled path that leads up to Albert Road, where we join Troy Road and pass over Troy Hill by the still derelict St Mary in the Wood, around to Commercial Street, which we quit via Little Lane by the library and the the unity hall, down the ginnel that leads to Queen Street and the looming presence of the Town Hall. Pass behind that pile via Wellington Street and up through the Windsor Court shopping centre and on through Morrisons car park up to the civic complex on Corporation Street, where we hang a left past St Francis of Assisi RC church and the Fountain centre, as well as the WMC and the GNR goods shed, to join Fountain Street to lead us off to the southwest, pacing the sunny side of the street for a change in an attempt to get a different perspective on a local landscape that we've observed up close a good many times already as we track a way down from the Morley Academy to the Fountain Primary school, with all the terraced fronts and ends lying between, down to the former chapels on the A650 corner.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNCPHVr16VXmQUkTq9afILrRT4DlM1regDJV74NTTDUfOLJt5BH_uVSEWPP9TH7JFY4XpsPlMO01aIDugJzjGucXV3zqF6gJwSw8tDyE8T1siQh8WMPtSlAXfixVcDDaClqPOIOTUTx-FCbc-Y8PrGnsZUAw9TI99uRkgvpy2OL7vEGg-VtsLXQcz6/s2560/P1810855.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNCPHVr16VXmQUkTq9afILrRT4DlM1regDJV74NTTDUfOLJt5BH_uVSEWPP9TH7JFY4XpsPlMO01aIDugJzjGucXV3zqF6gJwSw8tDyE8T1siQh8WMPtSlAXfixVcDDaClqPOIOTUTx-FCbc-Y8PrGnsZUAw9TI99uRkgvpy2OL7vEGg-VtsLXQcz6/s320/P1810855.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dartmouth Mill restoration, Station Road, Morley.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8E5UbBFeFiesTYcQq8BeugvnGzfyA0G1N4R2P9cos-itwck-WgELztzbYbMUdGxCOLKdYi7PpCHgJguJ7eoSjFood-MEsZmyzXME2xpkWc1VWvtH-6XiUpBCUZTsqNvtlGRmRIzMxtCJHvLlP-BUn3yGVOg0bTxI-WJaJaf4QrzuakapeMjGvb57c/s2560/P1810893.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8E5UbBFeFiesTYcQq8BeugvnGzfyA0G1N4R2P9cos-itwck-WgELztzbYbMUdGxCOLKdYi7PpCHgJguJ7eoSjFood-MEsZmyzXME2xpkWc1VWvtH-6XiUpBCUZTsqNvtlGRmRIzMxtCJHvLlP-BUn3yGVOg0bTxI-WJaJaf4QrzuakapeMjGvb57c/s320/P1810893.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Morley Library and Town Hall, and the concealed Little Lane.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEEC-DqdfaEVDYeeVSK1TIC7c5apet3VYmOgKTH4GackMTeoLuHTtPzuWxw4NHJd8OaEMTduD5DYPVpBzybcYW79yNu7XDsrQVH-Y1l1gK0AIQTCIhTvDyhG7AMAB-Qj0xenvWy9HKswMQfAkGlW_wYDv7B9lWmGUC-a6BC3__vD3X3VpgUTtiM779/s2560/P1810927.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEEC-DqdfaEVDYeeVSK1TIC7c5apet3VYmOgKTH4GackMTeoLuHTtPzuWxw4NHJd8OaEMTduD5DYPVpBzybcYW79yNu7XDsrQVH-Y1l1gK0AIQTCIhTvDyhG7AMAB-Qj0xenvWy9HKswMQfAkGlW_wYDv7B9lWmGUC-a6BC3__vD3X3VpgUTtiM779/s320/P1810927.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The GNR Goods Shed, Fountain Street.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCZ1upFmnCKqEcZl7L5TsyF2XFn6lhnbDxNDcu5wj5TcqNOZjXq3mJxI7n2mXreEokqw0B8unJ07FVB4trJrjf-winuaoFgcjjq5FgrrRzVrxHNERsbVEv3Are73J6TsaJad5GE3OrCNrW9NDfDMIDQiB8lRn6Ybo67XTOV9ZNgwmNMvti5Y4v83Yy/s2560/P1810944.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCZ1upFmnCKqEcZl7L5TsyF2XFn6lhnbDxNDcu5wj5TcqNOZjXq3mJxI7n2mXreEokqw0B8unJ07FVB4trJrjf-winuaoFgcjjq5FgrrRzVrxHNERsbVEv3Are73J6TsaJad5GE3OrCNrW9NDfDMIDQiB8lRn6Ybo67XTOV9ZNgwmNMvti5Y4v83Yy/s320/P1810944.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Terraced Fountain Street.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Over the Bruntcliffe Road and keep on with the B6123 as it leads past the Halfway House inn and out of Morley and over the M62 where the view across to the Pennine horizon never fails to entertain me, which recedes as we drop away with Scotchman Lane, along the front of the long suburban ribbon that backs onto Howley Hall golf course, dropping down and easing off and then dropping more sharply as we drop down to the former Needless inn, now renamed the Greedy Duck and having received a contemporary makeover which at least keeps it in business, as we find ourselves level with the southern portal of Morley tunnel, presenting itself as probably an hour's walk long, if so approached. On the border of Kirklees district, deep in the fall of Howden Clough we take the left that leads us past the equestrain farm on the site of Howley Park colliery and down Howley Mill Lane as it leads under the railway with the beck at its side via the asymmetrical arch and down to the shaded footpath that leads us towards Batley, where spying a Grey Wagtail by Lady Anne's mill distracts me from finding the footpath that splits right, down to the beck passage and up to Howley Street, where railway works are ongoing to replace the foot crossing by Batley Signal box, where part of the GNR embankment and abutment has been dug out in order to install a footbridge. We can observe this from both sides before its closure comes in the not too distant future, and the new passage over to Rutland Road will have to be used in the future as we follow it around into Upper Batley, taking us below the imposing spire and bulk of St Thomas's church as we seek a sensible way down from this hillside, as we rise through the Victorian villa district with Grosvenor Road and then fall away with Glen Avenue among the suburban growth that lies above the Smithies beck valley, to be met as we join Batley Field Hill as it comes down to the A652 Bradford Road, where we cross to Branch Road, past the apparently former Conservative club, the parish church of All Saints and the present and past homes of the local Sally Army.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm0KcE7dvQwJkBzWNMYPumF3eJxlzr5kPntk9BEs5coeuwxqKCiz4wZQgY-TNx12Xy8_0Z2yEFl_bYYmR7iqkbW_tN0XarW9h9LWM6N0lL4LHIQolZRIv3SZtRnrt3rX_b7qZ5C45LSiVuWjrJsduhFtuS7uDpSb_ZG3z2mY00OqidVxHpiFUSYYPG/s2560/P1810980.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm0KcE7dvQwJkBzWNMYPumF3eJxlzr5kPntk9BEs5coeuwxqKCiz4wZQgY-TNx12Xy8_0Z2yEFl_bYYmR7iqkbW_tN0XarW9h9LWM6N0lL4LHIQolZRIv3SZtRnrt3rX_b7qZ5C45LSiVuWjrJsduhFtuS7uDpSb_ZG3z2mY00OqidVxHpiFUSYYPG/s320/P1810980.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The declining Scotchman Lane, leading into greater Calderdale.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQs9lWjOIGkXcNppoXiBJPt9ijPieiSSjDZOf7SdcfnE1mZPQc5FHeOyzf3FX2Ck4lS0xlqc4UME2T4oHCVk43De8BUZyVhGWxU5xv6eBBKVd-SvqtZkeny7VnHAUbJkaz9VV0RIuRY2iFZb8XcgxgjkY5mnv1M5GttrgCE4vwuyAjFMzqiLRy0uFa/s2560/P1820014.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQs9lWjOIGkXcNppoXiBJPt9ijPieiSSjDZOf7SdcfnE1mZPQc5FHeOyzf3FX2Ck4lS0xlqc4UME2T4oHCVk43De8BUZyVhGWxU5xv6eBBKVd-SvqtZkeny7VnHAUbJkaz9VV0RIuRY2iFZb8XcgxgjkY5mnv1M5GttrgCE4vwuyAjFMzqiLRy0uFa/s320/P1820014.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Greedy Duck, these days, Scotchman Lane</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGAF-J98e_zk4egvSn7AE0broB8SfkqdEqTTZdDom0Lf0F2tqR_zff5BrC2wUkmJXnc1DqWmJM4HRxtB1lPnfFHKi3l5qANTYX4bIbbAXw-egO3UcEJSoYuVBLWsha5UkaBo0ead4wEyV9xKnoRmyqWowYC-ZrMSZFkjUKM9saLDW3m8CaDjmN0CWr/s2560/P1820044.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGAF-J98e_zk4egvSn7AE0broB8SfkqdEqTTZdDom0Lf0F2tqR_zff5BrC2wUkmJXnc1DqWmJM4HRxtB1lPnfFHKi3l5qANTYX4bIbbAXw-egO3UcEJSoYuVBLWsha5UkaBo0ead4wEyV9xKnoRmyqWowYC-ZrMSZFkjUKM9saLDW3m8CaDjmN0CWr/s320/P1820044.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The shaded footpath passage of Howden Mill Lane.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_mtWbpWrGgmN5aamm1HBx5E3QnXWoW4lcgDpdnJEf1F8r06LFkG7xyakCwix6pUGgASJgStK1Sh-xjmtDs_AvvXeFeiu4fKTYiVKNUfLJdzmaXJk3VXhyXXbvF1InaR3lgadAiW53_8cLblhk1iHz94YSKFW44pasfUZd6hvDhDYkjO-dE_uvjBLn/s2560/P1820085.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_mtWbpWrGgmN5aamm1HBx5E3QnXWoW4lcgDpdnJEf1F8r06LFkG7xyakCwix6pUGgASJgStK1Sh-xjmtDs_AvvXeFeiu4fKTYiVKNUfLJdzmaXJk3VXhyXXbvF1InaR3lgadAiW53_8cLblhk1iHz94YSKFW44pasfUZd6hvDhDYkjO-dE_uvjBLn/s320/P1820085.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The embankment and abutment remnants, Lady Anne's Crossing.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIUTCCvL12QaxzuRO61SikRBFCspEojwj6_X2-XJ49ONJXs7zGhTcGMNY6OGne-BQ1DZIq8e_tMwVH4kLO1CxM1FNgyltzfBQqMjmNOfEQM8VOd7rSUPLAcmhNFu-nHTsZcSjcicl0RkRUCH_21XM_pUP4-Z_Vyvgi7rfDmftbXu-ucm1jxHBYYsnv/s2560/P1820144.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIUTCCvL12QaxzuRO61SikRBFCspEojwj6_X2-XJ49ONJXs7zGhTcGMNY6OGne-BQ1DZIq8e_tMwVH4kLO1CxM1FNgyltzfBQqMjmNOfEQM8VOd7rSUPLAcmhNFu-nHTsZcSjcicl0RkRUCH_21XM_pUP4-Z_Vyvgi7rfDmftbXu-ucm1jxHBYYsnv/s320/P1820144.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">St Thomas's church, Upper Batley.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimpaxRZrV19_KC4xVInCcNNRP2fN3SjFfA0yAGe1u55dW1DLvvHMmwISGo7ZYz4wPL7hJRPWWeR7bxpUWLAU4BWGy6f0b9UPGEEeMijIiRrTkoY4BQxfZthBupDrjmBAvGaKFwWdaoG6H6x6HQlJ03l1cuDNet71nz1Scp0EPcRysQUH9EnxU1eYtj/s2560/P1820170.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimpaxRZrV19_KC4xVInCcNNRP2fN3SjFfA0yAGe1u55dW1DLvvHMmwISGo7ZYz4wPL7hJRPWWeR7bxpUWLAU4BWGy6f0b9UPGEEeMijIiRrTkoY4BQxfZthBupDrjmBAvGaKFwWdaoG6H6x6HQlJ03l1cuDNet71nz1Scp0EPcRysQUH9EnxU1eYtj/s320/P1820170.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Glen Avenue, above the Smithies Beck valley.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Meet the main drag of Commercial Street and cross to the old Market Place, home to the old Post Office and the Town Hall, which is rather overshadowed by the bell-towered Library on Cambridge Street, where we'll break for elevenses in the town's War Memorial park, on the benches in the garden corner that commemorates local MP Jo Cox (murdered by a white supremacist 7 years ago this week, we should remember), before we rise over the crest past the RAFA and down past the town baths and old Technical school to meet Wellington Street, across from the Fox's Biscuits factory, where a busy trade seems to be going on from the factory shop, and our path leads us eastwards. This leads us into Clerk Green, with Dark Lane offering the rise on among the terraces to the next hillside among these urban valleys that feed the Calder, where the middle day sun is already beating down hard as we press over the hilltop, past the local Masjid and the extensive suburban estate reach of the town that isn't really visible from any of the normally used passages hereabouts, noting the older and encompassed terraced enclave at Mount Plaeasnt before we decline through Batley Carr with Track Road, past Hyrstlands house and its alleged park, and on down to the A638 Halifax Road, up into the edges of greater Dewsbury and downhill past the LDS church and the former Wheelwrights grammar schools. It's a longer trot along here than I'd expected us taking down to the Gospel church and the Masonic lodge before we take our turn onto Oxford Road to elevate us again through the town's villa district along a leafy lane that is marred horribly by sticky pavements, as a lack of rain in recent weeks has seen trees raining goo onto everything around-abouts (including my camera), and as we crest to the elevated views and the drop towards the Spen Valley beyond the St John Fisher RC Academy, it starts to feel like this isn't the sort of day to be aiming at three targets, as overheating starts to feel like a possibility as we come down to Staincliffe Road and the drop by the side of Dewsbury Crematorium at Boothroyd, as well as Crow's Nest Park and the edge of the Pandemic-era local bubble. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgNU5mI3mRaIlHa0oP3_IPyqwIPW5tEssA6f3h_i0RrpAJt9otOSqz9M2cEgqtyUSXBxym6hajdBFOuWMDnjMcx3uQD3bgljEtHt1NkF_XqcGq9sohltGVAZEq_FK8jAuUxblck4fJRO1ediY7vo0SNDq243LDwu7uhvqQrqeJLN-NMVCHwK6qIuvj/s2560/P1820207.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6go9NCuSI2wu_6ZPdCrEIreLMX0mBQsCTOQVrK85C5AHFTlWp-UUGzYv0Ac2--wsZh0sVbRV7lFQ2AOLzawX3Y6u9VRuUgtV0OraDABmDWCIrAw2IDs3Q6gbpI5bP66v1t75nZj9pZomB9OFKYh1tFf1ThjzcNP_Y9kmlX5FD9VlUWqmKMus2fYg3/s320/P1820282.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dark Lane, Clerk Green</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQo7llLEk23AD0o-iRttZ8r4TP6fgeRnfualPjEWlHCfv9aV7LbFKQ8z5XuZTA2Hg8FqRhHa3jaIUAnWKg_aMgfcGxyzWXT4q8Gjl-wPb1GRHVh6TMnD8GCD4z0cslJm13h__T9FLFI9B7V_xehxNxIT4kBGG_ygkxAwBugdxIZc7AxG0mLrA8-gS0/s2560/P1820321.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOHSEhrJXOsLxqLO4761ePMyEpG7lTUJjzcct_x7rVDJVYL3hr4WbwjYd16kS4tL-rQEJN20BUN3o1i-VIJf061_szMOk84zV0tV-eQwg52-kGq_FCB9YD_r8f0KU3bYZ2_xMlWk2YvJUD6blYF3HwipeStOb3VzcjZ07MvVaKjUhE656l53DKR8mv/s320/P1820399.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oxford Road, above the Spen Valley.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>At least there's no more uphill to do as we head into the Spen valley, across the B6117 Heckmondwike Road and down among the council houses of Moor Bottom on Beckett Lane to meet Low Road and the way into the greenery beyond, located beyond the pair of bulk catering stores and leading us briefly over the old Thornhill - Heckmondwike railway line and the Spen Valley Greenway, before we are lead through Dewsbury Country Park and on to our passage over the River Spen, before Park Road lands us on the edge of Ravensthorpe, where uncertain route directions have us following the NCN66 signs that lead us to Sackville Street and our change of direction down Spen Valley Road. I could be surprised by the amount of lunchtime activity hereabouts as we come down to the A644 Huddersfield Road at the end of the town's main drag which we'll follow as it takes us down to Calder Road as it leads between the terraces and factories to the passage over its river, into the industrial landscape that lies beyond, as well as to Ravensthorpe station, which is still where it was 2 years ago thanks to the Trans Pennine Route Upgrade works having yet to arrive here, marking our first destination tag of the day, but not our last, where lunch can be taken as we choose to abbreviate the trip once we get to Mirfield, only an hour or so distant from here. Having noted a previously unacknowledged railway bridge, we return to the riverside, to seek the path along the bank that I wasn't convinced existed back in 2012, but find is thoroughly traceable still as we follow the upstream Calder through the shade, below the retaining walls that hold up the asphalt plant above and opposite the Greenwood Cut on the navigation, as we pass below the railway with some significant structural work keeping it in place as it looms to the south, before we stick to the bank-side and trace away around the Ladywood Lakes fishery and into the yard of the Ship Inn at Sands, which has comprehensively gone out of business. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW4mNwwJjrfBvz2O6GDBcUHIpOemobO3k9zXKhTUbp-aNwqwolZG2keGlRccZRbYyRi7E36QhiknZCarm8qOQP6VHl_lmfX9c2mmJuMs-T4cjq02XQ2JcjKbEoP5hCU7RXlNb7S-V2TBZAmfUUDDIL1Spxijxbi7yuInLr4Cmkm3-a7H_d4ZcsArfS/s2560/P1820437.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW4mNwwJjrfBvz2O6GDBcUHIpOemobO3k9zXKhTUbp-aNwqwolZG2keGlRccZRbYyRi7E36QhiknZCarm8qOQP6VHl_lmfX9c2mmJuMs-T4cjq02XQ2JcjKbEoP5hCU7RXlNb7S-V2TBZAmfUUDDIL1Spxijxbi7yuInLr4Cmkm3-a7H_d4ZcsArfS/s320/P1820437.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Low Road, Dewsbury Moor Bottom.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYaab4F6H-OoLUPC8wRpKM7C9i9FnYo74qRaEDQbfOv9KVWONo52jXYI7LuAfewwoHiTozlLYG2ImXGO5pcz_rvjLdRLk77qMnLIpgwe8GViuKk-JgUzIyqiByYHZcmKZrimumi2QwCefC8RwpbZLK4o4SN6syumqwKk51N30feQWP6o6WNdg6vETB/s2560/P1820457.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYaab4F6H-OoLUPC8wRpKM7C9i9FnYo74qRaEDQbfOv9KVWONo52jXYI7LuAfewwoHiTozlLYG2ImXGO5pcz_rvjLdRLk77qMnLIpgwe8GViuKk-JgUzIyqiByYHZcmKZrimumi2QwCefC8RwpbZLK4o4SN6syumqwKk51N30feQWP6o6WNdg6vETB/s320/P1820457.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Spen Bridge, Dewsbury Country Park.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcmktma9PUNAxHtp0NEgVF0DxsDPnBdDZ31LfrjWpMuKLiekCYMqZdQRFjPPKwkF8bT9jopO-zc1Kh1VtNn_55NKweXTVCW-bihFnYJuF6FWZt9Xiikq4kyH3NepqbzZQxH0Fn93GdtpJQa4GN805boa0Yy5JmAgKl6-n9dddUVIM0CxCcK2hqQqFB/s2560/P1820486.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcmktma9PUNAxHtp0NEgVF0DxsDPnBdDZ31LfrjWpMuKLiekCYMqZdQRFjPPKwkF8bT9jopO-zc1Kh1VtNn_55NKweXTVCW-bihFnYJuF6FWZt9Xiikq4kyH3NepqbzZQxH0Fn93GdtpJQa4GN805boa0Yy5JmAgKl6-n9dddUVIM0CxCcK2hqQqFB/s320/P1820486.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Huddersfield Road, Ravensthorpe.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTLwH3CKYvJtrFZxwkJozGMD_gT28_GT8GhzVCOPDGOkkVuPfLkCIT-TMUAS247YVRdL75zVeMmef-mFhglDxtvElWsgO-QSfWGI_8STFb0ggHqLqJkF2Rc9ACwDMllkF-_9M7KKyghQeP8Cbm8BkhggIw02VSISWFZiumA0v4tji6mtL-gZ7pAI_Z/s2560/P1820537.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTLwH3CKYvJtrFZxwkJozGMD_gT28_GT8GhzVCOPDGOkkVuPfLkCIT-TMUAS247YVRdL75zVeMmef-mFhglDxtvElWsgO-QSfWGI_8STFb0ggHqLqJkF2Rc9ACwDMllkF-_9M7KKyghQeP8Cbm8BkhggIw02VSISWFZiumA0v4tji6mtL-gZ7pAI_Z/s320/P1820537.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ravensthorpe Station is still here!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcQdDEL2qe4zv-AaxN64-U8ktuDAJS9sT6IHUr5qcX6PQrVN2AIF8uTFIf78-MqCWbPWrQj2fOBsCZBzs5x9ON-vnWyd3iUCL-cjny4CiBgmbdwif9xriEVBfPFN9-vTK3NPwQ41I-tJNUhZ-gxQvwAFTH39GpjMYLwaeCX-UlII7K_Y5Z2w5dDYpG/s2560/P1820580.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcQdDEL2qe4zv-AaxN64-U8ktuDAJS9sT6IHUr5qcX6PQrVN2AIF8uTFIf78-MqCWbPWrQj2fOBsCZBzs5x9ON-vnWyd3iUCL-cjny4CiBgmbdwif9xriEVBfPFN9-vTK3NPwQ41I-tJNUhZ-gxQvwAFTH39GpjMYLwaeCX-UlII7K_Y5Z2w5dDYpG/s320/P1820580.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A path on the Calder's south bank exists!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPMsLL8Z2Wc4mNyL2MkJiWcvPtKEJ4U7kVikHUPvGcv_emzawkTfOK6AbXRjPjugUgL-5D7kiUkQTeMLZbZg4ZUVEIV_mZMi_IzEyn73Ke3IU35Tmy5usUwXK5XXkVgHUFpj0iEtYQOv9cK-ITe2xL7M-AL6vLAOFRie8oUPJ-PCKec6z7aQX-i9VU/s2560/P1820615.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPMsLL8Z2Wc4mNyL2MkJiWcvPtKEJ4U7kVikHUPvGcv_emzawkTfOK6AbXRjPjugUgL-5D7kiUkQTeMLZbZg4ZUVEIV_mZMi_IzEyn73Ke3IU35Tmy5usUwXK5XXkVgHUFpj0iEtYQOv9cK-ITe2xL7M-AL6vLAOFRie8oUPJ-PCKec6z7aQX-i9VU/s320/P1820615.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Railway retaining walls at the riverside.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCNypTxtUxTztaLxLg015fhESw9hxjNA5FPfeJ2L01Aw4n8DEeQTWDIp0gsqr0MLbdoubJYXxOU5ZD98DyGjEOgTX4z7GySTd7jb3IsyotdOsqcJnEbwf1tKX3ZHwbXbqNYCrq7QX82glLQRUux9qAqWr7PmtWbnou54VBiewBhFqUZNUfLlyY1UvH/s2560/P1820657.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCNypTxtUxTztaLxLg015fhESw9hxjNA5FPfeJ2L01Aw4n8DEeQTWDIp0gsqr0MLbdoubJYXxOU5ZD98DyGjEOgTX4z7GySTd7jb3IsyotdOsqcJnEbwf1tKX3ZHwbXbqNYCrq7QX82glLQRUux9qAqWr7PmtWbnou54VBiewBhFqUZNUfLlyY1UvH/s320/P1820657.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Ship Inn, Sands, is no longer in business.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Stay on the south side of the Calder as we join the footway beside the Steanard Lane taking us along towards the bridge across to Dr Reddy's plant and under the railway as it passes over on the skewed arches of Wheatley's bridge, then keeping on to the Christmas Tree farm and still rural feeling enclave at the Beck, before we find suburban growth arriving at Hopton Bottom, as the Applewood development claims more fields below the woodlands rising to the south, where a short route to the finish line could be made as Granny Lane leads us towards the Hopton New Road bridge, but we'll instead go a longer way around beyond the Flowerpot inn. The reach of Calder Road, passing the former Congregational chapel and hanging above the riverside leads us around to Lower Hopton, and gives us scope of a stretch f road that has failed to fall onto any previously plotted route, taking us past a surprisingly busy riverside frontage as we come around to Ledgard's bridge, and our usual passage over the Calder at the western edge of Mirfield, and thence its a press east along Back Station Road past the mill conversion and redevelopment to get us to our second, and sadly final destination of the day, where the murals under the Station Road bridge still need to be admired before we rise to the platform level. Land at 1.20pm, in good time for either of the available trains, feeling slightly dispirited at being beaten by the heat, and like I've had a proper testing of the endurance of my post-Covid self in hot weather that shows that a full recovery is still rather distant, but nonetheless encouraged that an alternative route to Deighton has already formed in my mind before we've even had need sit down to plot on Google Maps, so that gives me a future rote to ponder for the Summer, while also wondering what works the TPRU will have to do in the coming years to render this awkward elevated slab of station properly accessible.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiapd4o6OImAzvUmQvXdXQDX08SnajvJGQPQNCos_JAmIs79HpgbBkVUeiuaBKvQEA_30yO0_Yq6G53trfoLLrhRI_7ZLG0RU6CeJvRVbkQCwlUkw5WU1UkByzy--UF_meUCKy3-F0km5EV_fx4Zd2IpW1Cc1Pu0gHh6_CMIEggEnJ-aoer_32yQTF7/s2560/P1820693.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiapd4o6OImAzvUmQvXdXQDX08SnajvJGQPQNCos_JAmIs79HpgbBkVUeiuaBKvQEA_30yO0_Yq6G53trfoLLrhRI_7ZLG0RU6CeJvRVbkQCwlUkw5WU1UkByzy--UF_meUCKy3-F0km5EV_fx4Zd2IpW1Cc1Pu0gHh6_CMIEggEnJ-aoer_32yQTF7/s320/P1820693.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wheatley's Bridge, on the Calder.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDjuUebo2UsjJ5yc25G6Wu31Yez1eAQJH6bP-E-Ibn2cYd29l08YRQXkgB2qF_cKKi0BdshqezJe2gC9VLKKEV8G2pmztPnHMk1SjgQUx4_u0bJv5F0CjsuANGY9XZlwDs6bB6su_YPAgX3u3g5VxmsD1zo44Rm-nD_Dq0F7yKUka7XpY0ldxEBSDn/s2560/P1820737.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDjuUebo2UsjJ5yc25G6Wu31Yez1eAQJH6bP-E-Ibn2cYd29l08YRQXkgB2qF_cKKi0BdshqezJe2gC9VLKKEV8G2pmztPnHMk1SjgQUx4_u0bJv5F0CjsuANGY9XZlwDs6bB6su_YPAgX3u3g5VxmsD1zo44Rm-nD_Dq0F7yKUka7XpY0ldxEBSDn/s320/P1820737.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hopton Bottom.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsNp_olZtDCCndmY9AIsQZJNAy2qKuh3nB0_j1LykA2BjCdFfs2sOtf8AP4-KEu6ydmAdAHSyNlLEOxmpyLrTTyxPZGep58YAlhUnqfriwpSHHF6p54BiI3wc0uhJNnFsLX8mht6cTntq-nPtylu5I2p-6ujseTltXzA4l5bWQZ1nb_FZze9-sK_d-/s2560/P1820783.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsNp_olZtDCCndmY9AIsQZJNAy2qKuh3nB0_j1LykA2BjCdFfs2sOtf8AP4-KEu6ydmAdAHSyNlLEOxmpyLrTTyxPZGep58YAlhUnqfriwpSHHF6p54BiI3wc0uhJNnFsLX8mht6cTntq-nPtylu5I2p-6ujseTltXzA4l5bWQZ1nb_FZze9-sK_d-/s320/P1820783.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The former Congregational chapel, Lower Hopton.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioTIsqBwS_cxkCVR_9dqP6V31384BcHALXpV6WjfqmOYcUcQJSxYCmeSqYq_C3-It__xcANg7drwKHr1U68ILzVDOZ8W_sxlEt1mOp55B_qvEO3ORrh1VJi2cIe1Oi_QH57F1SGHCubswlUfnJ8U61dpxFje6XLY0qzkw8kQwt5VhOm5s5Jglh1wcY/s2560/P1820815.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioTIsqBwS_cxkCVR_9dqP6V31384BcHALXpV6WjfqmOYcUcQJSxYCmeSqYq_C3-It__xcANg7drwKHr1U68ILzVDOZ8W_sxlEt1mOp55B_qvEO3ORrh1VJi2cIe1Oi_QH57F1SGHCubswlUfnJ8U61dpxFje6XLY0qzkw8kQwt5VhOm5s5Jglh1wcY/s320/P1820815.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ledgard's Bridge. Hopton - Mirfield.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRycNqjZkVqiEF57EKalm3Z0loDnZzUZyMKkdc8dYw5FbcGxhAZlodOzYa7ujPq0cOGunUGmp9XbH0oY-hFaR7VRYy413KP0WZ47pyeAORda4M6MJyXhv7W5qN4kO5BzvryharUVg5kgMvQgPLD7ubh44deDig_54JWrtKRn4qQ62ewYMuhzQ4iL3C/s2560/P1820875.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRycNqjZkVqiEF57EKalm3Z0loDnZzUZyMKkdc8dYw5FbcGxhAZlodOzYa7ujPq0cOGunUGmp9XbH0oY-hFaR7VRYy413KP0WZ47pyeAORda4M6MJyXhv7W5qN4kO5BzvryharUVg5kgMvQgPLD7ubh44deDig_54JWrtKRn4qQ62ewYMuhzQ4iL3C/s320/P1820875.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nova at Mirfield.<br />~~~</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw-AlTXQ719eZQ_07f14KrtsRciNmS6uC3iBS5jRsFqqpZJtBgD_7GSgjdXBs0IEyi7WK2s791yzJJPvxj0w6qzHuais6Kx3CONMTnuVLhpZw7vB7jCpPv1Tvmnehg7Kd8kvREooAHBtLVyWQ-7N4QIE6YL5K7A3du_AHAXHOB93jEtsQFVn_4hISM/s2560/P1820058.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw-AlTXQ719eZQ_07f14KrtsRciNmS6uC3iBS5jRsFqqpZJtBgD_7GSgjdXBs0IEyi7WK2s791yzJJPvxj0w6qzHuais6Kx3CONMTnuVLhpZw7vB7jCpPv1Tvmnehg7Kd8kvREooAHBtLVyWQ-7N4QIE6YL5K7A3du_AHAXHOB93jEtsQFVn_4hISM/s320/P1820058.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If it's Birdlife You Want, Have a Grey Wagtail<br />(you can tell it's Grey because of how Yellow it is!)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>5,000 Miles Cumulative Total: 6045.7 miles</b></div><div>2023 Total: 123.5 miles</div><div>Up Country Total: 5,565 miles</div><div>Solo Total: 5703.1 miles</div><div>5,000 in my 40s Total: 4635.5 miles</div><div><br /></div><div>Destinations Moved into Tier 1: Ravensthorpe, Mirfield</div><div><br /></div><div>Next Up: Keeping thing Local while Morley is denied all Rail Access.</div><div><br /></div></div>Christopher Wrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09743749271457169317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527420385844253776.post-20485342672191865892023-06-04T15:31:00.003+01:002023-07-01T10:07:03.393+01:00Morley to Normanton 03/06/23<div style="text-align: left;"><b>10.9 miles, via Owlers, West Wood, Sissons Wood, South Middleton, Thorpe on the Hill,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Lingwell Gate, Lofthouse Colliery, Lofthouse Gate, Stanley, The Nagger Lines, Stanley Ferry,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Newlands Park, St John's Field, and Smirthwaite. </b></div><p style="text-align: left;">We were very fortunate through the whole month of May to have not worked a single five day week across the whole width of it, and as we find ourselves at the first weekend of June, that five week run comes to an end, and thus we'll have to start worrying if the stamina is going to hold up after a very testing four day burst in the hospital libraries, followed by no scheduled time off until mid-July, so hopefully a return to sunny days will give me a mental lift to propel me on through the High Season, rather than proving physically draining as my body has yet to get itself into the early Spring mindset, as we veer dangerously close to your actual Summer. So, sunshine abounds as we head out, from Morley station once again, at 10am, and setting a course to the southeast as our quest to add new destinations to the local tiers, and to shuffle the routes beyond continues, rising from Valley Road up the long step flight again and feeling like we're soon going to be at a total loss for new routes away from this town as we join Clough Street again, ahead of visiting Denshaw Drive and Grove in our ongoing attempt to <i>Watchperson</i> every pavement hereabouts on our way towards Newlands Academy and the Gardeners Arms, where Wide Lane is joined to push us east, beyond the suburban reach and into the fields of Owlers. Meet and cross Dewsbury Road, and join the West Wood Road track for the n-th time as it drops down beyond the A653, passing over Millshaw Beck and rising under the railway lines current and former, before meeting West Wood and the intermittent shade that comes with paths along the periphery of the Middleton hillside, a route which I'm really glad that I haven't tired of having seen so much of it in recent years, and one which we surprisingly have to ourselves as the heat starts to bear down already, especially on the exposed stretch uphill to meet Sissons Wood, where the views back west across Morley, and northwest to Rombalds Moor, always entertain my brain, despite their familiarity to me.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiqz8nZS0q64oqr0vue6KXDRcOIHBZ2iHgeDxSLjXo8hfXtJH-OkmhnB6Amx6h83JBWU8sDdewJB8r43jbHRk4yyMpKaVZqkantDe7zLwlbR-4a-SS_UfJnc_SAJX3qvdUh4sQQg71oI8tP_AhWNOyirISBPY4CLxX4DbYgvSctyOa3mIzqbAML5Po/s4000/P1800720.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiqz8nZS0q64oqr0vue6KXDRcOIHBZ2iHgeDxSLjXo8hfXtJH-OkmhnB6Amx6h83JBWU8sDdewJB8r43jbHRk4yyMpKaVZqkantDe7zLwlbR-4a-SS_UfJnc_SAJX3qvdUh4sQQg71oI8tP_AhWNOyirISBPY4CLxX4DbYgvSctyOa3mIzqbAML5Po/s320/P1800720.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Denshaw Drive, Morley.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiprWeuHfkMWYOB0Z4doZxOtsUs6ti3wEPHWbbDvwl1qKyVQErWkRbwkIqcidrXFCYVjvvD8sH1OBCzubc343Cmqahy_llp39DUNdvAqidipfXg9oUJBt-3fKrAQlDYF6BjkF5getsEUmOgSKpmb8uOQlmlIHr6250OdAVgcbe8wmtXJK2fFcK55Ws1/s4000/P1800741.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiprWeuHfkMWYOB0Z4doZxOtsUs6ti3wEPHWbbDvwl1qKyVQErWkRbwkIqcidrXFCYVjvvD8sH1OBCzubc343Cmqahy_llp39DUNdvAqidipfXg9oUJBt-3fKrAQlDYF6BjkF5getsEUmOgSKpmb8uOQlmlIHr6250OdAVgcbe8wmtXJK2fFcK55Ws1/s320/P1800741.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Gardeners Arms, Wide Lane.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrZuzhF1izVbiKo_cY5UgW5IzoRDEf9uSh_GBuXyLI3RXG5q4AenKyFaU5ymmaGLSfVT0GUikSjWLjcvqH9QPRaul9PvQrhraLhqH_TWYSPWd-DhkGDU7z_-TzYKOb--gVL1qCOuo_WjTvkp4aaUxwdHYOrTgJ5thG5JPPGtCDml6w-ZakAvpXQr0S/s4000/P1800775.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrZuzhF1izVbiKo_cY5UgW5IzoRDEf9uSh_GBuXyLI3RXG5q4AenKyFaU5ymmaGLSfVT0GUikSjWLjcvqH9QPRaul9PvQrhraLhqH_TWYSPWd-DhkGDU7z_-TzYKOb--gVL1qCOuo_WjTvkp4aaUxwdHYOrTgJ5thG5JPPGtCDml6w-ZakAvpXQr0S/s320/P1800775.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">West Wood Lane.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPtASHEuS5rkf5sGTM4oS_-WN1szz61J8Duv8BsOF-qGUe9iy874DbyW3fPYMS51SKHHtNYNKySYBPZ_9FOqd1PW0Zq98g-xcxonOPeEOuEz9TnOA4tDmQrftXJo8Eqd8mgmCSij5fJNHeTfA5-U3rL3HDCOz_b6aeTc-LVAp7n5Fo3LvHghfYpsry/s4000/P1800809.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPtASHEuS5rkf5sGTM4oS_-WN1szz61J8Duv8BsOF-qGUe9iy874DbyW3fPYMS51SKHHtNYNKySYBPZ_9FOqd1PW0Zq98g-xcxonOPeEOuEz9TnOA4tDmQrftXJo8Eqd8mgmCSij5fJNHeTfA5-U3rL3HDCOz_b6aeTc-LVAp7n5Fo3LvHghfYpsry/s320/P1800809.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The West Wood - Sissons Wood path.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">The shade is welcome before we join the south-easterly turn behind the back gardens of the estate houses, placing us above Tingley viaduct and across from Tingley and East Ardsley in the south as we're swung around towards the A654, snaring the direct line sight of Upton water tower on the distant horizon before we are dropped out on Thorpe Road, where the route forwards take us below the Middleton estate, passing the bus terminus and the almost completed suburbanisation of Throstle Road rec, and also noting the pair of rural vintage cottage before the council house landscape fades as we meet the Falconers Rest inn. As open fields arrive to the south, incidentally giving sight of the distant Walton Wood mast, it's always a bit of a surprise to see just how much suburban growth has occurred on the land packets to the north, completely filling in the landscape around the access road of Towcester Avenue, and reaching all the way to the stray estate close at Whinthorpe Avenue and Crescent, beyond which open fields take over, finding that the 116m trig pillar at the roadside is vanishing into the undergrowth and the prominence of East Ardsley's churchyard woods is noted as we drift along towards Thorpe on the Hill, where Thorpe Hall still lies derelict. A change of route comes as Middleton Lane swings south, off the A654 and southerly onto the B6135 Lingwell Gate Lane, past Thorpe Hill farm and the terraced enclave that once served the Robin Hood Quarries to the east, before we pass over the busy M62, west of Junction 29, and off the B-road and its pavements, forcing onto the road surface tightly enclosed lane as it sidles its way downhill towards Bowling beck, past the picturesque farmstead and the developments of the old Ardsley railway yards before we land at Lingwell Gate, where the Nook Inn and its go-kart track no longer do business, and then rise on, below the West Riding Line and the M1.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7vNZWvhgERoZUhDuzAAidVztzmTxGOS-vRba4K-LPpwDYd36WLGq0oblzNqLHqXwjRMMa_kIawrSdhgKYgkyjelTx9O_NU_VIQNmInyP91lR1871lrxShFgFnEiYdwP6htls9f8gOdjTtvTWNa-jZgpDut803n30loG9SuhhEsRQZNfbpY90cwZnk/s4000/P1800860.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7vNZWvhgERoZUhDuzAAidVztzmTxGOS-vRba4K-LPpwDYd36WLGq0oblzNqLHqXwjRMMa_kIawrSdhgKYgkyjelTx9O_NU_VIQNmInyP91lR1871lrxShFgFnEiYdwP6htls9f8gOdjTtvTWNa-jZgpDut803n30loG9SuhhEsRQZNfbpY90cwZnk/s320/P1800860.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The path to Thorpe Lane, with East Ardsley and Tingley.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3pQbq9yQQS1V5JuDPxH5VSSfRQXWyABAp-5qSUM0-92REjpnfte9I5bep98igoqMovLOjZ1R-P2O591EO7UzjiSN372luVNn9uezIxSVWl0tifhFk4CTCW3N_k8vi4T9sGaSdhlNuK4cAtND6SKsn-_jHfOk4PEnPkMTgm4KZQ9COQQa7tb0GYJYh/s4000/P1800877.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3pQbq9yQQS1V5JuDPxH5VSSfRQXWyABAp-5qSUM0-92REjpnfte9I5bep98igoqMovLOjZ1R-P2O591EO7UzjiSN372luVNn9uezIxSVWl0tifhFk4CTCW3N_k8vi4T9sGaSdhlNuK4cAtND6SKsn-_jHfOk4PEnPkMTgm4KZQ9COQQa7tb0GYJYh/s320/P1800877.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Throstle Road rec gets urbanized, Middleton.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguoCpORZ81I9QTWh_2BUtIMjqksD3u0vYpzPgTiUOwgg7kWQb8NJ69yCeBp0S2P3S0aJ1OpToq_vCRSFVVdquL_NN7kaBb4lZcqpGpraq2t6Pftkj6suzN5r7Vf0HFLh6ZkBygTQ2Ha-rzNX8_Oaq_SOHV5XSONT7nQzHH0wX5Ny-kWGeQa3_HzySn/s4000/P1800901.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguoCpORZ81I9QTWh_2BUtIMjqksD3u0vYpzPgTiUOwgg7kWQb8NJ69yCeBp0S2P3S0aJ1OpToq_vCRSFVVdquL_NN7kaBb4lZcqpGpraq2t6Pftkj6suzN5r7Vf0HFLh6ZkBygTQ2Ha-rzNX8_Oaq_SOHV5XSONT7nQzHH0wX5Ny-kWGeQa3_HzySn/s320/P1800901.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The edges os Suburban Middleton.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCOO4ayV_eEEfuAz0Lx0RO3cu1LYppeCkLh8NrN_0W32itqsIlBinGMq_SyzsuaOD9sIgs0BoxR7L2bKieCXTW9qW_Po2IL7SoHLVO9xgNItBXMBh35OAi3tSlw9q0Bm0S5_zC3X9FWZqvOuDN7HcEBw-QFH9kPinfczb7JYZ17iytQ6abBNMOLeFH/s4000/P1800924.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCOO4ayV_eEEfuAz0Lx0RO3cu1LYppeCkLh8NrN_0W32itqsIlBinGMq_SyzsuaOD9sIgs0BoxR7L2bKieCXTW9qW_Po2IL7SoHLVO9xgNItBXMBh35OAi3tSlw9q0Bm0S5_zC3X9FWZqvOuDN7HcEBw-QFH9kPinfczb7JYZ17iytQ6abBNMOLeFH/s320/P1800924.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Middleton Road, Thorpe on the Hill.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6G121PrYiGOKlrxxESSSiokRYl3D9ohphSi26jZvpsa_qI8di2hvR6_M0OjugQY5wnGZFS7Fgeg60bX-HjAwCu4UzW-lRZiAopUKrmhcC8BGfhciCeXFaf9jQRXyf4t8u_hdfyPFkFevjAgGeUoRVnx1TopMo8s-PAx-Fc5CeWYGbcGGMtqWvuAri/s4000/P1800942.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6G121PrYiGOKlrxxESSSiokRYl3D9ohphSi26jZvpsa_qI8di2hvR6_M0OjugQY5wnGZFS7Fgeg60bX-HjAwCu4UzW-lRZiAopUKrmhcC8BGfhciCeXFaf9jQRXyf4t8u_hdfyPFkFevjAgGeUoRVnx1TopMo8s-PAx-Fc5CeWYGbcGGMtqWvuAri/s320/P1800942.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Quarry Terraces, Thorpe on the Hill.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGj0RBkle6j_CN7vGQBj7XiGhnnGjkNaZBMv9fsVnUIRvIt_zinOiNXdUdrQ129L9zR0Ot73CET843XVzhK5qpN6X9SpG_EH_E03aNbDKnSL87XI6BLp9zr7eXu-OG44jVg5dX0xT2tiRf7MVJHdOj-ONaS9n5hBo8rQA_ztNLdTM0olduU2i3lZJY/s4000/P1800987.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGj0RBkle6j_CN7vGQBj7XiGhnnGjkNaZBMv9fsVnUIRvIt_zinOiNXdUdrQ129L9zR0Ot73CET843XVzhK5qpN6X9SpG_EH_E03aNbDKnSL87XI6BLp9zr7eXu-OG44jVg5dX0xT2tiRf7MVJHdOj-ONaS9n5hBo8rQA_ztNLdTM0olduU2i3lZJY/s320/P1800987.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Nook Inn, Lingwell Gate.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">Meet the chapel and terrace that are always noted from the motorway and split off onto Castle Head lane as it goes north, over the railway and shadowing the M1 until Lingwell Nook Lane can get us back on track south-easterly, through the strange little terrace cluster and past the remnants of the E&WYUR bridge on the way into the Lofthouse Colliery country park, where the rough path around its eastern side is met, returning us to shade that we need on a day like today, and offering a lunchbreak spot to refuel before we press on to the corner of the circuit that we haven't seen before leading to the ponds and the renewed hard track that leads below the fallow Lofthouse Hill golf course. We also track along the northern suburban edge of Lofthouse Gate as we go, all the way down to Potovens Lane, where we tangle up with the A61 Leeds Road , which needs to be crossed by the NHS Keyworkers benches and up from the Star Inn, to join Canal Road which presses us along past the Lofthouse Gate Sport & Social Club, and up to the substantial bridge remnant at the northern reach of the Nagger Lines, the narrow gauge colliery line that didn't seem to have a clear route to the north of here (actually turning west to the south of the road, it seems), and it would be temping to walk this path again, but as we need to vary things up a bit, we ought to walk Baker Lane instead. South-easterly this leads us again, past the terraces and over the Outwood - Methley railway alignment on its way down into the suburban swell of Stanley drifting downhill to rooks Nest Road and the left turn to the Lane Ends corner by the Travellers Inn and our turn down Lime Pit lane, among the crescents of council house and down to the familiar parklands at its bottom end, where the rails are still embed in the road surface and the A642 Aberford Road is crossed once again, onto the railway alignment for the fourth or fifth time as its still the best available path through the Calder's adjacent flatlands down to Stanley Ferry.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUuh34cKJo8qJKUA99QvQYLIXsoLtc2P-dETHVpaYCzElSDnamT2iXhQexHf_Li1ofBSbMkXj5y_LKwofOaefWSCsd8b4Chompc5izs59cJjUpyJ-phKLf8aiSKUYC_d6O35poPv0SNrhg9RNpmRW3WMAZTypl2X0ALZn0mf9mjqKM_Oa76Lmirw6c/s4000/P1810025.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUuh34cKJo8qJKUA99QvQYLIXsoLtc2P-dETHVpaYCzElSDnamT2iXhQexHf_Li1ofBSbMkXj5y_LKwofOaefWSCsd8b4Chompc5izs59cJjUpyJ-phKLf8aiSKUYC_d6O35poPv0SNrhg9RNpmRW3WMAZTypl2X0ALZn0mf9mjqKM_Oa76Lmirw6c/s320/P1810025.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Lingwell Gate terraces, Lofthouse Colliery.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisWpwWrqNWn9wWDnAwU2__aJcuitTK4DX_4Brrs6FpNAGwxY-d2r7GxkEF7HXJVw7mJPiosFCvvmyt397PZ5dlBMRf6iEHfdKxxi1be0tIO_3xp9eovSVqjl13t6gtNdfsllDyfC2OVY-Pizifzawmz9m1nYzrEHsstgBKOcQAAeO44_qfOBKrxi1P/s4000/P1810067.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisWpwWrqNWn9wWDnAwU2__aJcuitTK4DX_4Brrs6FpNAGwxY-d2r7GxkEF7HXJVw7mJPiosFCvvmyt397PZ5dlBMRf6iEHfdKxxi1be0tIO_3xp9eovSVqjl13t6gtNdfsllDyfC2OVY-Pizifzawmz9m1nYzrEHsstgBKOcQAAeO44_qfOBKrxi1P/s320/P1810067.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More paths to discover, Lofthouse Colliery.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRVZrc7asjM0S5vB5pmGNb8snq9rAsVLa527Cuwm7wT0Y_Zkrt18edf9D9XFVROb6eVwKhoumnjJkgzWVFwkgJr9QAlbPuDwYJOwf44lSEsQEAJnBtMpimSzpX6saNhnPjTztgXMGdjH-faIfIUNn4Pry325ZatjdRXJy2cv8iKYQvVr9iDiKd9X4J/s4000/P1810109.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRVZrc7asjM0S5vB5pmGNb8snq9rAsVLa527Cuwm7wT0Y_Zkrt18edf9D9XFVROb6eVwKhoumnjJkgzWVFwkgJr9QAlbPuDwYJOwf44lSEsQEAJnBtMpimSzpX6saNhnPjTztgXMGdjH-faIfIUNn4Pry325ZatjdRXJy2cv8iKYQvVr9iDiKd9X4J/s320/P1810109.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Canal Road, Lofthouse Gate.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJn2HHmy0z31qMo4fDj5Y1JiroFYZqau4rv5xPMOlVIh-ouacw8bvPzA1-7bcQA7E6Ve9H8JmzyVplyvt4zLUpe1NBPDRc1zUhV0n9EBM02FV5bDBr10k6kW4XN4e6Vuz5jzrn7rkPn2O3mAq6oWK3Ci7U-9jMEds7j2vQfWBBpaoQbEtYOoNOEKAw/s4000/P1810136.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJn2HHmy0z31qMo4fDj5Y1JiroFYZqau4rv5xPMOlVIh-ouacw8bvPzA1-7bcQA7E6Ve9H8JmzyVplyvt4zLUpe1NBPDRc1zUhV0n9EBM02FV5bDBr10k6kW4XN4e6Vuz5jzrn7rkPn2O3mAq6oWK3Ci7U-9jMEds7j2vQfWBBpaoQbEtYOoNOEKAw/s320/P1810136.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Baker Lane. Lofthouse Gate.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq2rjvK5sVyMMy2IvJg5GuEGXXoeK_3UTa7qMQdRZKXAaQj7-K7LyMyMZsBvAallt8CX9UMvTBtN3CeqRBrHLrwkgXHoAtbuyMmwFEirsCtqQA6wyXToDst8YcMkaFKhZTMtKyrNreKQQmeQ16vypBl1jDMljGlZkR3Ar1r6-p914dhaaa0BPYsV2P/s4000/P1810165.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq2rjvK5sVyMMy2IvJg5GuEGXXoeK_3UTa7qMQdRZKXAaQj7-K7LyMyMZsBvAallt8CX9UMvTBtN3CeqRBrHLrwkgXHoAtbuyMmwFEirsCtqQA6wyXToDst8YcMkaFKhZTMtKyrNreKQQmeQ16vypBl1jDMljGlZkR3Ar1r6-p914dhaaa0BPYsV2P/s320/P1810165.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stanley Lane Ends.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUwgn3AKNCqGGb1E36lvNBcSCxJzB1PcUs8UB7VoYAa5TVF-g-IcMz_dK25K3SSKC7ArEq_hGCaENil3b6fk4C463uSHaF_4u7XLuyx_dLspG2KONAndsJMKToXtn2FNFER7sabDisDuOMwxDSIyJOEfHjI4R6643S5LCIQI2KsT6FeIOthAsw-1M_/s4000/P1810200.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUwgn3AKNCqGGb1E36lvNBcSCxJzB1PcUs8UB7VoYAa5TVF-g-IcMz_dK25K3SSKC7ArEq_hGCaENil3b6fk4C463uSHaF_4u7XLuyx_dLspG2KONAndsJMKToXtn2FNFER7sabDisDuOMwxDSIyJOEfHjI4R6643S5LCIQI2KsT6FeIOthAsw-1M_/s320/P1810200.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tramping the Nagger Lines, again!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">Ferry Lane is met to take us over the River Calder and the Aire & Calder Navigation, and around the marina and boatyard to drop us down onto the towpath, leading us to the aqueducts and the trash screen bridge before we take a turn along the south bank of the Calder, onto a footpath that plainly exists on the ground but has no apparent ROW on it, which we and other locals will do our best to establish as it leads through the shade down towards Newland Park, along an embankment that once ran down from the wharf to St John's Colliery, making this a railway and river walk before we turn inland where Newland Hall once stood. The ruins seeming that bit more lost when a dense cover of foliage hangs overhead, not that it prevents a poke-around before we rise away, up Newland Lane to the east, pondering if the cattle have free reign on these fields, until a two heavy agricultural vehicles rise up the narrow track to pass us by, with St John's Fields elevating above the Calder and observing the views around to Warmfield, Emley Moor and the landfill hill that conceals the view to Wakefield, as we pass the angling lake and former brickworks site before we pass over the railway, in clear sight of Normanton station off to the north. The town lies beyond, with us meeting Smirthwaite park, and its neighbouring low-rise estate, next to St John the Baptist RC church and the pavements of the Wakefield Road which will take us north past chapels, pubs and the local takeaway parade on the way up to Normanton's leisure centre and library, where we'll turn onto Queen Street to loop us around to Market Plave and the end of High Street to ensure we tag both of the locally outbound routes before we pass behind Lidl to land at the station, but not quite finishing the day here, as we're on another train strike day, so there'll be no tangling with the footbridges or overly long platforms today.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6SCej2Ajob3e7nbn7C7Ku61xNVKSSdxNWvfKOWqN3NvcwB4F2dfX7JpCTrf701RynUKj8uj979cgeXhTHekknEC-k9Nq8h26wRtnnjwyz70H0P0eMopm7Cx6QVNZwwczEzC-Ql1iQkKQeNWmjs5Silj-hoMGsbaFqTyllkBDuI5VwdZHycImxpE2E/s4000/P1810269.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6SCej2Ajob3e7nbn7C7Ku61xNVKSSdxNWvfKOWqN3NvcwB4F2dfX7JpCTrf701RynUKj8uj979cgeXhTHekknEC-k9Nq8h26wRtnnjwyz70H0P0eMopm7Cx6QVNZwwczEzC-Ql1iQkKQeNWmjs5Silj-hoMGsbaFqTyllkBDuI5VwdZHycImxpE2E/s320/P1810269.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Trash Screen Bridge, Stanley Ferry.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVR6sCbpimIVeVm-pCs9u1htkTFmcQ5_tFJLExGVGqAV2dmHkJLuqcU7OLFddapNTKmaYQbFbH5YNwmY7ez9ZE7JLg0CZA_9SWSLh0CcYrPUjei9gsl5yALdYo6ysGjfS5iVmRmCqunCq6g5JRDOQ_g4OgeWM5mm_48Ve4DuWdVcZanmrsJnKaPJXu/s4000/P1810319.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVR6sCbpimIVeVm-pCs9u1htkTFmcQ5_tFJLExGVGqAV2dmHkJLuqcU7OLFddapNTKmaYQbFbH5YNwmY7ez9ZE7JLg0CZA_9SWSLh0CcYrPUjei9gsl5yALdYo6ysGjfS5iVmRmCqunCq6g5JRDOQ_g4OgeWM5mm_48Ve4DuWdVcZanmrsJnKaPJXu/s320/P1810319.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the Riverside Colliery Tramway, Newland Park.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjziMqo-LdnopGJxhsQ0tlxlXmcshRMwKJL1xay8o_oL6uLBgi4jgJXmdiX9Oa14cPfN-ohAe2vUG5Dc-9RJw1jaCytkaEup40KrNj9MsX8yBBoK__JNHF2_f4PAqM1SgNpvZP64bIWKQPVNgKJ3Wgg14xHtB66cnSkvQBBGAZI14HmJV2ov4Ql8NC-/s4000/P1810395.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjziMqo-LdnopGJxhsQ0tlxlXmcshRMwKJL1xay8o_oL6uLBgi4jgJXmdiX9Oa14cPfN-ohAe2vUG5Dc-9RJw1jaCytkaEup40KrNj9MsX8yBBoK__JNHF2_f4PAqM1SgNpvZP64bIWKQPVNgKJ3Wgg14xHtB66cnSkvQBBGAZI14HmJV2ov4Ql8NC-/s320/P1810395.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Newland Park.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHtjZgt4SNCQ-tvE_bfXUxaJyYWYyha3A0irdUA98hsIhl6qSrecHtRO5SHrEOjLjjtyTNvz23ozJK0D6qvvuXEpu5qhCeHFg4D9riRKgrFN9N7whAivl1qPBras9HIgQpex3FEmx198-4okZ8kHA97t2aR7xtOGuN2jnDX8K6l55M0_Yl19-6Mqin/s4000/P1810452.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHtjZgt4SNCQ-tvE_bfXUxaJyYWYyha3A0irdUA98hsIhl6qSrecHtRO5SHrEOjLjjtyTNvz23ozJK0D6qvvuXEpu5qhCeHFg4D9riRKgrFN9N7whAivl1qPBras9HIgQpex3FEmx198-4okZ8kHA97t2aR7xtOGuN2jnDX8K6l55M0_Yl19-6Mqin/s320/P1810452.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">St John's Colliery Brickworks.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMxWBrycveH7h26So1kbYvwaAFfn7comQC3dwEj9HQt4QqEvySLSz5IQSHCMhP60WcPWEQqHjEdJoe5R1BflGIxzNM0MqyL25M0PlbpP5O8-S5sHWQ3lJVIQ73SSFTVgsvkgogHOzjWfg1xeKb2gSU9dKNoZxirw-JouESAA57GCD_U_7n7mMvUqgA/s2560/P1810489.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMxWBrycveH7h26So1kbYvwaAFfn7comQC3dwEj9HQt4QqEvySLSz5IQSHCMhP60WcPWEQqHjEdJoe5R1BflGIxzNM0MqyL25M0PlbpP5O8-S5sHWQ3lJVIQ73SSFTVgsvkgogHOzjWfg1xeKb2gSU9dKNoZxirw-JouESAA57GCD_U_7n7mMvUqgA/s320/P1810489.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">St John the Baptist, Smirthwaite.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfQPZ7_1YaBcyGeGQLFQ4DP5zfN-W0fI5uWtJvry1-mffftpOS3QQ0SLWjtUJzQQ5z9OKK2R1iL5o8CQSAM13v3R1jDMHtcQj4u5FH4lPBsaIhqLM3NEczgCxR_idsIcCrQrMJSu9ywaUIel79FFt3lgo6mul21L4fi3PdzeqUFJUztUAeM4AA9r3Q/s2560/P1810530.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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Left to my own devices once more, there's no impetus to get going at a hurry, as we return to the business of finding new trajectories out of Morley towards every railway station within reasonable walking distance, not getting going until we've seen what's happening at our own local development, where work continues on the new platforms and footbridge, with new lampposts being added to the mix, before our trail starts, southbound for a change at 10.30am, rising up the steps flight to Albert Road, noting that some recent tree felling has revealed a new angle on the Miners Arms that hadn't been seen previously, before we strike off, along Clough Street, between terraces and semis down to Middleton Terrace. We seek the path among the local green spaces among the developments on the Gilroyd Mills site and among the closes around Magpie Lane, passing in leafy seclusion across Peacock Green and down to Topcliffe Beck before we start the sharp rise up Topcliffe Lane, towards Topcliffe farm, where much heavy agricultural machinery is arriving, and on around the West Ardsley colliery site, with its tramway embankments still visible, before we pass through the Capitol Park office complex again, dropping down to meet the A653 Dewsbury Road which is crossed by the Highway Agency maintenance depot and the site of the lost Tingley station.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii3ye85-Nbdch3QZ5dLgGWNdGGPiK-_yDPRPDsOuEfSCzCBSgClGK1Wn2AZLRbdQOfXwhkPn2iyFx8RPiVKMKSglJ9lVi_SjxbXgqSuo3sg9ld7Z6wk37ZVt_w83MHven1DD1PXjn35mase9kDFhsc8O3FIITK_Fyc5Z-SXeMdDSHC1oqyz7uXxn5s/s2560/P1790211.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii3ye85-Nbdch3QZ5dLgGWNdGGPiK-_yDPRPDsOuEfSCzCBSgClGK1Wn2AZLRbdQOfXwhkPn2iyFx8RPiVKMKSglJ9lVi_SjxbXgqSuo3sg9ld7Z6wk37ZVt_w83MHven1DD1PXjn35mase9kDFhsc8O3FIITK_Fyc5Z-SXeMdDSHC1oqyz7uXxn5s/s320/P1790211.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The reverse angle on the Miners Arms revealed.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9_pe68RZ0Sz8baCOAhZPi1AEshi5GU3l1YdqNxIyqKsg2miiwlzdL7ZT0VBBSlVwu9PqmyJROzCQBJa-kg5zxd06WH5aslznQjfd2Xz32jBUekpq2yIs_6zI8AWqTKaoO17k6fAMKM0bKbbi-__W-AjriNvnHDKZzxZxIvDl1Bgs0ScvbZETl3Qmk/s2560/P1790227.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9_pe68RZ0Sz8baCOAhZPi1AEshi5GU3l1YdqNxIyqKsg2miiwlzdL7ZT0VBBSlVwu9PqmyJROzCQBJa-kg5zxd06WH5aslznQjfd2Xz32jBUekpq2yIs_6zI8AWqTKaoO17k6fAMKM0bKbbi-__W-AjriNvnHDKZzxZxIvDl1Bgs0ScvbZETl3Qmk/s320/P1790227.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Middletone Terrace, Morley</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZT_4YyrXmTOb8c_5UCznhtb-CML2swBZVIHNLlClRFC4vG2_8Ta8QAgwA_i3kkR6ky1Jke2ncOvcnjTyeTeZ38NNf1bQATzHXeFn3P1Ojg30BTauebwhlR_36qqpCoy2boJPjhbzd9Ah6WavmYOnSYx-zIIANQlsy5xad9o97R-pjgRMmf3Nf9myQ/s2560/P1790252.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZT_4YyrXmTOb8c_5UCznhtb-CML2swBZVIHNLlClRFC4vG2_8Ta8QAgwA_i3kkR6ky1Jke2ncOvcnjTyeTeZ38NNf1bQATzHXeFn3P1Ojg30BTauebwhlR_36qqpCoy2boJPjhbzd9Ah6WavmYOnSYx-zIIANQlsy5xad9o97R-pjgRMmf3Nf9myQ/s320/P1790252.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Green Path to Topcliffe Lane.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1crnqP2a8PSfCsXYtoGiWakIQWIxcjD69xCljyrjuz2um4wzwo7jYLcKuYK1arLP-Pk3qKJIIlKRiih4IooK2k1m-uulwD7nD_sb1V-ws-J5fqIAqeXVD4F6kfx4Fmh680f5YbyTN9eqpFkzLJ8D0pcCCnvt5rX1W62oSLjbl6QJUz69646sR_Lnq/s2560/P1790278.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1crnqP2a8PSfCsXYtoGiWakIQWIxcjD69xCljyrjuz2um4wzwo7jYLcKuYK1arLP-Pk3qKJIIlKRiih4IooK2k1m-uulwD7nD_sb1V-ws-J5fqIAqeXVD4F6kfx4Fmh680f5YbyTN9eqpFkzLJ8D0pcCCnvt5rX1W62oSLjbl6QJUz69646sR_Lnq/s320/P1790278.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Heavy machinery on the track to Topcliffe Farm.</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Junction 28 on the M62 is passed under, via the eastern side of the Tingley Common interchange island that we haven't passed around before, to join the A650 as it presses to the south east, pacing the opposite direction and the alternative pavements to the last time we came this way, having not previously walked it away from Morley, powering on among the terraces and estate semis along to the end of Thorpe lane at Black Gates, where the view down the fall of Millshaw Beck is taken before we carry on along this extended portion of the urban landscape beyond the city of Leeds, down to the Coutry Baskets mill complex. Beyond the green space that keeps this suburban blob separate from East Ardsley is rapidly disappearing, replaced by the Ambler's Meadow development, above which the tower of St Michael's church still looms, prominent on the hillside from many miles around as we observed last year, and as we touch this village's western end, we split off the Bradford & Wakefield Road to burn a new path at long last, an hour plus into the excursion, onto Woodhouse Lane as we drop onto the the Calder side of the watershed ridge, dropping down with the suburban ribbon to the rural landscape beyond, where the city of Wakefield can be glimpsed in the east. It's also where the Leeds Country Way and the pandemic circular trails brought us, in the vicinity of Kirkfield farm, and we continue with the fall of the lane, taking us below Ardsley reservoir and in sight of the local landmarks of Gawthorpe water tower and Ossett parish church as we progress among the recently mown fields, actually feeling the need for a bit of sunshine to illuminate the rolls of Wakefield district as they elevate in the landscape, rising with the lane to Jaw Hill, the one with the waterworks atop it, where we join the Batley Road and drop down with it to pass over the M1 and transition into our neighbouring district.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyxfJsBcM-N3_bjk4LUzNiaIqPBGXfsFqC0_Xsre-T7El4ooQfh1PaGHqLs9Ki9dX1Cw1FPBsxvo-VpDxSbKsvySc-LMsMZKXe_vPbuzUKCfvKkSZKQEBgcru35_1ujBn5t8_dcs8HssjpvbAme_lN90I4c9X3XBT9dOYfF4GtTInr7rkyZx2WWCKk/s2560/P1790303.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu-6ccr2Oi0bytgpA8anR_wNZC58a5ohL6sZpdn80MQe5-0UNMJE_MA_BvZAGCWmku0amGYwIPII_ldzpBV6N5VkH2CcpuQr4wf6cNKZk8jVevgiyYQVyzpbErH48qruKRFQ6-dcWdcXg6BtbsotpsaG9QXd4EbQLrAfo4mVbijc85A2UL2Jwao-su/s320/P1790370.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The ongoing Ambler's Meadow development, East Ardsley.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvHWk2Y7zsh3-wTijQq7Pv1ejqCTGrV5QxMQKRsGD5SqukONm_YgIumoMPir1pi2B3ug1d1_Ix6uDyKa7jgsARofO5Ms4AD3VNuRvXPQsRozST3kLhPkqM8GQvpWY7AlDVEX6vKBPx67qSSDm-3rh6XMe1tbJkQweEztJLPOOFIhhvcefVMwzQsHn6/s2560/P1790396.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvHWk2Y7zsh3-wTijQq7Pv1ejqCTGrV5QxMQKRsGD5SqukONm_YgIumoMPir1pi2B3ug1d1_Ix6uDyKa7jgsARofO5Ms4AD3VNuRvXPQsRozST3kLhPkqM8GQvpWY7AlDVEX6vKBPx67qSSDm-3rh6XMe1tbJkQweEztJLPOOFIhhvcefVMwzQsHn6/s320/P1790396.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The suburban - rural edge, Woodhouse Lane.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdEzh_k1ulYmjnuGROGdGf1BiCUZVIMupZb-s_Dbwuz3ERfpP2zJ-VHClGttO_ARfMjSj2bIFlABPfxIBen7owqTa52L-tNcY8qDh5wTiF12WpZtsffCEKeZdnKKN91m9E9iiuOpUB8XBq60kSsX4Y_KBOuE5pritdzaIgCCTJw0k9BrHwdV8E8NBM/s2560/P1790436.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdEzh_k1ulYmjnuGROGdGf1BiCUZVIMupZb-s_Dbwuz3ERfpP2zJ-VHClGttO_ARfMjSj2bIFlABPfxIBen7owqTa52L-tNcY8qDh5wTiF12WpZtsffCEKeZdnKKN91m9E9iiuOpUB8XBq60kSsX4Y_KBOuE5pritdzaIgCCTJw0k9BrHwdV8E8NBM/s320/P1790436.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The way to Jaw Hill, Woodhouse Lane.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-X3Qt4i5ZK3UuD8kMVY5N6eMLhvREli7L5KSXlA6lX6AscDF0X_XWZH52wvMU7eW_P5qUrWaN2QEneYLx3dkjzJDZbaMdrGP18spGO38vzUnLtdAJ9NuyJQQiBvH4PRT9wOsKd6QjZB3xPYoJ35MxcA5C6Fg4ll7MPL-kS_RV366DVmjW66YdhyIH/s2560/P1790468.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-X3Qt4i5ZK3UuD8kMVY5N6eMLhvREli7L5KSXlA6lX6AscDF0X_XWZH52wvMU7eW_P5qUrWaN2QEneYLx3dkjzJDZbaMdrGP18spGO38vzUnLtdAJ9NuyJQQiBvH4PRT9wOsKd6QjZB3xPYoJ35MxcA5C6Fg4ll7MPL-kS_RV366DVmjW66YdhyIH/s320/P1790468.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Batley Road, above the M1 (also: Raw Milk).</td></tr></tbody></table><p>The Star inn, and Kirkhamgate village arrives at the roadside immediately, and a bench in the memorial garden offers itself as a lunch spot, where passing locals observe that I've failed to pick a good day for walking, a thought which I now agree with wholly, and after our refuel, we need to find the Gawthorpe Lane path, dropping us down sharply to pass under the M1 and on to the bridge on Bushey Beck, where we quit the hard surfces to get into some field walking, onto the rising boundary path that leads up to Tufty farm on the flank of Lodge Hill, a surprising slog that gets you realizing that flattest of West Yorkshire's five borough's can still bring on the landscape if it wishes. The farm track at the top has been walked before, and the hillside was also once home to a colliery tramway which offers no hints of its presence as we move around to meet Park Mill Lane, giving us sight of where we've travelled from, and eastwards towards Alverthorpe and Wakefield again before sight of Ossett in the west arrives, propelling us forwards to the passage over the A639 bypass road via the interchange that used to have the GNR branch running directly though it, where we arrive on the old Wakefield & Dewsbury road at Shepherd Hill, where our ongoing route is on the hidden footpath, beside the JB Furniture store. You could believe that is a path that few people use, taking us between buttercup strewn meadows and the apparently fallow Spring Mill Golf course, with equestrian enclosures beyond on the drag down to Queen's Drive at the eastern extreme of greater Ossett, where old paths among the suburbia need to be tangled with to bring us out to Haggs Hill Road and out to Teall Street where we can resume our push southwards, through the varied suburban landscape of Low Common, where paces fell 9 seasons back, which I cannot recall.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHl0t7u6kLZ5AFkVzl7wVxiduWLbh6NTyTu0CJG6bzPMxwmCX6x89LFfOy9jNm2F3YaOZQUbBCtZ-3_buDYATySXgfvnZuIezaIlavGZGHMzLCAMHnMUd7QXF1Ife8qlgwdPXsLtaXp8YIeO_nask4nX7nRv-UJNSAHi_bxEzV4uoLdoMvOoBISbN4/s2560/P1790492.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHl0t7u6kLZ5AFkVzl7wVxiduWLbh6NTyTu0CJG6bzPMxwmCX6x89LFfOy9jNm2F3YaOZQUbBCtZ-3_buDYATySXgfvnZuIezaIlavGZGHMzLCAMHnMUd7QXF1Ife8qlgwdPXsLtaXp8YIeO_nask4nX7nRv-UJNSAHi_bxEzV4uoLdoMvOoBISbN4/s320/P1790492.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Memorial Garden, Kirkhamgate.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY6KyfU-rIKSNBbAa-0yHJILCRE1ljHhNV-BuUaPAr6QNvh9S-BGXah9SDYz3s_tPy_etOE3vOwRcsFeMehVYQ7A-vq4gwjiy_7_QYuPpdiId0uPV8LnaG9aOpqN62GwEuzLs-dCs9RAf7YjUervLINYToPB8edKxdx0e1cPyli5UuumiW2LDFqhkq/s2560/P1790514.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY6KyfU-rIKSNBbAa-0yHJILCRE1ljHhNV-BuUaPAr6QNvh9S-BGXah9SDYz3s_tPy_etOE3vOwRcsFeMehVYQ7A-vq4gwjiy_7_QYuPpdiId0uPV8LnaG9aOpqN62GwEuzLs-dCs9RAf7YjUervLINYToPB8edKxdx0e1cPyli5UuumiW2LDFqhkq/s320/P1790514.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The path to Lodge Hill, from Bushey Beck.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGlqVUVhXfBzOXwDCZZtS0JH0b3z_6hqFm1xAHKplwLP1b14-KvUPcamxtcAwfO2MifO3_Vopi_rQAh5rQr2E-IQkh4hgyPvAVPZrNno-reAxeCBUrMNFgZhCORoCRdHVTolqfGbVNdZR9JEPlkH66Cyn3oIU5WkzZveUfeZ_oltwB5KRndDKEuSRS/s2560/P1790551.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGlqVUVhXfBzOXwDCZZtS0JH0b3z_6hqFm1xAHKplwLP1b14-KvUPcamxtcAwfO2MifO3_Vopi_rQAh5rQr2E-IQkh4hgyPvAVPZrNno-reAxeCBUrMNFgZhCORoCRdHVTolqfGbVNdZR9JEPlkH66Cyn3oIU5WkzZveUfeZ_oltwB5KRndDKEuSRS/s320/P1790551.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The path so far, via Tufty farm, from Lodge Hill.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpnOgwPoB98dCzAjiyRaOtj1Lo76O9H6Xwc0U_CR4YDvNMIPjQ-lZ-8q4A0oVbKeDAlZIq8HsALHJ0KmHEz-1VjmAea681eEM5-BfUN_DpuwifYNdltIULs50kYPL_gFgOozcIp3kL_OfW3qaVR3vwyC5eAbhBfpT_HTrKZfxKqoZliIQxNjbnHcAG/s2560/P1790590.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpnOgwPoB98dCzAjiyRaOtj1Lo76O9H6Xwc0U_CR4YDvNMIPjQ-lZ-8q4A0oVbKeDAlZIq8HsALHJ0KmHEz-1VjmAea681eEM5-BfUN_DpuwifYNdltIULs50kYPL_gFgOozcIp3kL_OfW3qaVR3vwyC5eAbhBfpT_HTrKZfxKqoZliIQxNjbnHcAG/s320/P1790590.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The road junction on Shepherd Hill.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYdXARkU2GeVv6WgLoDvS88tohAcNcB64qPsZpL7bax1oscFTDj5DSFvS9J_tq2LTDjT4kNhnQp2-jxO9FgKwrZAwF1yD-LrvkgCRNEC-qDfKmtrK8d93OeOaR8E3k_1nV5hT45HsSMaSsjuoh6hR4nQPaVR4XgCZgMcY15Kv-UEwB-4h54I8jqGCW/s2560/P1790630.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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That has us in Horbury proper, following Northgate as it rises over the crest, with John Carr's church of St Peter & St Leonard upon it, with Queen Street leading us down to the High Street, where interesting illuminations have been installed spanning the roads for atmospheric purposes around the nearby bars, where the Twitch Hill bus stop is passed to tether a 2015-era destination to my most local to home tier, and a second lunch break is taken on the bench at the end of Cluntergate before our day takes a south-easterly turn down Cross Street and Peel Street with the day's ultimate goal in mind, down to the A642 Southfield Road bypass. Daw Lane leads us beyond, past St Mary's church and over the railway line at the spot where Horbury & Ossett station wasn't, despite appearances, and down into the industrial landscape of Horbury Junction, with the Calder vale hotel being the main point of landscape interest on the drop to the heavy industry plant on the sight of the old wagon works, where the path leads us to the banks of the Calder and our passage across via the enclosed footway below the railway bridge on the line down to Barnsley, which seems much less terrifying now than it did to my youthful walking brain back in 2012 and 2014.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA3iooshLOVOfe8snbOSaIR5rpaNuRv1GzLw49EPr2st5f2X2YINXqfZPzrYOM_wzv2UFk4aCjI6scKsa8m6CVF3sDuupCU16aGpw_FseOQHLSeztNvLZoJSx9AepuwXQqkMzrn9EwTS83C0URE2KuphynJqfa1Zp5ozbT1CgrDH4zLbY8Gd3Uo3ez/s2560/P1790683.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOGam-ciYzKrP66DWfW_VlqIXeVhvEpN9fPot2Xd9dwUUzn9ZQ4nn7VjITmaMQr8X4CrMkhmSk2znuLLxivxBhwY3TLn4nGtBtzp_y0kOXMFI-JG3CkBXdFai2b_it-Iy8o4mdvafUf0YeyAnntfGObvfX2g3UMJWCSSxPXfeVAooBcbET_R6ssSZR/s2560/P1790832.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOGam-ciYzKrP66DWfW_VlqIXeVhvEpN9fPot2Xd9dwUUzn9ZQ4nn7VjITmaMQr8X4CrMkhmSk2znuLLxivxBhwY3TLn4nGtBtzp_y0kOXMFI-JG3CkBXdFai2b_it-Iy8o4mdvafUf0YeyAnntfGObvfX2g3UMJWCSSxPXfeVAooBcbET_R6ssSZR/s320/P1790832.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Calder Bridge, Horbury Junction.</td></tr></tbody></table><p>The path beyond leads to the towpath of the Calder & Hebble Navigation, where we set a course east, alongside the moorings up to Broad Cut Lower Lock, where all sort of boating shenanigans are going on, with sailing types probably happy to gave the canal open again after such a prolonged closure a few years back, and we switch banks and go from canal walking to river walking as the ongoing path beside the river Calder gives us our north-easterly tack through the woods and alongside the open meadow to our third and final passage under the M1, before we seek a route through an urban landscape that has arrived since I first walked the riverbanks. The Calder Park business estate sits atop the reclaimed lands on the south side of the Calder, home to the Highways Agency, West Yorkshire Police and the Easy Bathrood distribution depot, among others, and isn't the sort of terrain you'd normally find yourself in, unless you were very deliberately seeking paths that hadn't been walked before, and there's no one about to look at you funny around here on a gloomy Sunday afternoon, as we track on along the Peel Avenue boulevard, trying to not disturb the aquatic birdlife as we meet the landscape of car dealerships, at least four of them, that loiters at the side of the Denby Dale Road, which we meet by the traffic island by the Swan & Cygnet. Cross over the A636, and the A6186 Asdale Road as our path leads us into Pugney's country park, also reclaimed from the formerly quarried landscape on this side of the river and now one of Wakefield's most popular park, with perambulation paths and miniature railways around the shores of its boating lake, also doubling a nature preserve, where many have come out for a day trip, despite the obvious lack of sunshine, with some looking like they've set out their stall for the long haul, judging by the amount of food being prepped and barbecued (with permission, I might add) and the number of people gathered on the north shore as we pass by.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPLqzuXRY_VKQ-Hnu-KqJiQhPWFeM0eH1pLDw_ekIL-wT9w-aGkWmOHZ6VKPNYYgvSpcyjlh2mobK5hGuy0u9d1Z2RK6sMXOKBSWlMtmjaomoAHAmmflN135rupg7gTZ7S0L9GbS-gIJwvivvCCKKaekZPLO7lNVIPSBynhrZNvWAFaG9wX1gFFDoi/s2560/P1790864.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPLqzuXRY_VKQ-Hnu-KqJiQhPWFeM0eH1pLDw_ekIL-wT9w-aGkWmOHZ6VKPNYYgvSpcyjlh2mobK5hGuy0u9d1Z2RK6sMXOKBSWlMtmjaomoAHAmmflN135rupg7gTZ7S0L9GbS-gIJwvivvCCKKaekZPLO7lNVIPSBynhrZNvWAFaG9wX1gFFDoi/s320/P1790864.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Broad Cut, the Calder & Hebble Navigation.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzjzknB-Rogr-x4TWXbqmeVHhYe7kjMn-DsGgw5hjOtL8XULtumP3kzQzHpGsIBzwjnp1OodyIr8r4UvthoixYhte_kcp64ORD1u7l5hmHacH__U32BRoU9HxnJCMEP6vWJHd9hv62ek_d8pdPB3lXdA88rWCk0upLDw4-DYX0ke1dCr3MmTwNKShA/s2560/P1790909.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzjzknB-Rogr-x4TWXbqmeVHhYe7kjMn-DsGgw5hjOtL8XULtumP3kzQzHpGsIBzwjnp1OodyIr8r4UvthoixYhte_kcp64ORD1u7l5hmHacH__U32BRoU9HxnJCMEP6vWJHd9hv62ek_d8pdPB3lXdA88rWCk0upLDw4-DYX0ke1dCr3MmTwNKShA/s320/P1790909.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Boating on the Calder.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdzQESCqB0W8yt3I9Gh_3O8vU7mL7e6cwcAJyfVUm5bYN4P7C-wA6jQttvAj_L0-8lrDEIXaJDSq3WA9V7zG-vPvwACLXTfw5fEYFfOkyomsgrJU6WO0ke3clC7sJBhv60lnsHngMkLrRDK1GderOoxWh0AYiqApuoT2PojoCv_TR6ZJpvv08JgRDU/s2560/P1790945.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdzQESCqB0W8yt3I9Gh_3O8vU7mL7e6cwcAJyfVUm5bYN4P7C-wA6jQttvAj_L0-8lrDEIXaJDSq3WA9V7zG-vPvwACLXTfw5fEYFfOkyomsgrJU6WO0ke3clC7sJBhv60lnsHngMkLrRDK1GderOoxWh0AYiqApuoT2PojoCv_TR6ZJpvv08JgRDU/s320/P1790945.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peel Avenue, Calder Park,</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAND2cMx_0KpKjBtTjdz9Qz1x3Dm8s8_lL2XpXQgMM2JIdQ_XSHuXXIvzR69gJjpcRVF5hP82GIuPVOtDB1P73oG9hTetgzr6A2hVtkITO6JFOC1UYUb0T8iFb4PHGzU2Q9uDAmZvZqXg3LBXkGaZsvjN7mttAQueVl7MrLwFBbHOBKxvsD9vUVmd6/s2560/P1790983.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAND2cMx_0KpKjBtTjdz9Qz1x3Dm8s8_lL2XpXQgMM2JIdQ_XSHuXXIvzR69gJjpcRVF5hP82GIuPVOtDB1P73oG9hTetgzr6A2hVtkITO6JFOC1UYUb0T8iFb4PHGzU2Q9uDAmZvZqXg3LBXkGaZsvjN7mttAQueVl7MrLwFBbHOBKxvsD9vUVmd6/s320/P1790983.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Multiple Car Dealerships, Calder Park.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwhlYajMeb_Jg4pBK7k2ORkppxlSAhJtVW7cjXJvJKv2enFvBfRnHgi85ImsvBrkQKvVx08OTfcG-n-euTG4aIeN9odXSwAwRzjBYl3Lw6B0R5Ii-JZhZ8eB1jiWOdkR7neDMn2aGxsEeG5LCasnF_lyeZy7aYSroKuDI42gZFxRFfpXEsSCmEQE3G/s2560/P1800027.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwhlYajMeb_Jg4pBK7k2ORkppxlSAhJtVW7cjXJvJKv2enFvBfRnHgi85ImsvBrkQKvVx08OTfcG-n-euTG4aIeN9odXSwAwRzjBYl3Lw6B0R5Ii-JZhZ8eB1jiWOdkR7neDMn2aGxsEeG5LCasnF_lyeZy7aYSroKuDI42gZFxRFfpXEsSCmEQE3G/s320/P1800027.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pugney's Country Park Lake, Northwest side.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMtN60li10w4ThOB4D5iqpvx51ZhUlAKMy5f7GJbr7Xu1aBbF3KpY0PNWqLdKXvb7qtIIMr0eTQKBudPUzmv9MeFtkwubnu5QrjU42EBbFXl0qMzO07BJUooQgct2Fk4UJe5o6rfHdb0xoVdFB7qDZypTaBfUFBUu4fSRcXeApWrijxF84A715cr46/s2560/P1800078.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMtN60li10w4ThOB4D5iqpvx51ZhUlAKMy5f7GJbr7Xu1aBbF3KpY0PNWqLdKXvb7qtIIMr0eTQKBudPUzmv9MeFtkwubnu5QrjU42EBbFXl0qMzO07BJUooQgct2Fk4UJe5o6rfHdb0xoVdFB7qDZypTaBfUFBUu4fSRcXeApWrijxF84A715cr46/s320/P1800078.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pugney's Country Park, Northeast side.</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Break for the last time, feeling rather jealous that the meagre remains of my marching rations will have to sustain me for the remainder of the day, which has taken longer than the sub-five hour shot that I'd hoped for it, and once away from the lake we can rise for the last time on the day, through the fields and up the high-walled path that leads to Sandal Castle, which demands a second (or is it a third?) turn around as we've become much more familiar with the surroundings and history since we first came this way, and a motte and bailey structure like this, with much if its 15 century stone work still in situ will never be boring to me, regardless of how many times it is encountered. As we don't have to be too picky with our train times, we can take an unplanned turn down Manygates Lane, into suburban greater Wakefield, as we ought to seek the memorial pillar to Richard, Duke of York, and the battle of Wakefield (30/12/1460, if you recall!) which loiters somewhere down here, which we rather unfortunately do not find as it masquerades rather well as an apparent trunk below the tree cover next to the Wakefield Adult Education Services in the old school buildings, and we have to feel like a colossal dumbass for not realising this, as we track back across the Castle Grove Park playing fields to our passage across the A61 Barnsley Road, by the Sandal Cricket Club. Join Agbrigg Road and follow it up to meet our destination for the day at Sandal & Agbrigg station at 4pm, much later than intended but bringing us the only sunshine spell to be seen for the entire day as we wait for our ride, making this one local to home too, while at the same time drawing both Stocksmoor and Elsecar only two steps away from Morley, as well as bringing two remote South Yorkshire paths a tier up too, which hopefully illustrates that while the strolls of post-Covid experience isn't me having me travelling very far away, remoter corners of the Field of Walking Experience are being made that bit less distant as we go (as we also mark my longest trip of the year, an actually completed slate of monthly walks in May, and 100 miles in Season 12 (finally!) at the end of its fourth month too).</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMkP70PObUcShEoKAMG5pOelonDrRtk3n7T_kkOfPVWX8UjRiR1bDhdODADxjkl5s2PC0GX22-AhREc-obDB2tD1Th4hxln5al-G8NB-rI02z4gtm63KoG6RjoKlBgmPKTP71sAg0Ll57W7UkzYrLQANBMczvSIysyxFVYI-XMPvyegUumaqcrR6qC/s2560/P1800125.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTlZh07HjtfVw0nY0tnigUr2DIALoFKJ7bGiNpyBsZ2DXUeK3vpwtB5_fhJVRKV1idQJSa2HQIrdcjgJkk2oIR6TImN2HmW-Lul1uimZnSOoM5BI4FR5gHR4tv_MKrsnZXo01LQ-RpJMGpoodbxNH6-ZMJwIytqBf0p1yitjiEON6ew3HmAoZKEsDL/s320/P1800177.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Best Full Yield View of Sandal Castle.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv9XtjlujpR8f_EtMAE674Lhkq5R8yBhcFtfpiBFQbp7dbnzYCXYvb_ye_ZDMNPJH2Ez-jIjeH7RB0trqTpAU00ITpY0J7FQonAOPxOOsDY-IqCc57jlx3NSwP_J_VWYJpje58kw2TFa2WUGjIDTUHizGsAfw_HMAvhK0X1du7OIaP_Mpt4V34tP0E/s2560/P1800277.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv9XtjlujpR8f_EtMAE674Lhkq5R8yBhcFtfpiBFQbp7dbnzYCXYvb_ye_ZDMNPJH2Ez-jIjeH7RB0trqTpAU00ITpY0J7FQonAOPxOOsDY-IqCc57jlx3NSwP_J_VWYJpje58kw2TFa2WUGjIDTUHizGsAfw_HMAvhK0X1du7OIaP_Mpt4V34tP0E/s320/P1800277.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Playing hunt the RDoY Monument, on Manygates Lane.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFz4eMxS2Qmu8z_8AUU_iJhr_pDnNSnYQlsRjI5HvIU-K9pT9X2mdtxP7d8MdFPGXVydejj3DUaz9I6IVCN3Ab_t9uqBoEsmS8YFd9mfZRzplEBU2MOOq-qMkRfJI8etupmccQkftc5iA77riYFLZK-3Mv0lOEjLgJLz6axUDbrBnyh4sGiKqeqSFR/s2560/P1800293.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFz4eMxS2Qmu8z_8AUU_iJhr_pDnNSnYQlsRjI5HvIU-K9pT9X2mdtxP7d8MdFPGXVydejj3DUaz9I6IVCN3Ab_t9uqBoEsmS8YFd9mfZRzplEBU2MOOq-qMkRfJI8etupmccQkftc5iA77riYFLZK-3Mv0lOEjLgJLz6axUDbrBnyh4sGiKqeqSFR/s320/P1800293.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Castle Grove Park, Sandal.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFfwoiBtUyYOCshSVCXFbuzcc7Adidw3tUHKFG-HKaNqwr5M6pO3S9p7nQCqEOPiwSfP8-57wkVRotnzar4yYM8262oA1a0HuaYP_Wr420ZhnJTq4Jj2mT40choEWCCoQkgSaUoIvbnZGeL3_mcvg_vSZ1ikcLPiDU22YLfExG8YjO1tztP0Tw-JtB/s2560/P1800320.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFfwoiBtUyYOCshSVCXFbuzcc7Adidw3tUHKFG-HKaNqwr5M6pO3S9p7nQCqEOPiwSfP8-57wkVRotnzar4yYM8262oA1a0HuaYP_Wr420ZhnJTq4Jj2mT40choEWCCoQkgSaUoIvbnZGeL3_mcvg_vSZ1ikcLPiDU22YLfExG8YjO1tztP0Tw-JtB/s320/P1800320.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Agbrigg Road, and the station.</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>5,000 Miles Cumulative Total: 6024.4 miles</b></div><div>2023 Total: 102.2 miles</div><div>Up Country Total: 5,543.7 miles</div><div>Solo Total: 5681.8 miles</div><div>5,000 in my 40s Total: 4614.2 miles</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Destinations Moved into Tier 1: Horbury, Sandal & Agbrigg</div><div>Destinations Moved into Tier 2: Stocksmoor, Elsecar</div><div>Trails moved from Tier 3 to Tier 2: 4</div></div><div>Trails moved from Tier 4 to Tier 3: 2</div><div><br /></div><div>Next Up: Can we sustain Shuffling the Tiers into June?</div><div><br /></div></div>Christopher Wrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09743749271457169317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527420385844253776.post-85841778214297334212023-05-27T19:26:00.365+01:002023-06-03T18:48:38.533+01:00Rumination: Spring Jollies & Planet Spotting<p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYjt6Fo7T9aJnWADxuwfPduwUedXr5f1xV9sHOyYubzoGSLmeeFcHFAcksIF-mTyy4r8bsjqIroC2_FYn9fbcYikB-9cXNAJ2Q5gUDSO3mmEFDmkKbUfwE_2DBxn9MiqrSBXFVygJ0sNZm1m6J0vrArcAAwTGhKsQ-azYpPO8QBtmP1iBt1NPjmnf5/s2048/P1770039.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYjt6Fo7T9aJnWADxuwfPduwUedXr5f1xV9sHOyYubzoGSLmeeFcHFAcksIF-mTyy4r8bsjqIroC2_FYn9fbcYikB-9cXNAJ2Q5gUDSO3mmEFDmkKbUfwE_2DBxn9MiqrSBXFVygJ0sNZm1m6J0vrArcAAwTGhKsQ-azYpPO8QBtmP1iBt1NPjmnf5/w200-h150/P1770039.JPG" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blogging with a View, in Scarborough.</td></tr></tbody></table>Sometimes, the value of a week away from home really cannot be understated and before we press on into the High Season, it's worth pausing for a brief moment to contemplate just how good getting away from it all has been for me at the end of May, completely breaking away from all that's going on in my regular life and work in Leeds, and putting some considerable mental and physical distance between it and me, allowing me to properly unwind after some testing weeks and to allow me to get back into a creative mindset that had almost fallen way to the point of irredeemability, restoring my belief that I will be able to continue pursing the hobbies that I've invested so much into over the last decade. Peace and Quiet is wholly under-rated need in this age of almost constant activity, and we really managed to find that on this break away, keeping away from all the disturbances that you might expect when staying in a seaside town, which we were only just doing, as our let was to be found about three miles out from Scarborough town centre, right on the edge of the Throxenby and Newby estates, and looking over the hillsides of the North Yorkshire Moors, where the River Derwent and Scalby Beck rise, on an urban country lane where there was little traffic to be had outside of commuter hours, allowing us all the silence that we needed to allow us to unwind. Thusly, across all my days off the trail, we had time in the mornings and evening to get busy with catching up on almost two months worth of blogging, which you wouldn't know from the timestamps on these posts, but anyone who's been following me for a while should know that my time-keeping is a complete tissue of lies, and that I work better when away from my own desk, despite it being set up for my needs with an appropriately adjustable chair, leading me to conclude that I do my best work when sat at a dining table with an uncomfortable seat that needs to be padded with random cushions, working in a posture that surely couldn't be doing my back, neck or arm joints any favours. <span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p>Six hours a day spent at the keyboard might leave you thinking that left little scope for activity was left, but that thankfully wasn't the case, even factoring in My Mum's need to unwind after one of the busiest fortnights that she's had in years, but we managed to get a decent trip out on every non-walking day so that we might learn the geographical lie of Scarborough, learning that it's a lot more hilly than might be expected, right from our Saturday trip to the supermarket, followed by a jaunt along the main streets of Westborough and Newborough, which lead us through the main shopping before settling into the decline towards the harbour, not a distance that either of us are needing to travel on a casual stroll, meaning we need lunchtime fortification at the NAAFI café before we return. Monday has us focussed on the local point of interest that we'd both had in our sights, regarded from afar on all our previous visits but never approached, and that's Scarborough Castle. prominent on its headland and an absolutely fascinating relic of the town's long pre-resort history, where much longer than two hours could be spent tracing the sites' easily visible stories, reaching from the Roman era to the Civil War, if it wasn't for the breezes blowing over the headland 70m above the town, where the view over the town and up and down the coast is almost as worthy of the price of admission, and while you're up this end, the church yard of St Mary's need to be visited, so that we might find the grave of Anne Bronte, stitching this trip neatly to the one we made two years ago, through Bronte country. As we aren't jaunting out to the NYMR this time around, we'll have to get our train ride fix by taking a Tuesday afternoon trip to the North Bay miniature railway instead, the world's largest according to the blurb, to tootle us around from Peasholm park past the waterpark, the outdoor theatre and up the seafront to the aquarium complex at Scalby Mills, while also taking in the views along the North Bay itself, the 'hidden' beach, with its much more sedate pace and the seafront hotels sitting at an elevated remove from the shore, an altogether excellent spot for a perambulation on the sand, among the other visitors entirely made up of seniors and families with baby and toddler-aged children.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigL4PZMzcpaI7DbjFh1ChWUnSt4zYNVg9FHERiZUQYSzdArWYOCeeBEtRFEFJRJmIpuPsDRKcW3g57KZ3lHZOxrWb56auvtXmE1pkfR2z9ggyZJVn8ZgdZhG2WUNhuqdecirId7LPnz-6f6S9xH3OxV16vM5J7CXqSAw80M5Lq8pZQ2zCWimmA1Y_2/s4000/P1750557.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigL4PZMzcpaI7DbjFh1ChWUnSt4zYNVg9FHERiZUQYSzdArWYOCeeBEtRFEFJRJmIpuPsDRKcW3g57KZ3lHZOxrWb56auvtXmE1pkfR2z9ggyZJVn8ZgdZhG2WUNhuqdecirId7LPnz-6f6S9xH3OxV16vM5J7CXqSAw80M5Lq8pZQ2zCWimmA1Y_2/s320/P1750557.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Westborough, Scarborough.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguPl0eExU0FerDpRbDtZgI8dlk4FxeEluCCfRX8DxArp30zrN3zBP3xCbJFxTNkr7qKS6wC1o3OLNmQFVf5il2lf9lgpQLnNDQGpG6zyZ5BkznLJSw6jVkpOtQ8_vApcnFrjVUrHlPp0Q_GP7R5o3qTRjVFdYaloHIQ-fpCFGH96kxMNhGxDhpfqUI/s2560/P1790085.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguPl0eExU0FerDpRbDtZgI8dlk4FxeEluCCfRX8DxArp30zrN3zBP3xCbJFxTNkr7qKS6wC1o3OLNmQFVf5il2lf9lgpQLnNDQGpG6zyZ5BkznLJSw6jVkpOtQ8_vApcnFrjVUrHlPp0Q_GP7R5o3qTRjVFdYaloHIQ-fpCFGH96kxMNhGxDhpfqUI/s320/P1790085.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Newborough, Scarborough.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifG5QCbT2VKvfBiuFGDTDmYgpn9pGJvZc4KcilUiDi9L9dngKjOEYqKKcjwF7k4cRA29mi7ArUi3teyRjjhPYdu-i8JfMR-oTf64l9AeDg0Ux5xsPAv9ns_wIepHLHd1vU7FnoIG1zh40rcXTv6C-cjq9-jbOzhtiYuEOSg2LM0QFDq1JG-lxJp68w/s4000/P1760753.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifG5QCbT2VKvfBiuFGDTDmYgpn9pGJvZc4KcilUiDi9L9dngKjOEYqKKcjwF7k4cRA29mi7ArUi3teyRjjhPYdu-i8JfMR-oTf64l9AeDg0Ux5xsPAv9ns_wIepHLHd1vU7FnoIG1zh40rcXTv6C-cjq9-jbOzhtiYuEOSg2LM0QFDq1JG-lxJp68w/s320/P1760753.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scarborough Castle Gate House.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTFEQX-YGWyW2xtTL7gHo78WlWPdQlF2nScOwki70RWNwBhgr8TUr3gcg9HNnofN5EgYYMLZM8g5L4U-8XdGhV79K_jbxK0zpO4DsHkm4B6tHT4wCq9iDXwK0n7GmU2tvImL7EFnV0-QhsfLxEqSLAfpNMuhqSJdUah7Ad1Fiel2PAstLKVj0-Lhud/s4000/P1760783.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTFEQX-YGWyW2xtTL7gHo78WlWPdQlF2nScOwki70RWNwBhgr8TUr3gcg9HNnofN5EgYYMLZM8g5L4U-8XdGhV79K_jbxK0zpO4DsHkm4B6tHT4wCq9iDXwK0n7GmU2tvImL7EFnV0-QhsfLxEqSLAfpNMuhqSJdUah7Ad1Fiel2PAstLKVj0-Lhud/s320/P1760783.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scarborough Castle Keep and Curtain Wall.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAHTj_RWDGZ_OZEaWQdJbeF4iXrwJS151-L9Sscgoeo2q4INEWaSadB9bV8oFibuF5CEGlreYH3g8HaQUehOHy7FdFSBMrE5yCFIwTqpauOiiQ58Aef2_i45sj2fcFVhfSZHDlHlX1qeSXzelA7R2WArTWTJHAE1BL-_WzcDm7jfEM4wUOT4EtY09y/s2048/P1770046.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAHTj_RWDGZ_OZEaWQdJbeF4iXrwJS151-L9Sscgoeo2q4INEWaSadB9bV8oFibuF5CEGlreYH3g8HaQUehOHy7FdFSBMrE5yCFIwTqpauOiiQ58Aef2_i45sj2fcFVhfSZHDlHlX1qeSXzelA7R2WArTWTJHAE1BL-_WzcDm7jfEM4wUOT4EtY09y/s320/P1770046.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The North Bay Railway.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDUS9Ri1lBT9qpriffB27gLvNU0xpqGnUHs6HJzqkoGOJ2a-bQXh4oOv25xkuxRr-ZJhORAcxcHxqq0iQp5U6MPqoDNv4-lg63pHk3TkHB4e6MsFW7NXnc5JJMz893o6hxpA28V1v6HWxRm_sCoN2dW44_Gz7k8HMq834KykRCTlEJR5dWLyrcLGOb/s4000/P1770228.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDUS9Ri1lBT9qpriffB27gLvNU0xpqGnUHs6HJzqkoGOJ2a-bQXh4oOv25xkuxRr-ZJhORAcxcHxqq0iQp5U6MPqoDNv4-lg63pHk3TkHB4e6MsFW7NXnc5JJMz893o6hxpA28V1v6HWxRm_sCoN2dW44_Gz7k8HMq834KykRCTlEJR5dWLyrcLGOb/s320/P1770228.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sacrborough North Bay.</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Thursday proved to be the only gloomy-ish day that we had, but that didn't prevent us taking a wander down to the South Bay, and walking down past the Grand Hotel, over the Spa Bridge, and through the South Cliff gardens to the Spa complex itself, before trailing back along the sands between the sea and the beach-goers for the full length of the Foreshore Road, to meet the harbour and the edges of the old town, showing up its vintages along the length of Sandside, where we find a sheltered sun trap to have our obligatory ice cream before finding that the long walk to the town up Eastborough is indeed a stretch and a half, especially at the end of a circuit of around 3 miles distance. Even when heading away on Friday, we can find a substantial distraction by revisiting Eden Camp at Malton, where we previously came in 2016, but found it a difficult tour due to Dad's mobility issues at the time, but this time around provides a much calmer route between the many huts to learn of the Wartime histories that it presents, where we can extract much more interest from the local tales of evacuees and the site's use as a PoW camp in the 1940s than can be had from military paraphernalia, where a three hour visit still really isn't long enough to take it all in, especially as some of the presentations can seem all a bit too emotionally overwhelming. ~~~ All told, an excellent break away, placing ourselves at a considerable remove from West Yorkshire for the first time in ages, in a holiday home that only had the drawbacks of a shower cubicle that was far too small for even diminutive types like ourselves, and a bedroom that really didn't offer me the blackout conditions that I need for extended nights of sleep, but Beechwood View, which is hilariously named, already looks like a spot we could easily be returning to as my brain already starts pondering the idea of walking four legs of the Cleveland Way along the North Yorkshire coast in 2024, which might feel like we're getting ahead of ourselves as we're yet to hatch a plan for the late Summer week that I've got booked off work already.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Vh7DwCHQqNBfhUFH5G-Cyr24QipPUMTTWiPlQ9CUnWxKYECfK45L4h9qOUeLffO15eoO7NtQrmcEqivnMvIxQH9ztj7SL3ZCBjVeSNW09OqIRgKSo5MgT-ocePQ6GH8PQnj5CF6qMbmIFN1D_zKosXC-2smlYkoLd5PgBpqFyr_0nngoCo8sf6BM/s2560/P1780966.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Vh7DwCHQqNBfhUFH5G-Cyr24QipPUMTTWiPlQ9CUnWxKYECfK45L4h9qOUeLffO15eoO7NtQrmcEqivnMvIxQH9ztj7SL3ZCBjVeSNW09OqIRgKSo5MgT-ocePQ6GH8PQnj5CF6qMbmIFN1D_zKosXC-2smlYkoLd5PgBpqFyr_0nngoCo8sf6BM/s320/P1780966.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">South Bay, Scarborough.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI-jcvXhymlcLNamqzF4H4VN-ZemEDVAheWL-qHJXxAc3iu9o7h94-Ka_tClEJ-XtYTAlLXmej5ac6TKnto6R4u4kwEGT28izTRnP6TojezkLPo16F0x1KphmEOuoABXq1_Pp1dnVrLNvA_8pF3tL4s9VGrYqlXsqt25Y5YdwiPpUVms8qMaTM2gRg/s2560/P1790061.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI-jcvXhymlcLNamqzF4H4VN-ZemEDVAheWL-qHJXxAc3iu9o7h94-Ka_tClEJ-XtYTAlLXmej5ac6TKnto6R4u4kwEGT28izTRnP6TojezkLPo16F0x1KphmEOuoABXq1_Pp1dnVrLNvA_8pF3tL4s9VGrYqlXsqt25Y5YdwiPpUVms8qMaTM2gRg/s320/P1790061.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scarborough Harbour.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ0mWX2h5GI0DsmFSH5YMGU5o9-qrkZARNCqoqdolYNdoyFi7CS_s-1Lx1UqB7Xep9I_aHCh2jjAMi38j5LmudPm0tMIr6e0SOcfXgFozxaBIoYxVYsptHF2iQF2gxDh7CXd_mNgBwCX3IpsZ7IN6UiA7mH3W9EJrbR2VE1pr1FL8_Hh5WXT8wveaf/s2560/P1790112.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ0mWX2h5GI0DsmFSH5YMGU5o9-qrkZARNCqoqdolYNdoyFi7CS_s-1Lx1UqB7Xep9I_aHCh2jjAMi38j5LmudPm0tMIr6e0SOcfXgFozxaBIoYxVYsptHF2iQF2gxDh7CXd_mNgBwCX3IpsZ7IN6UiA7mH3W9EJrbR2VE1pr1FL8_Hh5WXT8wveaf/s320/P1790112.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eden Camp.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiehsUYDpYuP1xxTBl4lm_pYlUeiKxYQah07Qp3BZtDNRdcfDB0lhNTd7C-hKfJL74cDybSDP6R3aAaTQiMrSvaZ1iIcTRW8EOajoZq05T2Rp08OjNu1Tg_BtJCS2KZD1V9Rebsyz-pkkywUVqxvQnZ7yf4WO7tPah_4vu1iYY79PgoT9FIDsCJXvAS/s2560/P1790126.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiehsUYDpYuP1xxTBl4lm_pYlUeiKxYQah07Qp3BZtDNRdcfDB0lhNTd7C-hKfJL74cDybSDP6R3aAaTQiMrSvaZ1iIcTRW8EOajoZq05T2Rp08OjNu1Tg_BtJCS2KZD1V9Rebsyz-pkkywUVqxvQnZ7yf4WO7tPah_4vu1iYY79PgoT9FIDsCJXvAS/s320/P1790126.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Prefab, Eden Camp.<br />~~~</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxtKXEFbVyYPHtdF3iYiyQ0tz2ta_gnX7zNqrtFAtQMZ96vjqiS4IonGAdzHd0LKD7IkY-YbbrNeXsYwNQkLRixaWhMDXptmh0Z8Nj62j4CFmLtK7LycRx43ijU2tKJ39FhJVS9yP8uHCaNF53gGhmGzZynvWGcocwlV7r_huzxXwL71Dyp_q6PLxz/s4000/P1750498.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxtKXEFbVyYPHtdF3iYiyQ0tz2ta_gnX7zNqrtFAtQMZ96vjqiS4IonGAdzHd0LKD7IkY-YbbrNeXsYwNQkLRixaWhMDXptmh0Z8Nj62j4CFmLtK7LycRx43ijU2tKJ39FhJVS9yP8uHCaNF53gGhmGzZynvWGcocwlV7r_huzxXwL71Dyp_q6PLxz/s320/P1750498.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beechwood View, our new home from home.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCWUN5lol0roGyXtv82BceTzWXWpPXQ78DCjSBRc-CKbhpKBINttieWsFGuU9dNCvhM84-ToW0kmi6acCqPkWp959M_UpaoQgb01P8D2_nzGbN8VEJhOi_E2aFV2yGz3BfXPBRXAGXeFoAYHgfPOXkE_tqKhZsbF6wVjgosSwJlj3vj-CFgXpW_FYV/s4000/P1750501.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCWUN5lol0roGyXtv82BceTzWXWpPXQ78DCjSBRc-CKbhpKBINttieWsFGuU9dNCvhM84-ToW0kmi6acCqPkWp959M_UpaoQgb01P8D2_nzGbN8VEJhOi_E2aFV2yGz3BfXPBRXAGXeFoAYHgfPOXkE_tqKhZsbF6wVjgosSwJlj3vj-CFgXpW_FYV/s320/P1750501.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And the View was definitely worth the price.</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Otherwise, my motivations for booking a house with an open aspect to the west and northwest is apparent when you consider that we are still dedicating our time to watching the skies, especially at the time of year when I'm turning away from the dusk hours and might just remember to look out of a window to spy Venus still putting on its -4 magnitude displays, deep into the Spring, but when your picture window faces west, the long hours of twilight into night allow for multiple views of planets and our satellite as they decline and set, especially when the skies are as clear and relatively free of cloud as they have been. Our reward for our decision is six consecutive evenings of having planets and stars visible in the western sky in the window between 9pm and 11.30pm, when a venture out for a few minutes into the yard or street isn't an expedition, and the chill that belies the warm days isn't overwhelming or something that you have to wrap up against, allowing us to see the waxing crescent moon rising though its 2nd to 5th day phases (it's 1st day appearance post-New Moon being beyond our observational skills), while also providing some excellent earthshine nights, which regularly come around in May it seems, as it orbits to the east to join the still rising Venus in Gemini and the now receding Mars in Cancer. It's the nights of the 23rd and 24th that are the most impressive however, as the Moon passes it conjunction with Venus and moves into a composition with Castor and Pollux on the Tuesday, before sharing a line of sight with Mars on Wednesday, after an evening of intruding cloud had passed, giving me exactly what I'd wanted to observe of five bright magnitude objects appearing withing few degrees of each other in the Spring skies, which I'd have needed several hours of excursions on foot to see from home (where incidentally we do spot the 7th day Moon passing though the gate of Leo, between Regulus and Algeiba, once we've returned to West Yorkshire).</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhezWxcFh13AUyG6xIIKTRjXRr4z_YTfm7SJB8BZNLZgTjd_-BMxB80l5E775espdFoUODrFScU7bb12S-ZNY5PyXT-A_xdYAXwNDhNf_ErXjtynkGJQAYj0PJrr7Efz-SEJUDILe6R1As7OdARAYpv3ahGb2C2_PQ1vo8xm1oL0VrgKZYewF_nN0hs/s2560/P1750482.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhezWxcFh13AUyG6xIIKTRjXRr4z_YTfm7SJB8BZNLZgTjd_-BMxB80l5E775espdFoUODrFScU7bb12S-ZNY5PyXT-A_xdYAXwNDhNf_ErXjtynkGJQAYj0PJrr7Efz-SEJUDILe6R1As7OdARAYpv3ahGb2C2_PQ1vo8xm1oL0VrgKZYewF_nN0hs/s320/P1750482.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bright Venus in the West 19/05</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzd4YI4eIdEtjChQIDR0-JZn4b82sDYNadw2_SjPLytAqt5cgDaxAEmPDN_lsT23aABKiaKnrmdmgZhGq3p2WaGuxFnyY8nnLlCySxW4JH6enCN0FBFuffgRKW0GmjRzFnX0BW2V2hejpyM0iQAPNShSY0PlR1RjRr23WMpkDgTo9IEMVWN5y97aFY/s2560/P1750518.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzd4YI4eIdEtjChQIDR0-JZn4b82sDYNadw2_SjPLytAqt5cgDaxAEmPDN_lsT23aABKiaKnrmdmgZhGq3p2WaGuxFnyY8nnLlCySxW4JH6enCN0FBFuffgRKW0GmjRzFnX0BW2V2hejpyM0iQAPNShSY0PlR1RjRr23WMpkDgTo9IEMVWN5y97aFY/s320/P1750518.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mars, Pollux, Castor, and Venus 20/05</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq9MMARRa92mT0S7HqkrPaVo22S0Ot87nE9Kj7tZLZMHAE7PzIreLaYkJDLj7vCnYcxoBvi3_WibNT3D5phdrDdcSe8ihId3-Il_hwHPNF1zL1l5In2V0Lqxu0WIFHFAyMzYCBYmifsxngRZVDUpu6ibMZZx5QD50fLx5dTpoNWyFcLibVOWATMJ1M/s2560/P1760659.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq9MMARRa92mT0S7HqkrPaVo22S0Ot87nE9Kj7tZLZMHAE7PzIreLaYkJDLj7vCnYcxoBvi3_WibNT3D5phdrDdcSe8ihId3-Il_hwHPNF1zL1l5In2V0Lqxu0WIFHFAyMzYCBYmifsxngRZVDUpu6ibMZZx5QD50fLx5dTpoNWyFcLibVOWATMJ1M/s320/P1760659.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Day #2 Moon and Venus, with Sunset 21/05</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiVyKvpsSySjhRV344xkwkuUPCE89M_rOKKohwl3452ijashrtL4k0HpdE40XLshoBXeHGlpJ_veEa8YL8EQ70Zz_HheAnzsEOf8iAJs0Z3sNnJNeVm1ql8UQUsje2PUhAR9MEbxywBTM7ePR37H1IJ6UDoBJUsOFu7n5Wok6P6o67-_jFGtTHfiiJ/s2560/P1770011.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiVyKvpsSySjhRV344xkwkuUPCE89M_rOKKohwl3452ijashrtL4k0HpdE40XLshoBXeHGlpJ_veEa8YL8EQ70Zz_HheAnzsEOf8iAJs0Z3sNnJNeVm1ql8UQUsje2PUhAR9MEbxywBTM7ePR37H1IJ6UDoBJUsOFu7n5Wok6P6o67-_jFGtTHfiiJ/s320/P1770011.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Venus and Earthshine Day #3 Moon 22/05</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgigBnZb5smAe3_txJViGhrWYZxhp_964ngvGp1Y5lofXQGf3TFCj7BDoIVuziZrzh3PC9owKh7Bp_AKtGObUXGhkLiz5q1OJQUMcLdVoGiHnxfuqqbSimrCoaqcpqh-F7S2UKhkME68C_POsVfiblf__m3JsG67bzZeRm_zcUt4THI1Dm5e0HdGhbm/s2560/P1770410.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgigBnZb5smAe3_txJViGhrWYZxhp_964ngvGp1Y5lofXQGf3TFCj7BDoIVuziZrzh3PC9owKh7Bp_AKtGObUXGhkLiz5q1OJQUMcLdVoGiHnxfuqqbSimrCoaqcpqh-F7S2UKhkME68C_POsVfiblf__m3JsG67bzZeRm_zcUt4THI1Dm5e0HdGhbm/s320/P1770410.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mars in Cancer, and Day #4 Moon and Venus in Gemini 23/05</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipWDoY_Hl8GFIvQtvk7USulNxqGyDPRSTPjPbg3Y2wf59BE2MY1fljzWnPN7bM986uxshYxqlAva-QWZ3EBFd4ikGOXj0HHCUEYZ2UxZD7hgjydfcCMk83W2EWSe2Va-b8OG0XdVLVuQlY7L-gLDjzStDHF9rcP1f_TSxiuhjlJyrZlZrL-UmDksN5/s2560/P1780897.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipWDoY_Hl8GFIvQtvk7USulNxqGyDPRSTPjPbg3Y2wf59BE2MY1fljzWnPN7bM986uxshYxqlAva-QWZ3EBFd4ikGOXj0HHCUEYZ2UxZD7hgjydfcCMk83W2EWSe2Va-b8OG0XdVLVuQlY7L-gLDjzStDHF9rcP1f_TSxiuhjlJyrZlZrL-UmDksN5/s320/P1780897.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Day #5 Moon and Mars in Cancer, and Venus in Gemini 24/05</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSzaM0sfSd6Di4enjuvXtMRdIXTR_yJ3Qx8N-JKmTDZvfARSdC2W6DB28VA5v_3lAM6YZajWTZygJsXITwbVfmSZA4_4xWkPiY6qN3LiYX3ZWlzhKbLeY_ljWSMSBEw9uTm4ZCHqOmowpfTFon2ygU9D5to2s3dZQy0biP8eT1mvAT8duLisUwH_ke/s2560/P1790147.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSzaM0sfSd6Di4enjuvXtMRdIXTR_yJ3Qx8N-JKmTDZvfARSdC2W6DB28VA5v_3lAM6YZajWTZygJsXITwbVfmSZA4_4xWkPiY6qN3LiYX3ZWlzhKbLeY_ljWSMSBEw9uTm4ZCHqOmowpfTFon2ygU9D5to2s3dZQy0biP8eT1mvAT8duLisUwH_ke/s320/P1790147.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Day #7 Moon in the Gate of Leo 26/05</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><p>Next Up: Finally getting in a Full Month of Walking, at the Fourth (!) Attempt in 2023.</p>Christopher Wrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09743749271457169317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527420385844253776.post-11467093150242929932023-05-25T18:20:00.639+01:002023-09-10T22:08:34.317+01:00The Cinder Track #2 - Ravenscar to Whitby 24/05/23<div style="text-align: left;"><b>11.9 miles, via Ravenscar Brickworks, Peak Alum Quarry, Brow Alum Quarry, Stoupe Brow,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Howdale Wood, Allison Head Wood, Fyling Old Hall, Ramsdale Beck, Fyling Thorpe,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Robin Hood's Bay, Bay Ness, Rain Dale, Hawsker Bottoms, Hawsker, Stainsacre,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Cock Mill Wood, Larpool Wood, Larpool Viaduct, and Prospect Hill. </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>NB: Historical Reminiscences are in Italics.</i></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj51zOm4-9TSgu147YYPvPV-rOP9BLCXw8DdnoA6qpzYJedCZjvGwF_buMJ1QMe34g0XBmH_JA8ZGYM-8s9FydZb5LeaYHxqRVXVelrNK-pzfmOUl6uziXz2h4IjGasAB1r4JGngVUC-ue1tc-bEzW3MfvlDn1xHYfoJWPbjGLypko_CGPfH9Waiunh/s2560/P1770457.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1920" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj51zOm4-9TSgu147YYPvPV-rOP9BLCXw8DdnoA6qpzYJedCZjvGwF_buMJ1QMe34g0XBmH_JA8ZGYM-8s9FydZb5LeaYHxqRVXVelrNK-pzfmOUl6uziXz2h4IjGasAB1r4JGngVUC-ue1tc-bEzW3MfvlDn1xHYfoJWPbjGLypko_CGPfH9Waiunh/w150-h200/P1770457.JPG" width="150" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Long Distance Trail<br />Means Selfies!<br />#2 at Ravenscar</td></tr></tbody></table>Two rest days are spent, to useful creative extent, and for getting ourselves out of our holiday let for a while to see the sights of Scarborough, so that when we land on Wednesday Morning we are feeling ready to go once more, not having to head out to early as the Parental Taxi takes me up the bouncy coast road to the top of the Ravenscar headland once again so that we might start the notionally downhill back half of this rail trail, and after getting dropped off at 10am, My Mum can head off to reconnoitre the finish Line and I can prepare myself to immediately head into a landscape where I walked purposefully, on a school trip. for possibly the first time in my life. The trail for today starts on the pavements, as the railway vanishes underground and inaccessible, so we are compelled to trace Station Road around the site of the resort that wasn't, with only the Raven Hall at the corner enduring, <i>which marks the apex of a walk that my 10 year old self did with a school party whilst on a residential week at the Boggle Hole Youth Hostel back in 1985, which might have been my first experience of sustained uphill walking, which my little legs and under-developed brain were completely unprepared for, making what was intended as a bonding opportunity for many kids, gathered from about the city and county of Leicester, in a new school turn into something of a nightmare for me as I was dropped off the walking party and had to toil along the last long uphill stretch all by myself.</i> Nearly 38 years on, I'm much better prepared, not least as we're headed downhill from here, tracing the Cleveland Way route down from the village to the amazing view over Robin Hood's Bay to the north, before we join the trackbed and double back through the over growth to spy the northern portal of Ravenscar Tunnel (notoriously hated by railwaymen for its tight curvature and foul atmosphere), which appears intact and dry, making it a sad omission from the Cinder Track, which starts its long decline away from the line's 200m summit as we resume our north-westerly push into a sea of gorse that clings above the long fall down to the sea, into a landscape that appears wild but is actually one where industry has scarred the cliffs, found as we approach the complex at the Peak Alum Quarry and Ravenscar Brickworks.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_pkoSMRnQBZRwDDVEg7dVmPIv7S2Ug3rLfOMqm0n03F66v3XKeXwh5OlfBRYll1I94cjSjYBhPo7JqjuM2f_j7UmdvJMFjUFlqDN6vqXLT-ORlpT-b95qhLkg7amV8D1oKn0dCI7f34RKn3_bZeIzFo254gI8MESuPGfyl-957FK_3yJqG1Oz0Uhg/s2560/P1770473.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_pkoSMRnQBZRwDDVEg7dVmPIv7S2Ug3rLfOMqm0n03F66v3XKeXwh5OlfBRYll1I94cjSjYBhPo7JqjuM2f_j7UmdvJMFjUFlqDN6vqXLT-ORlpT-b95qhLkg7amV8D1oKn0dCI7f34RKn3_bZeIzFo254gI8MESuPGfyl-957FK_3yJqG1Oz0Uhg/s320/P1770473.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Raven Hall, Ravenscar.</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyIaCyO2yywLmpEIXcnsuCgC6_vUlJHqWvk8TlWFwUMv3dhz3NcFhdn7SJ55Vy_coTk38eJu9JvKu9TdoSNe4MYnJu34V8TvUvG6Y1dBzT-zR7FN0ExE9a2vCLn3f0q44-RDT33rZ-HSYBP8u_1oxhPVczYFWKKKalHThs1aCFGt5YLaAK2KazHaaL/s2560/P1790137.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyIaCyO2yywLmpEIXcnsuCgC6_vUlJHqWvk8TlWFwUMv3dhz3NcFhdn7SJ55Vy_coTk38eJu9JvKu9TdoSNe4MYnJu34V8TvUvG6Y1dBzT-zR7FN0ExE9a2vCLn3f0q44-RDT33rZ-HSYBP8u_1oxhPVczYFWKKKalHThs1aCFGt5YLaAK2KazHaaL/s320/P1790137.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From the 1985 Vault - One of the Raven Hall Eagles.</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy7bEERpcCQe7_8lecRM_u9G1M8HVtBLZhemVbYkZEk4p6LIkJS8H_CiyOoNYarkxGcbKwZcGkmVtKGrCOAiZ-5c3d0j34XGd3wtfK-9eIx3Fs4Kf1aURewB8AU_R0pxzSPT3TfekXlioBFNX6-Qj_aPRcvEgExS4z1YOzBgPnSshStey6flhXNsGX/s2560/P1770493.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy7bEERpcCQe7_8lecRM_u9G1M8HVtBLZhemVbYkZEk4p6LIkJS8H_CiyOoNYarkxGcbKwZcGkmVtKGrCOAiZ-5c3d0j34XGd3wtfK-9eIx3Fs4Kf1aURewB8AU_R0pxzSPT3TfekXlioBFNX6-Qj_aPRcvEgExS4z1YOzBgPnSshStey6flhXNsGX/s320/P1770493.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Robin Hood's Bay bay view.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdaOrFiiJ3E7Zw682CaxVEiQU4mBAT5sgLD591AlOtqHU5uKwWgT8ul5scH111e05xh29bCbb3Qq7JvzawutOWPAAYCgnz779vQChQkIkO-2fjKZvdpZ6X06YM1xwpk79kyN9ZXxY_W51sjwkdGDyPmcz5nTw2lz7_WBlhSfYooWJnUpr7XkCmR_-O/s2560/P1770513.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdaOrFiiJ3E7Zw682CaxVEiQU4mBAT5sgLD591AlOtqHU5uKwWgT8ul5scH111e05xh29bCbb3Qq7JvzawutOWPAAYCgnz779vQChQkIkO-2fjKZvdpZ6X06YM1xwpk79kyN9ZXxY_W51sjwkdGDyPmcz5nTw2lz7_WBlhSfYooWJnUpr7XkCmR_-O/s320/P1770513.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ravenscar Tunnel, North Portal.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcxZuZToa-MtU6arZdLhTnPaRW6Pdo2C1vigEFFi2tTNm1XFc1oPhhiVkCV-jacKFT2d9K_raa4HZUVguLKFzuK7G0ongKIodGsgQAZhgq9l2VDNdyvVnnjH9NC5p7uDNugfsb3rhuSBChXvTp1dzEdg6DziLiv0JX5kUn0oJSc2kEaAEZett7KJB4/s2560/P1770544.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcxZuZToa-MtU6arZdLhTnPaRW6Pdo2C1vigEFFi2tTNm1XFc1oPhhiVkCV-jacKFT2d9K_raa4HZUVguLKFzuK7G0ongKIodGsgQAZhgq9l2VDNdyvVnnjH9NC5p7uDNugfsb3rhuSBChXvTp1dzEdg6DziLiv0JX5kUn0oJSc2kEaAEZett7KJB4/s320/P1770544.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Cinder track resumes, downhill into a wild industrial landscape.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">Hereabouts, Alum was extracted from shale between the 16th and 19th centuries, for use as a dye fixative, and bricks fired from the quarried clay into the 20th, where a significant amount of the workings remain, on the cliff and down the hillside, if you've time to seek them out, and we'll poke around the tramway bridge, the loading sidings, and the kilns and mark our 6,000th mile on the trail as we do so, rather later in the year than intended, but due as we needed a small personal triumph on this holiday break to go with the seasonally excellent weather, and methinks we ought to get this trip moving on as there's still 10+ miles to go along the trail from here. So trot on, with the view across Robin Hood's Bay being our constant companion as we press on, where the few coastal farmsteads on the marginal fields below the moor brow enjoy a spectacular aspect around, as the Ravenscar headland rise behind us, coming around to the Peak Alum quarry, <i>which I recall as the point where our 1985 joined the Cinder Track, which if we did indeed track up from the beach after leaving the Youth Hostel via Stoupe beck, marks about 100m of ascent in just over half a mile, which explains why I was gassed on that occasion as there's no countryside in Leicestershire, not even a run up Old John in Bradgate Park, than can prepare you for something like that. The place where our walking party broke for rest and watering, by the Stoupe Bank Brow road, is now lost under a sea of gorse, </i>as is most of the quarry site, and so we won't break here, moving on as the railway starts a shift west and inland, in order to pass over the interceding pair of becks that flow into the bay, and also to lose (or gain) height at a manageable gradient, in the Swiss fashion, and below Stoupe Brow we can break for one of my best elevenses spots with a view so far, before we carry on through the picturesque scattering of farmsteads in these high fields, with their own cattle creeps below the railway line and apparent rights of vehicular access along the bridleway.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyIIyLglcAqCnofg7w5ZGkwYWZgKd-_oI39GqMKxFPWV7hElCHgEYK0kqKssVH09NhEEmQE-6S-QL4TlTg-ZXhB9X2M1uREAWB7_T66i2S_T6FKX0aKaIvxy2qzBSDNUROxf3RPm_VDnljZAhSYmxS3OWLIr0rIwLNgVvTXI56UC2_A3g5hIOEP7hf/s2560/P1770575.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyIIyLglcAqCnofg7w5ZGkwYWZgKd-_oI39GqMKxFPWV7hElCHgEYK0kqKssVH09NhEEmQE-6S-QL4TlTg-ZXhB9X2M1uREAWB7_T66i2S_T6FKX0aKaIvxy2qzBSDNUROxf3RPm_VDnljZAhSYmxS3OWLIr0rIwLNgVvTXI56UC2_A3g5hIOEP7hf/s320/P1770575.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Tramway bridge, Peak Alum Quarry.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRo4X4MPMt8qtoHFSf1sfleTpb3mtv1nUJFDT5c390sYHI6Eo0jq1xJreHPM0ALArMxZV71n-gg0L9Kge-M1_PV1yPm6Vhso5E8dZ94khGv7j_0aWcUrukFVfRLDXsHiCeLk0LuFa0PcD2nVJOPsVzj0HGRoiFuBUy8DR7VmVMgwY6X1NPonMvnMUd/s2560/P1770601.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaebmH54BV7zawn5UNn6Q-tqTNt0RkuwrIdmmJ0-OFWsD9PG1OqVr5tU_7jv4pDLUCOFosd70_U8yjsvkVg2O0XLmdi2RkEuyfQCxDlARGZ-4EXj6D__RkeGH981uVy3GPs3vLvFspxPrv6T04J1KZKFGooIMuXyXM5KBk_O0xAaPKH9RcZuK9witd/s320/P1770656.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Farmsteads on the apron above the bay.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgohzHLlw7vjQ511b2Y3IdEOU5ugVQgfr0XePQ1R6IpNohR4OGefBDUyBOrcPdR1QcHMVzsoDpNwrdP7clgBBPrx9pC6YpH7IKUn07gL1HFeV1P5TCwvsEsEMxfJnG5NZ1SBz6IxnXMOQkoz1o93hna6BE9C6R_gGdUmCXwOiQ0_LqQCUWTUHxMEQyf/s2560/P1770725.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgohzHLlw7vjQ511b2Y3IdEOU5ugVQgfr0XePQ1R6IpNohR4OGefBDUyBOrcPdR1QcHMVzsoDpNwrdP7clgBBPrx9pC6YpH7IKUn07gL1HFeV1P5TCwvsEsEMxfJnG5NZ1SBz6IxnXMOQkoz1o93hna6BE9C6R_gGdUmCXwOiQ0_LqQCUWTUHxMEQyf/s320/P1770725.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stoupe Brow Bank Road bridge, where we joined the Cinder Track 37+ years ago.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh-ZMmQuZUU12ZBOrzJ8uHx5k1DaNXPVB8p0s9mSQhouZ1aHWZQBVYzfmfbFKgLLECnZBtTnjdWnvXLfIMxClYP3ScmSH57L5JbMJrDRhEvWvSOOnEZIcAcmsnKpdVri0S8eWxQHafJUugDDUB3_qGij01ZShGGMjpglHvxzkw7kvDjfN6W7rDmOdg/s2560/P1790138.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh-ZMmQuZUU12ZBOrzJ8uHx5k1DaNXPVB8p0s9mSQhouZ1aHWZQBVYzfmfbFKgLLECnZBtTnjdWnvXLfIMxClYP3ScmSH57L5JbMJrDRhEvWvSOOnEZIcAcmsnKpdVri0S8eWxQHafJUugDDUB3_qGij01ZShGGMjpglHvxzkw7kvDjfN6W7rDmOdg/s320/P1790138.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From the 1985 Vault - Mrs Hopwood & Miss Oakley Navigating, with a Landranger.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKxYxK2Mn9leFOtTQIvC7Vdywu0wpkrly08eZWQ_8x51tqqtFemUkFdoFsqusyFIoSm4fEMlw2JNYHTs9pd_NyGekatd_ssN7CsOjxGOdX2OK8H3W4c2LfEg3AF8eMSs8svM99lqOOWbJiV6LEDUSx91YDv_VsnrDiVCNVWhc-MWlGPR7wxs2YLIgs/s2560/P1770745.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKxYxK2Mn9leFOtTQIvC7Vdywu0wpkrly08eZWQ_8x51tqqtFemUkFdoFsqusyFIoSm4fEMlw2JNYHTs9pd_NyGekatd_ssN7CsOjxGOdX2OK8H3W4c2LfEg3AF8eMSs8svM99lqOOWbJiV6LEDUSx91YDv_VsnrDiVCNVWhc-MWlGPR7wxs2YLIgs/s320/P1770745.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Elevenses viewpoint, above the hidden valleys.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLNldC1_bk92avM_Nu_bYQbuL85hZ1lS1ZVJdAHIwD4mZJTtSO34h8AUayPLLhZTM9PWGhP0qKllrGmFtRqcTr-oclFoePEVU2ZLecBlHHLA5pqHc2M99JKpLU82rqu87Ed0GE_ohlniM1jHiRfDjNKu8v3eJvFpNxHKNT3Kk2sqvJibYE7WP0JXGw/s2560/P1770777.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLNldC1_bk92avM_Nu_bYQbuL85hZ1lS1ZVJdAHIwD4mZJTtSO34h8AUayPLLhZTM9PWGhP0qKllrGmFtRqcTr-oclFoePEVU2ZLecBlHHLA5pqHc2M99JKpLU82rqu87Ed0GE_ohlniM1jHiRfDjNKu8v3eJvFpNxHKNT3Kk2sqvJibYE7WP0JXGw/s320/P1770777.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Stoupe Brow Farmsteads.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Dropping down we settle into a treelined cutting on a firmer surface that has none of the impacted ballast gravel and infilled sleeper ruts that dominated the surface on the way down, it's almost easy going, unless you're cycling up it, though gaining clear scope on your location isn't easy as there are fingers of woodlands and streams reaching inland that you have to be attentive to the map to identify, with Howdale Wood and Alison Head Wood containing the three upper branches of Stoupe Beck before we come around to Old Hall Garth Plantation, and the three-arched Bridge Holm Road bridge looming large overhead, before we find ourselves by the broken bridge on the minor road up to Fyling Old Hall. Signs indicate that the Boggle Hole Youth Hostel is only a mile distant, but <i>we shan't be taking an actual walk down memory lane in that direction, as while the Bay Mill block endures, the annexe building where we stayed are long gone, and the memory I have of the place is it largely being perpetually cold, as it was October when we stayed there, with uncomfortable bunk beds, mediocre food that compelled us to subsist on Kendal Mint Cake, and not really enough activity laid on that varied enough from actual school work, with certainly none of what you might anticipate on an 'outward bounds' experience, which has me wondering its purpose, even at this remove. </i>Back to our trip, we rise to meet the site of Fyling Hall station, which could easily be missed under the trees and over growth, though its station house remains, with almost as many occupants as the site once served, and thence its onwards, through the depression that falls to the west of Robin Hood's Bay, still in the shade and being kept away from the coastal views, with Ramsdale Beck being well concealed as we pass over embankments and through cuttings with the cattle creeps and occupation bridges filling in the points of visual interest, though banks of tightly placed trees clad in thick ivy do make for a visually arresting image as we drift north.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwCMB5x1iTzBsHpaxHdaFdGe06a0myhqD6VjegA0LK9GV0d9zYye-wr0cKJubtwxTwbGOPRY-XK3rNmRhbBHuomwKYDFFenSMJ1lX7qxfW38MYvEbuCbn80zlnFupT8aIzkmNtfKtZbdbWTDaxWO3EfhJvVONVRctgP9ws_8HGZyGC_a01QE16mvaE/s2560/P1770818.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwCMB5x1iTzBsHpaxHdaFdGe06a0myhqD6VjegA0LK9GV0d9zYye-wr0cKJubtwxTwbGOPRY-XK3rNmRhbBHuomwKYDFFenSMJ1lX7qxfW38MYvEbuCbn80zlnFupT8aIzkmNtfKtZbdbWTDaxWO3EfhJvVONVRctgP9ws_8HGZyGC_a01QE16mvaE/s320/P1770818.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Howdale Wood embankment and Bridge.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHSfOCRUpkYdv5W-v2vbM9M6J2Of_4CsS41vHLa6J7ppKX44xU7kMJKds-FkvI1ksMTraqVCqE7CxcugiWrG1_iIfLk7zlPxan8Ui1NVsjv0cydu-AXj772Fxix8m7xTNGbWI-sIdwgz2gmI4uLEL7syRaEYtzq1z5jRLqKa07hvtrz8vjQA5IvoBI/s2560/P1770869.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHSfOCRUpkYdv5W-v2vbM9M6J2Of_4CsS41vHLa6J7ppKX44xU7kMJKds-FkvI1ksMTraqVCqE7CxcugiWrG1_iIfLk7zlPxan8Ui1NVsjv0cydu-AXj772Fxix8m7xTNGbWI-sIdwgz2gmI4uLEL7syRaEYtzq1z5jRLqKa07hvtrz8vjQA5IvoBI/s320/P1770869.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Bridge Holm Road bridge.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSjyZTtclDB3UQXNbnnndy9HM6dE5A45PGgs_53QG7T4nh1Wjr98kZulaWjn-KJEJzTRjqRnx0ZRsCtsUxjANt1bKY3YqhLmM_oBALCwirPTECyLoCjinFsHG4SpNdYuJo3yOiNI1gvulgpopYu2KpevSd4P3FJsP6D4SBYmFLLsNIOeDOK2htev7t/s2560/P1770897.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSjyZTtclDB3UQXNbnnndy9HM6dE5A45PGgs_53QG7T4nh1Wjr98kZulaWjn-KJEJzTRjqRnx0ZRsCtsUxjANt1bKY3YqhLmM_oBALCwirPTECyLoCjinFsHG4SpNdYuJo3yOiNI1gvulgpopYu2KpevSd4P3FJsP6D4SBYmFLLsNIOeDOK2htev7t/s320/P1770897.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1 mile to the east lies the site of unforgotten experiences and memories.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZP9zO-LU7EO2fabKiAoAm_N1aMKfRz03aEpnajk6M2_hb25MDPN6A7Kt0IcStfPB1_8ev5ukBHJeVQ7xvbbbiJD2NEY3prYtihaG849Be8X9vVRJNhzcw83-4UoMVpiwb9mKm_tRRQVQR6yf8qG8-vSez_TXDzFbfSqIrl58uH80CpyUdmNsgyuCa/s2560/P1790139.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZP9zO-LU7EO2fabKiAoAm_N1aMKfRz03aEpnajk6M2_hb25MDPN6A7Kt0IcStfPB1_8ev5ukBHJeVQ7xvbbbiJD2NEY3prYtihaG849Be8X9vVRJNhzcw83-4UoMVpiwb9mKm_tRRQVQR6yf8qG8-vSez_TXDzFbfSqIrl58uH80CpyUdmNsgyuCa/s320/P1790139.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From the 1985 Vault - The Beach at Boggle Hole.<br />(I don't know why I don't have a picture of the Youth Hostel itself?)</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnYyNGjRjqTDR-I9pJtKHAVf2jA1POWNTQfYMb_NgIjDpf1oxOqo5-tMYrDGuEYq67EAM3C4UjELI1mjhopMafxEayI6vDSB6ydPQ4CF0IPV6MpuIW1N918KICtL9vZ0-OtthkCJl4gEI5H4xByU5iUOQ2iepPWHwRZIZmIIx5SNutm0HCQZWDq6gu/s2560/P1770909.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnYyNGjRjqTDR-I9pJtKHAVf2jA1POWNTQfYMb_NgIjDpf1oxOqo5-tMYrDGuEYq67EAM3C4UjELI1mjhopMafxEayI6vDSB6ydPQ4CF0IPV6MpuIW1N918KICtL9vZ0-OtthkCJl4gEI5H4xByU5iUOQ2iepPWHwRZIZmIIx5SNutm0HCQZWDq6gu/s320/P1770909.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fyling Hall station remnants.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh600vNZrcHQyAOX8LCLYcVkI1UpJwAD-6ncczjVQ6pC5KtLGXdDcAv74Zs_ayoVgwxXVnSu1-SMry6WskTOXTbB46og1Lbaa5isjvOfPgY-vmdF_O6a4xCsSwbwQMMwSFJ9Y10KXtFGL9zOnPITjWbalH07blq4j3-jjYr19YiCqcOGbgYCvSBlP--/s2560/P1770953.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh600vNZrcHQyAOX8LCLYcVkI1UpJwAD-6ncczjVQ6pC5KtLGXdDcAv74Zs_ayoVgwxXVnSu1-SMry6WskTOXTbB46og1Lbaa5isjvOfPgY-vmdF_O6a4xCsSwbwQMMwSFJ9Y10KXtFGL9zOnPITjWbalH07blq4j3-jjYr19YiCqcOGbgYCvSBlP--/s320/P1770953.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Occupation bridge, near Ramsdale Beck.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT-6aqNILxe5zCRMg_W_UX594i6qKGl8-zOhouAQuB5EA27BX4aIEw6pxun855SuFtgFsU0k9q0QMw6sVyH1F7w8UoSy-oFOsjP9RTxCqPb35axRP8yM6x8D_7wwIzSDXjcabT2Xta70kpvp7QDA1zlx2XZbRQDFeq7FXo7HhtzP-wWd5iLIlRAsex/s2560/P1770983.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT-6aqNILxe5zCRMg_W_UX594i6qKGl8-zOhouAQuB5EA27BX4aIEw6pxun855SuFtgFsU0k9q0QMw6sVyH1F7w8UoSy-oFOsjP9RTxCqPb35axRP8yM6x8D_7wwIzSDXjcabT2Xta70kpvp7QDA1zlx2XZbRQDFeq7FXo7HhtzP-wWd5iLIlRAsex/s320/P1770983.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The ivy clad path northwards.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">Meeting the Middlewood Road crossing, <i>another sign to the youth hostel triggers the memory of being offered the option of busing out to Whitby for a morning in the museum in Pannett Park, or walking to the Abbey, which my almost 11 year old mind saw as a no-brainer, unlike most of the lads who saw exercise as a better alternative to schoolwork, and once the parties met up for lunchtime at Whitby Abbey, I was told that they'd walked part of the railway line, which they through would've interested me a young train enthusiast, but I regarded the trek they made, of around 7 miles, to be surely more like a forced route march, that couldn't possibly have been more fun that learning about Captain Cook or the Whaling industry.</i> We can start to feel closer to civilisation as we pass the caravans of the Middlewood Farm holiday park, where we get a sense of coastal presence once again, to the east and southeast as we share latitude with the cove village of Robin Hood's Bay, and the Ravenscar headland looms large in the distance while the villas of Fyling Thorpe align themselves around the old Thorpe hall and along the alignment of Thorpe Lane to the west of us as we drift around to the northeast to eventually meet it, with the tower of St Stephen's church drawing us on before a bridge absence puts us on the pavements again. We still can rise up to the site of Robin Hood's Bay station, with its main building and goods office still intact, along with the Station Workshops and Fyling Dales village hall developed on the site, with the main car park being found on the good yard, all parked above the bowling greens and the upper part of town at Mount Pleasant, where the crowds are out and about, with our route needing to find a way east beyond the B1447 and the elevated terraces, tangling with the Cleveland Way before we slip back on the alignment at the point where it's closest to the coast, naturally in a cutting, before we emerge to a lunch spot where we can look over the bay we have passed around.</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsOZ2SGeu8BosNUegE1fojrkZ3hp5HJCoLY3sLGVLBquc5WAPrIzgVsnaHH9wkJaCI6nT4ST3nyXsxnvU8nt4PFTB-0yWAd2uRmnNu5K0m6_Vvhwzvniz2Y5uDONYIE7PgUWkacfGdQEJO0DFqHrCYEouLzyl7XvxoilD9d_JzSFz3Y7fzJ12oMXk7/s2560/P1790140.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsOZ2SGeu8BosNUegE1fojrkZ3hp5HJCoLY3sLGVLBquc5WAPrIzgVsnaHH9wkJaCI6nT4ST3nyXsxnvU8nt4PFTB-0yWAd2uRmnNu5K0m6_Vvhwzvniz2Y5uDONYIE7PgUWkacfGdQEJO0DFqHrCYEouLzyl7XvxoilD9d_JzSFz3Y7fzJ12oMXk7/s320/P1790140.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From the 1985 Vault - Robin Hood's Bay, from afar-ish.</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJscgCyLPucYerdZjCZkL7u4DJDXbR0B9kGmQVow6XDbIwn5g592PLKvMNaOs69CjM5Ympb1KFHag_PGVXOcw-ji0zIXSyCjei5WYD535y13otaB44SIppFuF2Gt9vfJthy8JEOG1nyvSHvKilJS-3I1RyussMvvCoTUGQX_EGB-Z1rowY2tVho1j_/s2560/P1780018.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJscgCyLPucYerdZjCZkL7u4DJDXbR0B9kGmQVow6XDbIwn5g592PLKvMNaOs69CjM5Ympb1KFHag_PGVXOcw-ji0zIXSyCjei5WYD535y13otaB44SIppFuF2Gt9vfJthy8JEOG1nyvSHvKilJS-3I1RyussMvvCoTUGQX_EGB-Z1rowY2tVho1j_/s320/P1780018.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Caravans of Middlewood Farm holiday park.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQtCswbVupvIAABO21RhzFC7ik3c7Ktd5xc3YDYZmGt78rIFXMEPTCW18gbRkNWQRarqZlkawV3DB9l-S1rSKzyblPjsE3lfgvJhY4Gw4R5vYNk-yg9JHExMYb6byw2FAGM42JNkWQg148YIgpd3JCtoOoZq2QtENAOtrIP3xyHGG5XbIXLi0bcKHe/s2560/P1780055.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQtCswbVupvIAABO21RhzFC7ik3c7Ktd5xc3YDYZmGt78rIFXMEPTCW18gbRkNWQRarqZlkawV3DB9l-S1rSKzyblPjsE3lfgvJhY4Gw4R5vYNk-yg9JHExMYb6byw2FAGM42JNkWQg148YIgpd3JCtoOoZq2QtENAOtrIP3xyHGG5XbIXLi0bcKHe/s320/P1780055.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fyling Thorpe's Villas, along Thorpe Lane.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisXSZMKCT0Va-sgGdtkqIuZh4FZ14AiDHLNYF3ustlIUhmlFIPh9pzLMXoWEkaKoWIRH4fJPsK4DGvfrkLv9Z_kMdKhe3pyhTzJoYC9AYed0mKxMZoKUqsGl96sXKF2zT5kBydATYDoUMWpVb9E9U1ilFUwM5Zdm79GdzBgUDbUwatPZS7FX7tMWnU/s2560/P1780098.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisXSZMKCT0Va-sgGdtkqIuZh4FZ14AiDHLNYF3ustlIUhmlFIPh9pzLMXoWEkaKoWIRH4fJPsK4DGvfrkLv9Z_kMdKhe3pyhTzJoYC9AYed0mKxMZoKUqsGl96sXKF2zT5kBydATYDoUMWpVb9E9U1ilFUwM5Zdm79GdzBgUDbUwatPZS7FX7tMWnU/s320/P1780098.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robin Hood's Bay station buildings.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpyu1J6wdDXz7_w24gXLQwy6rCyYFG2kWGVqxwE1sYRp1afeXi-SqP9CCpgofJJ0QFVbiwyhtT1k7LPyYL0HqBLlcZ8oCToQWrFECz0RbGJKlSMaZ5oMGE7tOaOgSvy4yuxlaLlPzGW3AIThNmDK08Y19AJ696v6sIu5NEpAzJCAyYYpheWzTu-VNE/s2560/P1780133.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpyu1J6wdDXz7_w24gXLQwy6rCyYFG2kWGVqxwE1sYRp1afeXi-SqP9CCpgofJJ0QFVbiwyhtT1k7LPyYL0HqBLlcZ8oCToQWrFECz0RbGJKlSMaZ5oMGE7tOaOgSvy4yuxlaLlPzGW3AIThNmDK08Y19AJ696v6sIu5NEpAzJCAyYYpheWzTu-VNE/s320/P1780133.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The old alignmnet among the terraces of Mount Pleasant.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxuMsWAdvEgKUxgCQmCc3q6J_ostL7bV5j69HVGje28rvVIWhqrp89kMZGCfy9zLjuxf4SHYvhJ74ppr8ce1cJoDRHlvoM0-220R82sjQgdoCy69OQSSX6zog9ZNfqlkC4985IDbM2p6ZpbFYQpuqJqdyesU-xYsvAAs3bH_8SRQJARxONkNbyB69e/s2560/P1780166.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxuMsWAdvEgKUxgCQmCc3q6J_ostL7bV5j69HVGje28rvVIWhqrp89kMZGCfy9zLjuxf4SHYvhJ74ppr8ce1cJoDRHlvoM0-220R82sjQgdoCy69OQSSX6zog9ZNfqlkC4985IDbM2p6ZpbFYQpuqJqdyesU-xYsvAAs3bH_8SRQJARxONkNbyB69e/s320/P1780166.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Lunchtime Viewpoint, looking back to Ravenscar.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">There'll be no more remember-berries from now on as we're on another significant gradient rise onto this previously unseen rise, having kidded ourselves that the whole day will be downhill, but we have to climb to get around this headland, which doesn't have an obvious name or identity, but there's a lot of it, with what appears to be a weather station at its apex as we curve around the falling rough fields around Bay Ness farm, which also appears to identify the National Trust preserve in this landscape, with gorse and bracken abounding as we are elevated up, into a cutting that obscures all sense of the coast behind us to the south, before we arrive above Rain Dale, where direct line sight downwards can be had to waves breaking on the beach, 100m below. There's not much else on this top to give us a contextual location, as there's nothing to see inland as we press to the northwest, with and apron of fields dropping away to the cliff edge, accessible by cattle creeps under foot, as we are drawn forward, and its's fine place to give a status and location update to Mum with only one cliff crag punctuating the coastal edge ahead, which isn't identifiable to me, feeling that we might have only the sheep of Bottom House farm for company up here until we come upon the Sea View Caravan Park at Hawkser Bottoms, where a farm track bridge needs to be observed up close before we get a feel for where we're going ahead, as Whitby Abbey peaks onto the horizon above the meadows and the depression of the Esk Valley penetrates the landscape across our path beyond the hedges. That's us over the other summit on the Cinder Track, and it surely is all downhill from here, as hazy warmth starts to grip us after sea breezes had kept us cooled for a long while, and it all starts to feel a bit sultry as we pass into the scattered village landscape of Hawsker, where a brick occupation bridge and tuck shop are found ahead of the house cluster by the level crossing on the A171, the only major road passage on the the latter half of the trip, and we'll shadow the coast road for a while down here, though less attention will be paid to it as we come past Hawsker station, still intact with a trio on camping coaches in its grounds (including a BR Mk3, which must have been fun and games to get up here, as there's no clear or easy run to this hilltop from any nearby railhead).</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXS0lqQRdrtGrhyfTPbgtMMr0J9XwatTBZCeqGQNtjPec4_p_mzEgSmn8MBf8JHeVIGMugODhxskaKycTtNjJ2913zkceZ-qIRexbjgZIORIq52IjWs7-zpdJ9fJ1b_wugJDH0THVQD7xM8HWfGn_6ma1XfBVm720QUlFupjAgt4T47agoYRr87FX-/s2560/P1780193.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXS0lqQRdrtGrhyfTPbgtMMr0J9XwatTBZCeqGQNtjPec4_p_mzEgSmn8MBf8JHeVIGMugODhxskaKycTtNjJ2913zkceZ-qIRexbjgZIORIq52IjWs7-zpdJ9fJ1b_wugJDH0THVQD7xM8HWfGn_6ma1XfBVm720QUlFupjAgt4T47agoYRr87FX-/s320/P1780193.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above the bay Ness Headland</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtHxR5yu8oX6QeFWX0tITW3JzK-cxRkoJnu2VzpjYp5--fQN73Sie9Tgm-vV3aPCPUkITVXkc8sol1Mo9CCVAEK8-KO56c6GM0_T1tGYnlRO63u8NBFr8zLE4HSqBnjIRf4jMtmO6JzsGcY7ejvfRkt4Erkz1--83yHcWhxHtFs2WnVRev8BI2nkNi/s2560/P1780225.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtHxR5yu8oX6QeFWX0tITW3JzK-cxRkoJnu2VzpjYp5--fQN73Sie9Tgm-vV3aPCPUkITVXkc8sol1Mo9CCVAEK8-KO56c6GM0_T1tGYnlRO63u8NBFr8zLE4HSqBnjIRf4jMtmO6JzsGcY7ejvfRkt4Erkz1--83yHcWhxHtFs2WnVRev8BI2nkNi/s320/P1780225.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Transitioning away around the headland to the northwest</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8xJQcBbe9T_onpfW8WQpxnMOpkq5IzHJIdgnypbN1DB5eabxoKQBPpRyg-9pM-iDQF3KY66dJhl_IfeKH2a3Pw-BxU4ijcNkI11NIOdR-yZcsCSVyNEU3tMg9CR1Jrib2cmrkrr0mqhGX1-BjPffzZHdMW94KDkjsndjsESq1RTMyRG2gpBoRNV7x/s2560/P1780248.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8xJQcBbe9T_onpfW8WQpxnMOpkq5IzHJIdgnypbN1DB5eabxoKQBPpRyg-9pM-iDQF3KY66dJhl_IfeKH2a3Pw-BxU4ijcNkI11NIOdR-yZcsCSVyNEU3tMg9CR1Jrib2cmrkrr0mqhGX1-BjPffzZHdMW94KDkjsndjsESq1RTMyRG2gpBoRNV7x/s320/P1780248.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Above the fall of Rain Dale.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3wu3hqyH2uOEnAbzfSq0gstKwLaEKJbzGuP6UKV8cKeLCOwBZl1iXVI_JxJOrIeJM5bwZ_VnupFgfVekg9KT08xxF9IKCLfVbE88d8tgYs06oYS9ynOupHS9WykLQcb0zsmmZkcoJrJPHjdK5XbqFCTBe2RpgFFdgKMceEEc_kANc5gedS_--V9b3/s2560/P1780278.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3wu3hqyH2uOEnAbzfSq0gstKwLaEKJbzGuP6UKV8cKeLCOwBZl1iXVI_JxJOrIeJM5bwZ_VnupFgfVekg9KT08xxF9IKCLfVbE88d8tgYs06oYS9ynOupHS9WykLQcb0zsmmZkcoJrJPHjdK5XbqFCTBe2RpgFFdgKMceEEc_kANc5gedS_--V9b3/s320/P1780278.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Working towards a headland of uncertain identity.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehPY-3EFHzuMSKS1IAGdSHs3ZLbqPD1QytIgkX1pMFJTYngIwCGUnVUFY_KJx6q3f4yUbmP9XyHqVBNhh6iIfhSxgn6Vj92H0C3RWGCIRkXDCkWzpD24OYzUdk4WimGgCL9m2UxKw_qBRVXLM6TCNyA2coKTaOqFiUvaujMn4OQPgf197keh3p-jj/s2560/P1780312.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjehPY-3EFHzuMSKS1IAGdSHs3ZLbqPD1QytIgkX1pMFJTYngIwCGUnVUFY_KJx6q3f4yUbmP9XyHqVBNhh6iIfhSxgn6Vj92H0C3RWGCIRkXDCkWzpD24OYzUdk4WimGgCL9m2UxKw_qBRVXLM6TCNyA2coKTaOqFiUvaujMn4OQPgf197keh3p-jj/s320/P1780312.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Cattle Creep at High Hawsker.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2mM6MdtGOjeoU98LoCe35CtBJRCCyQeXKPrlSVYLnKEdoQWA6epHO2am7uUvFk7L-R19-lceyB-KT9lamxY86_1LjZFw1rfVEoHKfqIdYTfIZw2k_YdEAqfcTT7CieCbo5thLtUs5_P1Pan0QqKCytJVNZpWQHKIVkLGP29g2dgCMnycaERmtBjtG/s2560/P1780350.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2mM6MdtGOjeoU98LoCe35CtBJRCCyQeXKPrlSVYLnKEdoQWA6epHO2am7uUvFk7L-R19-lceyB-KT9lamxY86_1LjZFw1rfVEoHKfqIdYTfIZw2k_YdEAqfcTT7CieCbo5thLtUs5_P1Pan0QqKCytJVNZpWQHKIVkLGP29g2dgCMnycaERmtBjtG/s320/P1780350.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Cincer Track arriving above the Esk Valley, and Whitby.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjepxQ3g64O8P_73r30tjg6ZIZb7uYptqGxnS86lYiNpfvax_rTM5tPbGK5D20Z88IaLbrEwXd6bcrO-bio3dFnux-FR9LQjy46segogfYe5WT-xcPcggTv_0LTQcygUmv9HjKfKXHvlyyS0YWgCQneMNtPo8aJs7_uVnU4SovDjHNjsRJC4F6havic/s2560/P1780383.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjepxQ3g64O8P_73r30tjg6ZIZb7uYptqGxnS86lYiNpfvax_rTM5tPbGK5D20Z88IaLbrEwXd6bcrO-bio3dFnux-FR9LQjy46segogfYe5WT-xcPcggTv_0LTQcygUmv9HjKfKXHvlyyS0YWgCQneMNtPo8aJs7_uVnU4SovDjHNjsRJC4F6havic/s320/P1780383.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Occupation Bridge, High Hawsker.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh8-5qB5ja8iBROzAO5ETEZyXpcvRoD4ULyy-HgxbaRkh23SA-RuhWDLnS-M62yXNH2xvWVJbLZfu_W4WDjF74dKpJLbCn_8N3lLj_WG80SSaciXsmU8ivgXhLPigVIWGefQv5ag60lD9jJxOvcu2QCNWU6cFq12woaQ-ppANGUdtg4gWi3jjClIh6/s2560/P1780442.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh8-5qB5ja8iBROzAO5ETEZyXpcvRoD4ULyy-HgxbaRkh23SA-RuhWDLnS-M62yXNH2xvWVJbLZfu_W4WDjF74dKpJLbCn_8N3lLj_WG80SSaciXsmU8ivgXhLPigVIWGefQv5ag60lD9jJxOvcu2QCNWU6cFq12woaQ-ppANGUdtg4gWi3jjClIh6/s320/P1780442.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hawsker station, and its camping carriages.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">The interest beyond comes from the upstream Esk Valley opening out the landscape on the moorland side, which I've travelled through on occasions in the past but couldn't claim to know well, and that will keep the attention as we drift down to Stainsacre, where no station ever stood, passing under the Summerfield Lane bridge and noting the Stainsacre Lane bridge, by the Windmill inn to be only the second plain plate girder bridge that we've seen since we started, and we'll spy our last look towards the highpoints on the coast from here too, as we fall to render the Abbey and tall buildings of West Cliff beyond sight as we settle in with the fall of Stainsacre Beck. Shade runs over the path for the first time in a while as we pass down above Cock Mill Wood, finding that we don't have any extra gears in my legs to get us close to the finish time I'd projected for myself, and views are hard to come by for while, until we get a completely changed profile on the upstream Esk Valley from our passage above Larpool Wood and below Larpool Hall, which means we must be close to the main feature on the line, to be seen once we're over the Larpool Road bridge, and that's Larpool Viaduct, 13 arches and almost 300m long, towering nearly 40m above the Esk and constructed single track width entirely from red bricks, it's honestly one of the most majestic engineering sights to be had. Much time could be wasted here trying to spy its best angle, but as we're already overdue, we need to move on, pressing on to the north bank of the Esk and into Whitby town proper, meeting path of the steep spur line that rises to our left, that once connected these high lines to the railway in the valley, shadowing it through a deep and wide cutting featuring a large three-arched occupation bridge before we come up to the Prospect Hill junction site where we pass under the A171 on it passage towards Middlesborough, before we settle in behind Caedmon College and a bunch of back gardens before the Cinder Track ends abruptly on the high and shaded embankment above the Stakesby Vale Bridge.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtXpNM2nP5mI33iwkjUEPe_3kbP-nQxKMDubrWh--j35X2CkGHWi4XmG_3FZJpyRLdhCUeQpTOR8riH7sJqkVJ1TqJ_XqXkNYTDGfYJcN6ODsRzgQjuaYqcmZZ0qUUTtk0Jvw_bylH1lMYviXLGlAfv7YKwHTJRjdRBe0kluy2kloJKUh7rFz5uDkQ/s2560/P1780461.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtXpNM2nP5mI33iwkjUEPe_3kbP-nQxKMDubrWh--j35X2CkGHWi4XmG_3FZJpyRLdhCUeQpTOR8riH7sJqkVJ1TqJ_XqXkNYTDGfYJcN6ODsRzgQjuaYqcmZZ0qUUTtk0Jvw_bylH1lMYviXLGlAfv7YKwHTJRjdRBe0kluy2kloJKUh7rFz5uDkQ/s320/P1780461.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The upstream Esk valley, from Hawsker.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBroU6W2IGOSrIO9_gPZEsuA9NVYcNvvHzA9pHAryoKa3ExtG4diNLZn3TaKDt7V97UKz8TO9f2fk8b-kkWWJ1bq6l64PRNemzM37wQ3kn93LmTy4pVL26UrhTIUk5AS0t5F349tZRnQHNwP6RHbwczEI7GwYIr-hZ3y-QDKFnTRLRaPs3U5K89WTT/s2560/P1780515.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBroU6W2IGOSrIO9_gPZEsuA9NVYcNvvHzA9pHAryoKa3ExtG4diNLZn3TaKDt7V97UKz8TO9f2fk8b-kkWWJ1bq6l64PRNemzM37wQ3kn93LmTy4pVL26UrhTIUk5AS0t5F349tZRnQHNwP6RHbwczEI7GwYIr-hZ3y-QDKFnTRLRaPs3U5K89WTT/s320/P1780515.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stainsacre Road bridge.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBK4eGBc_tylXg_vPVLgOOo3-IEhxCgj5kx8zwAfL2LqBIBtR2LDD8t9D93D-g9CCowCfE4jxLRXzvivEDVvJLvWOJrn_MzfObef8l8B2xBtzcHFJzN9uIxVj5ZFJiXJzpK0qZ5DZruLDoBzrvaFSb-4HX7FKfsjZc0A5Qp7YdeMLwxkQysXPGVjia/s2560/P1780555.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBK4eGBc_tylXg_vPVLgOOo3-IEhxCgj5kx8zwAfL2LqBIBtR2LDD8t9D93D-g9CCowCfE4jxLRXzvivEDVvJLvWOJrn_MzfObef8l8B2xBtzcHFJzN9uIxVj5ZFJiXJzpK0qZ5DZruLDoBzrvaFSb-4HX7FKfsjZc0A5Qp7YdeMLwxkQysXPGVjia/s320/P1780555.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cock Mill Wood.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbPlIlkXqPeG1De7UZcahScTOrlK_f2bBJE-L3kinkYprmNNGIdKD9E_kiikTTRsSxKXFN946ZGbSXrI2IEZbCzd7-hPS7Yo0w7-l3DgMrUM9xuIsioaAw4Aqo20A8caOza6V6o7T80JZv2Mt5Wzc50CnG01QvTIuZSC5Mewx8n-y39yqdSBhvpQje/s2560/P1780600.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbPlIlkXqPeG1De7UZcahScTOrlK_f2bBJE-L3kinkYprmNNGIdKD9E_kiikTTRsSxKXFN946ZGbSXrI2IEZbCzd7-hPS7Yo0w7-l3DgMrUM9xuIsioaAw4Aqo20A8caOza6V6o7T80JZv2Mt5Wzc50CnG01QvTIuZSC5Mewx8n-y39yqdSBhvpQje/s320/P1780600.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Upstream Esk, from Larpool Wood.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ7Mijo_WJoRw_wVha0MaD_s05zTK3t0GjoR1UrPXQkxfZo1E4qVyvHrCjWvTzPWOPYDnk2bWktlgVvlIFcSgbt6jdq1zA_RnfME3Hmkme_w_6v4SR1-Bjlll_3bpYDmuA-5N0A_TL7izW7mUuoxMaGlm_Yivk8vJr1DsNyL2du4rLmoxMhn4OP1Jb/s2560/P1780629.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ7Mijo_WJoRw_wVha0MaD_s05zTK3t0GjoR1UrPXQkxfZo1E4qVyvHrCjWvTzPWOPYDnk2bWktlgVvlIFcSgbt6jdq1zA_RnfME3Hmkme_w_6v4SR1-Bjlll_3bpYDmuA-5N0A_TL7izW7mUuoxMaGlm_Yivk8vJr1DsNyL2du4rLmoxMhn4OP1Jb/s320/P1780629.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Larpool Road bridge.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ--Y_s9M9cXzObzjXN42inAZCmZ-1435vs0Mx_q_OU7N4A7N4CdPFxwBfha8anaLgBJjhxQSfNs6MrOB9aIwb-6gEq4w5dSmHu5a-i6yPDHkjFL5CfIOeEDWhbaQPl_Lx_ZZxh25sm2Gec4P1RL2F_5M02ewyDMzT27Oj6zCQt-xrxy9BLCaaKLmj/s2560/P1780646.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ--Y_s9M9cXzObzjXN42inAZCmZ-1435vs0Mx_q_OU7N4A7N4CdPFxwBfha8anaLgBJjhxQSfNs6MrOB9aIwb-6gEq4w5dSmHu5a-i6yPDHkjFL5CfIOeEDWhbaQPl_Lx_ZZxh25sm2Gec4P1RL2F_5M02ewyDMzT27Oj6zCQt-xrxy9BLCaaKLmj/s320/P1780646.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Larpool Viaduct, looking north.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiASOek52taepyZHA9moDyZN-Bk8-DAmaCwUwXbY_juJO0zlGVzNuQ85pPNAosgmsusmyy1_0s8wgVfaoz-rLOlb6DU2eXDhafZvboRE6XUOCxNem-XtICDbfaEy96EBeCv8OKpq3_5wYLevGwduNVgyDtJuOrVKMP_uxN8plHdg3REkaFxM091uTPD/s2560/P1780703.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiASOek52taepyZHA9moDyZN-Bk8-DAmaCwUwXbY_juJO0zlGVzNuQ85pPNAosgmsusmyy1_0s8wgVfaoz-rLOlb6DU2eXDhafZvboRE6XUOCxNem-XtICDbfaEy96EBeCv8OKpq3_5wYLevGwduNVgyDtJuOrVKMP_uxN8plHdg3REkaFxM091uTPD/s320/P1780703.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Larpool Viaduct, looking south.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiRCY53_9-D3dI40d9lrh9WmT87YwQvQKD_GZvZVcVSuZ3BSXyXj7Y1OS8fDCGiOZBx3_J-e_d_d-pT4xAfdMaxn7eYeTdm5cYzr-Q6PnM5r6asQdJsdjx5MYiy1PXy6BiIFVyeEg4lj6KXnp4b9nxjAFW27bidV1e4DfEcgB8c1fetgDfkWoZT6bW/s2560/P1780730.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiRCY53_9-D3dI40d9lrh9WmT87YwQvQKD_GZvZVcVSuZ3BSXyXj7Y1OS8fDCGiOZBx3_J-e_d_d-pT4xAfdMaxn7eYeTdm5cYzr-Q6PnM5r6asQdJsdjx5MYiy1PXy6BiIFVyeEg4lj6KXnp4b9nxjAFW27bidV1e4DfEcgB8c1fetgDfkWoZT6bW/s320/P1780730.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Occupation bridge, above Prospect Hill Junction.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9T1CTu9UvECz90YNYfABQhSeaGqSOkxVazNmBUWWUR_mOnICiNoQnjGVIhsGWhOgEN5n0lgPVfkDE5P8zu9kZq1L0vMe7eVywGxROz-fODwO5bVoMbZ4CtiMiNvdpklVoaaGHB19opBuku6VdTiyeaX75IBNq_5V5chQjrYof-VNoRTZPkjyXdVTm/s2560/P1780771.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9T1CTu9UvECz90YNYfABQhSeaGqSOkxVazNmBUWWUR_mOnICiNoQnjGVIhsGWhOgEN5n0lgPVfkDE5P8zu9kZq1L0vMe7eVywGxROz-fODwO5bVoMbZ4CtiMiNvdpklVoaaGHB19opBuku6VdTiyeaX75IBNq_5V5chQjrYof-VNoRTZPkjyXdVTm/s320/P1780771.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Prospect Hill bridge / tunnel</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">There's no easy means to get to Whitby West Cliff station, which is still intact half a mile to the northeast from here, so it's down to the town we'll have to head, over the A174 and joining the Bagdale Road as it slips below Pannett Park (Oh, Hello!), which lands us among proud townhouses from the days of Whitby as a major Whaling port, as well as the much older Bagdale Hall, as we come down to Victoria Square, with its pair of churches and past the bus station to find Whitby Town station beyond, just west of the quayside and as close to sea level as our trip will take us, where Mum can be found awaiting my arrival in the shade of the tearooms at 3.05pm. It's not as straightforward dash back to base from here through, as we both feel the need to have fish and chips while at the seaside, despite us landing here between lunch and tea times, but that can be gotten easily and in the exactly required portions, at the Royal Fisheries restaurant on Baxtergate, before we depart, by bus, up the hill and in the wrong direction to the Park & Ride on the Guisborough Road, where the Parental Taxi can be located, wisely kept away from the parking trauma that comes in the town itself, before My Mum can demonstrate here continued motoring mettle by tilting our way back down the A171, with us both carrying thoughts of returning to these latitudes in the late Summer.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizPBi33TP7hs7gSb3O5u_cOBT5lynfbTiH1AM1rjCQlCOH4TYDyuA_cC6XhfHCi2g--7q4baIfEq1Kh3Y8HyL-HqK1bIR6KEhCeZ733yTjx8e1GjlTTwvJE63WtM81u9l5xLY6OoMSr3VEXsgA6NNVId_8aKhHhjS_W0P2VeLJSr5pXVKPYe7kVsxg/s2560/P1780808.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizPBi33TP7hs7gSb3O5u_cOBT5lynfbTiH1AM1rjCQlCOH4TYDyuA_cC6XhfHCi2g--7q4baIfEq1Kh3Y8HyL-HqK1bIR6KEhCeZ733yTjx8e1GjlTTwvJE63WtM81u9l5xLY6OoMSr3VEXsgA6NNVId_8aKhHhjS_W0P2VeLJSr5pXVKPYe7kVsxg/s320/P1780808.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Stakesby Vale Bridge, Whitby.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglRrMLtqqu8uZEwih1ZoEjfZmsQDHFGfBaMCIdVAMHcQuVtSXIE2c4Ei1Uymmt_p-mOdVl2w6UUXHcLG8SDnAAdoGruGn74Q4KF8yVK0YiAi6V-NSyS9_t1xFymoLaLJZs43wbX2jt1PGvyFbBiJHjrupAYpKwC74f7VhcJEFgfGzFvaEsNF-vqe97/s2560/P1780839.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglRrMLtqqu8uZEwih1ZoEjfZmsQDHFGfBaMCIdVAMHcQuVtSXIE2c4Ei1Uymmt_p-mOdVl2w6UUXHcLG8SDnAAdoGruGn74Q4KF8yVK0YiAi6V-NSyS9_t1xFymoLaLJZs43wbX2jt1PGvyFbBiJHjrupAYpKwC74f7VhcJEFgfGzFvaEsNF-vqe97/s320/P1780839.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Georgian Whitby, Bagdale.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNcmxBHRxAg07SzDS9M_Rj4oKqecaXpFHerRdW1PhesyQz2qzHHMoFwjnx3urUlNsxgPnhsu57qvogIyPKex6CwO3W2Hoe_xeenzijG_-1zqroF1ikKcbdv2iPHVgNOSpokHs4tbZibebqcvaqXZXSrIIr1mP3Q096ILOfq5L-nfEkRou06UMEoG8e/s2560/P1780857.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNcmxBHRxAg07SzDS9M_Rj4oKqecaXpFHerRdW1PhesyQz2qzHHMoFwjnx3urUlNsxgPnhsu57qvogIyPKex6CwO3W2Hoe_xeenzijG_-1zqroF1ikKcbdv2iPHVgNOSpokHs4tbZibebqcvaqXZXSrIIr1mP3Q096ILOfq5L-nfEkRou06UMEoG8e/s320/P1780857.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Whitby Town station.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigjHuwq92YQ8_KmQk4pSv_E2VqeEV2hxEX2rEf7ZU5IyiHstlR9FPrlHkZkQacLIhF8mBRKQ7POneMz05JsikkgCZdCHoFpXpfxKkzuUbG7FX_kCzvyAvbowz4z2rmAQsLsDaU487yd88Wr00f2OtcnlPHrS6QiOOQY3qVypinT7KingVWhD6iXXqu/s2560/P1780861.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1920" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigjHuwq92YQ8_KmQk4pSv_E2VqeEV2hxEX2rEf7ZU5IyiHstlR9FPrlHkZkQacLIhF8mBRKQ7POneMz05JsikkgCZdCHoFpXpfxKkzuUbG7FX_kCzvyAvbowz4z2rmAQsLsDaU487yd88Wr00f2OtcnlPHrS6QiOOQY3qVypinT7KingVWhD6iXXqu/s320/P1780861.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Long Distance Trail means Selfies!<br />#3 at Whitby.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;"><i>Incidentally, I would like to apologise for the quality and selection of the pictures from my 1985 trip that I have to share here, for it seems that my 10 year old self had no ability to create a narrative or even get good coverage of the week away that we took from Gartree High School, for there's none at all from our visits to Danby Lodge, York or the Humber Bridge, it's almost as if I pointed the hopeless 11mm camera that I'd borrowed at things randomly, while the knowledge that I had only 24 exposures on my roll of film constrained me completely, and it's not as if the rest are all pictures of my classmates either, I'm just glad I have a functioning memory of it as there's little visual evidence to stitch together what I experienced at all...</i></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>5,000 Miles Cumulative Total: <span style="font-size: medium;">6010.8</span> miles</b></div><div>2023 Total: 88.6 miles</div><div>Up Country Total: 5,530.1 miles</div><div>Solo Total: 5668.2 miles</div><div>5,000 in my 40s Total: 4600.6 miles</div><div><br /></div><div>Next Up: What if the True Value of a Holiday Away?</div><div><br /></div></div>Christopher Wrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09743749271457169317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527420385844253776.post-1913362533586446752023-05-22T11:59:00.002+01:002023-09-10T22:08:34.317+01:00The Cinder Track #1 - Scarborough to Ravenscar 21/05/23<div style="text-align: left;"><b>10.7 miles, via Falgrave, Woodlands, Gallows Field, Newby, Scalby, Burniston, Cloughton,</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Newlands Dale, Hayburn Wyke, Staintondale, and Bent Rigg.</b></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8pdwiE5i_So9YENIFwsZ15s_nDqMn2-UGSmYyrEYR2aeooPVja9OElPbmoHOz4SluEajNm71Wqa6LcCRLJp9MEcXl3MwE1eD6JbTZz8tW2EL1I5IagMJMeH9ZImVEQb_CB9hJoKB77hrn5_eRPKOgJnhWeTptV4mzb8DgH6kx3w4fM7AiYFrKSKqL/s4000/P1750537.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8pdwiE5i_So9YENIFwsZ15s_nDqMn2-UGSmYyrEYR2aeooPVja9OElPbmoHOz4SluEajNm71Wqa6LcCRLJp9MEcXl3MwE1eD6JbTZz8tW2EL1I5IagMJMeH9ZImVEQb_CB9hJoKB77hrn5_eRPKOgJnhWeTptV4mzb8DgH6kx3w4fM7AiYFrKSKqL/w150-h200/P1750537.JPG" width="150" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Long Distance Trail<br />means Selfies!<br />#1 at Scarborough</td></tr></tbody></table>May time brings us Spring Jollies, and for the first time since 2019, we make tracks for somewhere further abroad than the Pennine Moors, as I'm feeling the need for a break away from home in every way, to clear my head and to continue getting my post-Covid self back into some sort of order, and a trip to the North Yorkshire coast seems to be the best way to go about that, especially as My Mum is still willing to taxi me around and drive into the relative unknown, while also enjoying her own period of time away, and basing ourselves in Scarborough allows me to approach the coastal trail that I've had in mind for a while, namely The Cinder Track on the old Scarborough & Whitby railway line. It's notably too long a haul at 21+ miles to attempt in a single shot, but very manageable when divided into two pieces, established as a multi use track following the line's closure in 1965, a relatively minor line with the NER's catalogue, opened in 1885 and operating as only a single line along the stretch of the coast on the fringes of the North Yorkshire Moors, not really serving any major centres of population and never being particularly profitable, while also featuring awkward switchback junctions at both ends of its length, some long and steep gradients and major feats of engineering along its permanent way. It feel like the sort of excursion that I need as my body still works out its post-Covid issues, requiring no navigation and just enough of a workout to ensure that I don't shamble my way through it, and after so many weeks of changeable weather, which have felt like Winter has endured for a month longer than normal, pushing April Showers deep into May, it looks like we are going to be blessed with a whole week of sunshine while we here as clear skies are forecast for the entire break, allowing us to bask as we go, despite the low air temperatures and the probability of persistent on-shore sea breezes, which will provide the healthy sea air that we need.<p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="text-align: left;">Sunday morning's start on this jaunt begins at Scarborough Railway station, an impressive pile at the end of the A64, at 10.05am, and before we approach the trail proper we head inland on Westborough, past West Square and the Victoria Hotel, in a distinctly seaside town fashion, and the imposing Methodist chapel to hang a left down Belgrave Terrace to land on the bridge above the long excursion platform on the station, home of the world's longest bench, and then pass along Westover Road to place ourselves above the south portal of Falgrave Tunnel, where the line north started, passing under the terraces which we will pass among, to emerge into the old town goods yard, now occupied by Sainsbury's. A path leads us around the car park to meet the start of the The Cinder Track, by the Safe-Way park play area and next to the Wykeham Road bridge, which we will pass under to find ourselves already among many local walkers and exercisers as we pass through the brick cutting with the basketball court in it, before entering the shaded cutting that mars the edge of the terraced Victorian town, with the Hibernia Street and Manor Road bridges passing above, with the Woodlands estate to the west, ahead of the Woodlands Ravine, and its road, passing its way down to Peasholm Park, and our ongoing route along the edge of Manor Road cemetery up to the Gallows Fields park, once home to the town's yard for storing excursion trains, now a large green space between the Barrowcliff and Northstead estates. The scale of the line reduces beyond, visible in the narrow width of the Cross Lane bridge and the feeling of confinement as we are squeezed in along the western edge of North Cliff golf course, passing into suburbia as the Newby Farm Road dares to encroach over the line, ahead of meeting tightly placed walls that turn out to be the four-arched viaduct that passes over the ravine of Scalby Beck, one of the minor streams that flow directly to the sea from the nearby moors, where a detour down the steps into its wooded glade need to be made to observe its considerable height from below.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHpbUdLPQlF457p4a_j2bz_lvQ9Y5iNO575tfLgCQhELRW9i6dF1bdUZ0WK6Z43_Muuogmy6j2gCoRocKztexlfygSwl2HFSyaDgdMmvwqOrnP7oltLttHFzjgvtT2199FNOpmXeq9W4hcSfgnZnIDknWXCF9YiU1DmDOQ6hQloYROrklx7VVDBJyW/s4000/P1750564.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-QzVT890Q4rO65uRSb5ml4e7G5lR7amCVziKTLp3EltIXrtHbQ39VNAzRVJZUtE2h1ZAOcKgo6FHH65EBYtOrRY0ylH2YoeX_3nVGQqvaNnRTsTQ8Jybw4VhsSqqaYYtEUX_JUf44yOVAo5hY8Z42AMlXOurk4xoO7WemFDl53bH-utCPT59V-Qto/s320/P1750595.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scarborough Goods Yard, now Sainsbury's.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsse2W9ranATlphrAfP2PPvuh1M001v8ow-INGw4GnCc52fY9JmiCSy8FCvTje7LNsz9fMwx5_fQMD_ss4TbSC8MbEMlL4zcWJa3wJJPZHD3-ayOnFvzDBTSnexmzt5zhlOeEI1Uy1_HUAYmP5lEgEublYJTSkYeyYyhPzk4V9BcTRvICgRxKn5njL/s4000/P1750602.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsse2W9ranATlphrAfP2PPvuh1M001v8ow-INGw4GnCc52fY9JmiCSy8FCvTje7LNsz9fMwx5_fQMD_ss4TbSC8MbEMlL4zcWJa3wJJPZHD3-ayOnFvzDBTSnexmzt5zhlOeEI1Uy1_HUAYmP5lEgEublYJTSkYeyYyhPzk4V9BcTRvICgRxKn5njL/s320/P1750602.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Safe-Way Park, and Wykeham Road Bridge.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0FEi4xd_sEQ-SuncFMlJcaGUaGbp0pnoJgzm1dKlzywI1pjTipYLwP4uUAxKneeUNOitmH_DEEwPWpZ9JC2zaUEC4OBejIPEImol6mj9ENP3myo5QQvavUqzRUOcuSB2dBHKGqsTpveLgDSW0RvpuP_de63xaYa9lyMeUw4BQeiwvdygaXcLb_TLJ/s4000/P1750635.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0FEi4xd_sEQ-SuncFMlJcaGUaGbp0pnoJgzm1dKlzywI1pjTipYLwP4uUAxKneeUNOitmH_DEEwPWpZ9JC2zaUEC4OBejIPEImol6mj9ENP3myo5QQvavUqzRUOcuSB2dBHKGqsTpveLgDSW0RvpuP_de63xaYa9lyMeUw4BQeiwvdygaXcLb_TLJ/s320/P1750635.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Manor Road Bridge.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkbI3O2vFMwDTJozLGxRKY80Z5W5pqoYIJwaPmxukWjvh3V6BAQH7NpSzfm3JJ3JhsR5UJATK9cagEpEY9Z2x4ok9XJJT7iq5BtElVcW7G-r4TpIjRbnaHQejOGkiBD8m9UilELNh615oHBE7opVdze1nl8Xg-Pd7ef2ArWejHngguZmMn7MnVgSjA/s4000/P1750670.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkbI3O2vFMwDTJozLGxRKY80Z5W5pqoYIJwaPmxukWjvh3V6BAQH7NpSzfm3JJ3JhsR5UJATK9cagEpEY9Z2x4ok9XJJT7iq5BtElVcW7G-r4TpIjRbnaHQejOGkiBD8m9UilELNh615oHBE7opVdze1nl8Xg-Pd7ef2ArWejHngguZmMn7MnVgSjA/s320/P1750670.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gallows Field, formerly the carriage sidings.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_KHuDnZ7w3vyhfgiTb-zJ2WbNImvvCk2BmLPQnPZg85zeGdgm7XFNcNcSK7zUqpkkDkmNPqavz9iRA50xOsNxlO2-R3YbirPbZQmtI_rJ0zJwHf94y73YiERizaXOzU3tilHwCUmQfPc4utX_Ir1WRuVZJ-milaoOBdpkMHGXmZJbeUM0d3s8W4YU/s4000/P1750701.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_KHuDnZ7w3vyhfgiTb-zJ2WbNImvvCk2BmLPQnPZg85zeGdgm7XFNcNcSK7zUqpkkDkmNPqavz9iRA50xOsNxlO2-R3YbirPbZQmtI_rJ0zJwHf94y73YiERizaXOzU3tilHwCUmQfPc4utX_Ir1WRuVZJ-milaoOBdpkMHGXmZJbeUM0d3s8W4YU/s320/P1750701.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cross Lane Bridge.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9oiqcK-j6z1503_CbVTwN3OjSQVpqU4lmOsmVLPovuGafAEsp1AAd1wEQb6I1lN1J4Qksh6i9yj9_zNTXbk5h_sUhhxNDFaOaPch08nP3SaG1SHoo26H1kIwDZfvnu8-3UXXh5WmmuElI_vtbeVmfhN9gCaPXO5_5G_2oDRmr_y4x6eQHw5kEAkIQ/s4000/P1750734.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9oiqcK-j6z1503_CbVTwN3OjSQVpqU4lmOsmVLPovuGafAEsp1AAd1wEQb6I1lN1J4Qksh6i9yj9_zNTXbk5h_sUhhxNDFaOaPch08nP3SaG1SHoo26H1kIwDZfvnu8-3UXXh5WmmuElI_vtbeVmfhN9gCaPXO5_5G_2oDRmr_y4x6eQHw5kEAkIQ/s320/P1750734.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Suburban encroachment on Newby Farm Road.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvzZmyDvfU8BDn7nn-z11oq64y0sncQKyqUprz5YlnG3CZoHMDzKUH8d14gTn4InfNGV8YGUz6gTDa09ozaAQot_H7rKv08VIhkEAhuhjC1XE01tgWurEuVVL-WDDf6cC7b2yIajFIi_VLxzvpSNnzSiC3660KZWeus7oUN_P69HXU7eznZqqCssBr/s4000/P1750782.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvzZmyDvfU8BDn7nn-z11oq64y0sncQKyqUprz5YlnG3CZoHMDzKUH8d14gTn4InfNGV8YGUz6gTDa09ozaAQot_H7rKv08VIhkEAhuhjC1XE01tgWurEuVVL-WDDf6cC7b2yIajFIi_VLxzvpSNnzSiC3660KZWeus7oUN_P69HXU7eznZqqCssBr/s320/P1750782.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scalby Beck Viaduct.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">Resuming the path, we find suburban Scalby has obliterated the alignment and the station site, and so pavements have to be paced as Chichester Close leads out onto station road and then on among the bungalows on Field Close Road and Lancaster Way to find the path leading us out of greater Scarborough, entering the green fields and losing the tarmac surface to give us the fine gravel footing that names the Cinder Track, starting its long ascent as it presses northbound into a depression formed by Cow Wath beck, passing the grounds of Scarborough RUFC in the west and being denied a sea view by the land rise in the east, though a coastal view back to Scarborough castle can be gained. A bench provides an elevenses spot before we press on, over the southbound beck via its skew bridge, and up towards Burniston village, where the suburbs encroach towards the line and the local nurseries offer refreshment, before we make the only major road interaction on the trail for the day as the A165 Coastal Road is crossed to find no station site where I'd figure to find one, and shadiness conceals the line all the way up to the Field Lane overbridge, where we have to descend to give it a look, to admire its robust stone construction and to note that the farm complex nearby is marked on the map as Prickybeck Island. Pressing on north, with sight of the woodlands along the edge of the North Yorkshire Moors seem more obvious in our landscape than coastal scenery as we progress on, with Mayflowers and Cow Parsley dominating our surroundings as we rise up towards Cloughton station, one which I'm happy to report has almost wholly endured, with both its goods shed and station building enduring as a holiday let, with a Mark 1 carriage sitting by its platforms, which we'll applaud as we pass around to see the village perching on the western side of the field rise beyond, all very picturesque but still looking a bit too manicured and suburban-aspirational for my tastes, despite their sea views(!). </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtg5Nt8lSO6EmACMQQ_lHI2w1u91X6KAg-69DHkiaehHKlIr87sIuWfU7lP8w6NTkMFPxL7ePpMsAk0rzs6nx2ZEOm_qiamjV8kl9OccEBG3QGHyQOLTXilk2FGZLsKzqKqoU3P65npRLu2XZcdaF1rGQ2J7g2_J4AVJfFLLdCCw9rs6-cBiH6wYgV/s4000/P1750809.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtg5Nt8lSO6EmACMQQ_lHI2w1u91X6KAg-69DHkiaehHKlIr87sIuWfU7lP8w6NTkMFPxL7ePpMsAk0rzs6nx2ZEOm_qiamjV8kl9OccEBG3QGHyQOLTXilk2FGZLsKzqKqoU3P65npRLu2XZcdaF1rGQ2J7g2_J4AVJfFLLdCCw9rs6-cBiH6wYgV/s320/P1750809.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lancaster Way Scalby, concealing the alignment.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVaX-lQxpJombLChMMnNjH_2-hVdx_83I1oGQI9QXs7gN6LvpLLJ6OhT2Z6d25qTXPuZm6yM8sHCDyYi-7zjyQwp8Z_yC309m0Pct5zS9p3tw4jhQOL3XIQ4rCEmDfSvLDLvumjG0Fh3s3SFq2drNmfwZ57Oc-gZ_180H1aNIDFcoLj46h6tmfRVNb/s4000/P1750838.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVaX-lQxpJombLChMMnNjH_2-hVdx_83I1oGQI9QXs7gN6LvpLLJ6OhT2Z6d25qTXPuZm6yM8sHCDyYi-7zjyQwp8Z_yC309m0Pct5zS9p3tw4jhQOL3XIQ4rCEmDfSvLDLvumjG0Fh3s3SFq2drNmfwZ57Oc-gZ_180H1aNIDFcoLj46h6tmfRVNb/s320/P1750838.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Cinder Track in full affect, north of Scalby.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiRmurG7AC5q9eMwMX-yDEb0CPhNHVueoq_gUkkftx6gRQ6Sl1NMXiEF24WWsBd0bX505ax4bQ8JK2TVt8CFlLnsSSkpcNh9HE_UWwt3sfbLMwCLfEAItZTQqrvNNcaOLj-VrXW2CZL4daHKdn9hQaUvX34Mj3l7Uon3SaXcQJTGVg5ae4fBneSxby/s4000/P1750888.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiRmurG7AC5q9eMwMX-yDEb0CPhNHVueoq_gUkkftx6gRQ6Sl1NMXiEF24WWsBd0bX505ax4bQ8JK2TVt8CFlLnsSSkpcNh9HE_UWwt3sfbLMwCLfEAItZTQqrvNNcaOLj-VrXW2CZL4daHKdn9hQaUvX34Mj3l7Uon3SaXcQJTGVg5ae4fBneSxby/s320/P1750888.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cow Wath Beck Bridge, near Burniston.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuUZusVo7ptjGZQ12PkIM6zdBqd3AXXZj3CWHgJjtc3rfB68HdLrd_CvVSlyn_5Xs5C7rbhpqWJHpLl8hPkUzoNxaMFdbN5u44Ki9eXQMVpipWfmmgvgO8fQbPdjyxFasw7tL6wAn1bIPmv3RK8GMOA0xSVRHOsdAIVc_V5zWGVBNfjrUFu-aYUN6h/s4000/P1750932.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuUZusVo7ptjGZQ12PkIM6zdBqd3AXXZj3CWHgJjtc3rfB68HdLrd_CvVSlyn_5Xs5C7rbhpqWJHpLl8hPkUzoNxaMFdbN5u44Ki9eXQMVpipWfmmgvgO8fQbPdjyxFasw7tL6wAn1bIPmv3RK8GMOA0xSVRHOsdAIVc_V5zWGVBNfjrUFu-aYUN6h/s320/P1750932.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Field Lane Bridge, 'Prickybeck Island'.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_rMP_qIGXDb8MKao10xKjS8nXLkEq4JGP6m5Q4ZOjyh36JBwDEUmlnaQXQKtWJ8cZIlqXPoLo3TMObmG5mp_Z_DQA94sYw9y4gvHkEc3wmAypfD7L2qZTBeOKp5gxugDY6HYv-dLzPSPl-BTMFQNVM00sm5B638YfF2DDslY_cf3uygY-U2DTK3TV/s4000/P1750997.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_rMP_qIGXDb8MKao10xKjS8nXLkEq4JGP6m5Q4ZOjyh36JBwDEUmlnaQXQKtWJ8cZIlqXPoLo3TMObmG5mp_Z_DQA94sYw9y4gvHkEc3wmAypfD7L2qZTBeOKp5gxugDY6HYv-dLzPSPl-BTMFQNVM00sm5B638YfF2DDslY_cf3uygY-U2DTK3TV/s320/P1750997.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cloughton Station.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqcs6KqzDnh-GHrcM2LDWLn-Y7sq-v8-eC5ob_kpt4NcevIkbuWatvoRPSbxC2OgfcCWBRi9ZtD3JoMeuSQphqxG4ztv--DhNVw0V4sPcwzQRup8DjRZ_10niQwqLxc3gDGYHpbw1Q1PMQM8hGMnQ66gdDCgBXwowe5G-w8GyCSSjaY7RnmlrDsbFj/s4000/P1760029.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqcs6KqzDnh-GHrcM2LDWLn-Y7sq-v8-eC5ob_kpt4NcevIkbuWatvoRPSbxC2OgfcCWBRi9ZtD3JoMeuSQphqxG4ztv--DhNVw0V4sPcwzQRup8DjRZ_10niQwqLxc3gDGYHpbw1Q1PMQM8hGMnQ66gdDCgBXwowe5G-w8GyCSSjaY7RnmlrDsbFj/s320/P1760029.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Culvert north of Cloughton.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">Now definitely coastal on our trail, we can also get another change of landscape beyond the Salt Pans Road bridge, as we definitively enter the North Yorkshire Moors National Park, and immediately get yellow flowering gorse bushes in our locality, with the gradient stiffening just a touch more as we rise among the increasingly dense over growth, getting looks back to Scarborough Castle and the coast down to Filey Brigg and Flamborough Head, and slipping in and out of shaded cuttings ahead of the Hood Lane overbridge, which also demands an examination before we seek a bench with a sea view to take a decently long lunch break, where the curious local Robins will do their best to keep me company. Thence we can drift with the track into the depression of Newlands Dale, isolating us from the coast and presenting reedy marshland at is base and moorland cattle grazing on its flanks, while giving us regular shade and revealing the apparently inaccessible North End House at its heart, before we drift above the landscape opening out a bit, above the heavily wooded fall down to Hayburn Wyke, where a camp site and tavern lie below the railway line, and a station site announces itself quite unexpectedly, with platforms reaching along to the station house which really looks like it could use some TLC, and the time of day means its also the moment to provide a progress report to Mum, best stated as 'Going Great, so far. Still, there's distance and ascent still to come for an hour plus beyond, as the legs have to find their higher gears as we rise on with the line sweeping inland under pretty dense tree cover, over and under old tracks in the woodlands that lead down into the deep cleft of the valley of the Hayburn Wyke stream itself, which is passed over almost invisibly via an embankment, ahead of another bend that completes the long S-curve on the line that passes under the Downdale Road bridge, and around to the intact site of Staintondale station, residentially occupied and offering a pair of platforms for a village that's quite a way inland to the northwest from here. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7OcK8E2kd9TjkNK4HY02bEM9MWGuzihhN-Zd20UczshISNcAWqpUrmj-T-iAr201Xr0cap8Y8B6-6NZcWAakZvUKtXKE9VanYUx0yljb7ddRJ_ewVODWXx-YcBkT5TWB3LXlvvL-79xClN6QkFF_H8vJo37HzwXdIw2JthTYFjyLrreG7lAhQE-Gl/s4000/P1760057.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUJevKDmGhFtgeq8GrnSgil4rq3WIyiUQfr3490_UwM_MgL7qjBJyNuS-9iDJzm22d4OUTGWeIRJmjIWV5pRwqbJbmLuXX0XxVSg1C57yj8oNRorkg8vAwjldCFVhkj28HQL-9ds33FJCXKD6W4D0iNq6iM2pnw0RIvu3OEdBYNQE6ZKMDQyGKZhZ3/s320/P1760102.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hood Lane Bridge.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZFiSkpjEGPZ_qyuRwdIM4-x1ZHJWkdLU_kE2JNlA-ZL1q2zfWi8PJ6tRZg4HuLqGqBv_o-HLmvxM1b3Naz47gXpzAVSVnbifubT8NiVeBTw-SEoraWxfUYGImauOsYvEs7lUJkFq4VLiooEtZ1PvuSmaYI4nWQV-SnjINqAi6MAWAdvlJOtgyH2_L/s4000/P1760181.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZFiSkpjEGPZ_qyuRwdIM4-x1ZHJWkdLU_kE2JNlA-ZL1q2zfWi8PJ6tRZg4HuLqGqBv_o-HLmvxM1b3Naz47gXpzAVSVnbifubT8NiVeBTw-SEoraWxfUYGImauOsYvEs7lUJkFq4VLiooEtZ1PvuSmaYI4nWQV-SnjINqAi6MAWAdvlJOtgyH2_L/s320/P1760181.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Entering Newlands Dale.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8WToSjM5NeNBNe3VBQbqYArDaTCS3bXuE-nTOBpt7ubBS5J_ZbQaqq4q35ujs_wx5zLB_xBAIY68j0qWF9ZpeBtxsM3ZlX_c9NoNwymV8vh1AIftzGVtfiMd1poDH7NnlQav_eQ4fGLgyPClTav0y6F5ykTTeoQWkIgwnVrWxNai3xboRoqlRRxs7/s4000/P1760244.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8WToSjM5NeNBNe3VBQbqYArDaTCS3bXuE-nTOBpt7ubBS5J_ZbQaqq4q35ujs_wx5zLB_xBAIY68j0qWF9ZpeBtxsM3ZlX_c9NoNwymV8vh1AIftzGVtfiMd1poDH7NnlQav_eQ4fGLgyPClTav0y6F5ykTTeoQWkIgwnVrWxNai3xboRoqlRRxs7/s320/P1760244.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hayburn Wyke station house.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8DS9XPOp7WewtULQUaIcI6jGP6M9saTrqWnIh3AHXWCJL2pBAraVR99iv8bOiFH-veDyFeB5C2QNhz8usm5Ewe4CA7op9oXo5uwcJ368OFtF4pQ2FBKz7TJpfqCbgGW_ybG_rFpUO6A-FhoOj9OV6Kd3vVNFD_we-bfs7OKhfjQV5nAejc54T4VIo/s4000/P1760305.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8DS9XPOp7WewtULQUaIcI6jGP6M9saTrqWnIh3AHXWCJL2pBAraVR99iv8bOiFH-veDyFeB5C2QNhz8usm5Ewe4CA7op9oXo5uwcJ368OFtF4pQ2FBKz7TJpfqCbgGW_ybG_rFpUO6A-FhoOj9OV6Kd3vVNFD_we-bfs7OKhfjQV5nAejc54T4VIo/s320/P1760305.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Passing over Hayburn Wyke valley.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoqfujfLsOZWQ0ljUvHfVJNw0s8IzGJCO_vGxligam9YqTb2Ij6djxqO6AYiwvYg5K-B_FgLWyDCimERNkoYbB3JMXl0NBvigqrkq7fnnnjaJhfI9SKX44NEJMpL4NvEIdgMUBiJ35S_pyd2LkTUdIX9pi8A9ahc5DCVywXmVdIl2kU3RdButC7FqG/s4000/P1760341.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoqfujfLsOZWQ0ljUvHfVJNw0s8IzGJCO_vGxligam9YqTb2Ij6djxqO6AYiwvYg5K-B_FgLWyDCimERNkoYbB3JMXl0NBvigqrkq7fnnnjaJhfI9SKX44NEJMpL4NvEIdgMUBiJ35S_pyd2LkTUdIX9pi8A9ahc5DCVywXmVdIl2kU3RdButC7FqG/s320/P1760341.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Staintondale Station.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">The rise continues as we stay in the shade with farmsteads on the moorland fringe rising to the west of us, while all presence of the coast is lost as we find ourselves under tree cover and passing through dense tree cover as we shadow another southbound flowing beck, un-named on all maps and making this climb feel unusually divorced from context as we climb higher, only getting brief respite from it as we pass be Bees Nest farm and not emerging until we've passed over its upper reaches on another embankment to find ourselves by the Grange Farm complex, with our sightline to the northwest presenting Raven Hill, with its mast and windmill on our local horizon. That places us much closer to the finish line than expected, and it turns out turns out that I'd failed to account for a mile of overlap between the two plates of the OL27 map, which means there isn't a long press to do once we've risen up the long gorse-lined rise up towards Bent Rigg Bridge, and beyond, where the long drag hits the point where it could easily get too much after nearly 8 miles of constant ascent, which is something to say for the climb of around 150m that we've made since leaving Scarborough, regaining our sea views above the high cliffs around the Ravenscar headland that we finally find ourselves upon. Pass above the remains of the Ravenscar Radar Station on the cliff edge to the northeast, where early warnings of Luftwaffe raids on Northern England were made during the Second World War, with the line sweeping around to meet Ravenscar station close to the line's summit, servicing an extent hamlet and a planned resort town that never grew in the late Victorian period, it's as far as we'll be going today, as my legs aren't wanting to do any more miles, despite our proximity to the 6,000 in a career marker, and what could be a blasted cliff top feels all very appealing on a sunny day like we've had so for, wrapping the day at the Ravenscar Tearooms at 2.30pm, beyond which my Parental Taxi can collect me for the brisk run back down the hill for much needed showering and brews.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhReOoUDcHFuBLY5X8gdidpPigSuWPwpKq1K5NB1G20hXj3oRtC0uGqO8m6pIjjhl8z_E0H0yl7M8z-mxsf5JCVZqWruN8LI7PgR8wgYFxJipzOodaq1l0uLoaL0dNGzA0HBPTKhFvjxSZV1nRNpnHuyfR8x47G5DeNtlp6msbuHbd6m2okprKGNzjL/s4000/P1760396.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhReOoUDcHFuBLY5X8gdidpPigSuWPwpKq1K5NB1G20hXj3oRtC0uGqO8m6pIjjhl8z_E0H0yl7M8z-mxsf5JCVZqWruN8LI7PgR8wgYFxJipzOodaq1l0uLoaL0dNGzA0HBPTKhFvjxSZV1nRNpnHuyfR8x47G5DeNtlp6msbuHbd6m2okprKGNzjL/s320/P1760396.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moorlands farms, near Staintondale.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP_DbuqceEaLnKPI5hWurq2vbVscxcGchQ44iYN484wV6noWfeCbbQm5O0Y4Nvr_dxekTE4ahh9W00t_Sc7UUrD_01xf3oMQ8ZV-LP-0cpaWMPbiveiUlVRDJFcWNJfJge72VB0MWwk9XBB-J5dnERGM9CpWy1FRADNTIaGKHU_2fytf6aUEP4IWRP/s4000/P1760431.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP_DbuqceEaLnKPI5hWurq2vbVscxcGchQ44iYN484wV6noWfeCbbQm5O0Y4Nvr_dxekTE4ahh9W00t_Sc7UUrD_01xf3oMQ8ZV-LP-0cpaWMPbiveiUlVRDJFcWNJfJge72VB0MWwk9XBB-J5dnERGM9CpWy1FRADNTIaGKHU_2fytf6aUEP4IWRP/s320/P1760431.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The last Stream Crossing of the Day.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4bG9qo-CaqIBWU3l8mHsFV6pM2AL5HPE_GtFMjYSP-qnvLVNHFM61QaD63ceNwGE8nmlb6V33L1rAStb9o3TmVDnPmrZmdtVKIC3vSlbhHN07l899M0aJKEqHXHuuY3UYXI6OBUD2rYBzOl9TTASIWBKOLhjHur8Rinjfi6o8yyBKWu-PCxfY8X0J/s4000/P1760453.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4bG9qo-CaqIBWU3l8mHsFV6pM2AL5HPE_GtFMjYSP-qnvLVNHFM61QaD63ceNwGE8nmlb6V33L1rAStb9o3TmVDnPmrZmdtVKIC3vSlbhHN07l899M0aJKEqHXHuuY3UYXI6OBUD2rYBzOl9TTASIWBKOLhjHur8Rinjfi6o8yyBKWu-PCxfY8X0J/s320/P1760453.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Raven Hill on our horizon.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu1YmwBtjK3esFKE1k3MkNTdR21-1kKaF0PWPRRxg5lqEbiZ-a7tIhrDbS8cH3J_IOYH6b6Fi1N14LOaWjZTxhj3-6lcn8b0sTeBYAiQXz-LYgAHM1iKWJrDiKGGBqg86Nlf2SEgIYZUzqZutZq8ElMGoN4vAyNcs-kBsPI72_2Lz80JMaQX-fOYLA/s4000/P1760481.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu1YmwBtjK3esFKE1k3MkNTdR21-1kKaF0PWPRRxg5lqEbiZ-a7tIhrDbS8cH3J_IOYH6b6Fi1N14LOaWjZTxhj3-6lcn8b0sTeBYAiQXz-LYgAHM1iKWJrDiKGGBqg86Nlf2SEgIYZUzqZutZq8ElMGoN4vAyNcs-kBsPI72_2Lz80JMaQX-fOYLA/s320/P1760481.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The still Soot-Stained Bent Rigg Bridge.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhet3ZHfqF3DtczGFPzoyf0iC8_5P5VWR2GNJmRra9y8uYP8qStAKmB-P9pvvlDg0LcfHkNtDTLhGz9K8k10dmWVaoO2n22nhmB0RbqgL2rRWAG03FleQybb9di9B4OaTezaXwMyyNIN5mvTjhHO_wzXtlExgSXqvr1tHbQdGnKjk8Ew3XYMygcCQsZ/s4000/P1760510.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhet3ZHfqF3DtczGFPzoyf0iC8_5P5VWR2GNJmRra9y8uYP8qStAKmB-P9pvvlDg0LcfHkNtDTLhGz9K8k10dmWVaoO2n22nhmB0RbqgL2rRWAG03FleQybb9di9B4OaTezaXwMyyNIN5mvTjhHO_wzXtlExgSXqvr1tHbQdGnKjk8Ew3XYMygcCQsZ/s320/P1760510.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ravenscar Radar Station.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJUgZ4cUtAixF0RRn5PwK3rDOulyLQbDsR3pnGAP6yP2FAZxNpXdPOpt4yBd0LUqouCI4E3VxdvbFRf57V0-hKXirdJz5PnNho_dmxgRfaGytq5tkOsNierZRVD1SpsRXLL-zjO5bU0CuMHYYYxv0FIS5vdMDaF5iEloX36v4dI7NQkSO62TI5hNe7/s4000/P1760567.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJUgZ4cUtAixF0RRn5PwK3rDOulyLQbDsR3pnGAP6yP2FAZxNpXdPOpt4yBd0LUqouCI4E3VxdvbFRf57V0-hKXirdJz5PnNho_dmxgRfaGytq5tkOsNierZRVD1SpsRXLL-zjO5bU0CuMHYYYxv0FIS5vdMDaF5iEloX36v4dI7NQkSO62TI5hNe7/s320/P1760567.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ravenscar Station</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: center;">~~~</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuxaVa57dyrxF2L_01n8mYudoupF6RW8BMrgS11RKGUQPYrePwNNOiOkphWLQ0AKsSz97JRNYhAA_Q1bkL2YEMLn9MDgj8PrD1O83JIYQd88vrofVkmRYdJTRzE0Iyfisa0rMndIYDpnPtTJMOIrocJRWMzDRc-BkzacwRMW_jFEUolsvdWUbLanBy/s4000/P1760133.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuxaVa57dyrxF2L_01n8mYudoupF6RW8BMrgS11RKGUQPYrePwNNOiOkphWLQ0AKsSz97JRNYhAA_Q1bkL2YEMLn9MDgj8PrD1O83JIYQd88vrofVkmRYdJTRzE0Iyfisa0rMndIYDpnPtTJMOIrocJRWMzDRc-BkzacwRMW_jFEUolsvdWUbLanBy/s320/P1760133.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You Know You Wanted A Picture of the Robin <br />that Attended My Lunch Break, Didn't You?</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>5,000 Miles Cumulative Total: 5998.9 miles</b></div><div>2023 Total: 76.7 miles</div><div>Up Country Total: 5,518.2 miles</div><div>Solo Total: 5656.3 miles</div><div>5,000 in my 40s Total: 4588.7 miles</div><div><br /></div><div>Next Up: Leg #2, with 6,000 career miles marked, and walking tales from 1985 recounted!</div><div><br /></div></div>Christopher Wrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09743749271457169317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527420385844253776.post-51016078853801288542023-05-14T17:40:00.008+01:002023-05-26T22:08:18.556+01:00Morley to Horsforth 13/05/23<div style="text-align: left;"><b>11.4 miles, via Valley Mills, White Rose, Beeston Park Side, South Beeston, Beeston, </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Elland Road, Lowfields, Wortley Rec, New Wortley, HMP Leeds, Botany Bay, Burley, </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Burley Park (station), Headingley (station), Queenswood, Morris Wood, Spen Lane, </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> West Park, Ireland Wood, Clayton Wood, Cookridge Hospital, and Tinshill. </b></div><p style="text-align: left;">It's not really related to what we're doing today, as we already lack trains going through Morley due to another engineering possession and there's another train strike happening this weekend too, but on 11th May it was announced that Trans Pennine Express were not getting their franchise renewed, which is a rare bit of good news for us travellers to hear after many months (and years?) of their failure to maintain services and self induced industrial strife, which means we might have a competent operator taking on the North Country's premier express services once the mainline upgrade is finally completed in the 2036-41 window. Anyway, the good start to May continues as we rise to another Saturday trail, hopeful that the early gloom will shift before too long as we target a new trail from home to my local Old Country and beyond, starting out from Morley station at 10.15 am and heading down the Valley Road path with only the most cursory of glances being given to the deliveries of aggregate as I'm actually growing bored of spotting local freight trains now, heading on down by the Gasworks and Valley Mills site to strike for the fields beyond, rising over the false ridge and equestrian fields that have Cotton Mill beck concealed beneath it, and down again on the Millshaw Beck side. Land by the gas plant and exposed stream ahead of the staff car park at the south end of the White Rose centre, where we pass across the access road, and the A6110 Ring Road carefully, to progress up the side of Dewbury Road as to comes down the hill, rising up towards the railway bridge and the path to Stank Hall farm, passing up by the side of the former GNR Hunslet Goods line and soon enough find ourselves in the exact same part of Beeston Park Side that we visited last weekend, by old St David's and coming up to the Tommy Wass corner, where we'll swap sides to progress north rather than east (or in reality, South). <span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtG0MFW0hAgGwuLlGyeJNIfw1zz62YKzZ5m4om-1ITGXFx1M--Nu9xERgW3mGKFDR9pfqXmJjitKXs38yX7JXh-niO6YiH5-FIsUbsWLEPRDar-DHtQL1rR7QH7fGs4d1HvVaSGrPof05yAdvZkf4WMRi8av5P9sdZcGe9IlepDxyiwpJquaXE-k93/s2560/P1740015.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtG0MFW0hAgGwuLlGyeJNIfw1zz62YKzZ5m4om-1ITGXFx1M--Nu9xERgW3mGKFDR9pfqXmJjitKXs38yX7JXh-niO6YiH5-FIsUbsWLEPRDar-DHtQL1rR7QH7fGs4d1HvVaSGrPof05yAdvZkf4WMRi8av5P9sdZcGe9IlepDxyiwpJquaXE-k93/s320/P1740015.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I actually tire of the site of freight train at Morley.</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGvnBjurXRt7El_PLA9hKZl8klqU61VdrNdXR23l5LDVxAHu2csoeewQndSo2E_YbQmRmrGSQMPzpDWyWqElXldvsoESZZJ7D7lW7GQnJnZylSOGfJfTowaEGXsH-rY2SmiD0IoETXG2YJTRohU_WLHB5pB_GIz-5OGf6BDQHO1r6VJTagZWX4ABPB/s2560/P1740059.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGvnBjurXRt7El_PLA9hKZl8klqU61VdrNdXR23l5LDVxAHu2csoeewQndSo2E_YbQmRmrGSQMPzpDWyWqElXldvsoESZZJ7D7lW7GQnJnZylSOGfJfTowaEGXsH-rY2SmiD0IoETXG2YJTRohU_WLHB5pB_GIz-5OGf6BDQHO1r6VJTagZWX4ABPB/s320/P1740059.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Over the false ridge above Cotton Mill Beck.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOeELE2J0U2IAQiQeaU7diGWv4Z1BGpBozxVnke6sd07Ae6CNcKSPf7wsbTbS15LD2-iztN4sFjXiDKiPvC-LaX3XZHgsq2hPoDMdKhFamXQc4UnRdv0JJLJfYrvO7tePIaRoApyC61nGYd2VTZjoLf8gkIHy48xWJ4h4vQQ39oVo41G4jIOpuY_mc/s2560/P1740108.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOeELE2J0U2IAQiQeaU7diGWv4Z1BGpBozxVnke6sd07Ae6CNcKSPf7wsbTbS15LD2-iztN4sFjXiDKiPvC-LaX3XZHgsq2hPoDMdKhFamXQc4UnRdv0JJLJfYrvO7tePIaRoApyC61nGYd2VTZjoLf8gkIHy48xWJ4h4vQQ39oVo41G4jIOpuY_mc/s320/P1740108.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Meeting Dewsbury Road, tangling with the Ring Road.</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRAXombBmrykMNFKSR8A9_ckfNirtqtxmZVUeIMHdGzaNrSXkArD6awd_abISin9xGUSdOnbyvIX9LSh62Z-sTukVxTGlrPh_Ak1NmvwEsznNQor0ROwkirohdfL7YM7-7w1_DdK7MbeNcIxT7HbkPaC_UAWs2ldbVvGDP-eLVKDj6uod__2r-v4an/s2560/P1740132.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRAXombBmrykMNFKSR8A9_ckfNirtqtxmZVUeIMHdGzaNrSXkArD6awd_abISin9xGUSdOnbyvIX9LSh62Z-sTukVxTGlrPh_Ak1NmvwEsznNQor0ROwkirohdfL7YM7-7w1_DdK7MbeNcIxT7HbkPaC_UAWs2ldbVvGDP-eLVKDj6uod__2r-v4an/s320/P1740132.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The former St David's church, Beeston Park Side.</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p style="text-align: left;">The turn onto Old Lane lands us among a lot of foot traffic as despite the early hour we find ourselves among the crowds heading to Elland Road stadium for a lunchtime kick-off, and so as we progress our way trough the rathe ad hoc suburbia on Beeston Hill, we try to not cut too incongruous figure among all the tribally worn colours as we rock on past the Asda store and St Anthony's RC church to cross Town Street by St Mary's and thence down Wesley Street by the chapel to find myself fully among the Leeds United faithful, again trying to not look like a weirdo while wielding my camera as we descend with the throng. It's actually remarkable that being in the vicinity of Elland Road on a match day is something that I've avoided thus far and I'll happily ghost my way through the crowds as they gather, passing below the Jack Charlton Stand and the Centenary Pavilion to go completely against the tide of people as we go below the M621 via the footway to the Lowfields Road industrial estate that has ceased to be a backwater lane and become a hive of activity to satisfy all the dietary and adornment needs of the sports enthusiasts, who'll continue to arrive as we rise up, all full of the thoughts and permutations of what might need to happen for LUFC to dig themselves out of the hole they're in. Beyond the A62 Geldard Road, I can be the lone walker against the tide on the footpath that leads under the London mainline and over the lost Wortley & Holbeck line, rising up to the A58 Whitehall road to follow the footbridge over the old rail yards by the L&NWR metals and on to the playing fields of Wortley Dragons ARLFC, south of Wortley Rec, where our route finding needs to direct us to the northeast corner, following the path past the skatepark and park lodge house, with only the company of exerciser and mums with buggies as we wend our way down to Oldfield Road to pass under two sides of the Wortley railway triangle.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5dqmow_Dp9z4HCyTyl44LH2Q0S639I48gVw_zmIYcwg0TYu-6Q8D5BT8v1pMuQghpfjyIA5jN9W9k5h4ThcHeSTJ_75XIiyO3bRDXyqMe0iuXFaYnxtoi_Al3XqPfxOFDZETiF4tuQ-LcwF-h4m-JmcMM_w6vo2K8u1fCrqpnDgC7e3TGIaDMvCKG/s2560/P1740159.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpu48DYw5H7hE8C7igE07MF3cEpKxjXbgNKIZ_7X-2-ygqqSs9Oxop1mmnXxv86VTeflrfV7E6tItpzlqTEbnVsbF_mPTIcQvNrkzascA1hP0ti5jTqa1RPyCL4wByK2yx0zi2BWUqwJ69t_drvPMlDb3GSBmhzroZYpHvgeHrpHTj0_xZetBneJiL/s320/P1740179.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wesley Street and the Elland Road-bound Throng.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwWrQutAGXxMTmROeESjWNDfDbETC1Zfl1424MY29ZXK8ryCqG0sbexrB5ODLEE6PEfZlGndr7dYS9PxHz2lKKfHjaPJio85h0XEYBMPEq39RMQmePz9reCbkHHMiJKSzExuTUlbX5oSHTRrBzu5xgXkeDo2Bh_mFrbl7AwuySj335DqPBPht0DJrO/s2560/P1740192.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwWrQutAGXxMTmROeESjWNDfDbETC1Zfl1424MY29ZXK8ryCqG0sbexrB5ODLEE6PEfZlGndr7dYS9PxHz2lKKfHjaPJio85h0XEYBMPEq39RMQmePz9reCbkHHMiJKSzExuTUlbX5oSHTRrBzu5xgXkeDo2Bh_mFrbl7AwuySj335DqPBPht0DJrO/s320/P1740192.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elland Road on Matchday.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAPTMNly-0uejD4EXBgs5uNxfpuzOFo4WcIhchATieSRDnaj4PnM_1wBhkwvItWkP1JVu4A6oa8SCpk_lvY8kUuOMCteXH_9Egdt10I2bVpgofkq5-58FeSNlks2c4nwBNz-ybuxjaWXOXx04QR_i55Zrd3Z2WzaWpBoYrknT6DwJpKE2rVdha4vds/s2560/P1740213.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAPTMNly-0uejD4EXBgs5uNxfpuzOFo4WcIhchATieSRDnaj4PnM_1wBhkwvItWkP1JVu4A6oa8SCpk_lvY8kUuOMCteXH_9Egdt10I2bVpgofkq5-58FeSNlks2c4nwBNz-ybuxjaWXOXx04QR_i55Zrd3Z2WzaWpBoYrknT6DwJpKE2rVdha4vds/s320/P1740213.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lowfield Road, and the sports traffic.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ydrgiOBbQXd3gB8eE9bon74T4shQSDmZrWYhLceu3jjpvuCuKgnEdVIt1icb2ExzdUpIJJqS7HnclTqWcULOMLsmyjb8czixUzi8xL2uaYc-evZuyJXYl6AikRx7Q2DEmsaUTM2cCZqRqQzHQWJYoUwyuSotg7ZrZE0ecKCa0zhteyheZLXGs4TK/s2560/P1740240.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ydrgiOBbQXd3gB8eE9bon74T4shQSDmZrWYhLceu3jjpvuCuKgnEdVIt1icb2ExzdUpIJJqS7HnclTqWcULOMLsmyjb8czixUzi8xL2uaYc-evZuyJXYl6AikRx7Q2DEmsaUTM2cCZqRqQzHQWJYoUwyuSotg7ZrZE0ecKCa0zhteyheZLXGs4TK/s320/P1740240.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Trans Pennine Line and old rail yards.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3n0b0K7juAbncmQMMRBproo3V0n-QAJaqGRGVHtw-P_SBtrsTwkpznmEQzIUewxq7FvHuni_FOdJITnxtemhK6VRvfN50x1FLw-aNeKetDhzPXRnEqWg9-TxoFY5GKlzcp_f1MQ9V076ZrzHv1sJQbp3kJr8deseiW73zAWmFokJy1NPSNh1Cs5yW/s2560/P1740273.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3n0b0K7juAbncmQMMRBproo3V0n-QAJaqGRGVHtw-P_SBtrsTwkpznmEQzIUewxq7FvHuni_FOdJITnxtemhK6VRvfN50x1FLw-aNeKetDhzPXRnEqWg9-TxoFY5GKlzcp_f1MQ9V076ZrzHv1sJQbp3kJr8deseiW73zAWmFokJy1NPSNh1Cs5yW/s320/P1740273.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wortley Rec.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">Pass below the Wortley Park tower blocks as we short cut across to Tong Road, to find the path of Green Lane as it passes through a corner of new Wortley that wouldn't be ventured through under other circumstances, passing Holy Family RC church and Castleton Primary school before presenting a slightly elevated view across the low rise rooftops towards the city ahead of the sweep around Hall Lane that leads us behind HMP Leeds (or Armley Gaol), which doesn't present is best crenelated face on this side, and above Wortley cemetery, beyond which we cut across the lawn to Stott Street, where get buzzed by an urban Red Kite, for our troubles. Entering the landscape of redbrick low rises, the sunshine finally makes its breakthrough, lighting up the estates on Abbott Road and Ley Lane before we find the stepped path that leads us down to the A647 Armley Road, which is crossed as we head off this hill nab and down the newly resurfaced Pickering Street to meet Carlton Works and the disused Armley Canal Road station at 'Botany Bay', next to the Aire Valley railway line, and the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, where Viaduct Road tangles us with the last route paced out this way as we pass below Kirkstall Viaduct and over the river Aire, taking pause to note the extensive flood prevention works ongoing below the bridges. A different path needs to be blazed going north from here then, the other side of the bath store (which my brain still thinks is Harley Davidson Dealership, across Kirkstall Road and up Willow Road, past the Alexandra Park apartments on the site of the old Liberal club and up Cardigan Road from its bottom end the first time, where there are more flats among the terraces than there used to be though the woodyard endures and St Margaret's church has new life as Left Bank Leeds, and all the stores along the terraced ends seem to being doing business, on the fringe of Student Land, as we come up to the Cardigan Road Co-op, where I shopped many a time, back in the day.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg4Qr-9vh3LI7rSuoHKAgrFaglxKY7mmTeuM83NxFN-43szu_MeWhtDQVFtfAi215fCmLv17luK6ylI4ow5aoqJw0sYaxiWpMxTbbdI8UGKPB9YLhfmGcM0UJkffZN9HgNUMQ54KOhQweehbt6VHwuhrl5kYNBkyUjmudTGT1BUGB_uo02wCHrBXtT/s2560/P1740312.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIXFKIeO586MHPYVKlmErBCHL19YwSqjHZRGIXMX6YCvN_5bb-9VvM1gxwcnO-bK9_YFW9cjL8M0D0I4imznb0YXCyiVYL7AFrULqqX36j5hF9vDKJcQqWNUVNVxoIlOheGLqdM4wbpw4Gl0QYPEulDZsetJOFdL6MnlFMTutW1MmEafUcIdvddyjK/s2560/P1740373.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIXFKIeO586MHPYVKlmErBCHL19YwSqjHZRGIXMX6YCvN_5bb-9VvM1gxwcnO-bK9_YFW9cjL8M0D0I4imznb0YXCyiVYL7AFrULqqX36j5hF9vDKJcQqWNUVNVxoIlOheGLqdM4wbpw4Gl0QYPEulDZsetJOFdL6MnlFMTutW1MmEafUcIdvddyjK/s320/P1740373.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The stepped path down to Armley Road.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDdGO3AkEs-_NhQ6vRZV0ZETUVG7MAg_uSpDhjC3loVU9mAqoZgOcz3w5wcauwTLRCt9LLhFsCHQu2Aumny-KHkebIDxLjdME_iFEh4l64IQjH7yga0FdlrLDnnbnBZJIBOUVDtbmTFvyG0bV_bojwbXqfeHjKvBd1-qCWpmC-YF1iiBCdQQ0W93Ub/s2560/P1740410.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDdGO3AkEs-_NhQ6vRZV0ZETUVG7MAg_uSpDhjC3loVU9mAqoZgOcz3w5wcauwTLRCt9LLhFsCHQu2Aumny-KHkebIDxLjdME_iFEh4l64IQjH7yga0FdlrLDnnbnBZJIBOUVDtbmTFvyG0bV_bojwbXqfeHjKvBd1-qCWpmC-YF1iiBCdQQ0W93Ub/s320/P1740410.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flood Prevention works ongoing, on the River Aire.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw6DN4qL3zSf9WPmCen8GpRz7RMuvkjGynhz6RELMHnuSYOxg18Tco5lRwHD7gUU_tw8BFt8s0hO_4eck_B50PxRte7PDdCLzd2mXxsoaJAjSCmvzJNzftUcLxU3moZboRQCcCSXrW8FZSmzCm2mN2RIB66SftfZ-BSJ7Vp1fbO25Rnn62ByFg7d8C/s2560/P1740454.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw6DN4qL3zSf9WPmCen8GpRz7RMuvkjGynhz6RELMHnuSYOxg18Tco5lRwHD7gUU_tw8BFt8s0hO_4eck_B50PxRte7PDdCLzd2mXxsoaJAjSCmvzJNzftUcLxU3moZboRQCcCSXrW8FZSmzCm2mN2RIB66SftfZ-BSJ7Vp1fbO25Rnn62ByFg7d8C/s320/P1740454.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cardigan Road, with terraces and apartments.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzqXPXqobBBotWfr6bSUDirR9yG4XcZDsrGT4UBEeg9RL0aqRA5YXb4C8pBMG4lwEt2u3JYOBLGZm0dckQVpRaUKtsImKSXFi6uJJJumOFoy0yWdtDm1vyMyadic-keiWP5A0a8820OMaV42u6Hae87QjhzgsOruka8dRvUYe02sDdtUN2APOGKYu_/s2560/P1740485.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzqXPXqobBBotWfr6bSUDirR9yG4XcZDsrGT4UBEeg9RL0aqRA5YXb4C8pBMG4lwEt2u3JYOBLGZm0dckQVpRaUKtsImKSXFi6uJJJumOFoy0yWdtDm1vyMyadic-keiWP5A0a8820OMaV42u6Hae87QjhzgsOruka8dRvUYe02sDdtUN2APOGKYu_/s320/P1740485.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cardigan Road Co-op.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">Burley Park station lies just beyond, at the end of Cardigan lane, and we'll break here for lunch on its benches, tagging it to my local tier even if there aren't any trains to catch, before we go off in search of more stations, up Chapel Lane and behind Our Lady of Lourdes RC church, and up Newport Road and View between terraces and semis that I know I've never ventured among despite a decade of local residence, leading us up to St Michael's Lane by Headingley Stadium once again, where it's a whole lot quieter than Elland Road, and our route takes us over the railway bridge in the opposite direction from last time, and on among the suburbia up St Anne's Drive. Emerging onto St Anne's Lane and then Kirkstall Lane, we're put in very close to Headingley station, only a short way east along the B6157, which we will approach to demonstrate that it is only 20 minutes distant on foot from its neighbour down the line, while actually being less convenient for its namesake venues, and we'll pass under the line here to pick up the other end of the path we drew this way last month, where we'll blaze around the Queenswood Social Club's playing fields, where a 20-a-side game seems to be going on, admire the painted foot tunnel behind St Stephen's church and this time find the path behind the Woodbridges and the allotments. This leads us into Morris Wood for some shade, bluebells and wild garlic aroma on a descending dirt track to a bridge over the railway, which leads into Kepstorn Close beyond, where we emerge among the council flat blocks and thence onto Spen Lane, where our forward route becomes a lot clearer, taking us under the towering vintage railway bridge that might be one of my favourites, and on up the steep lane that's one of the hidden red routes into northwest Leeds, where the Hark to Rover inn no longer resides and the rising tree-lined boulevard between the semis and Norman Towers provides quite a challenge in this Spring Heat, for which I am naturally over-dressed.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbqZQST1x9tgmfOulDTAnI9ctfKrscr2JYfQlex04MGkIMLRnZhjOSUNDGZTTpU5fjdZHaKY3h9xt2hOHKJ9usybl0yMZ1KjHz6Mkp32PqaXG-Ppw1ou1yrzhXdcNwValJyexpWcfZqJov5ZHTgc9Fel3Gd70VigIhzVmM5CSmfnQ0Uv_TaDybJ2za/s2560/P1740504.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFGbuaaFfb6aFfPPGXTr8AwWEqmbmSqzpIe4pn_j0UkGcEptavw069RbZ8cfGNs3g3ULk_IneRR07zkw4wUINXSX88lUlpWhfLopyr5Sx4-VbnKIes9HAuVujsgI6YpK8LiedxxCgKSuEyTul8hZaTFnUHtrrMDAsZUOwK3Tb-QoanyE-RxNeZKtW_/s2560/P1740657.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFGbuaaFfb6aFfPPGXTr8AwWEqmbmSqzpIe4pn_j0UkGcEptavw069RbZ8cfGNs3g3ULk_IneRR07zkw4wUINXSX88lUlpWhfLopyr5Sx4-VbnKIes9HAuVujsgI6YpK8LiedxxCgKSuEyTul8hZaTFnUHtrrMDAsZUOwK3Tb-QoanyE-RxNeZKtW_/s320/P1740657.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Morris Wood.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcaR2gd1FUlaSKCxrBUr0btW_yVpgM8JpnBgaCHE9ap7xpck1r3zu8Oleqkz5nDZwTEHMpD_Pgx8J-d-OtUZfCh7O_V8xEbR-HSjVsTsEeGTU6q1JwOh0OHcmGTxL5p-HKaFtez8gKVi3DCQA7cqwtgCf4yJCBq7ASWtkB0vljMdsrL1juumWlRgVI/s2560/P1740694.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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We'll split eastwards here, rising among the whitewashed council house and low rise blocks of Ireland Wood, passing above Clayton Wood and finding that the Woodside Vale housing development advertised on the Silk Mill Way corner is actually the suburban reclamation of the disused quarry site therein, while a little further along and up Oak Park Lane, we can find the former Cookridge Convalescent (and Oncology) Hospital, gradually being developed around but with three major late Victorian buildings still remaining as School, Care Home and Apartments, with the latter looking a whole lot like Cragside to my eyes, which shouldn't be a surprise as they share an architect in Norman Shaw. Despite having done work with NYCRIS here two decades(!) back, it oddly doesn't seem familiar, and its views over the Aire Valley are hard to process to as we seek our way out, back to the main road and east into the estate streets of Tinshill, also ranked up the hillside, with a route needing to be sought that doesn't involve going uphill unnecessarily, and that means cutting along Silk Mill Bank and then down Woodnook Drive by the Tinshill & Cookridge Social club and onto Haigh Wood Road, almost adjacent to the railway once more.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsCK0Zjg5STCQOzWHrc1S5wpNLe3bS8eZXbMlQXOpgwtMRNgSCvLsA8jDpdX8UckXdQKCGpiO448r23IcbxCujpQqeqAqL9WIQ3WDn-ALNOGn6k2OrtRmHaql_JufMqdP7Acqos8A6tRZEfjofNx9H-9zGfnOzOL4F1_MMFp2AMF5sNZBL6ldKlEwq/s2560/P1740738.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv3uPDfWidr2NH4UuQ2vpknYTtEhtur3hwREKbxNFZRfbrnxuPdm7vDY0_OpH3rx3c5pJNOmzCvt4bCgN4r_x03QIcHKh9odNopxsTMbsnSLCrzjxu-xTy8WeNSwgA3IjWmCvVhxifx7zbm8Ken4RxSKoLuIsPLu8Fluj714o-wZwbewZplzVezVPz/s320/P1740767.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spen Lane and the rise of northwest Leeds.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Rrs_pr3E59lo5tbRpwWbylMK-g1KR-NbkrLoTicx245BFS9BmJfyPiv2c-pc2KmRZw0jrNJj32WX3Z5KQUML17JnpBAqqPM3Us4ySjL-lU36nZJJTzD9_QW5zTocoaTmgveHoF4PjUwS6Ijfla1wrTZRZJ7JiO1AcuV0ZHBULTgd8EU6DqTNdAd3/s2560/P1740800.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZvo9hVQUo7YGYU0rSiGEQ6jZvlceUN_0wfOD3pEAHWyOc-1UyS8OEqjRYgZeHtf-Xx4SP2UWa4XN7IM9dJCXRGKIFK7hFNLW3T-_4gOUVv9rh5T9Rub2Pa-_Jn7mvjOrsvyhEC6duGoN376jD0QZ8gIuJwsThTwyFFWH2zV1mLhu4ULZ3Pq208QlA/s2560/P1740988.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZvo9hVQUo7YGYU0rSiGEQ6jZvlceUN_0wfOD3pEAHWyOc-1UyS8OEqjRYgZeHtf-Xx4SP2UWa4XN7IM9dJCXRGKIFK7hFNLW3T-_4gOUVv9rh5T9Rub2Pa-_Jn7mvjOrsvyhEC6duGoN376jD0QZ8gIuJwsThTwyFFWH2zV1mLhu4ULZ3Pq208QlA/s320/P1740988.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Haigh Wood Road and the rise to the finish line</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">That provides the direct line to our finishing point at Horsforth station, our third and final on for the trip, where we wrap at 2.35pm, where we'll finish feeding and watering at the end of the year's longest walked day so far, without a quick route home due to a total absence of trains, and a triumphant beverage in the Fox & Hounds might appeal if it wasn't for having to wait for the #6 bus to ride its circuitous route back to Leeds, which even then doesn't provide the troubles as its waiting for the #51 back to Morley is the absurd delay on my 2+ hour ride back home, earning First Bus more of my ire for their garbage timetabling, and a fine illustration of why I've never bothered walking the city by bus along the way.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyYj5MrWrkb5CYgTd-w_HBJmeN3YcifmcbNqBvghaqiDpdged0sr39U94xv0VPEHrbUya3VFFkSqcLiZBaWSakKbUnjXyx8akOShJgnFf6zAUl-lve1Vm6uXsJpWU7wK_eTlAp0MnDKMEXXRoQinn_6rdI2e3HiE0sMgeEELvyyR20ivddXg1xH3EE/s2560/P1750026.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyYj5MrWrkb5CYgTd-w_HBJmeN3YcifmcbNqBvghaqiDpdged0sr39U94xv0VPEHrbUya3VFFkSqcLiZBaWSakKbUnjXyx8akOShJgnFf6zAUl-lve1Vm6uXsJpWU7wK_eTlAp0MnDKMEXXRoQinn_6rdI2e3HiE0sMgeEELvyyR20ivddXg1xH3EE/s320/P1750026.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Q: How can you tell if someone is a local or not in Horsforth and its environs?<br />A: Only visitors pay attention to the aeroplanes landing at Leeds - Bradford airport.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL2PiOKsWaBLO2Z9h0QzaNu2c4frgf5mCf31fUw8P3ClCOXYXPktDtF0rLLYuVagfZ8BY7rdcXKdaBcLOVpR_DI28-K-GB10Kcmt1npYc4f0DMVNRIC5u833tvnfEnWjbpGEY8sJepcIrHWKX7G4VJ7bnzi09RGJSY2m3S9H8KcWcN3z7xoGlZ54Ue/s2560/P1740347.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL2PiOKsWaBLO2Z9h0QzaNu2c4frgf5mCf31fUw8P3ClCOXYXPktDtF0rLLYuVagfZ8BY7rdcXKdaBcLOVpR_DI28-K-GB10Kcmt1npYc4f0DMVNRIC5u833tvnfEnWjbpGEY8sJepcIrHWKX7G4VJ7bnzi09RGJSY2m3S9H8KcWcN3z7xoGlZ54Ue/s320/P1740347.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...and if you prefer your birds less big and less metal,<br />why not enjoy some urban Red Kite action? </td></tr></tbody></table></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>5,000 Miles Cumulative Total: 5988.2 miles</b></div><div>2023 Total: 66 miles</div><div>Up Country Total: 5,507.5 miles</div><div>Solo Total: 5645.6 miles</div><div>5,000 in my 40s Total: 4578 miles</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Destinations Moved into Tier 1: Burley Park, Headingley, and Horsforth</div><div>Trails moved from Tier 3 to Tier 2: 3</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Next Up: Spring Jollies on the North Yorkshire Coast, with a Rail Trail in my Sights.</div><div><br /></div></div>Christopher Wrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09743749271457169317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527420385844253776.post-27379432356755268072023-05-08T17:59:00.167+01:002023-05-24T21:29:22.502+01:00Morley to Woodlesford 07/05/23<div style="text-align: left;"><b>9 miles, via Daisy Hill, Broad Oaks, White Rose, Beeston Park Side, Brown Hill, </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Middleton Circus, Sharp Lane Plantation, New Forest Plantation, Robin Hood, </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Haighside Wood, Rothwell Haigh, and John O'Gaunts.</b></div><p style="text-align: left;">The long Coronation bonus bank holiday weekend is a most welcome arrival, not that I'm at all engaged with the on-going shenanigans for KC3, aside from the Musicks, but more so that it gives me an extra day to rest up and get busy housework-wise, before we get back to the business of walking on Sunday, having had three whole weeks off the trail since last my last venture, and it's just as well that my scheming for the next phase of season 12 is to feature walking from home on previously unseen trajectories, as we've got two whole weekends of engineering possessions on the Leeds - Huddersfield line, which means there's no quick way to get out of (or back to) Morley, even if I wanted one. So we start from Morley station in a familiar fashion, departing at 10.15am and rising with the path above the cliff above the carpark to observe how the platforms have been built up on the new station site and to see that the support columns for the new footbridge have been installed, sure to arrive during the line closure in June, I'd figure, while there's more aggregate being delivered by rail which does get you wondering where it's all going, and this all needs to be observed from the green space on Seven Hills Way too, just to get the reverse angles from the rock cliff above the new station. We get going properly by rising up to Daisy Hill and setting off to the northwest, to find that a new rough track has been gouged out beside the path from the A643 down to Gasworks Crossing, though its not apparent of this is for railway work or future suburban development reaching down from Laneside, but the feeling is we'll have to enjoy the fields of Broad Oaks while they still endure, heading up through the farm to observe the growth at White Rose station on the other side of the hill, where the lift shaft tower on the south side has started to be assembled, to be seen from the footbridge path as a Kestrel buzzes the local wildlife.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1lcYHdImfzajlc60bBH64mkyj3iT-zfq_Fi97lHUuTc07OsBcAa374D5bWWOgbyXE8peaq8czlGumLIkOwgb-3JR6_alipBCkITnZfrIcgiDWIVRz59MBAyS5oQQ0GTOsYWlOItixDP-_bYzm6KA7zQWFga3fDsTb3QNcoTRBbKnOV5eEKK0ucASz/s2560/P1720998.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1lcYHdImfzajlc60bBH64mkyj3iT-zfq_Fi97lHUuTc07OsBcAa374D5bWWOgbyXE8peaq8czlGumLIkOwgb-3JR6_alipBCkITnZfrIcgiDWIVRz59MBAyS5oQQ0GTOsYWlOItixDP-_bYzm6KA7zQWFga3fDsTb3QNcoTRBbKnOV5eEKK0ucASz/s320/P1720998.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Developments at Morley Station, looking Leeds-ward.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRT0_LsCZ5caBvb8jZZ4N2x0c_mOYKgBY8yLaf6g9g8TpOOPJ0YpH1Q6uu0ur8o-WyQDj1mXswme0lxvcn4585S3teiDsolN83uODZbMXaF5a_ea1oqGuFFc6Of1pvjg2CZ9xjeZL0fN66L7oUntcjcb_173ViUZqyKUV1mWSTG-OBIFcAyejysl40/s2560/P1730039.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRT0_LsCZ5caBvb8jZZ4N2x0c_mOYKgBY8yLaf6g9g8TpOOPJ0YpH1Q6uu0ur8o-WyQDj1mXswme0lxvcn4585S3teiDsolN83uODZbMXaF5a_ea1oqGuFFc6Of1pvjg2CZ9xjeZL0fN66L7oUntcjcb_173ViUZqyKUV1mWSTG-OBIFcAyejysl40/s320/P1730039.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Developments at Morley Station, looking Huddersfield-bound.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-NugMdCJYSXBQLKDMYUKY7A4gSuNvEI5yHuddbKX1fK2uj46flEQd3bQz9RKz5xJyPB09tSyaV7vv3lUvlqZo4BjvSSj7BiCmpQWjQGMAJbS6LjIYoKjmSexE2fmFZKjozB9oM5wyJ9PzePB3SMLX2qGdzTM4ltaru_M1lewrCtKqXfIafK3dJIfJ/s2560/P1730071.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-NugMdCJYSXBQLKDMYUKY7A4gSuNvEI5yHuddbKX1fK2uj46flEQd3bQz9RKz5xJyPB09tSyaV7vv3lUvlqZo4BjvSSj7BiCmpQWjQGMAJbS6LjIYoKjmSexE2fmFZKjozB9oM5wyJ9PzePB3SMLX2qGdzTM4ltaru_M1lewrCtKqXfIafK3dJIfJ/s320/P1730071.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A new track crudely gouged into Daisy Hill from Churwell.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0sLHLraQZbH1AJluEmeKtiqq7j0bPKeVKB02spkJ3Z-lXPYVHuLgkQ0UcGChEByO_0YkFelsVIbUhn9ea75EFxrnmBaHCdjIkeMYwOIOP0GFOEM_Rdr-QDu8lDkr9O0iAlb_VmD3r8j7QgZuy5eKVCmpu528zs-rXQDsStabTkFvGqdCLylsJbuEf/s2560/P1730120.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0sLHLraQZbH1AJluEmeKtiqq7j0bPKeVKB02spkJ3Z-lXPYVHuLgkQ0UcGChEByO_0YkFelsVIbUhn9ea75EFxrnmBaHCdjIkeMYwOIOP0GFOEM_Rdr-QDu8lDkr9O0iAlb_VmD3r8j7QgZuy5eKVCmpu528zs-rXQDsStabTkFvGqdCLylsJbuEf/s320/P1730120.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Developments at White Rose station.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">Across the railway and onto the Woodland Walk around the White Rose Centre, we can finally get on our way towards the south-east of Leeds, dropping down by the side of Elliot Hudson college and the office park to the traffic island on Ring Road Beeston, where we cross at the clip and rise with the link road up below the mainline to Wakefield and up that portion of the Ring Road that skirts Beeston Parkside which we've never walked before, as we rise up to Dewsbury Road by the former St David's church and the Tommy Wass crossroads, where we turn sharply onto the Middleton Ring Road, over the lost GNR Hunslet Goods Line and up the long slope on Brown Hill. It's a southbound path we've traced before, but not from Morley, and it looks like the South Leeds Golf Course has gone fallow during the intervening six years, and despite knowing the scale of this hill, it always surprise me that there's such a long drag up its face, gouged deepish into the bedrock, and a remarkably good view to the west and northwest as we crest upon it, by the Bodmins and the Urban Bike Park, ahead of the sweep around to the east, taking us around past the Middleton water tower and the still surprisingly suburban landscape that lies ahead of the 1930 council estate that so dominates the hilltop. Roll around to Middleton Circus, or what's left of it, with its tavern replaced by an Aldi, and pass by the semi-circle of stores to find our next odd route choice among the many that I've already blazed on this estate, taking the Park Avenue and Mount to meet the south-easterly reach of Thorpe Road as it sets off with purpose, only to find that significant chunks of what was uniformly planned out 80+ years ago has been replaced much later on, with the road itself petering out entirely beyond the Elements Primary School at the end of the original land acquisition, with an old footpath directing us across Throstle Road and Terrace into the landscape of estate-adjacent suburbia that only grew here since the turn of the 21st century.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgikZ3Ps4fuj9_HGAs7JVdiiB2otm8bGVnuzpV_kHhAUu1owKPAZASxTjccpAWX6J3yPVjTeLTNUILAco9YoT4UAf6gvQjmYRMKtEPqY2iZQ4BLUfjgIGwoH9wC79v1rjrBDUWYqUsx2Q78PQxzq3dRRdvM0RQs093VUJfalYScVS0KB6okFZhwIp6j/s2560/P1730175.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgikZ3Ps4fuj9_HGAs7JVdiiB2otm8bGVnuzpV_kHhAUu1owKPAZASxTjccpAWX6J3yPVjTeLTNUILAco9YoT4UAf6gvQjmYRMKtEPqY2iZQ4BLUfjgIGwoH9wC79v1rjrBDUWYqUsx2Q78PQxzq3dRRdvM0RQs093VUJfalYScVS0KB6okFZhwIp6j/s320/P1730175.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elliot Hudson college, White Rose Office Park.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxfv66yEFxITRAtP1QyH2BRddvtMwvG_ONuFq9O0GQCKZEHPrRwHDC1wLp_uY2AZGgb4_cUBK_kHzKpaXs_b5r0nvIlgBHtR4pvWAe2SSY8MyNsELTjuft4BK1Madx0mexYMOwv0jMEN2T0jlsf-XQDYdVZv_wVhY3U2tGbhKUw6Jqab05nUW1fHaz/s2560/P1730204.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxfv66yEFxITRAtP1QyH2BRddvtMwvG_ONuFq9O0GQCKZEHPrRwHDC1wLp_uY2AZGgb4_cUBK_kHzKpaXs_b5r0nvIlgBHtR4pvWAe2SSY8MyNsELTjuft4BK1Madx0mexYMOwv0jMEN2T0jlsf-XQDYdVZv_wVhY3U2tGbhKUw6Jqab05nUW1fHaz/s320/P1730204.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ring Road, Beeston Park Side.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9BDvxzJLCneqIQ7DwJk_kerWWbUGlhWXc-TL4-IU8WUL73a9JqjPfrmmkmsun9xZYePjnWVkMlIxTX9ioKyiQHXQcf8il1Sno4DsZrbWnbt5pwgariURaFn1Jp-vO0_SaNIisuFupUAeEhRkcPwdxzwZYOfGMsFi_ABygX5lbZPfN0LnOjcWHEMom/s2560/P1730242.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9BDvxzJLCneqIQ7DwJk_kerWWbUGlhWXc-TL4-IU8WUL73a9JqjPfrmmkmsun9xZYePjnWVkMlIxTX9ioKyiQHXQcf8il1Sno4DsZrbWnbt5pwgariURaFn1Jp-vO0_SaNIisuFupUAeEhRkcPwdxzwZYOfGMsFi_ABygX5lbZPfN0LnOjcWHEMom/s320/P1730242.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ring Road Middleton, Brown Hill.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguFyTUvXv9jzdTLsCGgZVl-WnpF97fKXwYTx7Z0kFf6_21XyAn3syl8pody-x4ekdVGohgkWXDhHy9YSzwAip76AXZcib4hHZ3oFBUX9-fiCOco-JKOxQqoEKBNMN1ZVvPipzoWmG2zcNyf86fqyuG3g9LyQ9PWJGe7-m5_Av1r5OFAsQ1M74TSA_H/s2560/P1730269.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguFyTUvXv9jzdTLsCGgZVl-WnpF97fKXwYTx7Z0kFf6_21XyAn3syl8pody-x4ekdVGohgkWXDhHy9YSzwAip76AXZcib4hHZ3oFBUX9-fiCOco-JKOxQqoEKBNMN1ZVvPipzoWmG2zcNyf86fqyuG3g9LyQ9PWJGe7-m5_Av1r5OFAsQ1M74TSA_H/s320/P1730269.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Middleton Water Tower.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA31IV8wk87p_pIUAJHHq-s9YTeqTkr3PEGdTPCtKfp3oF7NvWL7NofelYwGL6ifBt4ey_lekZEQjDBYBXmyWc5WIyf_XsBis7HiY0gqhF-83bcGEcIzvIxpsI8FxKdLNRGFWyZfs0m13p53BNmkxNEw4dCRwSlDGF1ZQMyqkwq4LnuCyMdgh8LfUI/s2560/P1730299.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA-B9FDgzNEYs2pnhJ8sBZKwWEfLKqIwkjk9j3ZRXr6_3HuUwL9EAvQhT0WfxFgbEOJmhjIKOLNcC-FkA2yW5HBiAN6_Pjh2-VaPXagWBqudm_AXCkNrI5kjNXYhap_-qbYBVDdR_jyjnWTh8eVcB7pW6hkC8ow00BG1rkMcqgIWvYLBp5K7zxHzR3/s320/P1730318.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The old path between the estate and suburban vintage Middletons.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">Across Towcester Avenue lies this estate's hidden green space, the new Forest Planation, with woodland and wetland clustered around the eastwards fall of Throstle Carr beck providing a useful lung among all this suburbanism and a perambulation spot too, which has also arrested the southbound spread of the city, while beyond Sharp Lane we can start a tack towards our destination as we enter the Sharp Lane Plantation, more woodland at the eastern edge of greater Miggy, which conceals the playing fields where the local Sunday League are setting up, and provides paths under the canopy that are far muddier than they need to be, proving all that recent rain has been absorbed into the ground. This leads us to the lost lane taht once joined the pre-urban farmsteads of this hillside, where we drop under the M1 just below where Junction 43 with the M621 forms, emerging on the eastern side to find ourselves in the countryside, pressing on through the level fields on the bridleway that leads over to the Middleton Avenue terrace and the fields of Robon Hood AFC, with the tarmacked Middleton Lane leading us out onto the portion of the A61 between Leeds and Wakefield that we've never walked, where a northbound trot leads us to the nest footpath, into the fields south of Rothwell where the Beeston Pit line of the E&WYUR colliery network was once sought. Tracking north-easterly, we re-join the path we made in the distant days of 2015 to take us along the field boundaries south of the old Workhouse site that leads over the fall of Haigh Beck and into the woodlands and nature reserve of Haighside Wood, providing a pleasing green space on what is wholly the reclaimed site of Low Shops Pit, where we might pause to water and bask under the increasingly warm sunshine, and also get buzzed by a Buzzard for good measure before we press on into Rothwell Haigh, up the suburban spread along Low Shop Lane and out to the passage over Wood Lane. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKBDeH3vG1uZFL574a8F4wPe_Ovs7OA9Dq2drE_lqDH6hyY4chTrFbrJ7_wTZ2JiN2iryX0lCTJXLO5wFF9RNxKYGzJtZUtNsBiCOVoNXpWL0sgP5cyh2BZxBIv3RMsLRbILFxe8ybSTI41ia5oYehyJ0WG_WbiT-jDAZaHwBMpwGAtkW4lZgKzFgo/s2560/P1730337.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqkHbSQx6h2b1gwwZqMmwkmIuPjkn-NQPhUTdMPc9c1nWi1aOM-pdFzi6_ZwNYvIml-gYMCj7Ntlgi2QIPyh0xPKptH5obyZILQA19oOXE4uagJEpT9DaNkbQRbLLKKTAiK-AMPRooHBL6Aw5eKFApy9cebR7ouq2syxhYpLHq7iJn_KlOyEWz8f2t/s2560/P1730428.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqkHbSQx6h2b1gwwZqMmwkmIuPjkn-NQPhUTdMPc9c1nWi1aOM-pdFzi6_ZwNYvIml-gYMCj7Ntlgi2QIPyh0xPKptH5obyZILQA19oOXE4uagJEpT9DaNkbQRbLLKKTAiK-AMPRooHBL6Aw5eKFApy9cebR7ouq2syxhYpLHq7iJn_KlOyEWz8f2t/s320/P1730428.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The path to Middleton Avenue terrace and Robin Hood AFC.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH4IMy1_BKdQCND-3z7xHKZPj24QUJyso9l5gzoYm7DbPJfdzOHRaW08d8rit2e3syRFt5DeQkEienKsrvCZwU-DWQo7nEEyWP5cFElC_197k9X7dspVYRGsnkEvKrwgFiHVC6r6Esbh92-EJYUxub8bx4oRm52xu9BalpbT5Chvw-vYmVS4DcRH9m/s2560/P1730464.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH4IMy1_BKdQCND-3z7xHKZPj24QUJyso9l5gzoYm7DbPJfdzOHRaW08d8rit2e3syRFt5DeQkEienKsrvCZwU-DWQo7nEEyWP5cFElC_197k9X7dspVYRGsnkEvKrwgFiHVC6r6Esbh92-EJYUxub8bx4oRm52xu9BalpbT5Chvw-vYmVS4DcRH9m/s320/P1730464.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The unseen portion of the local A61.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdj2K-Z6zqeTbG5D9Ku_wV7igHmn9TuHOAcdIp9l8JxqbQ7QO2JGExe6CR7_oP6Ww__vtFq1fd9W_exPBb_LwmVnh_THjPKdPRavE1ixzjoCWsUNgpCfWetL-sL7Wlgv_8TpZI5xQ0HCiKhOtS-EXHc0uMeEvXBg_n4usx7D-3AA_2dB9yW-VTe77o/s2560/P1730499.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdj2K-Z6zqeTbG5D9Ku_wV7igHmn9TuHOAcdIp9l8JxqbQ7QO2JGExe6CR7_oP6Ww__vtFq1fd9W_exPBb_LwmVnh_THjPKdPRavE1ixzjoCWsUNgpCfWetL-sL7Wlgv_8TpZI5xQ0HCiKhOtS-EXHc0uMeEvXBg_n4usx7D-3AA_2dB9yW-VTe77o/s320/P1730499.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Haighside Wood.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCH1sBLd_4o3hPyAZuJV0UiM76KWlk1Pny39PTcyyPcyolX80lBM6cRHE9Crv5czpK-o4F3DR2YJtW7juQvzK13bmH5Jmp6l36MqVhBWqHRiKVLB_W2v8tioptfZFy6hbNAhCCSItRpqUHEgYYHmDe1xla2Zw58E-GChs36K39jGlVNapSQK2MKAyJ/s2560/P1730508.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCH1sBLd_4o3hPyAZuJV0UiM76KWlk1Pny39PTcyyPcyolX80lBM6cRHE9Crv5czpK-o4F3DR2YJtW7juQvzK13bmH5Jmp6l36MqVhBWqHRiKVLB_W2v8tioptfZFy6hbNAhCCSItRpqUHEgYYHmDe1xla2Zw58E-GChs36K39jGlVNapSQK2MKAyJ/s320/P1730508.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not every local Raptor you see is a Red Kite, this is definitely a Buzzard.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">Here we join the diagonal path of Mill Pit Lane that almost completely bounds the spread of suburban greater Rothwell, leading beyond the terraced ends and the outlying closes to provide a view beyond the local back gardens and estate streets that reaches across the fields to an evolving view across the city of Leeds from the southeast, already observed as a good one last year but providing so much more variety as we look back, until the fall of the track gets it obscured by the increasing tall rapeseed plants and local trees, as we drop down beyond the equestrian enclosed of the enduring Rose cottage farm to meet the A639 Leeds Road dual carriageway. Cross over, among the traffic that's really tilting along here and resume the path on the far side, observing last season's view before we look north across Temple Newsam Park and progress on, over the E&WYUR mainline to Stourton remnants and Bullough Lane to enter the John O'Gaunt's estate, where the path route follows Temple Avenue among the council house and roadworks, and alertness is needed to find Pickpocket Lane as it splits off the top of Third Avenue, taking us south of the extensive Rothwell Colliery site which is now a prominent false hill and country park in this landscape, where we've tramped before in our walking past, and old footfalls will be traced as we make our way over to Woodlesford. Land on Holmsley Lane among the suburbs and follow it as it becomes Church Street, taking us past the Green, the old Vicarage and the Parish Hall, and thence downhill past the shopping parade, the Primary School and the Methodist chapel before turning to Station Lane beyond the Two Pointer inn and the former All Saints church, and note that the Jolly Giraffes nursery wasn't previously a tavern before we join the footway down to Woodlesford station, tying this remote coroner of greater Leeds to my local tier, concluding the trip at 1.50pm, and not before time as I'm really feeling the heat after so much chilliness over the last few months.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSUPFnKIIPsXCl8nIFkj3MX3DQ-AeB2jrGQ7O2lgsaaMZAiiQdvOmQ9uzzrrqyRt7rnBPMEVtUdzI0GQ_qUBMQycSDzlXODpKzkpDyOOjY1U2JMQbEQSmkvp3FJLe3btY8EhQRXImEnW-AfhUWOjLq4FZJbOH7L-_Z2BbE1B75_1fZwNWMY7tkkUeK/s2560/P1730567.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfakHvMPFRISKty1Xi6xdDHramn6v2pfFA7w-3UjVTzThTMkHSozDqeSGcWXHCQ2qAdcDUwqmHYI7S5Hk3Fy9hOnHRF4JNg2H7d1s2-1qaTyLXqcH6aiYzvVaatSZcKrrII2ZdYjTqDWpTNgmso0r-AWtcJ2Ze1f2zDdLEVNvGxaFW_YuoYHtv8q6O/s320/P1730644.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Temple Avenue, John O'Gaunts</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpQnHFeoUy-WN0GS_VM3CO-IYW2K-iAm2iAna08hLHW1m0zGkzb9Kmh1IklM6mfjtSHikHsVfBwOWnJ8xPqFog7s94eAP7ctSvQ-vogCzj4afFcdscbENiXzcAUhiwDax-TIBWakpF7h0jw42Og_1lLRAcKByVGl8wcy1HELOoigi-ewRi1K5WxB10/s2560/P1730671.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpQnHFeoUy-WN0GS_VM3CO-IYW2K-iAm2iAna08hLHW1m0zGkzb9Kmh1IklM6mfjtSHikHsVfBwOWnJ8xPqFog7s94eAP7ctSvQ-vogCzj4afFcdscbENiXzcAUhiwDax-TIBWakpF7h0jw42Og_1lLRAcKByVGl8wcy1HELOoigi-ewRi1K5WxB10/s320/P1730671.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rothwell Colliery Country Park.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvnrteg-g8acxjQGuOY577isLSiDmM-TSD1eTiQXylfFHd0u4VIeY27DMQTUVnmFAAJPJRL024HfKqlrZJjwjI-jDmDKadaBVGRht5Pl_hgoi8C8_WHUEznSFcLsulHp0Yd0oQ3uWn-GNi7pUCT2eQZK-M16-W9d_wP8YXcrKuZmh1DBnyex_SMIbf/s2560/P1730708.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvnrteg-g8acxjQGuOY577isLSiDmM-TSD1eTiQXylfFHd0u4VIeY27DMQTUVnmFAAJPJRL024HfKqlrZJjwjI-jDmDKadaBVGRht5Pl_hgoi8C8_WHUEznSFcLsulHp0Yd0oQ3uWn-GNi7pUCT2eQZK-M16-W9d_wP8YXcrKuZmh1DBnyex_SMIbf/s320/P1730708.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Green, Woodlesford.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeISJX48qLAMsRSfhhlEKx098hYXdaqaK7zQoogcc3roJbvN2PdVtgVi7W1xlJdPpvb4Ru5qIHqJ-rGtauprQ9mFldde8H1Ur37YUkWUEv7HFM5j1qyucPK2mrwz1Q5vN5kSVik4YIgTC8AWY_kRXspgnOQYm_vbCekP_8VGxcQ9xWuhdbJR_FFStc/s2560/P1730736.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeISJX48qLAMsRSfhhlEKx098hYXdaqaK7zQoogcc3roJbvN2PdVtgVi7W1xlJdPpvb4Ru5qIHqJ-rGtauprQ9mFldde8H1Ur37YUkWUEv7HFM5j1qyucPK2mrwz1Q5vN5kSVik4YIgTC8AWY_kRXspgnOQYm_vbCekP_8VGxcQ9xWuhdbJR_FFStc/s320/P1730736.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The former All Saints church, Woodlesford.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>5,000 Miles Cumulative Total: 5976.8 miles</b></div><div>2023 Total: 54.6 miles</div><div>Up Country Total: 5,496.1 miles</div><div>Solo Total: 5634.2 miles</div><div>5,000 in my 40s Total: 4566.6 miles</div><div><br /></div><div>Destinations Moved into Tier 1: Woodlesford</div><div>Trails moved from Tier 3 to Tier 2: 2</div><div><br /></div><div>Next Up: From Home to the local Old Country, and beyond!</div></div>Christopher Wrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09743749271457169317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527420385844253776.post-71844390463670658652023-05-01T17:45:00.054+01:002023-05-21T18:26:30.128+01:00Rumination: Returning to the Support Bubble<p><b><span style="color: #ffa400;">The Following is For Reference Only.</span></b></p><p>One year ago, on the very same weekend at the end of April, I made the second of my trips to Manchester with My Good Friends from Calderdale, for beers, food and the music of RVW, which marked the final collapsing of the public social interaction bubble which had been forcibly imposed in March 2020 and which I chose to maintain for more than three years, and at the remove of 12 months I find myself at an entirely different philosophical place than I did when the passing of the Covid Pandemic seemed to have happened, almost entirely due to the lingering after effects of my own infection, six months ago. This time around, I'm ripping it up to Mytholmroyd and Manchester again on Saturday afternoon to enjoy a long weekend in the company of my still enduring Support Bubble, even though the wider climates have completely moved on, as a sociable weekend with them is good reason to take time out from the walking year and get in some proper R'n'R after the third stalling of my walking year, not that there will be too much activity going on as it's been a tiring few months for all, and friendly ears will be leant as we chat about enduring the effects of a post-Covid syndrome and living with CFS (which I really hope isn't the path I'm on). Chatter over food and wine, and whatever sports are on the TV, is all very well, but we also need additional entertainments, and the Sunday os the focus for these, as my visit manages to coincide with the Cragg Vale festival which sees the Cragg Road being closed for the morning as many local runners and cyclists take the opportunity to run and ride the length (or at least part of) the longest continuous road ascent in England, and back again, and these energetic feats need to be observed as we stroll up the valley as far as Lower Clough Fold before we get to the real meat of the May Day weekend. This sends us in the direction of the Bridgewater Hall, where an afternoon concert brings us the Poulenc Organ Concerto and Saint-Saens Symphony #3 (<i>avec Orgue</i>) as performed by the Halle Orchestra for one of the loudest, and busiest shows, that we've seen in a long while, where the opportunity is also presented for beer and food at Society, where Vocation Brewery still having a thriving business with a surprisingly diverse clientele, where three pints of their finest ales and pilseners can be consumed, along with Chicken Katsu Curry that literally hits all of the spots that it needs to.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVbBlbsIhXkdWOb2FNzO_JNZnNLvvbzaO8XN0FeyEeC4mGaNh9ohWFy2SqTcNgtfYwGrZbs9lIRXy1tcEeOVCfuGgIedcrP6oVWoMU3S5YLZtPTPUPjmMstemY5wkfC0ahoO8NQ8DscxziEVnY5PyxW-I0WJspAOoCYRn1iVBV0s6KVeD0orCz1jgw/s2560/P1720829.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVbBlbsIhXkdWOb2FNzO_JNZnNLvvbzaO8XN0FeyEeC4mGaNh9ohWFy2SqTcNgtfYwGrZbs9lIRXy1tcEeOVCfuGgIedcrP6oVWoMU3S5YLZtPTPUPjmMstemY5wkfC0ahoO8NQ8DscxziEVnY5PyxW-I0WJspAOoCYRn1iVBV0s6KVeD0orCz1jgw/s320/P1720829.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cragg Vale Festival, Mytholmroyd.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_viEq0Gp25o5ltjizZfLYDDmsLsxF01tqEWiSKvhdTJmTcAazj_hltzYwsU4HwdP_JzAePJtdOH0LyVvs5qOMKvAdW_BdbIuyFkHswVzKUFR1rwE8Tgknif_-3SzC5uLJ1qh97HELjtNjATFi1XagPT2JDP92rwZm0CPZVMCq1Hm-baeY2_BnOwf4/s2560/P1720837.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_viEq0Gp25o5ltjizZfLYDDmsLsxF01tqEWiSKvhdTJmTcAazj_hltzYwsU4HwdP_JzAePJtdOH0LyVvs5qOMKvAdW_BdbIuyFkHswVzKUFR1rwE8Tgknif_-3SzC5uLJ1qh97HELjtNjATFi1XagPT2JDP92rwZm0CPZVMCq1Hm-baeY2_BnOwf4/s320/P1720837.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Halle Orchestra, at Bridgewater Hall.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuJ0loJ5EVvoZfRRSktREsNb5YgHZ10CTf8sU4hdxH79b9rl1LPJE3ICP1hkP-Q9CWDQCAGyn1vHKl0F0ZhOWe6NfNRO8V_LH0GGl509-s3vedPJCyMLhmkpIPjwYFZl8hPyG3ZnqSUhWXmnJY07Bc3B278DW2H6s30W2t_JOZqY1xsJWjrxdSSAFy/s2560/P1720841.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1920" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuJ0loJ5EVvoZfRRSktREsNb5YgHZ10CTf8sU4hdxH79b9rl1LPJE3ICP1hkP-Q9CWDQCAGyn1vHKl0F0ZhOWe6NfNRO8V_LH0GGl509-s3vedPJCyMLhmkpIPjwYFZl8hPyG3ZnqSUhWXmnJY07Bc3B278DW2H6s30W2t_JOZqY1xsJWjrxdSSAFy/s320/P1720841.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vocation Ales, at Society<br />(I didn't take a picture of my Katsu Curry,<br />as I was hungry enough to eat it without<br />remembering to do so, which is unfortunate)</td></tr></tbody></table><p>The hospitality offered by IH and AK is always most welcome, and with this walking year not really going great guns, we might be seeing a bit more of it in the Summer and beyond, as I can't see every weekend of the year getting filled as I aim at a distant target, as at three months into 2023, we still haven't reached the 6,000 miles marked that has been less than 80 miles distant since this season opened up, not that we'll be getting the opportunity to put down any miles come May Day as we all have other business to attend to, in the shape of assembling a new office chair for myself. I can feel particularly fortunate that My Mum was Up Country last weekend, having attended to My Niece doing Theatre work in Bolton on the days prior, as that allowed us a dash to Ikea to sink money on a like for like-ish replacement, which itself proved to be a challenge to get into my flat by lugging it up the stairs, with my labour being reserved for a week to get it put together, and the old one taken apart, which pretty much put me out of circulation for the remainder of today, so it's just as well that I had something new and clean to settle down upon. Otherwise, we find ourselves with another months passed, and that must mean that it's time for an astronomy update, where the difficulty of stargazing in the months of BST really becomes clear, as the fading dusk comes on so much later as the weeks progress, which means you have a very short time window for catching any notable activity in the sky, such as the waxing gibbous moon passing Spica in Virgo on the 6th, which has to be spied through the trees from my actual window, or attempting to see Mercury in its brief twilight appearance at its greatest western elongation around the Easter Weekend. As I've mentioned, the trip out to Bruntcliffe and back on the 8th yielded nought but a bank of cloud obscuring the lowest 15 degrees of the western horizon, but another trip out on the evening of the 13th gave us a clearer aspect allowing the wing-ed messenger to make a brief appearance in the constellation of Aries, where it clearly couldn't be mistake for Hamal, as late as 9.05pm and only 10 degrees above the horizon at a very modest magnitude compared to the blaring bright Venus which hung high in Taurus, in the north-western sky, a true revelation and another astronomical first for me, on what will probably be my last planet spotting trip before the evenings elongate impractically.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJc4vugPcApiu_eYWut85YVaFKGRV7tqGz6-mB8VEuIKea_ipbQXTS-Q8mBx0ynJp7ebc406rdvQ8kreox3pangypopLIw95-a2fKWk5SPqKYevctgaKyWxQdaw3Xc5mYhVdrivTTayt1WRQiUHi9x7dmxb1lCZHs5ie0lsNVB2hAszVHesoK8Yd__/s2560/P1700617.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJc4vugPcApiu_eYWut85YVaFKGRV7tqGz6-mB8VEuIKea_ipbQXTS-Q8mBx0ynJp7ebc406rdvQ8kreox3pangypopLIw95-a2fKWk5SPqKYevctgaKyWxQdaw3Xc5mYhVdrivTTayt1WRQiUHi9x7dmxb1lCZHs5ie0lsNVB2hAszVHesoK8Yd__/s320/P1700617.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Waxing Gibbous Moon, and Spica in Virgo. 06/04</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvG2Qos_u90TcioQH4d-d6SkYJZmxVDXNqyWkv0qeNrL5PZz0LAzQH9M_NTIP1a3IVPno67g1jLobNXz6hHmmaXxDNjqXe2VhnrlY5DyOAhji97iqO05rHrvTK0xlH-2RrGRbWlkRCrPUaDc5e9zYfzH1iD1J_ZIqPEgo1PCrgaNNshv2ZMW7HySCz/s2560/P1710785.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvG2Qos_u90TcioQH4d-d6SkYJZmxVDXNqyWkv0qeNrL5PZz0LAzQH9M_NTIP1a3IVPno67g1jLobNXz6hHmmaXxDNjqXe2VhnrlY5DyOAhji97iqO05rHrvTK0xlH-2RrGRbWlkRCrPUaDc5e9zYfzH1iD1J_ZIqPEgo1PCrgaNNshv2ZMW7HySCz/s320/P1710785.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unsuccessful Mercury Spotting at Bruntcliffe. 06/04</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPj-gR0rGSUtQpO9SWGmnj5cJLtvyQNxZ0ifw3m93-CVLRcNXKARgmyHk83zXT1W-FYzhCtlYuXXuIVXMgFgQ2eS8CRNhT4yx7caRrJxeMphOOCEW6-0mebeDmNy8XTb4rUXWJCJH-1-G647YKqyLih7s5a0zsXJ2Z86B5ZvAKzCg9x5azqdNG2k4F/s2560/P1710818.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPj-gR0rGSUtQpO9SWGmnj5cJLtvyQNxZ0ifw3m93-CVLRcNXKARgmyHk83zXT1W-FYzhCtlYuXXuIVXMgFgQ2eS8CRNhT4yx7caRrJxeMphOOCEW6-0mebeDmNy8XTb4rUXWJCJH-1-G647YKqyLih7s5a0zsXJ2Z86B5ZvAKzCg9x5azqdNG2k4F/s320/P1710818.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Venus and Mercury above the M62. 13/04</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuI4B-g5-lBOGO2jMksHPwwCSfPDm3etehLmF41VSGCeRzuHPsBuFyh1iuvvMZfX2iyMNfZGkw-rwH7LcmsExBFnQV1bTSs_cAFDPSUk8CuzdrGt37eCiv8H1tywD03hja53gVaHT5yrp4vEYt6uq7BQ_evLgCeug9NP6ByzbZPD64_sP6OXQvXRYB/s2560/P1710822.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuI4B-g5-lBOGO2jMksHPwwCSfPDm3etehLmF41VSGCeRzuHPsBuFyh1iuvvMZfX2iyMNfZGkw-rwH7LcmsExBFnQV1bTSs_cAFDPSUk8CuzdrGt37eCiv8H1tywD03hja53gVaHT5yrp4vEYt6uq7BQ_evLgCeug9NP6ByzbZPD64_sP6OXQvXRYB/s320/P1710822.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Winged Messenger revealed at last! 13/04 </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQnqMOVuJvieMzPWmvAGBELTdTflnxaaG646Zy6Cz4Vl7r4vod76v6e2v68-jPmIbkZS01-Cj5_b44X_ne0na_RKQmMhkgxyxJnPTxMFsZsP9XgSWOzCq2ScQnFMWwHIQdXgpqxzZbQjjY6ih0GkxXTOd0MEVbjLlAkx4w4mbW84AdZq2TU1ZYzS-c/s2560/P1710856.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQnqMOVuJvieMzPWmvAGBELTdTflnxaaG646Zy6Cz4Vl7r4vod76v6e2v68-jPmIbkZS01-Cj5_b44X_ne0na_RKQmMhkgxyxJnPTxMFsZsP9XgSWOzCq2ScQnFMWwHIQdXgpqxzZbQjjY6ih0GkxXTOd0MEVbjLlAkx4w4mbW84AdZq2TU1ZYzS-c/s320/P1710856.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Venus and the Pleiades, in Taurus. 13/04</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b>5,000 Miles Cumulative Total: 5967.8 miles</b><br />2023 Total: 45.6 miles<br />Up Country Total: 5,487.1 miles<br />Solo Total: 5625.2 miles<br />5,000 in my 40s Total: 4557.6 miles</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Next Up: Exploring West Yorkshire with a New Sense of Purpose</div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Christopher Wrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09743749271457169317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527420385844253776.post-791382098859286752023-04-23T21:56:00.006+01:002023-05-21T18:28:27.782+01:00Rumination: The Tiers of Relative ProximityAnother weekend drops from the walking year as the bloom gathers and the pressure of balancing work and an active lifestyle keeps me in bed on Saturday morning, feeling drained and grabbing a couple of extra hours of sleep as a small bonus, stalling the season again though all is not lost as a result as there are still some minor creative endeavours to get involved in while we are resting up, which mostly involve directing my thoughts to where we might actually direct this twelfth walking year when I am feeling energetic enough to get myself going. This comes together thanks to having myself a new laptop to play with, replacing my previous one of almost nine years of service, one which is notionally a gaming PC, which I acquired thanks to it having a significantly more powerful processor which can actually handle running Google Maps, which my old machine absolutely loathed causing it to run obscenely slow to the point of absolute frustration, which led me to using Google Earth for my plotting purposes instead after drawing several routes that took almost as long to plot as they did to walk. Eleven seasons' worth of data was thus available to reassemble on two maps, the first being <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1EwfR-vLhDqZbu5Y--raSrLoCV6ZNo_Y&usp=sharing">The Ongoing Walking Career</a>, which needed to re-done as the ten layer limit on a MyMaps sheet rather scuppered my intent to have a layer for every walking season, though the extraordinarily high limit for plots and markers on a single layer means that I could still have a good couple of decades to add to that before it becomes so data-bust that only a computer with a god-tier processor and graphics card would be able to handle it. The second idea was one that came to me during the lockdown walks of 2020, when being confined to local circuits for three months had me expanding the scope of terrain that I'd seen when walking from home and got me thinking about how relatively close come locations were to my base in Morley, having blazed trails to many of the major settlements in West Yorkshire and encompassed areas of South Leeds and North Kirklees in my local travels, while other parts of the county still seemed rather remote, even as my Field of Walking Experience expanded into North and South Yorkshire and over the top of the Pennine into Lancashire.<span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /></div><div>This is what lead us to spend this weekend creating <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1mRrgBcEmPdIVzX-DPFz8A1ccSbax6Ew&usp=sharing">The Tiers of Relative Proximity</a>, or the Tiers of Relative Remoteness, if you prefer, reassembling eleven plus years' worth of data into tiers that describe the many trails that I have travelled in terms of closeness and distance from home, which amazingly encapsulates the entire county of West Yorkshire into only three tiers, with the first tier being all the paths that I have blazed out from Morley, in the direction of the major settlements abounding or from walking the many local circuits in recent years. This creates a surprisingly large local bubble as well as presenting a visual spider that reaches out to many corners of the county, which informs the nature of Tier 2, which either reaches out from the destinations attained in Tier 1, or features paths which have interacted with those in the first tier, which causes locations as disparate as Skipton, Harrogate, Barnsley and Littleborough to fall within only two journeys' worth of distance from home, making them relative proximate while being absolutely quite remote. Tier 3 thus stands as all the paths that interact with the routes and destinations in Tier 2, bringing York, Selby. Doncaster, Penistone and Hadfield close in the east and south, while Haslingden, Burnley, Kettlewell and Pateley Bridge are all discovered to be relatively nearby, only three treks away on the other side of the compass rose while also covering all of the Aire-Calder-Colne catchment's upper reaches and a fair old chunk of those of the Wharfe and Don as well, and touching the Nidd, Ouse and Dearne in Yorkshire, and the Etherow, Tame, Irwell and Calder on the Lancashire side. Tier 4 is surprisingly small, mostly composed of paths in distant quarters of South Yorkshire and the trails into Nidderdale and the Yorkshire Dales National Park, while Tier 5 delves deep into sub-Peak District Derbyshire, across to My Sister's place in the West Pennines and around the uppermost Wharfe, Ribble and Ure in the Dales, with Tier 6 reaching the North and Irish Sea coasts, while Tier 7 extends to both Cumbria and Leicestershire, with remainder of trails to Windermere, the Wolds and the Old Country lying beyond, as we as leaving the remaining twenty-plus unconnected trails looking slightly abandoned, further aboard.</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8_kf63mDGKwOEt9i1xuQh0sH8x0xneM_yKdbVrBwHrgY2udn14y3qeK8czQ7R1piIRc_NLxcJowelg2jskqasXBgOx3vW51HH6FpQleb80cxa3EtUi_FMfkjklvVB11fMAII2a4WJ5G24bfT43F5_dHYUfEF1kK7atUH6o3fmW0M9VAdSvWU34ZMT/s2560/P1720820.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1920" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8_kf63mDGKwOEt9i1xuQh0sH8x0xneM_yKdbVrBwHrgY2udn14y3qeK8czQ7R1piIRc_NLxcJowelg2jskqasXBgOx3vW51HH6FpQleb80cxa3EtUi_FMfkjklvVB11fMAII2a4WJ5G24bfT43F5_dHYUfEF1kK7atUH6o3fmW0M9VAdSvWU34ZMT/w150-h200/P1720820.JPG" width="150" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first casualty of 2023 is <br />my long-serving office chair.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;">From all this is where we start to finally assemble our plans for Season 12 and the remainder of 2023, as if we're going to be suffering post-Covid fatigue issues for a while, and all indications suggest that we are, we don't want to be spending time heading out too far from home, trying to further expand the Field of Walking Experience, as escape routes are harder to come by once out of the county and I'm not proving to be in much of a mood for early Saturday starts presently, which means that local trails will come into their own again as we plot the future. We can get a bit creative in this planning in order to move some trails and destinations between tiers, bringing some already established locales a bit closer to home, by walking from Morley and making some new Tier 1 routes which reach across Tier 2 and into Tier 3, thus moving them up a level, as well as giving us some new perspectives around the county and shuffling the relative proximity of trails beyond, plausibly bringing Nidderdale out of its relative distance without even going anywhere near it. Anyways. there's still plenty of places to aim at that I've not walked towards, like the Aire Valley on either side of Leeds, or anywhere on the far side of the city for that matter, while targeting South-West of Bradford, and South-East of Wakefield could shuffle the tiers further, as we await my body returning to some sort of functional normal, which looks like it isn't going to be any time soon, when we might approach the level lands in the east along the fall of the Aire, Went and Don, where the going is easy but the distances are rather extreme. Of course none of that will be happening soon, as I've got a long weekend away planned for the first of the three (3!) May Bank Holidays, as we head of Calderdale and Manchester for company, food and music with My Good Friends in Mytholmroyd, and exercise will be necessary after that as far too much sitting down this weekend has seen me breaking my office chair, proving to be no longer able to resist my not too inconsiderable middle-aged adult weight, failing not too catastrophically but rendering itself needing immediate replacement after a decade-plus of service, and I'll have to get comfortable on a different chair to do my many hours of blogging from now on.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>5,000 Miles Cumulative Total: 5967.8 miles</b></div><div>2023 Total: 45.6 miles</div><div>Up Country Total: 5,487.1 miles</div><div>Solo Total: 5625.2 miles</div><div>5,000 in my 40s Total: 4557.6 miles</div><div><br /></div><div>Next Up: A May Day weekend Jaunt to My Support Bubble.</div></div>Christopher Wrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09743749271457169317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527420385844253776.post-18823596028205255302023-04-16T16:17:00.001+01:002023-05-22T16:17:42.006+01:00Headingley to Menston 15/04/23<div style="text-align: left;"><b>8.8 miles, via Kirkstall, Kirkstall Abbey, Kirkstall Forge, Hawksworth Wood, </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Horsforth New Road Side, Low Fold, Park Mill, Low Green Rawdon, Nether Yeadon, </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b> Henshaw, New Scarborough, Nunroyd park, Guiseley, White Cross, and High Royds. </b></div><p style="text-align: left;">Having had three rest days over the Easter weekend, and only worked four days of the following week, we feel good enough to go again as the next weekend rolls around, giving us a seemingly rare occasion for a bit of Saturday walking, not that we seem to have schemed out 2023 yet, aside from having an idea of targeting a number of railway station that haven't been used as destinations over the last 11 years, and maybe threading all my trails for the season into a single continuous line that reaches all over Leeds district, an idea that's as fanciful as it is ridiculous, one that would be sure to tie me in mental knots. Regardless, we ride out to Headingley on this gloomy morning, alighting at 10.05am and feeling none of the warmth in the air that we might be anticipating this year as we target a long stretch of road that we haven't approached in full along the days of our walking trails, to be found down the drop of Kirkstall Lane and beyond the Morris Lane crossing, where new development emerge on our left on the way down to Kirkstall Lights, where we take a right turn by the leisure centre to immediately join our trajectory for the day, north-westerly on the A65 where Abbey Road has had it Beatles connection noted as it leads us on between the Abbey Mills and West End Inn, and below the drop of the terrace ends. Just around the corner lies Kirkstall Abbey, the most enduring historical pile in the city which we haven't seen from the main road side on the course of my travels on foot, so a different aspect is presented as we go by its north face, passing the crowds that have already gathered in it parkland and progressing on pat the Abbey House museum and the fields of Burley RUFC on the way on past the Vesper Gate inn and on along the roadside to the Kirkstall Forge milestone marker and the observation that hardly any further development has occurred on the forge site itself since we first passed this way in 2017, judging by what we can see over the high perimeter wall that we pass around.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb6MHXGhybSmizY1ZItIaeLRYBZA1y9qp38Tp3p79NfYPOHAstjl2xHDY5NDCgAa0Jyr74h5nsj3vIMRkN6Nt5JhisesCSlZnYKyq5jPmcMcO8Cmjdiuy8lr1D6PAeU9w_I8qYNbACfZZ7caLkCbdaTabJp_CukjapPOmLm8J_ekmekV0v9lwNIofF/s2560/P1710913.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb6MHXGhybSmizY1ZItIaeLRYBZA1y9qp38Tp3p79NfYPOHAstjl2xHDY5NDCgAa0Jyr74h5nsj3vIMRkN6Nt5JhisesCSlZnYKyq5jPmcMcO8Cmjdiuy8lr1D6PAeU9w_I8qYNbACfZZ7caLkCbdaTabJp_CukjapPOmLm8J_ekmekV0v9lwNIofF/s320/P1710913.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Developments afoot on the Kirkstall Lane Corner.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqoqOYGeLCMVU0NL605wu6cG69p1wmeBfqNn2cSqXrQurBqqj9JKenAIaYD0QTZy3_hedjqVrsAzkAvA_B2FJwwTnAN901WLrLsCj6PxoiuzLiIu9xNURvZ5KUdZKJWHjXYemIpyhSJ8qwEhQY0DxzJh7VsyhgdQJ_Ssrkt9QE3YhXC7xT7Fq64A5K/s2560/P1710935.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqoqOYGeLCMVU0NL605wu6cG69p1wmeBfqNn2cSqXrQurBqqj9JKenAIaYD0QTZy3_hedjqVrsAzkAvA_B2FJwwTnAN901WLrLsCj6PxoiuzLiIu9xNURvZ5KUdZKJWHjXYemIpyhSJ8qwEhQY0DxzJh7VsyhgdQJ_Ssrkt9QE3YhXC7xT7Fq64A5K/s320/P1710935.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Abbey Road Kirkstall acknowledges its influences.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZGctqULX3LLBCV1FeYVkVTB9ZB3ys76bvuwicv0fb7xnSRjVkzNX_pyjKPs2MSA4yrsUUMfKjdYWGO1L9goEJg4O8gDCX4z4CQPEvREpdXVfuzz2CyAeUGRmL4Bl90fmR0my0cT-Cw75u2Ssh1c73LEzimZl2LaBVqnx6-yE85rYZN3CJ0KEgK7x9/s2560/P1710970.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZGctqULX3LLBCV1FeYVkVTB9ZB3ys76bvuwicv0fb7xnSRjVkzNX_pyjKPs2MSA4yrsUUMfKjdYWGO1L9goEJg4O8gDCX4z4CQPEvREpdXVfuzz2CyAeUGRmL4Bl90fmR0my0cT-Cw75u2Ssh1c73LEzimZl2LaBVqnx6-yE85rYZN3CJ0KEgK7x9/s320/P1710970.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kirkstall Abbey from the road-side.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXe_QEoPn0vnUb6TVi9i02fAdHFN_x5nQGsqUoG0bB5sjhbtpAVRRTk1bBpgHT4c8JIGjSVOHmrY1AVFXp72CvFI_SkapIGyH4hVEtU7yCADVcKDQPyOLecrFzw4CE3CdRAvaZENboEahuinuOXV515axKUwV2S0-OCqIJBtWdbA1YAA7-RLnrI367/s2560/P1720013.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXe_QEoPn0vnUb6TVi9i02fAdHFN_x5nQGsqUoG0bB5sjhbtpAVRRTk1bBpgHT4c8JIGjSVOHmrY1AVFXp72CvFI_SkapIGyH4hVEtU7yCADVcKDQPyOLecrFzw4CE3CdRAvaZENboEahuinuOXV515axKUwV2S0-OCqIJBtWdbA1YAA7-RLnrI367/s320/P1720013.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kirkstall Forge, where nothing is developing.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">There's not a whole lot of greenery coming on yet as we pass below the urban forestry of Hawksworth Wood, looking bare as it looms over the hillside and around Cow Beck, which is passed over as we make the transition into Horsforth, finding another ne stretch of the A65 to pace as we rise up through the rock cutting that starts our push above and away from the River Aire, taking us above the fall of Newlay and presenting us as across the valley from Bramley and Rodley as we rise on into the distinctly stoney parts of the shopping parades and terraces of Horsforth New Road side, with the A65 just keeping on going uphill. Past the Fleece inn and New Fold farm, we get suggestions of the cloud breaking, which seems rather appropriate as we arrive at the edge of the de facto city, passing over the A6120 Ring Road as it rises up from the river crossing, noting the horse sculpture on the roundabout and resuming the adventuring along the A65 as we get clear views over the fields to the south to put us in context across from Rodley and Calverley across the valley, with the suburban edge petering out on the north side as we are drawn on, into the woods around Rawdon crematorium and out to the passage over the path of the Leeds Country Way as it progresses southwest to northeast. A bus shelter offers as a space for a watering break as the sunshine makes a breakthrough completely changing the feel of the day before we follow Leeds Road onwards and pass below the suburban edge of Rawdon and around the Airedale International Air Conditioning plant, with our view expanding upstream as sightlines emerge to Idle Hill and Ovenden Moor, and beyond which gives me amazement that new scope on the landscape can still be gained in West Yorkshire, before we get the surprising reveal to the southeast of direct sight of Morley, its towers and spires prominent on the Aire-Calder watershed.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdszaa_OUf-SFwuf-9cTFPaDkYjtWD05ErTDW737lXE4EA8WjA9b4p2WGx6-PcEkyGvK5TaMYaYFByOIrzASOOP0eKD5Ef3mHVAWe0LRBqKt5YGDj1cMAL1L3pw5dXKakykL7CGmhkK_Pznjtq8DqiGHs8SRTm5EtX8j9HOsT68RxeSjAa7Z0MWWSW/s2560/P1720053.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdszaa_OUf-SFwuf-9cTFPaDkYjtWD05ErTDW737lXE4EA8WjA9b4p2WGx6-PcEkyGvK5TaMYaYFByOIrzASOOP0eKD5Ef3mHVAWe0LRBqKt5YGDj1cMAL1L3pw5dXKakykL7CGmhkK_Pznjtq8DqiGHs8SRTm5EtX8j9HOsT68RxeSjAa7Z0MWWSW/s320/P1720053.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Rock Cutting, New Road Side.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOQfOBpaaDV5jpgBKm51BQaNh-zuZ2VsfkO1f-Zc5t--whbgLbZt0_3khbHa6qhDWAeBXUhO2HvA-4lujwacbQehQn7wlTRXwXN-1Ag4lRy5tUEenHcFkVFYQ8d_Kp1aa3cy-qjBEtnqw2OIumAZkddbAvz8lGcziib3BP7SsOxz269eZhRVWX8zLL/s2560/P1720086.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOQfOBpaaDV5jpgBKm51BQaNh-zuZ2VsfkO1f-Zc5t--whbgLbZt0_3khbHa6qhDWAeBXUhO2HvA-4lujwacbQehQn7wlTRXwXN-1Ag4lRy5tUEenHcFkVFYQ8d_Kp1aa3cy-qjBEtnqw2OIumAZkddbAvz8lGcziib3BP7SsOxz269eZhRVWX8zLL/s320/P1720086.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Horsforth New Road Side.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhivfchsUOHKm6i1W5afxxN36W-YXuWpfIPUCnHUrpS1rX8dQQy_HioXyGWsCaKWjRtqpCDnOxmTIeLXGj4t2hfGAjb-A0lJXZ_Ng9WNSmjq2TNKfsNgyzpcN9LdygyFhgP-y8T2pOfEchY6BMBQbos0IvRM9CVCpy01PNmR6dRiOA5ZoMLmmdHGUgc/s2560/P1720132.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhivfchsUOHKm6i1W5afxxN36W-YXuWpfIPUCnHUrpS1rX8dQQy_HioXyGWsCaKWjRtqpCDnOxmTIeLXGj4t2hfGAjb-A0lJXZ_Ng9WNSmjq2TNKfsNgyzpcN9LdygyFhgP-y8T2pOfEchY6BMBQbos0IvRM9CVCpy01PNmR6dRiOA5ZoMLmmdHGUgc/s320/P1720132.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aire Valley view from the Horsforth Fringe.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWAEeHXcFNsvlxFPHeU0Vevo8EgdkWju_PhT1s_lQYpDMuiduGCzlhy_lQpOD6lIlTRVkWEuXJCjU3xQlCafVP6gwACAaxbT6jZI6CX3UIioh-i7_s8QgSZnaipHcd0uGh4vorQlYCHKAvlcdr-j2DzulhmIMzYBQxfmCfFToqKo_IQ-9kjptu7-co/s2560/P1720156.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWAEeHXcFNsvlxFPHeU0Vevo8EgdkWju_PhT1s_lQYpDMuiduGCzlhy_lQpOD6lIlTRVkWEuXJCjU3xQlCafVP6gwACAaxbT6jZI6CX3UIioh-i7_s8QgSZnaipHcd0uGh4vorQlYCHKAvlcdr-j2DzulhmIMzYBQxfmCfFToqKo_IQ-9kjptu7-co/s320/P1720156.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Woodland space between Horsforth and Rawdon.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkF2TblJb-T-FFeF5g-3zfEyyK4flg4FzlsqxTVwx3F5HxmmtzUqhjxiUuArPEFsqcGt5aQ9wOYWcZRtRh0QFx1RZleSNHJrj24mGSSiV3l3BOOWMZMvhztFoN8OuyIdG9s4IpTR_dXwgDY-sednlhnrUZTfX3-gjl_-KJyUfxYM-BGtQGHvLGU9J4/s2560/P1720173.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkF2TblJb-T-FFeF5g-3zfEyyK4flg4FzlsqxTVwx3F5HxmmtzUqhjxiUuArPEFsqcGt5aQ9wOYWcZRtRh0QFx1RZleSNHJrj24mGSSiV3l3BOOWMZMvhztFoN8OuyIdG9s4IpTR_dXwgDY-sednlhnrUZTfX3-gjl_-KJyUfxYM-BGtQGHvLGU9J4/s320/P1720173.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Suburban Rawdon, above Park Mill.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDRG2YesS9BJu2qyoKpRPUAieDqvsZgr66Lt5fWC4ZHHO_1lUjX0KnBmEo1_F9xSV9Gy6oJO-cgB6kYgjlJ_yzTGpMPwsT9lvWv3ErHL_eUepD1yLwcGKfzWMkCyoE6mDxwpYGSDlAYBvsx_HzENUVV4sPqFxOaJmMnIrzK_OIbqiMGgBrzwjhECy9/s2560/P1720206.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDRG2YesS9BJu2qyoKpRPUAieDqvsZgr66Lt5fWC4ZHHO_1lUjX0KnBmEo1_F9xSV9Gy6oJO-cgB6kYgjlJ_yzTGpMPwsT9lvWv3ErHL_eUepD1yLwcGKfzWMkCyoE6mDxwpYGSDlAYBvsx_HzENUVV4sPqFxOaJmMnIrzK_OIbqiMGgBrzwjhECy9/s320/P1720206.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bramley Park mast, and distant Morley.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: left;">It would be very easy to get caught up in these views, as we press on above the Low Green farmstead and hamlet, as well as the historic Rawdon Hall among the fields above the valley, but we have an urban landscape to return to as we pass the Conservative Club (advertising a show by a 'Good Female Vocalist') and the Rawdon Golf, Lawn Tennis & Padel club (which is definitely a sport I've never heard of), ahead of the War memorial garden and the shopping parade ahead of the old Harrogate Road crossing and Micklefield park, where the road starts to descend after so long going uphill as it passes the stone terrace ends and gives us sight towards Otley Chevin. We come down to Nether Yeadon by the traffic island on the A658, where the Benton Park Methodist church, Sainsburys Local and JCT600 cluster opposite the one tower block in the area, down the hill from Yeadon itself, with the stone house and suburbia landscape resuming as New Road carries on, taking us through Henshaw and past the Woolpack inn, the local RAFA and the low-rise estate on the edge of Guiseley, before we come upon the old MR Yeadon branch, which we've passed below on our travels but now needs to be observed from above, lying ahead of the RC church at New Scarborough and the passage of Dibb Lane. We cross maybe our fifth traversal point on this otherwise unseen stretch of the A65, before we pass around the southern perimeter of Nunroyd park, with its tree-lined green spaces and playing fields, and come down upon the Westside retail park on the Nunroyd Mills site, which despite being somewhat larger is easily mistaken for the more modestly scaled Guiseley retail park, to be found further along the Leeds Road, beyond the mural on the gable end of the Yorkshire Rose inn, celebrating the relative achievements of Revie, Wilkinson and Bielsa with LUFC, and across the railway line that burrows below the tangle of lanes at the south end of south end of Guiseley's main street</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSPpCAYwYLZ_Pp9tk6Lk6pWKs_RfRpmZuvwwx3Dcj89bAC9oQdjdRPqtSJA2SxDLa_blZ0UZRscv0f_kQraZdfiUlRholhwNghyNsn08vHUEo7n__rGSVZmeyNO9hZ5dSkSHwLphhVYL9Ze7slZcYlgyU4XjnOg-96ExXFYqvZst_-24jHDSG-IJwZ/s2560/P1720226.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfiIngm_oAwvkHl7VCbl-JIqo2s0V6B4qpkJZHYqMPnwelnjijHGMCkJZsG22TFXk7MJhVarOLOHxWJQXGchQWVhDliihXDEnwaNudYdvm3NyVuov4ABDY-SYYszlYMVFT07BeaFb7OvfpAJ4AR6xVhbEeI7nrrMzXR0fB5Z8eqWZOl179uza1pOY4/s320/P1720292.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Benton Park chapel, Nether Yeadon.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu4DTIZ1xQQDuoNsBKOcn_gcxCkdhSfuKykdCoSjEnkNlO8dhzajIOaPsbNA1K_5uY1pCY3YYKX-rmkkD98o2mFRK78aHIw-35pcNEjjcy35kfL9Cp-5PF1xthVdiJSTHv6KA0rOUxRtx9o0-UryZPrGcLhZWraD2rwXgNchX-2_WCgdROoEcPTfYa/s2560/P1720323.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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Admittedly, it's a bit early for me marking my 6,000 career miles, but getting any amount of miles down has felt like an achievement this year, and all that fat will keep me charged for the final push, as the sunshine unsuccessfully fights to gloom as we process on, along the A65 as it passes by St Mary's RC primary school and the wholly redeveloped High Royds hospital, in the cleft that lies between Otley Chevin, close to the east and Rombalds moor, further to the west, and the remains of the private railway that once served the County Lunatic Asylum have to be noted before we depart our companion of the last 3+ hours to head for the finish line. Arriving in Menston, and Bradford district for that matter, we turn onto Bingley Road to make for the path across the middle of Menston Park, with sightlines giving us a sense of a Wharfedale horizon before we reach the end of the Main Street, which progress along for one block before we turn down the suburban fall of Cleasby Road, clearly directing us down to the valley that we haven't done any pacing in since 2018, before we meet the railway station beyond it road, finally making Menston a destination on my travels almost 11 years after first using it a jump-off point, all done at 1.50pm and feeling like that's honestly as far and as fast as I could have managed for the day today.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigclL9T4PiCPUSPdnrXpTXnq91WetdjorIwisj-RLghUhes8kQ-7g-eGAEuZdEF5nM7je7ycJ_H_GHjj4LYeY3mcBBpjjwpZUbuwQqlrX9kT1Q0DKmgNsVAj19BpPGlMps1q_OECMzKjepJyHpKIgztIyn9X2TOQJ8-bZDS4VOzbR7mh4hYYdDdlll/s2560/P1720446.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicSn5iX5fhHfJHP-Di4i04BpvON6cXqm2DJpo-B0O_YiFV86hFLQpKGauA8kvoGDTbTkuSLas2iaAgc88vs-V6Nd13kdbju7KSoG-dElvVKyiPKQ7gY-XhAxTUn_92OPhVuhZWzwAVKmbw9BrF1FJeZ8-gJAQpPOQ-CA8k9QdFOpdvBqGtCVNuEx8f/s320/P1720537.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Any Activity in 2023 feels like an Achievement worth celebrating,<br />at the White Cross Wetherby Whaler.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIjpbtE_gKhjGsBB78Pu6Tc8n2Cwixx0rsQPrhIeHokQaEH_SqCgjf7r_KzTwJ3YW5uE6jheNLgl880qidPG1xFkQaq878yxejJr7F-S-lqX0bwg7FjcFe_8wU1-FhOuV0r5kxDvJJRY-MsBUsfCycs-QSqxF6PyDcvRsd8cqZlU-Bz_ZoOXlqBTTu/s2560/P1720583.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIjpbtE_gKhjGsBB78Pu6Tc8n2Cwixx0rsQPrhIeHokQaEH_SqCgjf7r_KzTwJ3YW5uE6jheNLgl880qidPG1xFkQaq878yxejJr7F-S-lqX0bwg7FjcFe_8wU1-FhOuV0r5kxDvJJRY-MsBUsfCycs-QSqxF6PyDcvRsd8cqZlU-Bz_ZoOXlqBTTu/s320/P1720583.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The High Royds Hospital railway bridge remnant, Otley Road.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOpicQjFSqEfbYA-Tf6kc2VIeGIXfdlXpZ4BKMKSSzM4NgcGPNGCF3TFOwuF7ZrRee9TQHwB1wLT-kHoc2dRSEsdeCnaUsGU1sEEbn5QiWCHJ_BLd8omdahSqzsQnf3zza1fckzy149fMegV23PdKBUkUn2GJkT2XnLBzwtPZD8YA3nspFLthYNOJj/s2560/P1720616.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOpicQjFSqEfbYA-Tf6kc2VIeGIXfdlXpZ4BKMKSSzM4NgcGPNGCF3TFOwuF7ZrRee9TQHwB1wLT-kHoc2dRSEsdeCnaUsGU1sEEbn5QiWCHJ_BLd8omdahSqzsQnf3zza1fckzy149fMegV23PdKBUkUn2GJkT2XnLBzwtPZD8YA3nspFLthYNOJj/s320/P1720616.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Menston Park.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUeMNZQD7bprx7tsbqfieemzzNkM1RnZuTS5rHuSDdASc0QXrCoShLf6dJ3P4zUOHGfvD2514hnuoo1seEaGFT-xY7ZEF3T617v3Dj6oLOQzv4G0ZEP9afVOhwQAxy6Gb-zOK6rqEakfxJAIY5iK9SggGIpvNo_ZbfnUseeWa8qWOOwl_uvjptpvY0/s2560/P1720652.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUeMNZQD7bprx7tsbqfieemzzNkM1RnZuTS5rHuSDdASc0QXrCoShLf6dJ3P4zUOHGfvD2514hnuoo1seEaGFT-xY7ZEF3T617v3Dj6oLOQzv4G0ZEP9afVOhwQAxy6Gb-zOK6rqEakfxJAIY5iK9SggGIpvNo_ZbfnUseeWa8qWOOwl_uvjptpvY0/s320/P1720652.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cleasby Road, Menston, descending into Wharfedale.</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>5,000 Miles Cumulative Total: 5967.8 miles</b></div><div>2023 Total: 45.6 miles</div><div>Up Country Total: 5,487.1 miles</div><div>Solo Total: 5625.2 miles</div><div>5,000 in my 40s Total: 4557.6 miles</div><div><br /></div><div>Next Up: <strike>The Path from Menston Leads Us Where, Then?</strike> Or Not...</div><div><br /></div></div>Christopher Wrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09743749271457169317noreply@blogger.com0