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The farmhouse in the distance is called Clough. Taken from SE154241.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>Cottages at Clough, northeast of Brighouse, looking south from the green lane section of Clough Lane on the Brontė Way.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>This was part of an extensive network of mineral railways linking various coal and iron ore mines owned by the Low Moor Company with the canal at Brighouse and their furnaces at North Bierley.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>A row of houses in a little valley amongst the fields.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Farm bridge over the stream at Rock Hole near Thornhills, east of Brighouse, looking north from Jay House Lane.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>In the centre of the first floor there is an original mullioned window, and to the left a new one made to match. Downstairs on the right two of the mullions have been removed in the past, probably before the building was listed Grade II. The far gable-end has stone coping on the edge of the roof and a kneeler at the lower end with a little dome-shaped finial. The doorway in the porch has the date 1647.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>Old buildings, mainly 17C, being restored as houses with mullioned windows to match the original ones. Birkhouse Lane goes off to the left and used to go to Birkby Lane, but is no longer visible although still marked on the OS Explorer map.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>Several roadside trees has been felled along this lane recently, presumably because they were considered to be potentially dangerous, and this is by far the biggest. I hope that the timber can be used.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>This lane is Jay House Lane, named after this farm, but was Thornhills Lane up to some time after 1945. Three lanes meet at Thornhills and this presumably caused confusion.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>The old course of Woolrow Lane runs along the top of the bank on the other side of the makeshift fence shown in the picture. The public footpath was rerouted by the council slightly downhill to the west in 2003 after part of the road and the adjoining wall collapsed.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>Birkdale Farmhouse is a mid-17C Grade II listed house with two attached cottages. The photo shows the back, which faces the road. The front can be seen here: http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/images/33/87/L338772.jpg The windows have stone mullions between the small panes. The ground floor windows of the front also have transoms, ie like a mullion but horizontal and dividing the windows into eight panes.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>Lower Birkhouse is on the left. This is a 17C house with an 18C wing, originally a separate cottage, though possibly connected with textile manufacture as it has a long window in the gable.
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