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This area of grazing land on the lower hillside east of the village of Greenfield is - by the standards of Saddleworth - quite heavily wooded.
©Michael Fox
An old weavers' cottage. The outside stairs once led to a 'takin-in' door. This gave access to the working part - loom-shop - of the building without the need to pass through the living areas.
©Michael Fox
The dramatic result of a temperature inversion, with fog filling the Tame and Greenfield valleys.
©Michael Fox
A small stream makes its way downhill towards Tunstead to the southwest of Pots and Pans.
©Keith Williamson
Dist:0.1km<br/>Looking in a northeasterly direction from Tunstead Lane to the east of Greenfield. In the distance, at SE010051, is the obelisk of the Pots and Pans war memorial.
©Keith Williamson
Dist:0.1km<br/>Looking in an easterly direction down Tunstead Lane to the east of Greenfield
©Keith Williamson
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©Colin Park
Dist:0.1km<br/>Beeches, sycamores and hawthorns are prevalent in this tributary valley on the eastern fringes of Greenfield.
©Michael Fox
Dist:0.3km<br/>Dick Clough, Greenfield. Noon Sun Hill is (ironically) obscuring the sun, which has just set.
©Michael Fox
Dist:0.3km<br/>A green lane which goes round the flank of Alderman's Hill.
©Bill Boaden
Dist:0.3km<br/>Taken from Poppas Lane, near Yarns Hill. This area of gnarled hawthorn trees is a local beauty spot - in summer, at least!
©Michael Fox
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©Chris Wimbush
Dist:0.3km<br/>A perfect winter's afternoon on this hillside above Greenfield.
©Michael Fox
Dist:0.3km<br/>The 1500 feet high Alphin Pike dominates the southern skyline
©Michael Fox
Dist:0.4km<br/>Settlement is recorded at this hillside location in the fourteenth century.
©Michael Fox

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