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Bolster Moor, about 2km West of Golcar near Huddersfield is about 275m (900ft) ASL. Colne Valley is filled with cloud and Crossland Moor can be seen 'floating' at the other side.
©Mark Mercer
Looking up at Upper Wellhouse, Westwood House and Headwell Green at the top, from Linthwaite.
©Nevin Arrow
Dist:0.2km north<br/>This photograph shows how the ridge slopes from east (left) to west. A chapel at the extreme right is on the edge of the escarpment. Most of the hamlet of Bolster Moor can be seen, the houses being mostly strung out alongside a triangle of roads, with just a few short side streets. In the foreground, a free-range hen shares the field with cows and sheep.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km north<br/>From the name of the road, I suspect that this was a Friends' Meeting House. The plaque is no longer legible.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km north<br/>The owner of the house to which it is attached informed me that this lean-to building was a former post office.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km north<br/>There are many weaver's cottages in this area, often in terraces at right-angles to the road.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km north<br/>A view looking down the steep hillside of Crimble Clough, with Slaithwaite in the bottom of the Colne Valley in the middle distance and the Pennine ridge above Marsden on the horizon.
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.3km north<br/>North of its junction with New Lane
©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Another view from Westwood Edge overlooking the Colne Valley
©Stanley Walker
Dist:0.3km north<br/>View of the Colne Valley taken from Westwood Edge Bolster Moor
©Stanley Walker
Dist:0.3km north<br/>The former post office is behind the hedge on the corner with Bolster Moor Road, which goes to the left. On the right is the top of Bank End Road.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km north<br/>That is its present name. The name carved on the gable is Sunny Bank Baptist Chapel, 1888.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km north<br/>One feature of the West Yorkshire Pennines is a rounded plateau or ridge projecting from a hill. This photograph shows the eastern side of a ridge sloping gently from east (left) to west, where it ends in a steep escarpment (not in this view). Heath House Mill is in the distance on the left, near the head of a steep valley. The straight roads were probably set out by enclosure commissioners. The land is quite high, around 270m AOD, but there are many houses. The view is from Pike Law Road on the slopes of Scapegoat Hill.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km north<br/>The old lanes keep diverging from and crossing the straight roads that I assume were set out by an enclosure award.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km north<br/>Looking down from where the gradient eases towards the junction with Slades Road.
©Humphrey Bolton

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