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A house and a farm between the two lanes of the motorway on the M62 west of Huddersfield.
©Nevin Arrow
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©Nicholas Mutton
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©Nicholas Mutton
Dist:0.2km<br/>There is a picnic area nearby, and walks in the woodland of Booth Dean Clough. The road closure is because the edge of the road has subsided.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km<br/>Booth Wood Reservoir and the M62 taken from Scammonden bridge.
©andrew ringrose
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking back from one of the access tunnels to Stott Hall Farm.
©John Illingworth
Dist:0.3km<br/>Still a mile to go to Rishworth centre; this is Booth Wood. Not many motorists were slowing down!
©John Slater
Dist:0.3km<br/>This is a close-up picture - it was so so windy.
©Nicholas Mutton
Dist:0.3km<br/>The iconic farmhouse between the carriageways of the M62 near its summit at Windy Hill. A rare view west from the public footpath that passes under the motorway and provides egress for the farmer.
©michael ely
Dist:0.3km<br/>Compare this view with [[801959]] taken when the reservoir was below top water level. Here it was overflowing in the winter. The smaller jet of water at the bottom is the compensation flow (to guarantee a minimum flow in the river downstream of the dam). Unlike the nearby Ryburn dam [[1160202]] where the whole downstream face of the dam is stepped to break up the energy of the flow, at Boothwood the face of the concrete dam is smooth, and with a modest overflow rate like this the energy is dissipated in the stilling pool. The blocks in the foreground come into play at times of very heavy overflow to absorb more of the energy of the flow.
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is the over spill at Booth Wood Reservoir near Rishworth after days of heavy rain. The reservoir was built in 1971 at a cost of two million pounds to supply Wakefield with an extra 2,540,000 gallons of water a day. To see the reservoir from a distance look at [[313415]]
©Paul Anderson
Dist:0.4km<br/>This leads to the farm that is between the split carriageways of the M62. The access road is a public footpath that goes under the far motorway carriageway and climbs the hillside to Saddleworth Road.
©Humphrey Bolton
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©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.4km<br/>The water was being forced over the weir by wind-driven waves, producing fascinating patterns on the spillway.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km<br/>On the other side is the M62 motorway and Stott Hall Farm.
©Bill Boaden

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