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Dist:0.1km north<br/>This relic of the past is just off the A641 Bradford Road. It passes the back of the Ash Brow pub and meets Lightridge Road.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.1km north<br/>
©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.2km north<br/>
©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.2km north<br/>It is only a few days since I took my photograph of ASDA, and here is a change in the making already!
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km north<br/>A mixed development, council (?) flats on the left and private bungalows on the right.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Lucky children having such a large playing field behind the school, which is off Lightridge Road and is seen here from Jilly Royd Lane. Although called Fixby School it is just over the old township boundary.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Tesco and Sainsbury have stores near to the town centres of Brighouse and Huddersfield, and this big ASDA store is half-way between them, in the suburbs.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km north<br/>The footpath leads down via two alternative routes to Bradford Road. These paths did not exist before the housing development took place, and were presumably provided to give a short cut to the bus stop (and pub?).
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km north<br/>
©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.3km north<br/>A former farmhouse with barn behind, the tall arched doorway now blocked (there is another on the other side). The house has an alarming growth of ivy on it.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km north<br/>The footpath up to Lightridge Road starts in front of the nursery building and passes to the right of it.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Here trees have grown on the waste land beside the path, and a new wooden fence has been erected to give a garden more privacy. The building in the centre is the nursery, the front of which is shown on another photo.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km north<br/>This footpath descends the steep hillside with several right-angle bends, one of which can be seen in this photo.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Here there is a sharp bend as the road crosses the valley of Allison Dike (Dike is a frequent word for a stream around here).
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km north<br/>A public footpath runs straight through this area, and I was surprised to find that much of the material was used concrete paving flags.
©Humphrey Bolton

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