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The buildings at Hard Ing taken from the track to Rocking Hall near to Green Sike.

©Mick Melvin

Dist:0.5km<br/>Inflow wall of Aked's Dam, Rocking Moor.
Behind photographer are remains of weir and ford (visible on "old map" websites).
The Dam wall is cut open in the middle where the original sluice would have been.
The area of West End had a number of water-powered Flax Linnen Mills.
Aked's Dam fed Harry's Dam (still there today).

©Rick Carn

Dist:0.5km<br/>View of inflow wall. Sluice was in middle hole, weir top left.

©Rick Carn

Dist:0.5km<br/>Looking north across the marsh area.

©Rick Carn

Dist:0.5km<br/>Large boulder at the right hand inflow head of Aked's Dam.
The breached Dam Head is now all that remains, the outline of the Dam 'pond' still visible now as marshland.
The area and streams support a good population of European Dippers, an amazing bird that can dive, walk and run underwater.
One appears on my picture of the outflow 'waterfall' of Harry's Dam.

©Rick Carn

Dist:0.5km<br/>View down into hole of former Dam wall, Green Sike flowing left to right of photo.
Historic maps show the Dam intact, but recent ones show only structure of wall.

©Rick Carn

Dist:0.5km<br/>Outfow of Dam head viewed SW from bend in Green Sike.
The hole in the Dam wall clearly visible.

©Rick Carn

Dist:0.5km<br/>Part of the track that runs from Spittle Ings House to Rocking Hall

©Chris Heaton

Dist:0.6km<br/>Part of the moorland track between Rocking Hall and Spittle Ings House

©Chris Heaton

Dist:0.8km<br/>Green Sike flows down from the former Aked's Dam, and through the wall.
The stream flows to the left of photo. In the middle of the photo is the earth bank which forms to the right of photo a leat whereby the water could be diverted to bypass Harry's Dam completely.
The sluice was at the ford/wall crossing.

©Rick Carn

Dist:0.8km<br/>Visible on Google map/satellite, this constructed channel allowed Green Sike to bypass Harry's Dam.

©Rick Carn

Dist:0.8km<br/>Pastures and farm buildings seen from moorland near Ramsgill Head

©Chris Heaton

Dist:0.9km<br/>Inflow to Harry's Dam. The 'path' centre of photo is the wall of the leat which allowed the inflow to divert past Harry's dam to join Capelshaw Beck without entering it.
These are substantial engineering and stoneworks used to power the West End Mills.
There appears to be a permanent good heavy flow for a small-scale turbine/hydro power.

©Rick Carn

Dist:0.9km<br/>Harry's Dam is a man made fishpond.

©Mick Melvin

Dist:0.9km<br/>Ford through the beck at Bramley Head.
The beck flows into Thruscross Reservoir to the east.

©Clare Smith

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