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<br/>Looking south east across Sandwith Moor from Norwood Lane, near Bland Hill
©Chris Heaton
Dist:0.8km east<br/>
©Roger Nunn
Dist:0.9km southwest<br/>In the far distance (right) is Menwith Hill, the world's largest monitoring communications station. Although officially called RAF Menwith Hill, it is actually run by the US National Security Agency (NSA). Known by locals as 'The Golf Balls'....it's all very secret!
©Roger Nunn
Dist:0.9km northwest<br/>This photo looks south from Bland Hill. The road (B6451)is the Otley-Pateley Bridge road and the conifers stand at the top of Norwood Edge.
©Roger Nunn
Dist:1.0km northwest<br/>Bland Hill, as the map suggests, is just a small hamlet at the junction of the B6451 and a minor road that leads to Beckwithshaw and Harrogate.
©Roger Nunn
Dist:1.0km west<br/>A typical cottage in the area which is used for B&B.
©Carol Walker
Dist:1.0km northwest<br/>Showing the Victorian post box and the telephone box. The former should remain here for a while yet, but how much longer will the latter survive?
©Andy Stephenson
Dist:1.0km north<br/>This is the former Chapel and Schoolroom at Brown Bank, I believe that it is now a private dwelling.
©Mick Melvin
Dist:1.1km north<br/>
©Roger Nunn
Dist:1.1km south<br/>A 'new' view of the radio mast on Norwood Edge as a result of the clearance of part of the conifer plantation that used to surround it.
©Roger Nunn
Dist:1.1km northwest<br/>As the name on the gate suggests we are quite close to Swinsty reservoir here.
©Steve Partridge
Dist:1.1km south<br/>Located at the western end of Stainburn Forest on a gritstone boulder at an elevation of 291 metres. The boulder is now in a clearing of felled trees but is hidden from the main track running southwest through the middle of the forest. The Forestry Commission has built a single-track mountain biking trail that runs past the trig pillar.
©michael ely
Dist:1.2km north<br/>Cowshed at Brown Bank Farm
©Roger Nunn
Dist:1.3km south<br/>This is a large metal structure, not unlike the top half of the Eiffel Tower. Its purpose is unknown to me. It stands high above the Washburn Valley, and can be seen from miles around. It is visible from Tunnel How Hill in Leeds, from the North York Moor escarpment and from Greenhow. I believe this is the old BT microwave tower, named for the nearby Hunter's Stones.
©Chris Heaton
Dist:1.3km south<br/>This shows a small ruined building close to the edge of the woods. It is named after a cobbler who lived at this lonely spot many years ago.
©Roger Nunn

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