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This is taken in the hamlet of Thornhills, on Thornhills Lane looking north at SE152238.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking down Cam Lane, off High Moor Lane (the A643).
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Dist:0.2km<br/>This is along the far edge of the field. Trucks were lowered down the steep incline into Brighouse on wire ropes. The winding gear was at Brake Head at the top corner of the field.
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©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.3km<br/>View from the lane, taken close to the Calderdale Way Path looking across farmland to Waring Green, Brighouse. St Martin's Church, Brighouse is in the centre of the shot.
©Tim Marchant
Dist:0.3km<br/>The lane becomes suburban near to Clifton Common (the A643). The semi-detached houses are of the type with a long narrow tiled roof over the door and bay window. They were built between about 1912 and 1940.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km<br/>This is on the line of the mineral tramway from Low Moor via Scholes to the canal at Brighouse.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>This is at the junction of Clifton Common, Highmoor Lane (both A643) and Towngate. When W B Crump wrote 'Huddersfield highways down the ages' in 1949 there was a guidestone, dates 1787, at this junction. The directions are: Leeds 11 miles, Elland 4 miles and Barnsley 20 miles. It is interesting that the road through Clifton village led to Barnsley. The route would be via Cooper Bridge, Colne Bridge, Grange Moor and Flockton.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking towards Clifton across the route of the Calderdale Way from the edge of the woods on Oak Hill Bank.
©Ian Paterson
Dist:0.4km<br/>The Lodge near Holly Farm on Thornhills Lane east of Brighouse, looking north-northeast from the Calderdale Way.
©Paul Glazzard
Dist:0.4km<br/>Recently refurbished.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km<br/>The cottage with the 'man, gun and dog' weathervane has some interesting blocked-up openings in the wall facing the road. The pub is the Armytage Arms.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km<br/>At SE157232, looking south. Here the sign for the Armytage Arms is silhouetted against the late afternoon sky. Beyond the pub, Towngate is on the left, then the main A643 road descends into the valley. On the right there are council bungalows, then the first of a long series of 19C terrace houses.
©Humphrey Bolton
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©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.4km<br/>This house was built in the grounds of Brighouse Sanatorium, an isolation hospital. It was not shown on the 1907 map but was built before 1940.
©Humphrey Bolton

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