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Taken from the railway viaduct. The group of houses, on Colne Bank Lane, is called Padanarum. To the right a walled bridleway called Round Hill Lane climbs the hillside. The high hill on the right is the summit of Dalton Bank.

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Joe Kayes Bridge and Ladgrave Lock on the Huddersfield Broad Canal, looking south.

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Dist:0.1km<br/>An old lane that became a bridleway rather than a road.

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Dist:0.2km<br/>Quoting from Wikipedia: "Elena Vyacheslavovna Mukhina (Russian: Елена Вячеславовна Мухина) (June 1, 1960 � December 22, 2006), born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, was a former Soviet gymnast who won the All-Around title at the 1978 World Championships at Strasbourg, France. Her career was on the rise and she was widely touted as the next great gymnastics star until a 1979 broken leg left her out of several competitions, and the recovery from that injury combined with pressure to master a dangerous and difficult tumbling move caused her to fall and break her neck just two weeks before the opening of the 1980 Summer Olympics, leaving her permanently quadriplegic just one month past the age of 20." She has some faithful fans near here; the original inscription had evidently faded, and it has later been retouched.

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Dist:0.2km<br/>Here the hillside is pasture, further south it is steeper and mostly wooded.

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Dist:0.2km<br/>The footpath goes directly to Colne Bridge, on the Dalton side of the Kirkheaton boundary.

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Dist:0.3km<br/>Beyond it is the bridge carrying Colne Bank Lane.

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Dist:0.3km<br/>This leads down from the eastern end of Bradley Viaduct into woodland next to the River Colne.

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Dist:0.3km<br/>A recently-opened section from Bradley viaduct to Colne Bank Lane.

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Dist:0.3km<br/>now the Calder Valley Greenway - a cycleway

©Nigel Homer

Dist:0.4km<br/>Graffiti on brick multi arch bridge, apparently built to service Bradley Colliery, now carries the Calder Valley greenway.

©Steve Fareham

Dist:0.4km<br/>Seen from the Bradley Viaduct � Kirkheaton on the left bank, Bradley on the right.

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Dist:0.4km<br/>This was built c.1884 in the period of 'railway mania' to provide additional capacity for the Manchester to Leeds route. It has recently been made into a cycleway, part of Kirklees Council's Calder Valley Greenway (Sustrans Route 66).

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