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Just one gatepost left of what was once a fine set of gates presented to the club in 1951,formed in 1823 the club was one of the first in the area not at this ground but one nearer to the Hall,the club in its time has also provided more players for the county than any other club in the area in fact in 1874 six of them were in the Yorkshire team.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking back to Houses Hill
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Dist:0.4km<br/>Dates from 1814.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>This was a Wesleyan chapel first built in 1814 and rebuilt in 1889 (from the plaque on the end wall). The Sunday School was next door, and both have been converted into houses. On the right is the uppermost of a terrace of cottages called Chapel Row.
©Humphrey Bolton
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Dist:0.4km<br/>Further down, the frontage to the main road has been developed with semi-detached houses. Above them is a strip of woodland and the locality name “Cowmes”. In the foreground a patch of gorse is coming into flower.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>A stile at the bottom, and clearly well-used, but strangely not shown on the map as a right-of-way.
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Dist:0.6km<br/>The A642 has been diverted so as not to approach the new roundabout tangentially, so the old road has become available as a car park for the residents. Cyclists are able to bypass the roundabout on a shared footway.
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Dist:0.6km<br/>At the junction with the access road to a large new housing development on the site of a clay quarry and brickworks. The chimney is probably a remote flue for the brickworks.
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