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<br/>This is now part of the Calder Valley Greenway. The rear of Island View is in the distance.
©Humphrey Bolton
<br/>This channel is along the former Dewsbury Canal, which was made redundant when the canal through Thornhill Lees was constructed. The towing path is a public footpath, so a footbridge was constructed to carry it over the channel. This photo was taken from the Calder Valley Greenway, along the path behind Island View.
©Humphrey Bolton
<br/>This is an exceptionally long weir, constructed across the River Calder upstream of an island that divides into two channels. The water was diverted into two mill races, one serving Upper Mills (fulling) and the Calder Water Mill (corn), the other Dewsbury Mills (woollen).
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.1km north<br/>This bridge, erected in 1847 and made by Joseph Butlers ironworks in Stanningley Leeds, takes the Huddersfield to Leeds railway line over the River Calder, just outside Dewsbury near Ravensthorpe.
©Gary Hughes
Dist:0.2km north<br/>A pleasant row of terrace houses, with a gable in the centre to avoid monotony. It would have been next to Upper Mills.
©Humphrey Bolton
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©Nigel Homer
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©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Now part of the Calder Valley Greenway.
©Humphrey Bolton
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©Nigel Homer
Dist:0.4km north<br/>The 1847 cast-iron span of the London & North Western Railway crossing the Thornhill cut of the Calder & Hebble Navigation, which bypasses a long loop of the Calder, the river itself passing through Dewsbury.
©Stephen Dawson
Dist:0.4km north<br/>Here the former branch line from Thornhill Junction to Heckmondwike crosses the busy A644. The disused railway track is now the Spen Valley Greenway, a Sustrans cycle route. The link to the newly created Dewsbury section of the Calder Valley Greenway comes down between the grassy slope and the fence on the right, and across the new traffic lights provided for cyclists and pedestrians using the route.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km north<br/>This is one of the many bridges on the Sustrans cycle route network. The photo was taken from the Dewsbury section of the Calder Valley Greenway, which runs along the former towing path of the River Calder.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km north<br/>This pub is a reminder of the days when there was a wharf on the river at the end of Ravenswharf Road opposite the pub (the pub name has an 'e' at the end, but not the road).
©Humphrey Bolton
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©Nigel Homer
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©Betty Longbottom

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