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Looking west along the Huddersfield Broad Canal from near the A62 bridge at Deighton.
©Martin Clark
Dist:0.1km<br/>This cycling and walking route is along the former Hillhouse to Heaton Lodge railway, which was built in 1884 to provide extra capacity on part of the Huddersfield to Leeds route.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.1km<br/>The United Methodist chapel has been demolished, and houses built on half of the churchyard.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km<br/>This copshop is manned part-time but there is usually a police car or two tucked away in the yard behind. It's rather cosy inside but I'm not telling you how I know!!
©David Ward
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©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.2km<br/>Keldregate Post Office (reached through the mini-supermarket recently taken over by the Co-op) is housed in the semi-circular brick extension.
©David Ward
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©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.2km<br/>This is the modern and very sensible arrangement – a post office in a large local convenience store; much larger than it looks from the front.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km<br/>The house on the right caught the eye, with its proud datestone '1926'. The ground-floor front is all glass and was a shop until the 1990s. In the 1970s it was called "CentreFreeze" and sold frozen foods.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km<br/>This presumably belonged to the United Methodist chapel, now demolished, over the road. The building on the left side of the road has an inscription over the door: “Deighton Sunday School 1818 and 1891”.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km<br/>This lodge provides permanent housing for people with learning disabilities, and came into use in 2007.
©David Ward
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©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.3km<br/>These are of double-pile construction, ie with two parallel roofs, and might originally have been back-to-backs.
©Humphrey Bolton
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©Betty Longbottom
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©Ian S

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