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<br/>Looking west along the Huddersfield Broad Canal from near the A62 bridge at Deighton.
©Martin Clark
Dist:0.1km north<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 north<br/>The United Methodist chapel has been demolished, and houses built on half of the churchyard.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km north<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
Dist:0.2km north<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
Dist:0.2km north<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 north<br/>The house on the right caught the eye, with its proud datestone '1926'. The ground-floor front is all glass – was it a shop?
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km north<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 north<br/>This is a training centre for people with learning disabilities, and came into use in 2007.
©David Ward
Dist:0.3km north<br/>These are of double-pile construction, ie with two parallel roofs, and might originally have been back-to-backs.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km north<br/>With Deighton Road to the left, then Wi'bits fish-and-chip shop.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km north<br/>This is looking towards Leeds. Evidently a favourite site for graffiti artists.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km north<br/>
©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.3km north<br/>
©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.3km north<br/>
©Betty Longbottom

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