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Immortalised in the song - "Meet Me Gwen In Shipley Glen." This wooded valley was a popular place for mill workers and their families in late Victorian times, and was the place to go for Sunday afternoon outings for families up to the end of the 20th century.
©Mick Melvin
Dist:0.2km<br/>See also [[2660190]].
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km<br/>This seems an out-of-the-way place for a public house, but it is shown on the 1908 1:2500 map so has survived for over a century, and now has a large new housing estate nearby.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km<br/>An unsurfaced road from Eldwick to Broadstone House, and continuing as a bridleway to Coach Road and Shipley Glen.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km<br/>This leads up the landscaped valley of the culverted Little Beck to a housing estate. The new building on the right is presumably either a transformer station or a pumping station.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km<br/>Leafy outer suburbia.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km<br/>Approaching a bend where the road crosses Little Beck.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km<br/>Dog Stile is the name on the 1908 1:2500 map. The stone stile is probably the same as it was then, and maybe also the wooden gate behind it.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km<br/>An unsurfaced road that leads to a bungalow park at Broadstone House.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km<br/>Below Glen Road.
©John Fielding
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©John Fielding
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©John Fielding
Dist:0.4km<br/>Taken from Gilstead Lane.
©Humphrey Bolton
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©Betty Longbottom
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©Humphrey Bolton

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