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Dist:0.2km<br/>This curious arrangement at Harwood Meadows, where a public footpath runs under the first storey of the house, presumably protects an ancient right of way.

©Phil Platt

Dist:0.2km<br/>Strange but true - the public footpath passes under the first storey of the house. At Harwood Meadows.

©Phil Platt

Dist:0.3km<br/>It is a snowy and misty Sunday morning. These cottages were once part of Hardy Corn Mill.

©Phil Platt

Dist:0.3km<br/>A residential cul de sac photographed from this spot in 1986 for the BBC Domesday project and re-photographed today for the Domesday Reloaded project.

©Phil Platt

Dist:0.3km<br/>The road at the camera position changes at the junction with Ruins Lane from Longsight on the right to Hardy Mill Road on the left.

©Phil Platt

Dist:0.4km<br/>Now just a private residence.

©Margaret Clough

Dist:0.4km<br/>The road ahead is the B6196. It is Hardy Mill Road to the left, but Longsight to the right.

©Bill Boaden

Dist:0.4km<br/>On a misty and snowy morning in suburbia.

©Phil Platt

Dist:0.4km<br/>Originally a track leading to Pitfield Farm. Now the farmland has been appropriated for residential development. A right of way still exists from the farmhouse at the end of the lane onto a newer residential road.

©Phil Platt

Dist:0.4km<br/>On recycling day.

©Phil Platt

Dist:0.4km<br/>Last week this lane was a dirt track. Today, kerbstones and compacted aggregate. Next week, tarmacadam?

©Phil Platt

Dist:0.4km<br/>This was set up as a school in 1872, but it appears to be a private residence now, split into flats.

©Bill Boaden

Dist:0.4km<br/>Mist and snow on the walk down for the Sunday papers.

©Phil Platt

Dist:0.4km<br/>Before the land was given over to residential development, a footpath would have crossed the fields here. The footpath now runs between the houses. The rear of Hough Fold Farmhouse is in the left background.

©Phil Platt

Dist:0.4km<br/>Both establishments are closed on this snowy Sunday.

©Phil Platt

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