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Dist:0.2km<br/>These cottages occupy a commanding position facing south and overlooking the beck which flows over Folly Dolly Falls. All the windows appear to be late 20th century.
©Richard Kay
Dist:0.2km<br/>There is not much left of this building, but the outlines of the walls can still be seen. A man I met told me that the local people believe this to be the cottage where Folly Dolly (who gave her name to the nearby waterfall) lived.
©Richard Kay
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©Chris Wimbush
Dist:0.3km<br/>The line of the fault runs down the rock face to the left of the waterfall. The face of the waterfall is a massive sandstone exposure of the Upper Carboniferous Huddersfield White Rock with cross bedding. To the left of the fault soft shales can be seen dipping steeply. Read more on the West Yorkshire Geology Trust web page [[http://www.wyorksgeologytrust.org/kirklees/follydolly.html]]
©Richard Kay
Dist:0.3km<br/>The waterfall is marked on the 1:25,000 OS sheet. The story is that a woman called Dolly, who lived in one of the cottages above the waterfall, got into financial difficulties, but the ending of her sad story is not known. See http://www.huddersfieldgeology.freeola.org/pages/p30i.htm for more information about this fascinating place.
©Richard Kay
Dist:0.3km<br/>The cycleway is on the disused Meltham branch railway line, but after the railway was closed part of it was used as a test track for tractors manufactured by David Brown. This turning circle is at the end of the concrete track.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km<br/>Kirklees Council opened the Greenway as a footpath / cycleroute in April 2008 at a cost of £200,000. The concrete deck and metal parapets of the bridge can be seen in the photograph but I wonder if the 5 rail timber fence along the top of the embankment was really necessary.
©Richard Kay
Dist:0.4km<br/>The bridge carries a disused railway line, converted into a 'Greenway' in April 2008 by Kirklees M.D.C. over a footpath extension of Mean Lane. The line was originally built in 1869, so I am certain that the concrete bridge deck is not original.
©Richard Kay
Dist:0.4km<br/>These tractors were produced at the David Brown tractor factory, badged, and painted in Oliver colours and exported to America, where tractors were much larger and unsuitable for smallholders.
©Jay Pea
Dist:0.4km<br/>One of many tractors built at Meltham,now back for a reunion day.
©Jay Pea
Dist:0.4km<br/>According to the OS Maps there is a footbridge at this location, but the OS is not always up-to-date. the photograph is taken from the footpath on the north side of the disused railway line, looking across to the footpath on the opposite side of the cutting.
©Richard Kay
Dist:0.4km<br/>A line up of modern David Brown tractors. The last of these were built in 1982.
©Jay Pea
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©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.4km<br/>These David Brown tractors had a unique design that allowed a six furrow plough to be pulled, most tractors at this time in the early 1960 would pull two or three furrow ploughs
©Jay Pea
Dist:0.5km<br/>The rear tractor has been specifically built to test tractor design and horsepower by applying hydraulically an ever increasing amount of drag to the front tractor. The test track has been cleared for this historic event.
©Jay Pea

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