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$SE4418 : Pontefract Road towards High Ackworth$

©JThomas

$Dist:0.2km<br/>East of Pontefract Road.$

©Christine Johnstone

Dist:0.3km<br/>A recent development off Meadow Way.

©Christine Johnstone

$Dist:0.3km<br/>East of Pontefract Road, High Ackworth.$

©Christine Johnstone

$SE4418 : Speed limit, Pontefract Road, High Ackworth$

©Christine Johnstone

©Christine Johnstone

©Bill Henderson

$Dist:0.4km<br/>As the village of Ackworth grew significantly in the 1970s with several large new housing developments, water pressure became a problem. The solution was to give Ackworth a water tower of its own. Previously the water tower at Pontefract had provided the pressure regulating facility, but Pontefract too had seen significant housing development and some parts of Ackworth were literally on the end of the line, about 5 miles from the Pontefract tower. Ackworth Water Tower is located at the top of Castle Syke Hill, just off the A628 Pontefract Road. The immediate effect of the pressure improvement was a series of mains bursts over many months all the way down the water main under the A628 as it ran through Ackworth. The water main had obviously deteriorated over time but the low pressure had concelaed the problem. Any repair cascaded the problem to the next weakest point. Eventually a full water main renewal, at considerable discruption to local traffic, was the solution.$

©Robert Neilson

©Bill Henderson

$SE4418 : Milestone, junction of Long Lane with the A628, Pontefract Road$

©Bill Henderson

Dist:0.5km<br/>This view is taken from the junction with the A628, looking eastwards.

©Bill Henderson

Dist:0.5km<br/>Milestone marker, Castle Syke Hill, Ackworth.

©Bill Henderson

©JThomas

$Dist:0.5km<br/>The A628 runs from Hollingworth to Pontefract by way of the Woodhead Pass and Barnsley. The section through High Ackworth is relatively narrow and twisty and the response to a campaign for an Ackworth by-pass in the 1980s to divert what was then a trunk road around the village was to "de-trunk" it! This road scene shows the road as it nears the last sharp left-hand bend before it turns North to leave the village for Pontefract.$

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