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Dist:0.3km<br/>This is off the old Slaithwaite Road, and gives access to fields. Sometimes called an accommodation road. It is a dead end, and not a public right-of-way.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km<br/>Next to the old Slaithwaite Road. Does this reservoir feed cattle troughs?
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is off the old Slaithwaite Road, and gives access to fields. Blackmoorfoot Reservoir is in the distance, and despite the gloomy clouds Castle Hill and the Victoria Tower 6.5km away can be seen on the horizon.
©Humphrey Bolton
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©Chris Wimbush
Dist:0.4km<br/>Taken from the junction of Holt head Road and Jerusalem Road. The building at the bottom of the field (in the next square) is Park. Beyond it is another house with the equally terse name of Binn. The valley side is convex, so that the view passes right over the U-shaped valley floor to the far hillside, with the ribbon development along Longlands Road, Slaithwaite, to the right, and the open countryside of Bradshaw to the centre and left.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km<br/>This view of the road shows the stone kerbs, and how the road is wide enough for material to be stored on it without interfering with its use as a bridleway.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km<br/>Cows in the large square field shown on both the historical and present maps (and which I measure as 7.5ha / 18.5 acres) on Black Moor. View east towards Blackmoorfoot reservoir and Castle Hill.
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is the top end of a lane that climbs up from the Hollywell area of Linthwaite via Lower and Upper Clough and High House. It takes its name from a house called Jerusalem, the roof of which can just be seen in the distance.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km<br/>This was the first turnpike road from Huddersfield to Manchester. Eventually another was constructed down in the valley, and became the A62. The 'Old Turnpike Road' is mentioned in the Meltham enclosure award as being the far end of some of the roads set out by the award. The boundary between Linthwaite and Meltham is along the road for a considerable distance, so was perhaps undefined across moorland before the road was built. The road going off to the left is Jerusalem Road.
©Humphrey Bolton
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©Alex McGregor
Dist:0.5km<br/>This was set out as a public road 30ft wide, and had a base course of pitched stone and stone kerbs (here covered by grass). However it did not become a tarmacked road and has been downgraded to a bridleway. Two large pieces of rock prevent access by cars. The Will o'Nats public house and Meltham Cop are in the distance.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.5km<br/>Looking south from the junction with Holt Head Road. For a view of the road further along (looking north) see [[498441]]
©michael ely
Dist:0.6km<br/>This stretch of bridleway is one kilometre in length and links the Wills O' Nats pub to Holt Head Road to the west of Blackmoorfoot Reservoir.
©michael ely
Dist:0.6km<br/>This was set out under the enclosure award as a Private Carriage Road, 30 ft wide. It is now a bridleway and farm access road.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.7km<br/>Formerly called the New Inn. The road sign says 'Flood', which appears to refer to a torrent which evidently ran off Deer Hill End Road on the right, depositing a shoal of stones. Taken from the unsurfaced part of the bridleway from the north.
©Humphrey Bolton

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