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This picture was taken next to a trig point called 'Roundabout'. An odd name as it's nowhere near a roundabout! Great views all round though, including this one over Huddersfield.
©Ian Rutson
©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.1km<br/>The stone is dated 1738, and has distances in accordance with the then recent legislation. It is at an important crossroads on the Halifax to Barnsley Road, later to be turnpiked. The inscriptions (from a drawing in W B Crump's Huddersfield Highways down the ages)are: straight on (Highgate Lane) Barnsley 12 miles; back (Moot Top Road) Halifax 6 miles; left (Hollin Hall Lane) Dewsberry (?) miles; right (Heaton Moor Lane) Huddersfield (?) miles. The stone had been right on the corner, leaning precariously, but has been recently repositioned.
©Humphrey Bolton
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©Betty Longbottom
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©Ian S
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©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.2km<br/>The Blacksmith's Arms crossroads is in the distance. The stone shown in [[2368166]] is on the right.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km<br/>The boundary between Kirkheaton and Mirfield is 100m away to the north-east, so what is this? It has a worn inscription, and could be an estate boundary stone or a electric cable marker stone.
©Humphrey Bolton
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©Nigel Homer
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©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.4km<br/>The view from the Roundabout trigpoint.
©Adam Brookes
Dist:0.4km<br/>Top surface showing the plug.
©Adam Brookes
Dist:0.4km<br/>This consists of two blocks of four houses at right angles to the road, with I think only footpath access. They were built in the days when council house tenants did not have cars. There is a similar 'Second Avenue' but, it seems, no 'First Avenue'.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km<br/>A block of three shops at the junction with Town Road.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km<br/>Not a boundary stone, as it is not on a former local authority boundary. It might be a marker stone for a cable or pipeline. See [[2418366]] for a close view.
©Humphrey Bolton

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