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The vicarage (or former vicarage) is the house on the right amongst trees. The hillside above the road is in Lindley cum Quarmby, which entered Huddersfield Borough in 1868, whereas Longwood held out until 1890. Both were civil parishes until 1924.
©Humphrey Bolton
The road is Vicarage Road, becoming Thornhill Road as it crosses the valley. Longwood Tower can be seen on the hill. Taken from Cliffe End Road.
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Dist:0.1km north<br/>This is below the tower at Nab End, and dipping down into Quarmby Clough. Unlike the Longwood Valley, Quarmby Clough has largely escaped development, although Quarmby Clough Mills (now demolished) were just above the road as it crossed the valley.
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Dist:0.2km north<br/>Whose idea it was to try to fence it off I don't know, but people-power has kept it open.
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Dist:0.2km north<br/>Dated 1861. Built by unemployed men.
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Dist:0.2km north<br/>This is the view over Milnsbridge. Back Thornhill Road is down below, then an undeveloped area with trees. The new housing estate has replaced mill buildings, then the railway viaduct crosses the valley. The district of Crosland Moor is in the distance.
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Dist:0.2km north<br/>Local landmark viewed from the E.
©Ian M
Dist:0.2km north<br/>The suburban post office is an endangered species. This one has been made out of half of a dormer bungalow.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Goes up to Longwood Road, and was the only access to a few properties as shown on the 1850 map.
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Dist:0.3km north<br/>
©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.3km north<br/>This is Longwood Brook passing under an arch of the Market Street viaduct, looking towards a culvert under a mill building. The debris could build up and cause flooding, but who would pay for it to be cleared out?
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Dist:0.3km north<br/>Confined to a channel alongside Dale Street. Those sycamores will cause trouble eventually if they are not removed.
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Dist:0.3km north<br/>Along the top there are moorland grasses, then heather on the slope. Around the south and east side of Nab End there is woodland. The railway viaduct at Milnsbridge is in the distance.
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Dist:0.3km north<br/>There is a 'Divine Service' on Sundays, and healing and clairvoyance sessions on other days.
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Dist:0.3km north<br/>These are part of an estate including Hawes Avenue on the left. They were built in the first half of the 20C, and I suspect that they were council houses.
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