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This is typical of the field access roads that were set out by enclosure awards. It runs straight down the hillside from Turley Cote Lane to Old Lindley Road. According to the OS map it is not a public right-of-way.
©Humphrey Bolton
©Nigel Homer
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©Malcolm Street
Dist:0.1km north<br/>To the left is Old Lindley Moor, but here the hillside has been made into a pasture, with the remains of Old Lindley Moor Plantation at the top. I was intrigued by the brown patches, which I would guess to be sheep's sorrel in flower. This plant grows on heaths and acid soils.
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Dist:0.1km north<br/>In this patch of green grass and bracken some bluebells are growing. I believe that I have read that this indicated former woodland, but if so this must have been a long time ago as even the 1850 6" map does not show a wood here. The grass presumably shows that this area has been cultivated for pasture at some time.
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Dist:0.2km north<br/>This bridleway is part of the Kirklees Way footpath.
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Dist:0.3km north<br/>
©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Here's the view along Lindley Moor Road towards the roundabout, where you can either go left for Huddersfield, right for Rochdale, or you can join the M62 at junction 23.
©Mari Buckley
Dist:0.3km north<br/>These are doing well to grow at an altitude of 273m.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km north<br/>The detached bungalows were probably built to order, whereas the semi-detached bungalows and houses are likely to have been built speculatively, i.e. before a buyer had been found.
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Dist:0.4km north<br/>Lindley Quarry is an important geological site, where, to quote from the West Yorkshire Geology Trust's website, “Rough Rock sandstones of the Carboniferous Age (Namurian Epoch) are exposed along a 50 metre abandoned quarry face. The exposure contains a range of sedimentary structures and plant fossils. Towards the eastern end of the exposure a section of exceptionally well preserved sets of cross bedding can be seen. The exposure allows the mineralogy and texture of Rough Rock strata to be studied.” Hoar frost on the grass of the steep hillside meant that I only reached this small quarry face to the east of the main site, and I assume that this is Rough rock sandstone.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km north<br/>This damp hillside has evidently been used for pasture, judging by the stone walls, which are now in a bad state of repair.
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Dist:0.4km north<br/>At the western end of the lane, near to New Lane. Out of shot to the left is a barn, and then a modern stone-built house.
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Dist:0.4km north<br/>A pity that this has not been done more often. The houses are shielded from the main road by trees, and are accessed from a quiet street.
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Dist:0.4km north<br/>Captioned thus on the 6 inch map of c.1940, but shown as rough pasture so it was probably never an informal sports ground.
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