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Trig. pillar in field adjacent A643. View is looking about SE over Huddersfield. Emley Moor TV mast (SE2212) can be seen in the distance.
©Ian M
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Probably one of the many pubs established on the turnpike roads in the early 19C.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Haigh Cross is in the distance.
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Dist:0.3km north<br/>
©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.3km north<br/>How good the sunshine feels after that miserable summer!
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Dist:0.3km north<br/>The boundary stone in the other photo is against the wall opposite the first tree on the right. Although Old Lindley is now mostly in Calderdale district, a strip of land including the main road was given to Huddersfield many years ago and this scene is now all in Kirklees district.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km north<br/>This marks the boundary between the Old Lindley division of Stainland township (possibly Old Lindley Local Board when the stone was erected) and the Lindley division of Lindley cum Quarmby township.
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Dist:0.3km north<br/>Is this one of Dr Who's portals, or is there an EU directive about toilet facilities for farm-workers, or perhaps farm animals? I have been informed that it is used during sheepdog trials that are regularly held in the field.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km north<br/>Presumably provided for miniature footballers.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km north<br/>An unusual suburban dual-carriageway.
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Dist:0.4km north<br/>In the same field as Haigh Cross, both guarded by a horse.
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Dist:0.4km north<br/>This is a 19C replacement for a 14C wayside cross, and is inscribed on the E face, below the Thornhill Arms, 'Re-erected / by / T T / 1808 / After Being / wilfully / pulled down / Haigh Cross'. On the W face is a Cornish Chough in a rectangular panel and below it 'Quarmbys / de / Quarmby / Crest / 1304. T.T. was Thomas Thornhill. (Information from W B Crump, Huddersfield highways down the ages, reprinted 1968).
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km north<br/>The top of the cross can be seen above an outbuilding, looking rather like a chimney.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km north<br/>This is opposite Haigh Cross. The footpath runs in a narrow strip between stone walls.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km north<br/>Over Old Lindley Road
©Alexander P Kapp

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