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Dist:0.1km north<br/>
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Dist:0.1km north<br/>Formery an engineering works, now small business units.
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Dist:0.2km north<br/>The field in the foreground was once the cricket pitch, now a football training pitch.
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Dist:0.2km north<br/>This view is looking north north west down Skinner Lane, from the town centre, near the cemetery gates, towards Monkhill. The vehicles seen in the distance are passing under the railway bridge over the lane,
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Dist:0.2km north<br/>Now disused.
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Dist:0.2km north<br/>The shot shows the cemetery Chapel, which is now used as a store room for the cemetery workers, under renovation.
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©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.4km north<br/>Tanshelf, now an industrial estate, was until the late 1960s a town within a town, with a maze of terraced houses. This little bridge led into fields on the other side of the railway line, much used by courting couples. It is not difficult to imagine how the name of this bridge evolved....
©Bill Henderson
Dist:0.4km north<br/>This beautiful wooded hillside is actually the spoil heap of the former Prince of Wales Colliery, Pontefract.
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