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Dist:0.1km<br/>Looking along the footpath leading from Rawthorpe to Dalton. A good area of open space.
©Samantha Waddington
Dist:0.2km<br/>This ancient building has had a new lease of life as a riding school
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km<br/>A post-war council estate road. The chapel on the right is Dalton Baptist Chapel. Kirkheaton is on the hill in the background.
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Dist:0.5km<br/>Looking across playing fields off Ridgway.
©Samantha Waddington
Dist:0.5km<br/>originally a country lane, but gradually lined by ribbon development.
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Dist:0.6km<br/>Playing fields off Grosvenor Road. A welcome bit of open space in a built-up area.
©Samantha Waddington
Dist:0.6km<br/>Dalton is now a large suburb of Huddersfield, but was once a village. Here at the junction of Briggate, Nettleton Road and Crossley Lane was at the northern end of the village.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.9km<br/>This was over the Kirkburton branch line. There is a pipe bridge on the left.
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Dist:0.9km<br/>I came here for the view down onto Bradley Mills that I remembered from years ago and got a surprise! Conifers can grow very tall in 20 years! This looks like a lane in the Dales, but is just a mile from the centre of Huddersfield.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.9km<br/>The pile of demolition material is probably waiting to be used as hardcore, to avoid the landfill tax.
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Dist:0.9km<br/>The masonry of the foot of the bridge abutment can be seen in the centre. This was on the branch line to Kirkburton.
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Dist:0.9km<br/>Above Newland Road the lane is still wide, but is a bridleway and most of it is overgrown leaving just a narrow path.
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Dist:0.9km<br/>Two cottages, one with 'wonky' windows, seen from Cold Royd Lane.
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Dist:0.9km<br/>This was the Peacock Inn in 1850, but has obviously been rebuilt, perhaps in the first half of the 20C? The outbuildings on the right could have originated as stables, suggesting that this was a coaching inn in the 19C.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.9km<br/>This is the junction where Long Lane goes to the right and Carr Green Lane to the left.
©Humphrey Bolton

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