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Modern agriculture: a brand new barn, and straw bales wrapped in shiny black plastic. Beyond it is Goit Stock Wood. Viewed from Hill End Lane.
©David Spencer
Dist:0.4km<br/>Featuring barns ancient and modern. Viewed from Hill End Lane.
©David Spencer
Dist:0.4km<br/>The mill was in the bottom of the narrow valley and a flue buried in the ground ran up the hillside to this chimney so that the valley was not completely filled with smoke.
©John Illingworth
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©Chris Wimbush
Dist:0.5km<br/>This is the footpath to Hunter Hill Farm and the Keighley Road, following the line of a very vestigial wall.
©Christine Johnstone
Dist:0.5km<br/>Just west of the hamlet of Ryecroft, and on the other side of the road.
©Christine Johnstone
Dist:0.6km<br/>Field gate and footpath stile leading away from the hamlet of Ryecroft.
©Christine Johnstone
Dist:0.6km<br/>The junction of the hamlet's track with Ryecroft Road.
©Christine Johnstone
Dist:0.6km<br/>Ryecroft village consists of a dozen or so houses straggled haphazardly along an unmade cul-de-sac running off the main road.
©David Spencer
Dist:0.6km<br/>This track has no name, as the houses are numbered 1 Ryecroft, 2 Ryecroft etc.
©Christine Johnstone
Dist:0.6km<br/>The footpath drops down alongside the wall.
©Christine Johnstone
Dist:0.7km<br/>Lumpy rocks above right-angled fields.
©Christine Johnstone
Dist:0.7km<br/>My map shows the quarries here as disused, but this one is very much active, and far larger, deeper and more intrusive than the neighbouring defunct ones. Update: planning permission for an expansion of this quarry was denied in early 2007.
©David Spencer
Dist:0.8km<br/>The heather-covered corner of the moor shows obvious signs of abandoned quarrying. Viewed from Keighley Road.
©David Spencer
Dist:0.8km<br/>The waterfall has a drop of about 20 feet and lies in a beautiful wooded valley walk from Hewenden to Harden.
©Chris Heaton

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