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Dist:0.1km<br/>Looking towards Savile Park.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.1km<br/>'Lodge' on an old OS map; perhaps it was the park-keeper's house. I can imagine that it was turned into a café quite early in the 20C.
©Humphrey Bolton
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©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.2km<br/>A new development (2010) by Towngate Homes.
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.2km<br/>This crosses the common land of Skircoat, which was originally a separate township from Halifax. The freeholders of Skircoat sold their rights to Halifax Corporation on condition that it should always be available for public recreation. The lord of the manor was Capt. Henry Savile, and he asked only £100 although the moor was worth £40,000, and consequently it was named Savile Park.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km<br/>Built in a mixture of styles of the late 19C. In the foreground, a lone show on part of Savile Park.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km<br/>A new development (2010) by Towngate Homes. For a glimpse of the site at the start of the development see [[1038507]].
©Stephen Craven
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©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.3km<br/>The house on the right has a little turret that seemed quite clear to the eye, but not, it seems, to the camera! On the right is a building site where there was a house with a large garden. This street is shown as a bridleway on the OS map.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km<br/>This view from the pavement gives a clearer view of the turret mentioned in the description to [[1038507]].
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.3km<br/>The woodland on the steep hillside below Albert Promenade is covered in trees, outcrops of gritstone, and a network of paths that I loved exploring as a boy when visiting relatives in the area. We always knew this location just as "The Rocks".
©Stephen Craven
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©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.3km<br/>A mixture of green and copper beeches form a hedge inside the western wall of the formal gardens.
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.3km<br/>A combination of a steep hillside and exposure to prevailing south-westerly winds is presumably responsible for the grotesque forms of some of these tree-trunks. Scarr Wood is an open access nature reserve owned by Calderdale Council. Their website http://www.calderdale.gov.uk/environment/countryside/naturereserves/long-scarr-wood.html describes it as "typical Scarp Oak woodland found throughout Calderdale".
©Stephen Craven
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking SW at the entrance to Manor Heath Park Gardens.
©Mark Anderson

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