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Dist:0.2km<br/>Farm buildings on Whitegates Lane at High Moor.
©Roger May
Dist:0.2km<br/>Nebo is one of a number of farmsteads that were established in this upland area as long ago as the seventeenth century.
©Michael Fox
Dist:0.2km<br/>Built in the late 1700's. One of a group of local farms with biblical names. I was born here.
©Tom Valentine
Dist:0.3km<br/>This single track road is called Back O'th Low Road. The tall building to the right on the horizon is [[287172]]
©Paul Anderson
Dist:0.4km<br/>Popular pub/restaurant for Oldhamers. Situated at the junction of five minor roads about a mile from Moorside.
©michael ely
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©David Dixon
Dist:0.4km<br/>The Roebuck Inn is at the junction of Brighton Road, Whitegates Lane and Roebuck Lane, above Strinesdale. The bridleway to the right of the Inn in this photograph is Green Lane which leads to the Strinesdale reservoirs.
©David Dixon
Dist:0.4km<br/>The Roebuck Inn is at the junction of Brighton Road, Whitegates Lane and Roebuck Lane, above Strinesdale. The bridleway just before the Inn in this photograph (taken from Roebuck Lane) is Green Lane which leads to the Strinesdale reservoirs.
©David Dixon
Dist:0.4km<br/>The track from Strines, approaching the Roebuck Inn.
©David Dixon
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is the junction with Thorpe Lane to the west of High Moor Quarry landfill site.
©michael ely
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is near its junction with Shilo Lane. The Roebuck Inn can be seen at left of shot.
©michael ely
Dist:0.4km<br/>This road sign has been altered from Three Acre Lane to Two Acre Lane. My A-Z atlas has it as Two Acre Lane. If the country continues its economic decline perhaps the lane will soon become One Acre Lane, or simply Acre Lane. To see the sign in its geographic context click here http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2248932
©michael ely
Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking along Green Lane, towards Strines, from near to the Roebuck Inn.
©David Dixon
Dist:0.4km<br/>The Cheshire Plain is in the distance. The structure on the hill in the middle of the picture is Hartshead Pike.
©Michael Fox
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is one of a network of tracks and paths that once connected the various farmsteads and hamlets in Strinesdale.
©Michael Fox

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