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On the right is a pair of three-storey houses, but not the weaver's cottages found further up Calderdale. On the left is a retaining wall above the steep drop into the valley of Wood Fall. The wall was no doubt built when Brow Lane was widened, which must have been an expensive operation.
©Humphrey Bolton
Waterfall on Coley Beck's northern tributary, looking down from the cliff top west of the footpath off Brow Lane, Shelf.
©Paul Glazzard
Dist:0.1km<br/>This has no name, unless there is one on the row of cottages. It passes the pinfold before becoming a footpath up steps to Wade House Road.
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©Betty Longbottom
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©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.1km<br/>Approaching Brow Lane on the footpath through Wood fall, a house appears on the right.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.1km<br/>This is part of Shelf Mills, although factory seems a more appropriate term for such a modern building.
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©Betty Longbottom
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©Michael Steele
Dist:0.2km<br/>This has recently been refurbished.
©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.2km<br/>The old house on the left is dated 1799, with the initials LJS.
©Humphrey Bolton
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©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.2km<br/>This is a former Methodist Church (originally Primitive Methodist) of an unusual design, with a mixture of tall round-headed window and smaller rectangular ones, and an interesting window in the gable.
©Humphrey Bolton

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