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This may have been the original site of the Kirkwood Mill. There is certainly a good deal of stone buried in the bank at this point which has probably come from a building. This whole area along the stream is planted with Rowan trees and as we walked along I expected to come across a house and gardens which never happened. See [[929463]]
©Wendy North
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Dist:0.1km<br/>Kingfisher with small fish.
©Wendy North
Dist:0.1km<br/>A few minutes earlier we'd watched a Kingfisher that had chosen this streamside branch as a perch while trying to manipulate a small fish into its beak. Here it is: [[929450]] This stream was the former mill race for Kirkwood Mill.
©Wendy North
Dist:0.1km<br/>See [[926934]] and [[929153]]
©Wendy North
Dist:0.1km<br/>This last stretch of the walk brought us to the industrial edge of Penistone. The railway runs between where this photograph was taken and the industrial buildings. I wonder if stone for building one or more of bridges along the railway had been extracted from this quarry.
©Wendy North
Dist:0.1km<br/>Shephedrs Farm is the nearest of the buildings. See [[929438]]
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©Neil Theasby
Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking towards the town centre from the Castle Green area.
©Jonathan Clitheroe
Dist:0.3km<br/>`Castle Dam was built as a reservoir to run the waterwheel at Kirkwood Mill. It was formerly known as the Hawksworth Dam after Jonathon Hawksworth owner of the mill in the early 1800's.' (Information from Oxspring Heritage Group)
©Wendy North
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©Steve Fareham
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©John Slater
Dist:0.3km<br/>Maybe they will seem less red after a while to blend in with the stone houses in the rest of the area
©John Slater
Dist:0.3km<br/>With a helpfully located traffic bollard to keep you on the correct side of the path!
©Graham Hogg
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©John Slater

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