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A Grade II listed farmhouse and outbuildings now subdivided into five dwellings. The oldest part probably dates from the early 17thC. The Ovenden Moor windfarm can be seen on the horizon.
©John Illingworth
Dist:0.1km<br/>This is just above the steep part of the lane. On the left a sign indicates the end of a public footpath.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.1km<br/>According to Leonard Markham's Pub Walks in West Yorkshire, the old Rochdale to Sowerby Roman Road.
©Christine Johnstone
Dist:0.2km<br/>Steep Lane, at the Travellers rest, with Sowerby Bridge in the distance. Quote from the Travellers Rest Sowerby circular walk, from Leonard Markham's Pub Walks in West Yorkshire.
©Christine Johnstone
Dist:0.2km<br/>The former Travellers Rest pub has been converted to housing, and renamed Travellers Cottages.
©Christine Johnstone
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©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.2km<br/>A bridleway linking Steep Lane and Moor Bottom Lane. Part of the Travellers Rest Sowerby circular walk in Leonard Markham's Pub Walks in West Yorkshire.
©Christine Johnstone
Dist:0.2km<br/>This might have been an old coaching route, later superseded by the various trans-Pennine turnpikes. It will not get much passing trade nowadays.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking E along Steep Lane towards Sowerby.
©Mark Anderson
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©Michael Steele
Dist:0.3km<br/>Seen from Thacker Gate Road.
©Christine Johnstone
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©Michael Steele
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©Alexander P Kapp
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©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.4km<br/>A Grade II listed Baptist chapel at Sowerby, dated 1874.
©John Illingworth

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