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Dist:0.1km<br/>Pub/restaurant on Huddersfield Road (A62) at Austerlands.
©David Dixon
Dist:0.2km<br/>This is one of a large network of paths in Saddleworth that are likely to have originated as links between the many hamlets which once engaged in the home-based manufacture of textiles.
©Michael Fox
Dist:0.2km<br/>The ford at Woodbrook on the ancient road from the Oldham area into Saddleworth.
©Michael Fox
Dist:0.2km<br/>The houses in the foreground mark the line of the old road from Saddleworth to Oldham as it climbs from a ford. In the left background is part of the even older hamlet of Stonebreaks.
©Michael Fox
Dist:0.3km<br/>The small hamlet of Woodbrook ,near Springhead, lies at the bottom end of Woodbrook Road. From here on after ,when you have passed through the ford, the road turns into a green lane which is suitable only for four wheel drive vehicles.
©Paul Anderson
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking west down the A62 towards Oldham. Austerlands is on a hill between Oldham and Saddleworth.
©Martin Clark
Dist:0.3km<br/>The hamlet of Hillend, near Woodbrook; Scouthead Church (St. Paul's) is in the distance.
©Michael Fox
Dist:0.3km<br/>The War Memorial at the junction of Huddersfield Road (A62) with Heywood Lane, more or less at the centre of the original settlement of Austerlands.
©David Dixon
Dist:0.4km<br/>The War Memorial, at the junction of Huddersfield Road (A62) with Heywood Lane, more or less at the centre of the original settlement of Austerlands.
©David Dixon
Dist:0.4km<br/>Put up in the early 1920s. On the right hand face is the inscription 'The blood of heroes is the seed of freedom.'
©Michael Fox
Dist:0.4km<br/>The War Memorial stands at the junction of Huddersfield Road (A62) with Heywood Lane, more or less at the centre of the original settlement of Austerlands.
©David Dixon
Dist:0.4km<br/>This row of former mill workers cottages were built in the early 1800s to accommodate the workers at the nearby Wrigley Mill.
©Paul Anderson
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©Michael Fox
Dist:0.5km<br/>Standing next to the A62 Huddersfield Road at Scouthead ,and dwarfing the local farms, this pylon is one of many that carry the electricity lines across the pennines.
©Paul Anderson
Dist:0.5km<br/>Austerlands CC play in the Saddleworth League. When fielding at 300 metres above sea level every match is a "two sweater" affair here. To the right of the comms mast is the Slack Hall trig pillar (303m).
©michael ely

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