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Now with a cycleway on top (opened 21 November 2008).
©Humphrey Bolton
©Michael Steele
Dist:0.1km<br/>Looking like a row of bungalows, perhaps to make the children feel at home. It is on the site of the former railway station.
©Humphrey Bolton
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©Tim Green
Dist:0.1km<br/>Viaduct crossing the Pinch Beck valley on the disused railway line south of Thornton. Looking northeast from Headley Golf Course on the south side of the beck.
©Paul Glazzard
Dist:0.1km<br/>Showing the splendid condition of the stonework
©Alan Longbottom
Dist:0.1km<br/>Constructed at great expense during the period of 'railway mania'. It is fortunate that it has survived both as an artefact and as an exciting route for walkers and cyclists.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km<br/>Disused viaduct on the long closed line from Queensbury to Keighley crossing the valley of Pinch Beck. Seen here from Alderscholes Lane looking westwards.
©David Spencer
Dist:0.2km<br/>The name is from the owners of the former railway line, and the bistro attached to the pub is called Platform 528, puzzling at first but the address is 528 Thornton Road.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km<br/>One solution to the problem of ageing church premises; pull it down and build a block of flats, keeping the ground floor for the church.
©Humphrey Bolton
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©Betty Longbottom
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©Betty Longbottom
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©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.2km<br/>The recently built school occupies the former site of Thornton station and goods yard on the Great Northern line from Queensbury to Keighley.
©David Spencer
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©Betty Longbottom

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