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Dist:0.3km<br/>View looking east from the edge of Britannia quarries.
©michael ely
Dist:0.4km<br/>The evidence of quarrying is everywhere.
©Bill Boaden
Dist:0.4km<br/>From both sides of the Spodden valley, it is only the new housing in Shawforth which really stands out. The older buildings are hidden in the valley bottom.
©Bill Boaden
Dist:0.5km<br/>This man-made stone platform is in the now disused Facit Quarry. It may have been built to support a crane.
©Mike Lee
Dist:0.5km<br/>We are grateful to Bardon who, as the sign states, are "caring for our safety" in fencing this off.
©Bill Boaden
Dist:0.5km<br/>The Shawforth chimney is ahead.
©Bill Boaden
Dist:0.6km<br/>Some of these predate the quarry, which is nevertheless continually swallowing up more ground. I presume there was just a wall here, but there could have been a building.
©Bill Boaden
Dist:0.6km<br/>Part of the one-way system, where you have to turn left. A former railway bridge crossed the road here.
©Bill Boaden
Dist:0.6km<br/>The track is just an entrance to Cowm Farm. The path goes up the hill to the left from the track junction. It was my intended route but I found that it was closed due to a dangerous section of quarry. The quarry has possibly swallowed it up as it has already done to other paths.
©Bill Boaden
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©Alexander P Kapp
Dist:0.6km<br/>Shawforth Station closed to passengers 1947. Area now cleared and is covered by Knowsley Crescent. Subway opened out and used as access to the estate.
©Peter Holton
Dist:0.6km<br/>South down the Whitworth Valley overlooking Oak St
©Peter Holton
Dist:0.6km<br/>You can see beyond to Hades Hill and Brown Wardle on the other side of Whitworth.
©Bill Boaden
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©Alexander P Kapp
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©Dr Neil Clifton

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