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Tree growing through an iron ventilator pipe at the disused mineshaft on Wyke Lane, west of Fearnley Farm.
©Paul Glazzard
Dist:0.1km<br/>This shaft probably ventilated a mine. It is made from iron segments, not surprising as this is near to the former Low Moor Iron Works.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.2km<br/>At this point the road is a bridleway.
©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.2km<br/>This part of the road still has its stone setts. The landscaped area on the left was the Low Moor Chemical Works (disused by 1940) and the Woodroyd Dyeworks.
©Humphrey Bolton
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©Betty Longbottom
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©Betty Longbottom
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©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.3km<br/>Here the wide residential road gives way to a narrow, badly surfaced road.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.3km<br/>Entrance to the eleven hectare chemical works site on Wyke Lane, owned and operated by A H Marks. Chemical production has been carried out on the factory site since 1877, when dyestuffs were being made here for the local textile industry.
©Paul Glazzard
Dist:0.4km<br/>The track bed is now used as a walking/cycle way called the "Spen Valley Greenway" which runs from Oakenshaw (Bradford) through Cleckheaton, Liversedge, Heckmondwike and Ravensthorpe.
©Malcolm Street
Dist:0.4km<br/>The large pedal is set about about 300 metres after the start of the cycleway, at Oakenshaw / Victoria Park.
©Christine Johnstone
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©Betty Longbottom
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is the northern end of the old road from Scholes to Oakenshaw. At present it is marked on the 1:25 000 map as an uncoloured road with no right-of-way dashes, along which are the Kirklees Way and the Spen Valley Heritage Trail. Logically it must therefore be a public road. At the southern end it has the character of a bridleway, but a faded sign indicates a public footpath. The farmer has discouraged the 4x4 brigade and fly tippers from gaining access.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.5km<br/>The unnamed beck runs east towards Hunsworth Beck.
©Christine Johnstone
Dist:0.5km<br/>Taken from the Spen Valley Greenway.
©Christine Johnstone

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