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3rd May 1959. Higher Pilling is the farm on the left, and building right of centre is Newhouses, on Smithy Lane.

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Narrow stone bridge over the Colden Beck. The buildings behind the bridge and slightly to the left are School Land Farm, with beyond that to the right Old Edge.

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Taken from above Heptonstall overlooking the Colden Valley. The Ragley Road runs from Mytholm to Jack Bridge.

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On a packhorse route to Hurstwood and Colne this medieval wayside cross stands in magnificent moorland above the Gorple reservoirs. In the drought of 1976 the receding water revealed an ancient paved trackway, part of the original medieval causeway…

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Clapper bridge across the River Colden near Jack Bridge.

A clapper bridge is formed by large flat slabs of stone supported on stone piers or resting on the banks of a stream or river.

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Packhorse bridge over Colden beck

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Narrow stone bridge over Colden Beck.

This attractive single arched packhorse type bridge has steps at both sides which has lead to the conclusion that it was probably only used as a footbridge for Strines Farmhouse and Colden.
Courtesy English…

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The chimney left of centre is all that remains of Land Mill.

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Old Edge at Colden

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Colden in the snow

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Near the top end of the Colden Valley on a packhorse route to Hurstwood and Colne this medieval wayside cross stands in magnificent moorland above the Gorple reservoirs. In the drought of 1976 the receding water revealed an ancient paved trackway,…

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The working horse was a main stay of a farm in the past, and this old fellow was kind, gentle and reliable.

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Looking towards Blackshaw Head. The bungalow is on the site of the former Broadstone Chapel.
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