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2014.08.27 - Woodlesford, Aire & Calder Navigation, Lemonroyd
Lock (& Marina), around RSPB St Aidan's Bird Sanctuary (old opencast coal mine),
Little Preston, Hollingthorpe, Temple Newsam, Leventhorpe Vineyard, Woodlesford
- leaders Gillian Manasse & Tony Allsopp - Wednesday
(a few pictures from prewalk on 6th August included - also see links at end
to earlier walks in this area)
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| down Potters Road? |
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| modern villa with view over both River Aire and Aire & Calder
Navigation canal - note 'no to HS2' in window |
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| A642 bridge across Aire & Calder Navigation |
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| taken on 6th August 2014 - shows the area & part of canal where
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| heron seen along canal on 6th August |
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| seen on 6th August |
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| seen on 6th August |
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| bridge over Aire & Calder navigation to Oil Storage Depot |
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| Lemonroyd Lock with canal boat |
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| lock being filled to raise canal boat |
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| lock gates open after last ramblers recross |
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| floating generation plant seen from footbridge crossing River
Aire |
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| taken on 6th August |
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| 'Oddball' walking dragline |
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| flood storage capacity |
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| black gold - will shale gas replace it? |
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| zoomed into Leeds |
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| Little Preston Hall |
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| Swillington Church |
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| mole seen on 6th August in area before Hollingthorpe |
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| flower in pond crossing avenue leading towards Temple Newsam |
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| rare breed of cattle in Temple Newsam Park |
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| one of the Lakes in the Park |
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| where's the roses? |
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| The Walled Garden |
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| a drying South African Protea flower |
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| interesting historic notes on the garden |
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| The avenue as seen from Temple Newsam House |
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| reference to opencast coal mining in the grounds in 1940 |
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