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17th November 2013 - Brough, Bradwell Edge, Abney Moor, Grange Farm, down to Bretton Clough, up to Hucklow Edge, Foolow, Silly Dale, Great Hucklow, Quarters Farm, Bradwell, Bradwell Dale, Brough, Hope - leader Susan Rushworth - Wednesday.

River Noe near Brough (close to Navio Roman Fort)
water wheel - just visible in previous picture
 
La Farge cement works
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
rest before crossing Abney Moor
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
down into Bretton Clough
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Silence Mine
 
 
 
 
 
Foolow
 
 
Peter's Stone
 
Wardlow Mires
Silly Dale
 
 
Unitarian Old Chapel
 
 
 
 
 
The Great Hucklow Cross
 
Mill Dam Lead Mine
 
Milldam House
young calves - late in year?
 
 
 
 
 
quarry being filled
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

At the side of the footpath leading across fields from Bradwell to Brough it is possible to see sections of an old and arched stone tunnel topped with turf which in places has collapsed. These are the remains of a flue running from the former Brough White Lead Works to a tower further up the hillside. Constructed around 1860, the smelting works were operated day and night and used a Dutch process to produce refined white, grey and red lead. In 1854 it is recorded that four men were killed in the Bradwell area by poisonous fumes from a smelter when a pump engine failed. The works closed in 1924 and a tower which was a local landmark was demolished during the Second World War as it posed as a conspicuous marker for the nearby cement works.

 
 
photographer left walk here - party continued to Hope

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