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2018.03.14 - Oughtibridge, ~E on Station Lane over River Don & Railtrack, ~N along track, then ~E past Inds area, ~N thr Mouse Park Gate & to The Hollow, Hallfield Head Farm, Stanfield Ash Farm, ~NW on Woodhead Rd, FP ~N to Hazelshaw Farm, ~WNW to Smithy Fold and ~NW past it, ~NE on FP well South of Cundy Houses, cross A629 at ~SK 315980, ~NE on FP & Rd short of Bromley, under A616 at ~SK321990, ~W then ~NW to Wortley Hall, ~WSW to Wortley, behind Church ~W down to Finkle Street Lane, ~ N on dismantled railway to ~SE294003, short distance ~W along River Don then cross it on bridge, ~SW through wood to & then up Green Moor Rd to Park at SK282995, ~S to Hunshelf Bank & ~W along it, down to cross A616 on bridge at SK272989, ~E then ~S into Stocksbridge - leader Mike West - Wednesday   

leader's briefing outside the Cock Inn, Oughtibridge

bridge crossed over the River Don

walking along the side of the Industrial Area

passing Van Schaick house

up to or on Mouse Park Gate

Wharncliffe Chase behind the wall we walked along

horses in The Hollow (farm)

up to Hallfield Head Farm

looking across at The Hollow and Wharncliffe Chase behind it (brownish ground)

tea break just below Hallfield Farm

aeroplane seen from Woodhead Road. Take off delayed until new runway built at Heathrow?

Water Tower in High Green far below Woodhead Road

looking down towards Hazelshaw Farm?

fields near Smithy Fold

fields near Smithy Fold

pond near Smithy fold

Cundy Houses across field from footpath we walked

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Peafields Lane towards Bromley

tunnel under the the A616 road

gates Southeast of Wortley Hall

Wortley Hall

lunch at Wortley Hall

volunteers transformed Wortley Hall from ruins and decay to the splendours of today

entrance to walled garden at Wortley Hall

down from Wortley towards Finkle Street Lane and the disused railway

Farmhouse passed to right on way to 'disused railway'

disused railway now Upper Don Trail (part of the Trans Pennine Trail)

we followed The River Don to the right to a bridge over it and crossed. Private fishing ponds just beyond river

walking through wood to join Well Hill / Green Moor Roads

Emley Moor Tower zoomed into from small park at Green Moor

First World War memorial plaque in memory of CPL FRANK BRAMALL

tea break in park

seen from park

communications tower near Hunshelf Bank

Wharncliffe Woods (to left) and Deepcar (to right) seen from Hunshelf Bank

The A616 (Stocksbridge bypass) and the new Fox shopping centre below us

Underbank reservoir seen in distance

Stocksbridge Bypass seen from bridge on Pea Royd Lane

The Steel Valley Walk

down into Stocksbridge

The Steel Mills Administrative Buildings?

Fox Valley

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