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2021.02.14**Parking ~E of Underbank Reser. at SK255.903, on rd WNW to / then ~SSW across Embkt., U turn to & across Spillway Bridge, ~SSW to then ~ESE along Cross Lane for ~250m, ~SSW on Green Lane / track, pass Green Farm, ~SW along Peg Folly (track) up to & across Long Lane, ~S to Millstones, NNW along edge of Woods back to Rd SK245980, ~WSW along road to Mortimer Rd & ~200m ~S along it, ~WNW in OAL on track (N side of woods on Thorpes Brow) to second Target (dis) (brickwork), ~NNW thru Moorland to join Grouse Butt track ~NNE to Gilroyd Lane (locked gate) at SK236989, ~WNW along Gil.Lane passing Milhope Reser., cont. ~NNW on Shaw Lane but at bend in Lane at SK219.995 take rough track cont. NNW upward, at buildings turn ~W for 150m then U turn behind buildings to rd junct., take Mid Hope Cliffe Rd ~NNW to Langsett Reser. Embt., return on same rd to FP at SE216.000, follow FP ~NE down to The Porter or Little River Don, did not cross but turned ~SE for ~700m & joined Midhope Hall Lane (passing M.H.Reser spillway then Midhope Hall Farm) & then turning ~NE and ~E to join Mortimer Rd, ~140m ~N on M.Rd & join track ~ESE (on South of Underbank Reser) for 1.6km back to the Embkt / spillway bridge / parking area.- 2 people on Walk - Sunday

1 picture taken at home after first snow fall

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3 Underbank Reservoir - picture at the top of the spillway

4 Underbank reservoir Spillway bridge which we crossed

5 view down from the spillway bridge

6 view up from the spillway bridge

7 up Green Lane / Track

8 looking across from Green Lane / Track at Underbank reservoir

11 looking back at some of the remaining Stockbridge Steelworks Buildings


13 path along the woods (to North of Salt Spring Farm)

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15 looking back at the 'Salter' Woods, from the road down then up to Mortimer Road

16 a glimpse of Midhope Reservoir taken from the Open Access Land to the South above it

17 Midhope Reservoir taken from the road on its South

18 The track from Shaw Lane up to buildings

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24 Dead End road into Upper Midhope (there is a footpath at the end of this road, which leads to woods (on the East side of Langsett Reservoir)


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29 a view of Langsett Reservoir taken from south end of the embankment

30 the footpath ~NE down to The River Porter or Little River Don - is just to the left of this wall

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33 Midhope Hall Farm? seen from Midhope Lane

34 Midhope's Church

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36 West side of Underbank Reservoir

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38 ice blobs hung up on vegetation stalks