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2023.01.03 Tuesday - Start Worrall Village SK.308:920, ~W along Kirk Edge Rd to just past Kirk Edge Drive, ~S then SW thru fields to pass Low Ash Farm (buildings) to SK.300:915, ~W along track on Low Ash Common to just before SK.295:915, turn ~S then turn W passing well below Haigenfield Farm and continuing ~W on FP to join Holdworth Lane at SK.288:915, ~WNW on H.Lane & pass Stony Lane to next Road Junction taking W road and gradually turning ~S down to next junction and take Dalroyd Lane just W but turn ~S on FP steeply down to Low Holdworth to join Loxley Rd (B6077) at SK.284:908, and follow it ~ESE (passing Damflask Reser Embkmt) for ~500m to join rd ~WSW thru Stacey Bank turning turning SSE along Damflask tailrace then at the Fishing Pond ESE along it and continuing to the Dam (before Old Wheel Farm) and continue ~SE along the Dam to pass the Bowling Green ~SSE then ~E to cross Rowell Lane and continue Eastward (on the North side of The River Loxley) passing South of the Cemetery  and gradually turning ENE to Wisewood and turning ~SE passing the 'new Archimedean Screw turbine' generating electricity and then the old headrace pond (before the residences for older citizens), continue ~E to rejoin Loxley Rd and then ~E along it to the Super Tram Terminus at Malin Bridge.  Leader Mary Sorsby - 18 on walk. Distance as walked about 6 miles Light rain throughout walk and that (plus camera automatic functioning not operating properly) made for poor quality and reduced number of pictures. 

1a Turning off Kirk Edge Road. Part of High School behind us

2a towards Low Ash Farm buildings
3 Worrall in near distance behind us

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4a seems to be a protective mask around the horses head
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15 Water Treatment Plant - lower left of picture (somewhere below Damflask Reservoir). Storrs and other villages behind higher up.
17 tea break before entering woods before Holdworth Lane
18a Holdworth Lane & Holdworth ahead of us
19 ditto
22 auditors checking the egg output?
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27 we did not take the footpath but passed on road to left
29 looking back at farm in Holdworth
30 Hills beyond Damflask Reservoir unseen in valley below.
31 only a very short distance on this Lane before turning down on Footpath
36 turning down on Footpath towards Low Holdworth
37 A very empty Damflask Reservoir - Dale Dyke and Agden Reservoirs which feed into it are also very low
39 towards Worrall Rd
45 An old concrete 'dam' - empty for years - was it part of earlier water treatment works?
46 tail race stream from Damflask Reservoir
48 Buildings / Farm? at Stacey Bank looking up behind us
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52 Fishermen
53 The fishing pond near the Water Treatment Plant just behind
54 as above - fishing platforms to right
56 Through the derelict industrial area. A petition against housing development succeeded - but not sure what is planned to re-instate the area to 'natural state'
57a some murals brighten the desolate ste
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62 Fly Tipping worsens the detritus
63 part of some earlier headrace pond feeding waterwheels at mill?
66 ' Mark below two feet above weir as agreed 1821?' Stone unfortunately toppled
67 the Headrace pond above Old Wheel Farm - possibly turned water wheels at mill at Farm?
70 some lived in housing near the decayed industrial area
72 The 'domed' bowling green - more challenging than 'flat' bowls?
73b sign north of Rowell Bridge at beginning of FP Eastward along The River Loxley

73c Loxley Road 'West to East' in middle, Rodney Lane inclined down to it, Black Lane South to North in middle below Loxley Road.

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74 looking North - poplar trees near / along Loxley Road
75 headrace pond before 'mill' now converted into living accommodation
79 a 'flywheel?'
84 Archimedean Screw turbine now generating electric power at very profitable rates?
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86 heading towards Malin Bridge