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2023.01.18 Wednesday - Start Penistone Station SE.251:033, WNW on Trans Peninne Trail (TPT), trail crosses above Sheffield Road & continues westward passing Penistone Church (which is well to South of TPT), at start of Recreation Grounds & PH turn off TPT ~WSW and join FP at SE.241:033 towards Cross Royd Head, cross Cross Lane at SE.299:029 and continue on Hill Side Lane to Bank House Farm and turn off ~SSW to Bingley Plantation then to Hartcliff Brow, circle to West around Hartcliff Hill and join Hartcliffe Rd at SE.220:017 (part of Penistone Boundary Walk), ~400m W to Mary Knoll, turn off NNE for 650m (passing Air Shaft) then turn NNW past Ecklands, turn NE over Ecklands Bridge (above the  TPT), take narrow lane ~E down to the TPT, turn about and follow TPT westwards, Do not cross TPT Bridge over Manchester Rd, but go down to Man. Rd  turn N under & just past the TPT bridge and take Bullhouse Lane to W to Bullhouse Hall and Chapel (Chapel closed), (Visited area and River Don to West of Hall then returned). At SE.212:027 took path to N crossing River Don and passing Bullhouse Mill and continuing to the B6106 Rd  at SE.212:033, cross road and go ~100m to E and turn N up to Rough Brow then E to SE.218:035, & turn NNE up to Royd Lane, NW up Royd Lane for ~60m to Little Royd Farm then ~E up Slant Gate to High Bank Road & WNW then NW up to Royd Moor Hill (& Look Out Point with 360deg map of area), ~E along Royd Moor Road then turning ESE past Westfield Farms into Thurlstone and turning S to Manchester Road at SE.234:035, E / ESE / ENE on Man. Rd to SE.236:035, SE on path up to TPT SE.237:033, Eastward along TPT  (passing on north side of Recreation Ground) back to start at Penistone Station.         

Leader Dave Jefferies - 15 on walk - about 10miles 

6 have left Penistone Station now on Trans Pennine Trail
8 Pennistone Parish Church photographed from TPT
12 leader briefs group on walk
14 Information board of Penistone Town Centre (11 not marked is presumably the original station buildings now used for other purposes).
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21 The Recreation Area alongside Trans Pennine trail where we branched off at an angle away from the Trail heading towards Bank House Farm
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23 looking towards the Trans Pennine Trail which we left earlier
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30 awkward 'stream' to cross
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45 House hidden by dry stone wall just to West of spot we had tea break (picture below)
46 tea break - probably before Cross Lane
50 which suburb? which road towards / from wind turbines? Is this the road we returned on?
53 Church / Chapel to West  in Thurlstone (one of two)?
54 near Bank House Farm?
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57 Hartcliffe Lane (a dead end for vehicles) branches off South West from Hill Side and continues as a path only through Bingley Plantation & Hartcliff Brow to Penistone Boundary Walk
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65 Concrete Emley Moor Transmission Tower seen in distance to North (with guyed possibly temporary  tower to left). See similar view in picture 157

69 Bingley Plantation?

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76 From Mary Knoll (on Penistone Boundary walk) walking towards Ecklands

77 Air shaft marked on map near above path

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89 Trans Pennine Trail seen below from Ecklands Bridge  to East

91 T P T seen from Ecklands Bridge to West (note cliff on on one side)

94 narrow path to East to T P T

96  having turned about, now on T P T looking West through Ecklands Bridge

99 now passed under Ecklands Bridge - note icicles on left

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102 marker on T P Trail - is position given marking the intersection of Manchester Road / Buulhouse Lane below? (in the Millhouse Green Area?)

103 Bullhouse Railway Disaster 1884 - (try Control + to enlarge to read)

105 lunch break on the T P T

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108 artwork - tab illegible

109 walking towards the Bullhouse (independent / non-conformist / dissenters) Chapel built by Sylvanus Rich in 1692

110 The Chapel - unfortunately closed

113 another view of The Bullhouse Chapel

118 Bullhouse Hall a grade II listed building built by the Rich family

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128 The River Don
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137 The Old Corn Mill (apparently there were two Corn Mills at Bullhouse)
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140 note the sheep's lethal looking horns
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149 up Slant Gate
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157 Emley Moor Transmission Tower again
158 one in group missing
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161 viewing map
164 Royd Moor Reservoir
167 Scout Dike Reservoir
168 down towards Thurlstone
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174 cantilevered shaped stone steps from retaining wall once gave access from road above to garden below
171 vintage tractor?
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