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Riding the Legend – A Trip on the Flying Scotsman
As part of its centenary celebrations, the world famous locomotive, the Flying Scotsman, has been guest of honour at the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway for the entire month of May. Because we live just up the hill from Oakworth Station, it would have been rude not to take the opportunity to take a ride…
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5.5 mile Wuthering Heights walk – Stanbury | Top Withens | Alcomden Stones | Ponden Kirk
A classic literary walk, taking in some key locations linked to Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. The walk began at Bully Trees Farm, Stanbury and headed up the hill on the track past Lower Height Farm and Upper Heights Farm. Both are still inhabited but are no longer working farms. Below is the view looking back…
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3 mile circular walk from Bully Trees Farm to Top Withens
Starting from Bully Trees Farm, Back Lane, Stanbury, this is probably the second easiest and quickest way to get up to Top Withens. The easiest way is to follow the main track straight up past Upper Heights Farm (today’s return route – the upper one on the map above) and either way will give you…
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A short walk to Gibson Mill and Hardcastle Crags
The National Trust’s Hardcastle Crags estate offers miles of stunning walks in a beautifully secluded steep-sided, thickly wooded valley just outside Hebden Bridge. Hebden Water flows along the bottom of the valley and if you follow it upstream for about a mile or so, you come to Gibson Mill, an 18th century cotton mill, which…
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Photo restoration – Preserving precious memories
Something a little different. Back in 2017, along with several members of my family, I travelled to France to commemorate the centenary of my great grandfather, Frank Bennett’s death in the First World War and it was a very moving experience to stand at his graveside 100 years to the day after he died. In…
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A frosty start at Haworth Brow Top
I’m very fortunate that my relatively long commute to work takes me through some incredible scenery and, particularly this time of year, I can experience all kinds of weather conditions early in the morning that make for some stunning photos. One day last week. there had been a hard overnight frost and a dusting of…
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Another snowy walk from Oakworth to Haworth (Part 4)
The final instalment takes us along the lane from the graveyard, up through Balcony Farm to Dimples Lane. From there, down Dimples Lane, via a 4×4 stuck in a snowdrift, back into Haworth on West Lane then down Mytholmes Lane, over Mytholmes Tunnel and home to Oakworth, about 4 miles in total. Click HERE to…
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Another snowy walk from Oakworth to Haworth (Part 3)
This third set of images covers the Brontë Parsonage Museum, St Michael and All Angels’ Church and the graveyard. Click HERE to view Part 1 (Oakworth to Haworth Station) Click HERE to view Part 2 (Haworth Main Street) Click HERE to view Part 4 (Dimples Lane and Mytholmes Lane) For more information about Haworth and Brontë Country, the Brontë…
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Another snowy walk from Oakworth to Haworth (Part 2)
Here we go with the second part of this beautiful winter wonderland walk. This time it’s Haworth’s Main Street. It’s been difficult to decide which shots to include because there are so many of them but I hope you approve of my choices. Click HERE to view Part 1 (Oakworth to Haworth Station) Click HERE…
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Another snowy walk from Oakworth to Haworth (Part 1)
It was one of those days when I could have pointed the camera anywhere and got a big pile of fantastic photos, so I’ve had to split this post into three sections. This was Friday 10th March, the day after the shots in my last post, following heavy overnight snow. I’ll let the photos speak…
Bronte Country Landscapes 