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  • Collection: Dianne Harwood collection

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Near the top end of the Colden Valley on a packhorse route to Hurstwood and Colne this medieval wayside cross stands in magnificent moorland above the Gorple reservoirs. In the drought of 1976 the receding water revealed an ancient paved trackway,…

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Fred Sayer lived here when he moved to the area in 1933

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Comment from Charles turner: My ancestor William turner farmed Higher Baitings Farm from 1824 until retiring to Kendal in the 1860s, leaving his son Edmund turner to carry on the farm. It was demolished by the Water Board when the reservoirs were…

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Looking west along the Calder Valley

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Taken from above the former Hoo Hole Dye works.

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A modern, small scale wheel placed in the wheel pit of the old mill.
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