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Grade II listed Upper Blind Lane Farm with barn.

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Grade II listed properties at Nos. 10 & 12 Blind Lane, Brearley.

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Unknown location with stone bridge in woodlands and small stone ruin. Can anyone identify?

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A painting by Alfred Bayes, the Lumbutts-born artist, depicts a packhorse train travelling along the moorland causey stones, which still exist in many places today. The horses, led by a drover, were disciplined to follow the sound of bells fastened…

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This is a good example of an upland route taken by packhorses in the years prior to the construction of the turnpike roads and canal.

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The Wadsworth hillside can be seen in the background.

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This was the home of the Stell family around 1920.

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The Old Bridge looking downstream towards West End. The plaques on the abutment record it was repaired in 1602 and 1657. The building on the left on Bridge Gate was Thomas Marshall, coal merchant, that building and the mill beyond have long been…

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The Old Bridge originally built 1510 and repaired in 1602 and 1657 when it was described "in great ruin and decay". Seen here in about 1900 looking over to Buttress Brink, demolished 1960s, with the new 'Hole in the Wall' pub on the right.

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Colden Road, which runs from Mytholm to Jack Bridge, can be seen rising through the woodland. The "road" is known localley as the "Ragley".

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Buttress Brink is on the right with the Hole in the Wall beyond. Probably taken just before demolition of Buttress Brink started in the 1960s.

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The houses on the left-hand edge of the photo are Crowther Terrace.

Left of centre in the valley bottom is the mill complex of Upper and Lower Lumb Mills , and Lumb Bank is on the right, part way up the hill.

The road on the left of the photo…
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