The CC Trig Point bagger thread, now incorporating other interesting geographs

[Richard A Thackeray]

Monday 7th
9.


Leeds House
(opposite 'Commerce House')
WheelGate
Malton

Yes, that's my travel-stained Kodiaq in the picture

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3256973

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Monday 7th
10.

Castle Howard Railway Station
Castle Howard Station Road
(off the A64)
Just east of Whitwell-on-the-Hill

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.u...use-and-platform-cottage-welburn#.YgF1H5bP3IU
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3147558
http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/c/castle_howard/index.shtml
'Holiday apartment' available; https://castlehowardstation.com/

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Monday 7th
11.

Kirkham Priory & Bridge
Onhams Lane
Kirkham
Off the A64
(opposite Whitwell-on-the-Hill)

ay

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101149116-kirkham-priory-westow#.YgF2N5bP3IU
https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101149117-kirkham-bridge-whitwell-on-the-hill#.YgItEZbP3IU
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/kirkham-priory/
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1605571
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5521224

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101149076-kirkham-manor-farmhouse-westow

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Monday 8th

Crompton-Parkinson’s Clock (the electrical company)
(on a modern tower)
Netherfield Road
Guiseley

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6609978
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3754923

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crompton_Parkinson

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Wednesday 9th
1.

Kings Road Bridge
Aire & Calder Navigation Canal
(bottom of) Foxholes Lane
Altofts

The dark rectangle in the distance is a truck on the M62, travelling west (between jcts 31 & 30)

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4157654

Hidden from view, but approximately where the red barge is, there's a filled in/'stopped' lock that allowed cross-traffic with the River Calder
It's a heck of a difference, maybe 25 feet, at normal water levels!

The M62 bridge, can be seen in the background
This is where the truck came off, a few months ago
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3278080
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6717586

The Lock into the River, can be seen on this 1905 OS; https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=53.71685&lon=-1.43361&layers=168&b=1

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Wednesday 9th
2.

Fairies Hill Viaduct
Fairies Hill Cut
Aire & Calder Navigation Canal
Whitwood

Now home to; http://www.fairies-hill-moorings.co.uk/index.html

Built in 1840, designed by George Stephenson (father of Robert; designer of 'The Rocket' locomotive)
https://britishlistedbuildings.co.u...-viaduct-at-se-392-248-normanton#.YgUn4ZbP3IU

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2723565

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Wednesday 9th
3.

NewLands Hall Stable-Block
NewLands Woods
NewLands Lane
Altofts-cum-NewLands

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.u...hall-newland-with-woodhouse-moor#.YgUvSpbP3IU
https://stanleyhistoryonline.com/newland-estate
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2416200

The approach to it, & most of the way through NewLands Woods was fine, with just a few greasy sections, on the approach from 'Stanley Ferry'
The Stables are to my left, just after the precariously leaning tree


And as for the exit from the Woods.........................
A lot of farm traffic has chewed it up, & there's a bit of 'run-off..............
I rode through just where a tyre-track is descernible, by the drinks can

Yes!, my feet stayed dry

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Friday 11th
1.

An unusual ‘lantern roof’
(off) Jin Whin Hill
Methley/Castleford

I wonder if it's illuminated at night?

I pass this a lot, but I'm normally in the car

It's to the east of the 'red road' between the railway & Methley Road (A6032)
https://www.geograph.org.uk/showmap.php?gridref=SE4125

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Friday 11th
2.

Methley South Station
Now a private house & restored
Accessed off Barnsdale Road/A639

Built for the Methley Joint Railway, otherwise known as the ‘Lancashire & Yorkshire, Great Northern and North Eastern Railway’

September 1958
Note the brick building closest to the camera, on the left, still remains in use to this day

Taken from one of my books

http://lostrailwayswestyorkshire.co.uk/Lofthouse Outwood.htm#Methley South Joint Station L&Y GNR NER
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3467423
The buildings can be seen over the bridge; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3467423



From another book
The ‘Closure’ notice is up

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Friday 11th
3.

Further along the ‘Castleford Greenway’
Which leads to Bottomboat, along the trackbed of the old Methley Joint Railway, officially known as the ‘Lancashire & Yorkshire, Great Northern and North Eastern Railway’

WaterGate/Newmarket Lane can be seen behind (white house)

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2014321
https://www.cyclecityconnect.co.uk/our-routes/castleford-to-wakefield-greenway/
https://www.sustrans.org.uk/our-blo...-of-the-castleford-greenway-officially-opens/

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

We're going away for an over-night stay 'next weekend'
Suggestions included; Leicester, Whitby, Morecambe

I'll still feel like I'm performing missionary work, as we're heading over the frontier, into the Lancastrian wastelands

It was via a nicely circuitous route
Apologies, there's not as many photographs as I wanted, because location/weather/time didn't really allow for them

Saturday 12th
1.

KirkGate
Otley

I’d have thought it’s a reasonably wealthy town, so could afford more?

It's not far from the pelican crossing, & on the right, as we look at the photograph; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6660540

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 12th
2.

Bolton Abbey Station
Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway
A59 (between Bolton Abbey & Skipton)

Within the 'station yard' area, as you leave to rejoin the

Practically opposite the 'Yard' gates

Slow; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6116428
https://www.embsayboltonabbeyrailway.org.uk/your-visit/bolton-abbey-station

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1133355

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 12th
3.

Regal Cinema (as was)
Keighley Road
Skipton

http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/6237
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4960706

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 12th
4.

The Black Horse
High Street
Skipton

https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101301619-the-black-horse-public-house-skipton
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/497147

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Saturday 12th
5.

Sorry!, this ought to have been number 2, then they would be in 'journey sequence'

It can just be seen, behind the closest parked car; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1177236
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1177213