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It’s getting late here at Bigland Towers meaning I don’t have enough time to do the day justice in a blog – especially as we’ve had a great day exploring. Instead I’ll you with a series of pictures as a teaser for a longer blog tomorrow when I have time to write.

We made the most of the glorious weather today by nipping out for a walk around Ogden water country park which is north of Halifax on the road to Haworth and Keighley. The area offers some outstanding views across West Yorkshire. Here’s a few pictures. Firstly, and oddity…

We noticed this collection of old tram rails that had been used to build a platform in a field adjacent to the A629. They must be pretty old as the Halifax network closed in 1939 whilst Bradford trams finished running in 1950.
Looking South-East across the Ogden reservoir from the moors above.
The cliffs at Ogden Clough.
The view from atop the cliffs.
Having walked across the moors to Ogden Clough we walked back along the wooded stream which feeds the reservoir.
Looking back across the reservoir from the dam, we’d walked up high above to near the wind turbines you can see in the background.

After the walk we decided to explore. I looked up a nearby real ale pub in the Good Beer Guide and we headed off to try somewhere different in an area neither of us had explored before. I’ll blog about what we found at length tomorrow, but here’s a taster.

En-route we discovered this magnificent 20 arch Thornton railway viaduct which was built by the Great Northern Railway and opened in 1878 in but abandoned in 1966.
Thornton’s the birthplace of a rather famous Yorkshire literary family – as we found out…

OK, more tomorrow,

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