Exploring SE0023

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Footpath 107

This path starts off New Lane, over the stile on the right.

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Soon we come to a 'fence' stile with no step.

Soon there is another 'fence' stile.

Just outside of the square, the path turns right over two stiles with a shared, rather narrow, step.

This is looking back along the path towards the stiles on the corner and the trees at Swillington.

The stile from New Lane onto the continuation of Footpath 107 to its end at Kirby Cote Lane.

If I remember correctly, the mesh panel serves as a footpath gate and you can swing it out and squeeze through.

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Footpath 109

This path starts off FP119 in Knowl Wood on the west side of Turvin Clough. It crosses Blackstone Edge Road and climbs up through Bank Top Wood to enter the square where it crosses FP116, below the Bull Fall Stone.

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The path curves around the top of the steep wooded slope called 'Bull Fall'.

After going through this gate, the path is along the top of a field of rough pasture.

The path goes to High Lane, where several paths meet.

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Now comes an oddity: the path goes across open grassland parallel to High Lane. Perhaps the lane has been in bad condition for a long period in the past, or maybe the footpath is on the original route of the Sowerby to Rochdale pack-horse road, and High Lane was made later. The curves on the lane shown on Myers's map of 1835 match those on the present High Lane.

The path crosses FP110 at Kirkby Cote Lane at a bend in the lane. The stile in the foreground is on FP110 and the lane to the left is also FP110. The lane to the right is the continuation of FP109 passing out of the square.

The lane passes Kirby Cote Farm, where FP113 goes off across a field to Deacon Hill.

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Footpath 110 - Bent Close Lane

The south-eastern end of this path starts at FP111 on High Stones Hill and crosses High Stones Road to become Bent Close Lane, and then Coppy Nook Lane where it enters the square. The lane passes Bent Close Farm, a laithe-house with house and barn under one roof. It then forks, the left turn being High Lane and the right turn linking with Kirby Cote Lane.

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This is disused as a lane, but is FP110. It is very wet.

The lane is blocked off by a fence with a stile, and then a further stile onto Kirkby Cote Lane at a bend in the lane. FP110 turns left down the lane, passing the western end of FP107, to Kirby Cote Farm.

The lane passes Kirby Cote Farm, where FP113 goes off across a field to Deacon Hill.

The lane continues to Owlet Hill (Owl Hill on the 1850 map), and when the garden of this house is reached FP110 goes through the little gate to the right. The lane straight on is FP131.

The path keeps to the top of the field, above the farm.

This is the stile at the end of the path, At New Lane.

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