2. Scout Rock 3. Churn Milk Joan
BREARLEY LANE From the top of Scout Rock, view across to Midgeley Chapel. Photo: Jade Smith \ Map © Crown copyright. All rights reserved. Calderdale MBC (100023069) (2006) View across to Banksfield and Wadsworth Bank Photo: Jade Smith By Low Bank Farm, follow the footpath straight uphill. It Into Brearley Lane by crossing railway bridge, and 2. Scout Rock continues upwards, roughly cobbled. Look ahead for views continuing down track. Cross over River Calder at Brearley over Calder Valley towards Foster Clough and Churn Milk Bridge, noticing remains of weir below. Brearley, a small Moderate walk of about 2½ miles (4 km), taking 1½ hours. Joan, to your left, Heptonstall Church and Old Town mill rural industrial hamlet, had at least three woollen mills, standing on the horizon. and is still used for business premises. Just before the Rising steeply at the start, it soon gives wonderful views second bridge, turn left along the canal; the old wall on Above Scout Rock: when the track bends right, turn left across the Calder Valley to Heptonstall and Old Town. Ted the opposite canal bank are the remains of an old toffee up small steps. Follow grassy path along lie of hill, glancing Hughes, from his childhood home in Aspinall Street in factory, still working within living memory. Mytholmroyd, looked straight across to the grim cliff-face left down onto Mytholmroyd, with Aspinall Street, Ted of Scout Rock: it provided ‘both the curtain and back-drop Hughes’ birthplace, just visible. Skirt along the hillside: The Canal path returns you to Mytholmroyd. As you to existence’.
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