Calderdale

[Fozzie]

Hi Claire,

Is there a problem with PWPackhorse - I notice that no one has taken it.

Cheers,
Fozzie

[Harefeet]

Hi,

I added a couple of suggestions last night:

ShackleKnoll - Shackleton Knoll, the site of a cairn on a viewpoint above the hamlet of Shackleton.

TommyLeeRoyce - a footpath junction near Warley Moor reservoir that was the location in the iconic scene in "Happy Valley" where the character in question gets off his bike.

thanks,

Charles

[Harefeet]

Hi Fozzie,

PWPackhorse doesn't have a phone signal. Our fault for not checking. We've talked about trying hotspot sharing to try and get a signal from the footpath above but haven't tried it yet.

It's also not quite in the right location (which I think is my fault for using the satellite imagery instead of going and checking the location with the GPS) but there are footpaths on both sides so that doesn't matter too much.

thanks,

Charles.

[Fozzie]

Hi - if you can post an image with a better adjusted location, I'm happy to move it.

Cheers,
Fozzie

[Harefeet]

Oh great, thanks! I'll pop up there over the next week or so and use OSLocate to pinpoint it.

Thanks also for renaming the 1779Stone zone, I noticed that last night

[Harefeet]

Well, we managed to take the zone by sharing a hotspot from my phone at the top of the hill!

A more accurate location for the packhorse bridge would be SD 96763 28202. Gridref finder says that's 53.750177 , -2.0505668 in decimal lat/long.

That's still going to be susceptible to the same phone signal problem, but 2 people sharing a hotspot can do it.

https://gridreferencefinder.com/#gr=SD9 ... _s_28202|1

Thanks!

Charles.

[Fozzie]

PWPackhorse moved over the bridge....

[Harefeet]

Thanks, we'll go have a go at it next week

[Harefeet]

Re: PWPackhorse - we can get it by cunning use of mobile hotspots, so it takes cooperation I think CurlyC and I have both taken it at least once now.

Couple more suggestions if I may?

53.704692, -2.051495 is "TheStoop". Close by the Pennine Way, at the junction of an old packhorse route over from Yorkshire to Lancashire. There's a medieval cross here (or more accurately, a very wonky and eroded upright stone - see photo).



53.669521, -2.057041 - "TheRainStone". One of six stones (The Stanza Stones) placed over a fifty mile stretch of the Pennines by poet laureate Simon Armitage in 2012 on the theme of water. I'm planning on suggesting zones for all of them, one by one.


53.735330 , -1.9995231 - "FallingRoyd", the towpath by the entrance to Fallingroyd tunnel on the Rochdale canal between Mytholmroyd and Hebden Bridge. This complements zones at Hebden Bridge station and the cycleway at the other side of the river. It's probably within 200m straight line of the zone on the other side of the river, but it's a lot further than that to get to a river crossing and back again. The grass area and canal towpath at the other side of the road might make an alternative zone - this exact location may be a bit tree-covered.

Thanks

[CurlyC]

Harefeet and I made a couple more suggestions for zones this weekend on the Calderdale Way above the village of Old Town in Hebden Bridge:

OldTownDelf - a small quarry just off the Calderdale Way which overlooks Old Town

OldSheep - a bend in the path at a point which was originally labelled on the map as "Sheepstones" (the "new" Sheepstones trig already has a zone some distance away from this)

We would be grateful if you could take a look at these and some of our other recent suggestions, particularly as a few more turfers have recently joined the competition in our area

Many thanks, Claire