Emley Moor Mast RFM Blue Line Walking with Peter

 

Emley Moor Mast 

RFM Blue Line 

Walking with Peter

14/01/26



The walks in this area always feature the mast as an anchor in the landscape. You always know where you are if you can see Emley Moor Mast. It was a chilly, frosty winter's morning with very clear air. A proper January day.



We parked close to the football field and set off towards Tyburn Hill where we met our first dog walker of the day. He kindly pointed out where Scissett, Denby Dale and Clayton West were in the valley below us. Tyburn in London is the site of the gallows so we wondered if it was the same in Emley.


The mast in the distance is our first destination. We were lucky to see a Buzzard take off and circle its way across the fields. It was just close enough to get a photo.

The mast is the tallest building in the United Kingdom and is just lovely to see in the clear winter light.
We had to traverse two fields with horses in them but they were calm and didn't bother us although the white pony took exception to Peter's phone ringing. It was as if he said "oy you two, no phones in this field."

This was as close as we could get to the base of the mast. I would have liked to have got a lot closer.
Huddersfield could be seen in the distance beyond Carr House.
Passing this mansion at Roydhouse we were super critical of the old extension but the original building was plain to see in all its glory, just grand.


The two stags at the car park to the pub at Roydhouse were magnificent and unexpected.

Heading down the hill towards Gryce Hall the views were great but the way was icy and muddy.


The view of the mast from the down the hill at the small village called Common Side was good. We worried about the origin of Common Side, the houses looked too big and plentiful for agricultural workers cottages so we speculated that maybe there had been some other reason for this village being there such as a mill.



We headed over the road and through the hamlet of Thornecliffe past a farmer on a agricultural truck who ignored us pointedly. 



The way to Moor Top Farm was long, muddy and continually uphill. The January light is wonderful to see and the forecast breezes were totally absent making it a pleasant climb.

Looking back down from the farm was a great view. Where the track crossed the road we stopped at a stile for lunch. Stiles are handy for somewhere to sit when all else fails but it is a firm rambling phenomena that within a few hundred yards after using a stile as a seat you will come across a bench or a rock or some thing that would have been better suited for a stop. Its also a truism that if you forgo the stile the benches and rocks disappear.
Long Lane crossing Flockton Moor was a lane which was long. It was also very icy and slippy. we did pass another friendly dog walker, second and last of the day.
We passed this notable junction known as Six Lanes End. Thats a lot of lanes.
The Lane was now called Common Lane and was undeveloped so not so slippy but very muddy.


We left the lane and headed up the field towards Lower Crawshaw. Peter is pointing to probably the biggest molehill ever found, we should be in the Guinness Book of Records or at least the molehill should be.

It was a bit of a killer hill but we reached the top pretty quickly as it wasn't too long a climb. Flockton follows the contour on the valley opposite. I wonder why it was built like that. It does look like it is still being extended.
Its nice here.


We passed the farm at Lower Crawshaw and headed up the lane towards Upper Crawshaw.


We had our break at the church in Emley a few weeks ago. I wonder if the farmer purposefully put the piles of 'farm waste' in front of the only bench on the lane.



Then it was back into Emley past the Cross and to our cars next to the football/cricket ground.

Just short of 8 miles and an ascent of over 650 feet is becoming a kind of average for our walks and is enough for a winter walk.

OS Map
https://explore.osmaps.com/route/30268581/emley-moor-mast-rfm-blue-line?lat=53.61407&lon=-1.63836&zoom=14.6574&style=Leisure&type=2d



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