Meltham Way, Honley Old Wood
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The photograph on this page of Meltham Way, Honley Old Wood by Richard Kay as part of the Geograph project.
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Image: © Richard Kay Taken: 18 Jan 2011
The edge of a carboniferous sandstone bench forms a northwest-facing scarp slope 1.5km west of Honley. Here old woodland has been undisturbed for hundreds of years. The two footpaths in the photo are in fact a hairpin bend on the Meltham Way.