Back Lane, Topcliffe
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Back Lane, Topcliffe
Image: © Gordon Hatton Taken: 1 Jul 2018
Back Lane joins Long Street with the road to Busby Stoop and probably marks the end of former 'toft and croft' lands, where the original dwellings along what is now Front Street would have had long strips of land to the rear where small amounts of food could be grown or a few animals kept.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.179387
Longitude
-1.386044