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Storth Lea, ELLAND, HX5 9JS

Huddersfield Road only connects to the Elland Bypass in a southerly (uphill) direction, but a foot and cycle path has been provided in the other direction.

Here the bypass road crosses over the old Huddersfield Road.

The sign at the entrance to this industrial site on the fringe of Elland names the occupants as Weir Power & Industrial.

This existed before the Elland bypass was constructed, and was possibly diverted slightly, as it was given a tarmac surface.

The A629 sweeps up the hillside from Elland to Ainley Top, where it burrows under the M62. The old Huddersfield Road passes under the Elland bypass and then joins it from the left (southbound traffic only). There is no slip road coming down the hill, but there is a footway from the bus layby down to Huddersfield Road. The Bypass road is called Calderdale Way, slightly confusing as this is also the name of a footpath route around the upper Calder valley. The photo is taken from a quarried area known as 'The Rough'.

This footpath zigzags up the steep escarpment from Huddersfield Road to the quarried area at the top known as 'The Rough'. This was formerly a bare hillside, but thousands of trees have been planted.

This footpath gives pedestrians a route from Ainley Top down into Elland keeping clear of the busy dual carriageway. For another view see Image

The name Tong Royd indicates an old clearance of woodland for agriculture, and most of the present trees are small and young. However there are some tall older trees that might indicate the position of field boundaries.

Here the track leaves the old brickworks site and enters the woodland.

Sandstone is exposed, although the brickworks would need shale and clay. The latter was probably obtained from the old coal mine workings, and there was also a clay pit to the west of Huddersfield Road.