IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Moorland Road, LEEDS, LS16 9HW
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Moorland Road, LS16 9HW by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (32 Images Found)
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Sighting tower south of Bramhope
This is a sighting tower, built so that the engineers could keep a true line during construction of the Bramhope Tunnel on the Leeds to Harrogate railway line, directly underneath this point. This field was also used as a navvie camp during construction. See http://www.bramhope.org/brtunnel.htm
Image: © David Spencer
Taken: 21 Aug 2005
0.08 miles
4
Bramhope sighting tower
This view shows the surveying slits lined up, meaning that the camera location must be above the centreline of the tunnel. One of two such structures built in 1845 to aid the setting out of the twenty constructions shafts along the line of the tunnel, this is the only one that remains and is listed grade II (list entry 1253379). See Image for a side view from the road.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 31 Mar 2019
0.08 miles
5
Bird's eye view
Ducks are not known for seeking out high perches like some other birds, but this mallard found the Bramhope sighting tower Image a suitable vantage point.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 31 Mar 2019
0.08 miles
6
The sighting tower at Bramhope
This brick chimney-like structure sits above a railway tunnel on the Leeds-Harrogate line. As explained by other contributors Image it was erected c.1845 as an aid to surveyors setting out the line of the tunnel, rather than as a ventilation shaft. It is now grade 2 listed (list entry 1253379).
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 19 May 2018
0.08 miles
7
A tower off Moor Road
The tower is on top of a railway tunnel and maybe was used in the construction of it.
Image: © Ian S
Taken: 31 Jul 2011
0.08 miles
8
Old stile in a field
The only clue remaining to the line of a former field boundary.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 31 Mar 2019
0.09 miles
