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Gas installation, Norwood Avenue
A large housing development needs energy infrastructure, including gas mains (at least until decarbonisation gets going).
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 26 Sep 2020
0.03 miles
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New houses on Norwood Avenue
Most of this new housing estate occupies the former High Royds asylum site, but the houses on the north side of Norwood Avenue appear to be a greenfield development. These two houses, one of them still for sale, are among the larger properties.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 26 Sep 2020
0.05 miles
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Older buildings at the end of Norwood Avenue
These houses were probably associated with the adjacent Home Farm rather than the nearby High Royds hospital - although the two were connected, patients from the hospital providing labour for the farm.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 26 Sep 2020
0.06 miles
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Path behind Norwood Avenue
Most of this new housing estate occupies the former High Royds asylum site, but the houses on the north side of Norwood Avenue, including this pedestrian route behind the houses, appear to be a greenfield development. At least the oak tree has been spared.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 26 Sep 2020
0.10 miles
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Home Farm, Menston
These buildings appear to have been converted to private housing rather than being a working farm. The reason for its abandonment may be connected with the former High Royds mental hospital nearby, as explained in the following text found online (source - http://www.highroydshospital.com/insight/farming-the-land-g-w-bitton/ ):
"The site of High Royds in the rich Yorkshire countryside of Lower Wharfedale, and the importance given from the very earliest days to the concept of a self-sufficient community, meant that farming and the needs of the land were a central feature of life in the institution. In total there were four separate farms – Thorpe, Norcroft, Odda and Home Farm – with over 600 acres of land. Local men were employed to do much of the farm labour, and were paid an extra supplement for working alongside the patients. Tasks undertaken by patients were usually fetching and carrying churns of milk and sacks of grain, as well as helping to look after the animals. ... The pigs and milk were at Holme Farm [sic], rearing stock at Norcroft, older stock at Odda and dried off cows at Thorpe until they came into milk again."
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 26 Sep 2020
0.10 miles
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New town houses on Norwood Avenue
Most of this new housing estate occupies the former High Royds asylum site, but Norwood Avenue appears to be partly a greenfield development.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 26 Sep 2020
0.12 miles
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Norwood Avenue - Menston Drive
Image: © Betty Longbottom
Taken: 17 Apr 2013
0.13 miles
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High Royds Mental Hospital - Menston
This part of the site is currently being converted for residential use.
Image: © Betty Longbottom
Taken: 15 Aug 2008
0.14 miles
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Electricity Substation No 48154 - Menston Drive
Image: © Betty Longbottom
Taken: 17 Apr 2013
0.14 miles
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Path alongside woodland near High Royds
The path is a recent one, being a perimeter path of the new Chevin Park estate. The woodland, 7 hectares in extent, is an old one - shown on maps of the early 20th century, but with no apparent name. Locals must have a name for it.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 26 Sep 2020
0.15 miles