IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Back Lane, CHESTERFIELD, S45 8HJ

The photograph shows Back Lane looking toward Image (seen over the hedges in the distance). From where the lane turns to the left there is a track that leads to the farm yard. This track is shared by a footpath to Image The houses to the left of the picture have suffered from mining subsidence at some point in their history as evidenced by the obvious angle between the tops of the windows and the slope of the roof. Back Lane turns sharply to the left just after these houses Image Just passed the hedge on the right is a track that was once the entrance the miners used to access the local colliery Image Behind the viewpoint is the lanes junction with Slack’s Lane Image

The photograph shows the short track (shared by a public footpath) from the farmyard at Whitehall Farm to Image Toward the left of the picture Image has a junction with Image To the right Image continues toward its junction with Image To see a photograph from the other end of the lane but looking back (northerly), toward this viewpoint, click here, Image

Ahead Back Lane leads (just after the parked car) to a small housing development Image built in the 1980’s, thence to Whitehall Farm Image before passing the entrance miners once used to the local colliery before the lanes junction with Slack’s Lane Image Behind the viewpoint is a short slope leading to the lane's junction with Bridge Street Image

About half way along Back Lane there is a 90° bend. The track to the farm buildings shown in the picture joins Back Lane at that bend. This track is shared by a footpath to Image Behind the viewpoint Image has a junction with Image To the left of the picture Image continues toward its junction with Image To see a photograph from the other end of the lane but looking back (southerly), toward this viewpoint, click here, Image For another view of the farm, click here: Image

Image from its junction with Back Lane Image The junction in the middle distance (right) is with Image The building with the white gable end is ‘Old Whitehall’. In front of this building is a right of way that leads past Image to Image at its junction with Image

The cul-de-sac, Old Hall Close, photographed from near its southern end. The junction in the middle distance (left) is with Image The northern end of Image joins Image ahead (but out of shot). Just past the shadow, on the near left, is a Image

The photograph shows Whitehall Farm as it is approached from a footpath between Image (behind the viewpoint) and Image (ahead). Off the left of this picture, near the far end of the farm building, these Image were being stored under the watchful eye of one of the farm cats. Some 450metres behind the viewpoint (and taken from approximately the same point as the photograph described next) is this photograph of a Image which, although generally looking in the same direction as this photograph is angled rather more to the east. Also some 450metres behind the viewpoint (and taken from approximately the same point as the photograph described previously) is this photograph of a Image looking toward Locko Plantation. To see a more north-westerly (behind the viewpoint) photograph of the footpath, click here Image

Whitehall Farm from Back Lane Image near its junction to Old Hall Close Image For other photographs of the farm buildings, click here Image and here, Image

Although now just a private dwelling, the house on the right (for sale at the time this photograph was taken) is still called Barlow Bank Farm. The photograph was taken from the western end of Image (to the left) at its junction with Image (behind the viewpoint). Ahead (north-easterly, leading toward the modern house) is a Image leading to Image

The photograph shows Back Lane at the point where its junctions with Image (turning right) and Image (across the white lines) detach a short section of Image from the majority of its length. Behind the viewpoint the lane continues Image towards Whitehall Farm.