IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Old Hall Close, CHESTERFIELD, S45 8JD

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

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 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

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

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

Prior to 1800, Pilsley was purely an agricultural settlement and at that time it consisted of Upper Pilsley and Nether Pilsley. Few of the houses from that period still exist though Barlow Bank Farm (no longer a farm building) is one of them. The building is situated near to the junction of Slack’s Lane (seen on the right of the photograph Image) and the northern end of Bridge Street Image

This right of way connects Image (behind the viewpoint) Image at its junction with Image The building with the tiled roof is Image

The cul-de-sac, Granby Close from its junction with Image

This Fire hydrant and its signage are on Slack’s Lane roughly half way between its junction with Forrest Drive and where it meets The Paddocks Image and Back Lane Image