IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Hill Top, KNOTTINGLEY, WF11 9AQ
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Hill Top, WF11 9AQ by members of the Geograph project.
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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 (161 Images Found)
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Entrance to Knottingley Amphitheatre
This entrance is off Hill Top near to Gaggs Bridge.
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The Amphitheatre is set below the road level adjacent to the canal.
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Image: © bernard bradley
Taken: 28 Jan 2009
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Knottingley Amphitheatre
Knottingley Amphitheatre looking run down and neglected.
Access is from the canal side or from Hill Top.
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Image: © bernard bradley
Taken: 28 Jan 2009
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Welcome to Knottingley Amphitheatre
Welcome sign at the entrance to Knottingley Amphitheatre
Image: © bernard bradley
Taken: 28 Jan 2009
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Old milestone
This eroded and plateless milestone on Hill Top, Knottingley, the A645, is one of only two survivors from the 1758 Wakefield to Weeland tollroad. Weeland was a ferry crossing of the River Aire at SE 606 239 to Hirst Courtney. Now only a track leads from Main Street, Hensall to the river. An inset rectangular plate would have had the legend PONT/3/WAKD/12. A bench mark can just be made out near ground level underneath the plate recess.
Image: © Chris Minto
Taken: 10 Apr 2022
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Old Milestone by the A645, Knottingley
Stone post (plate lost) by the A645, in parish of KNOTTINGLEY (WAKEFIELD District), Knottingley, between two bridges over Aire and Calder Canal; opposite St Michael's Catholic Church, on pavement, back to wall near "Amphitheatre", on South side of road. Erected by the Wakefield & Weeland turnpike trust in the 18th/19th century.
Inscription once read:-
(PONT)
(3)
(WAKD)
(12)
Carved benchmark on front below plate.
Milestone Society National ID: YW_WKWL12.
Image: © C Minto
Taken: 21 May 2003
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St Michael's church, Knottingley
A Roman Catholic church built, probably in the 1950s, on the site of a former inn.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 13 Aug 2022
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The final march
Procession leaving Knottingley town hall marking the end of deep coal mining in Great Britain after the closure of Kellingley Colliery.
Image: © derek dye
Taken: 20 Dec 2015
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Quarry Face
This view taken from the canal footpath shows the eastern abutment upon which Gaggs Bridge is built. The rock is a limestone and historically has been extensively quarried in this area.
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Image: © bernard bradley
Taken: 28 Jan 2009
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Old milestone on Hill Top, Knottingley
Now lacking its original marker plate, and cracked, but an old map shows that it originally marked 3 miles to Pontefract and 12 to Wakefield. The Milestone Society's photo explains that it is 'one of only two survivors from the 1758 Wakefield to Weeland tollroad'. Milestone ID: YW_WKWL12
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 13 Aug 2022
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