Wakefield to Dewsbury
My aim on this walk was to join the canal at the end of Thornes Lane Wharfe, and so complete the Wakefield end of the Calder Hebble Navigation, but this appearded to have been cut off, I guess due to damage to the tow path. My route, therefore took me down the A61 and via Pugneys to Join the Calder close to Lupsett Pond.
I walked from there along the Calder, noting the Police HQ on the other bank so again missing out part of the Navgation on Broad Cut, though this allowed me to fulfil my aim of the (somewhat scary) box bridge near the Navigation Inn. I stopped for a pint here, but they only had cans due to their cellar flooding in the Boxing Day floods last year.
The Canal passes under a number of bridges. The girder bridge carries the now disused Barnsley and Horbury Station Junction Line.
I walked up some of the way into Horbury to have a look at the railway yard, which is quite impressive.
Along up to Dewsbury there is this amazing creeper covered lock cottage.
The short branch of the Dewsbury Canal runs from the Calder up to Saville Town Basin. While there are some interesting old mills, Dewsbury is perhaps one of the less pleasent parts of West Yorkshire. The final image is the Victorian footbridge at Dewsbury Station.
A final shot – a panorama of the Canal Basin.
