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WALTON - West (Greenside & Common Lane)
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Click to enlargeView across the Greenbelt towards Sandal Grange from Common Lane.
© John S. Sargent May 2000.

Click to enlargeGreenside is the area of land between the road of the same name and Bull Bridge Dike. The dike forms the boundary between Walton Civil Parish and Sandal, part of the City of Wakefield.

Bull Bridge Dike flows northwards under Walton Station Lane and Walton Lane towards Oakenshaw Beck. Oakenshaw Beck joins the River Calder alongside the the remains of the first lock of the disused Barnsley Canal.
Click to enlargeGreenside, viewed from Shay Lane. October 2000.
Click to enlargeGreenside. From the public footpath towards the top of Gallows Hill
Photographed 2nd September 2010.		 Click to enlargeSandal Grange with St. Helen's tower and Wakefield in the distance. From the public footpath towards the top of Gallows Hill
Photographed 2nd September 2010.
Click to enlargeGallows Hill Transmitter. Photographed from Common Lane, 2nd September 2010. Click to enlargeView across Greenside towards the Ferrybridge Power Station by the A1 Great North Road, a distance of about 15.5 km as the crow flies.
2nd September 2010.
Click to enlargeThe cottages near the junction with Shay Lane.
Photographed 2nd September 2010.		 Click to enlargeView of Station Lane from Greenside, Walton. © John S. Sargent 9th May 2004.
Click to enlargeSandal (foreground) and Pinderfields Hospital. A distance of about 6 km as the crow flies.
© John S. Sargent 14th June 2004.		 Click to enlargeEmley Moor transmitter viewed from Gallows Hill, a distance of about 13 km.
Photographed 2nd September 2010.
Click to enlargeWalton Station Lane in snow, creating a pictureque scene of the greenbelt towards Sandal.
© John S. Sargent 21st February 2010.
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Greenside, the cottages near the junction with Shay Lane.
© John S. Sargent 16th March 2010.
Click to enlargeGreenside in the snow.
© John S. Sargent 21st February 2010.		 Click to enlargeSandal (foreground) and the City of Wakefield. The Clock Tower (Town Hall) and the Cathedral are amongst the dreaming spires. Photographed from Gallows Hill, the city centre is about 4.5 km away. 2nd September 2010.
Click to enlargeCommon Lane side and the pylons looking picturesque.
© John S. Sargent 21st February 2010.		 Click to enlarge"Welcome to Walton".
So good they named it twice. The sign was originally near the golf driving range by Walton Common Farm (just visible around the bend).
© John S. Sargent 20th February 2010.
Click to enlargeWalton Common Farm* viewed from the Tin Bridge (foot bridge over the railway) by Common Lane. By the following day, the area was covered by a blanket of snow.
(* Known in the past as 'Common End'. Peter Wright A History of Walton, p.27)
[20th February 2010]		  
Walton - West (Greenside & Common Lane)
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