Newspaper Article

Pit village splendour

Bill Hodgskin and Edwin Allen

2003

Overview

Continue along the road and through the village, passing the nursing home and the shops on the right, until you reach a long row of aged miners' cottages. At the end of these a road goes off to the right called Hill Top Road. Park here, then come back out of Hill Top Road and turn right on the main road, past the two newer houses up on the right and then the farm. A short walk takes you past a signpost giving directions to Ushaw Moor and Brancepeth. Continuing up the hill brings you to a stone-built house and just beyond this, a public footpath sign points down to the right. Go over the stile and down the path, passing the side of the house and a paddock. This path takes you up to the next little stile, and then down the field towards Park Woods at the bottom. The path runs alongside a dry- stone wall and a line of trees on the left, all the time climbing steadily up the field until it reaches the end of the woods. Continue along the broad farm track which brings you to Hill Top Farm. Go straight ahead, down a narrow track. At the far end there is a tubular five-barred gate and a smaller gate.

• Publisher: MGN Ltd
• Subject: Hodgskin, Bill