Dunford Bridge

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Dunford Bridge South Yorkshire, In the centre can be seen the old sealed up entrances to the Woodhead rail tunnels. The road to the left is called Windle Edge and leads to the A628 Sheffield to Manchester Road.
Dunford Bridge South Yorkshire, In the centre can be seen the old sealed up entrances to the Woodhead rail tunnels. The road to the left is called Windle Edge and leads to the A628 Sheffield to Manchester Road.
Dunford Bridge is a remote hamlet lying northwest of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. The eastern end of the Woodhead Tunnel is in the centre of the hamlet. In extreme low light. The eastern portal of Woodhead 1 & 2. Camera location 53° 31′ 03.85″ N, 1° 45′ 49.35″ W View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth 53.517736; -1.763708
Moorland north of Dunford Bridge, 1968. View NW from Dunford Bridge, over new Winscar Reservoir (hidden) to Snailsden Fell (1,565 ft.), at site of temproary Balfour Beatty workers' camp during construction of New Woodhead Tunnel (1949-54)
Photo by Ben Brooksbank (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0)
Nearing Dunford Bridge on the Trans Pennine Trail
Photo by Steve F (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0)

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