Looking back to Halifax town centre from the start of the ascent of the Magna Via
("Great Way"), an ancient route between Halifax and the manorial centre of Wakefield


Setted pavement and track





Steeply ascending hairpin bend laid out in the earyl 1700s


Air shaft over a railway tunnel








Heather in bloom


Mushrooms growing out of a tree stump in Dark Lane, a medieval hollow-way


Magna Via plinth, Wakefield Gate




















Ancient wall


Wainhouse Tower








Cinnabar Moth caterpillar feeding on ragwort


Old gas lamp converted into a street light


Grade II listed Stoney Royd Cemetery





Busy bee













Photos by Paul Wilkinson