At the end of the 1960's road builders completed the M62 motorway linking Hull with Liverpool. East coast to west over the Pennine hills that had kept Lancashire and Yorkshire kind of separate for hundreds of years. It was a huge undertaking involving challenging engineering issues.
At Stott Hall north west of Huddersfield, the planners decided to split the two carriageways leaving Stott Hall Farm marooned on a kind of island. A typical upland farm that would thereafter have traffic whizzing past it both on the left and the right.
Many northerners wrongly imagine that the island was created because of an obstinate sheep farmer who refused to vacate his farmhouse and resisted the authorities' compulsory purchase orders. The little guy won! But sadly that is not the case. It was all to do with geology and solving stress issues.
Studying maps I noticed that I would be able to walk under both carriageways of the M62, briefly visiting the Stott Hall island as I undertook a four hour circular walk that would bring me back to the Scammonden valley. I had left Clint napping there with a cute baby blue Honda Civic called Marilyn.
My main photo of Stott Hall Farm does not reveal the fact that motorway traffic is thundering past on both sides. The farmhouse benefits from triple glazing - just like my hotel room in Outlane but the only time there would ever be perfect peace there would be during a total motorway closure because of heavy snow. That might only happen once every five years or so and then only for a few hours.
It would be a weird place to live that's for sure but better than an apartment block in south eastern Turkey or a concrete war-torn village in northern Syria. Oh those poor people!
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