Thursday 16th
'
Nagger Lines’
Between Lime Pit Lane & Rooks Nest Road
Stanley
Wakefield
Once the route of a horse-drawn wagon-way to coal-staithes on the Aire & Calder Navigation Canal
There's been local disagreement as to the name
1. Nagger, as in Nag/Horse
2. Taken from '
Navi
gation' & altered later
This bend in the trail, is about 300yards ahead of where I'm stopped
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1169774
If a left turn was taken, upon joining Rooks Nest Road, after about half a mile, a house now named
Rooks Nest House, is reached
In the mid-1800s', this was a private asylum, where your suffering family member would be looked after!
(we knew the family who owned it, as the son went to School with our daughter, wife's been in it, I haven't - they still have old ledgers apparantly)
There are rails remaining across Lime Pit Lane, that are of a narrower gauge;
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6921223