St Bartholomew’s Church
Cellar’s Clough
Deer Hill sunset
The Packhorse Route to Marsden
Sunset at Bank Bottom Mill
Pitstop
Wessenden Head reservoir during the drought
Pink on Purple
walking down from Deer Hill in August when the heather was at its peak
30th/06/26 10am the very last day
Peel street on the very last day of the competition taken at 10.30am
Eastergate at Christmas
on a bright but cold late afternoon boxing day walk
Whispering grass
An alternative view of Marsden with the Mechanics clock in the distance. Taken from Carrs Road
In Marsden we walk on the right!
Sheep heading up to Marsden station
Colne (a) Light
Reflections in the Colne by the Riverhead pub - Christmas Day 2025
Buzzing around Pule Hill
A 184 bus on the way to Oldham
Little is Large
Large Skipper butterfly on the path to Wessenden Head 27 June 2026
Stop Thief!
Submitted on behalf of Nigel Sprigings
High Summer
(submitted on behalf of Nigel Sprigings)
February
The sound of summer
Titanic Mill
Bark in the Park
Deer in the garden
sparth
On a fair March day.
lock 39E
Jazz Festival 2025
Cuckoo Day 2026
Bluebells
On a walk on the Catholes trail.
Marsden's Bark in the Park
Return to base after surfboard training
Approaching tunnel end, Huddersfield Canal.
Surfboard training
Huddersfield Canal near tunnel end.
Wessenden Reservoir
Southern approach to Marsden from the Pennine Way
Wessenden Head Reservoir
Southern approach to Marsden from the Pennine Way
Huddersfield Canal
Lock gates east of Marsden
A lone passenger
My granddaughter catching a last ride before the cuckoo day festivities end. Parochial hall Marsden
White clouds and blue sky
The first ever bark in the park Marsden Park 2026
Bark in the park.
The first ever bark in the park. Marsden park 2026
Peel Street on the darkest quietest night
River candles and Christmas tree
A sprinkling of snow and silvery nobs
Clough Lea
Wintery afternoon, the train is on time
Marsden station as it is now before all the developments …
Down the lane to Watersedge
Ainsley lane
Evening Sunshine
Christmas Eve
Evening sunshine
Mist in the valley
Approaching the lock
Moley's Den
Morning mist
Getting ready for the duck race
Two of the contestants prepare for the race
In the backroom of the Cuckoo's Nest
Processing the wonderful donations given by Marsden residents
After the fire
Jasper, the border collie out and about on his lead. Opposite Pule Hill, after a fire on Marsden Moor, and early on in the ground nesting bird season.
Jackdaw above Marsden
Mikron Theatre Company on home turf
Mikron Theatre Company is a Marsden-based national touring company, travelling by narrowboat and van across the country. This show was nearer to home at Zapato Tap's riverside beer garden.
Bee Keeping at Tunnel End
The Buzz Project is a community-based beekeeping initiative set up by Ryad Alsous, a Syrian refugee, beekeeper, and the inspiration behind 'The Beekeeper of Aleppo'.
Fire Service Exercise at Tunnel End
Pule Hill
Wessenden Reservoir
Hemplow Sports Complex
Behind Station Road
Lock 42
Ducks on the Mill Pond
The Weir
Off Marsden Lane
Tunnel End pond
Butterley
The village match
The evening train
Bank Bottom Mill
Nosy Neighbours
Bridge in Bloom
Bridge 52 of Huddersfield Narrow Canal
crow trees
marsden central
3 chimneys
Reflecting on the Huddersfield Narrow Canal
The photograph is presented upside down to show the clarity of the reflection of the canal bank in the water, and was taken midway between Marsden station and the Standedge Tunnel. No filters or other image manipulation were performed.
Sparth
Looking down on the Sparth from Marsden Lane
Reflections
Canal at Kettle Lane
Moorland
Photo taken by Mark Fuller on a walk arranged by Marsden Scouts' Explorer section in June 2026 We think it is Blake Clough over Wessenden Reservoir.
White mantle
Making patterns
Light at the end of the tunnel
Britain's highest, longest and deepest canal tunnel
March Hill, above the snow line
Bank Bottom stands proud
I don't think we'll get emptied today!
Clashing sticks of the Morris Dancers.
Midsummers eve rainbow
Christmas in the Riverhead
Rainy Christmas lights switch on!
Hare in the buttercups
Hare at sunset, Wessenden Valley
Roe Deer
Roe deer (in a field near the aptly named Deer Hill Estate!)
Tree Planting in the snow
Planting a hedgerow near Tunnel End with Colne Valley Tree Society
Summer Sunset
A sunset over marsden with a dog in the foreground
Reflections of Canal Life
You won't catch fish on your phone
A Misty Meander
Winter wonderland
Reservoir after heavy snowfall
Sheep in the snow
Sheep nibbling my bushes in the snow
Sheep playing Away
Marsden sheep sheltering from the rain in the Marsden FC away dugout
Aurora over the mill
Northern lights captured over Bank Bottom mill
Looking Towards Marsden from Marsden Lane
West Slaithwaite Canal Looking Towards Marsden
Single File on Sparth
The Geese
Breakfast at Tunnel End
A farmers work is never done.
Marsden
Wessenden Secret Waterfall
Winter Eastergate
Standedge Nature Reserve Sunset
Tunnel End
Autumnal Marsden
Multiple colours depicting Marsden
Marsden in its glory of many coated colours
The Pirate Boat 3
The Marsden Shuttle heading towards Tunnel End on May 25th 2026
The Pirate Boat 2
The Marsden Shuttle heading towards Tunnel End on May 25th 2026
The Pirate Boat 1
The Marsden Shuttle heading towards Tunnel End on May 25th 2026
A Winter’s Trail
View across the Colne Valley from Netherwood to Pule.
One Foot On The Grave
Big Clouds Over Butterley
Green Fields
Last Light
Early Autumn
Going Home
marsden church and village centre from canal towpath
horses from crow trees lane
fire on moors april 2015
fields from water lane
carr lane light show
strong sunset colours, marsden park on jan 15 2026
St. Bartholomew's Hanami
Taking in the view
Above Shooter’s Nab
Ewe with a view
Marsden Woods Sunset
Wise, Wonderful & Wooly
Hey Green early morning
Late afternoon at Eastergate
Lock keepers cottage
Ducklings day out
a day out at Tunnel end
Des Res for chickens
Redbrook rainbow
Marsden Hellfire Magpies
Either Marsden Imbolc festive in February or Marsden switch on light at Christmas, Marsden Magpies light the night skys with Fire, When they are not Morris Dancing.
First 2026 Moor Fire
The first hot weekend in marsden and a gire brakes out. Taken from up buttley spillway. The reservoir reflects the devastation of the moor land. But with fire comes life and the new moor land is growing back nicely. Well done to all firefighter! X
Marsden Church in full blossoms
One of the only blossoms trees in marsden and is in the graveyard. I blossoms every spring and rains pink petal all over the graves and paths. It blanket the grave yard in spring.
A Spring sunset over Tunnel End.
Walking towards Tunnel End on the towpath on a Spring evening.
Tunnel End from Reddisher Road
A winter evening landscape with car headlights.
2 Fragments of a walk to Tunnel End
Two sequential images of the ground from a set of 12, taken on walk along the towpath from Bridge 56 to Tunnel End.
Fungi, on the path to Tunnel End.
Fungi just before the towpath passes under the railway.
Autumnal Apples at Lock 39E
Fallen apples from a nearby tree.
Toadstools along Wessenden
Bluebells in Hemplow
Bluebells in Hemplow
It's slippery on Old Mount Road today (a nod to Peter Brook)
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