Naze

The walk leaves Pastureside and heads north across the moor. Location no. 6 on the map of the walk below is Naze Farm. 

All that remains of this inaccessible farm now are piles of stones. A steep and winding pack horse track leads down to the valley at Gauxholme.

From the ruins of Naze Farm looking towards Todmorden

....and looking towards Walsden

Mary Highley was the first child of James and Martha Highley, 5 x great grandparents. Mary was born in 1761 in Castle, Todmorden and baptised at Heptonstall church. In 1779 she gave birth to a son Thomas (Hiley i' th' Vicarage), already mentioned in some of the posts covering this walk. Thomas's father is unknown.

In 1786 Mary married Samuel Scholfield and the couple had 9 children. Mary and Samuel lived at Naze Farm and Thomas grew up there with his mother and stepfather and his step-siblings. 

Mary's father James died in 1795 whilst he and Martha were living at Swineshead Cottage. Martha died in 1807. It appears that after James's death she went to live with Mary and her family at Naze. James and Martha were both buried at Cross Stones church in Todmorden, but there is now no gravestone in the churchyard to remember them.

Burial record for Martha Highley (nee Greenwood)
(with the permission of West Yorkshire Archive Service)
www.wyjs.org.uk/archives

The steep track down to Gauxholme from Naze