DI Yarrow lived in a stone-built bow-fronted Victorian semi-detached house in Carling Green, to the west side of West Garside on the upper slopes of Monksbane Hills, the rolling bank of hills stepping up from the River Gar around which West Garside had grown and expanded.
Nobody seems to know why the town was called West Garside when there is no North or East or South Garside, but ever since the founding of the town in the mid-18th century as an offshoot of Sheffield’s steel and cutlery business, it has been called West Garside.
The hills continue westwards through a series of valleys and ridges before rising up into the Pennines themselves, the stretching vistas of heather-clad moorland and deep shrouded valleys with villages untouched by time since before the war, a harsh country of ru
