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Start
here at SE 169553 and park in the large free car park.
Choose this short pathway (see picture) towards the road. Turn
right at the pathway end and head East along the A59.
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Cross
the road very carefully, (this is a very busy highway) at this junction
(see picture) and take the road North signed Dacre and Pateley Bridge.
Head uphill along this country road. (Hardisty Hill) |
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After
a short while there is a branch off to the left (see rather dark image)
here, take this downhill lane to Skaife Hall Farm, and public footpath
to Cockbur Bank. |
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Pass
the farmhouse on your left. Go over the wood stile to the right of
this gate. (see picture) and follow the pleasant pathway directly
ahead. |
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Eventually
you will reach here. (picture) Climb the wood stile to the left
of the gate and enter the wooded area.
Continue bearing left, along the well defined track.
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After
some distance out into a clearing, you will find yourself approaching
this gate and wood stile to its right. (see picture) Climb the stile
and go forward along the main pathway. (Do not take the small track
to the right after the fence.) |
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Continue
the path which eventually runs parallel to another you can trace over
on your left. Pass a sign for the River Washburn. Cross right to left
over this wood bridge, (picture) bearing right and continue along
the pathway. |
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Follow
the track uphill until you meet a crosspath, here turn left and then
at the tarmac turn right. Only a yard or two down the road on your
left is this (see picture) stone squeeze stile. Sashay through this
and clamber uphill for some distance. This is the hardest part of
the walk. |
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Half
way uphill go through (picture) this step stile and continue the path
uphill. |
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Finally
arriving at this wood and stone five stepped stile and fingerpost.
Cross into the road and turn left going just a few yards down. |
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Not
far down on your right is a public footpath over on the right. Take
this (see picture) and watch out for soggy earth or deep mud along
here. Head towards some buildings. |
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The
pathway reaches a stone stepped stile (see picture) into an enclosed
area, passing the back of a private house. Please pass quickly and
quietly through the menagerie and continue the marked way - which
is to the left through the sheep drive, between the dry stone walls
set about 15 feet apart. (Don't go through the open gateway over on
the right!) At the end of it, a crosstrack - go straight ahead. Then
aim at a diagonal from the left corner to the right corner of this
field. |
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Look
out for Brandrith Crags on your left. Go over the wood stile on the
left of this gate. (see picture) Go past the first opening at two
yards, then pass the wall you can see. Now turn left after it. Walk
this path, but if waterlogged you will need to stay about 20 feet
right of the dry stone wall. Keep those farm buildings you can see
in the picture in the distance on your right, eventually passing them.
Walk along the green pathway and through a gap. |
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You
will arrive at this timber union jack gate (the wall curves right
before it) leading out onto a good metalled road. (see picture)
Go through it and turn left. Walk along the road and follow it till
it curves left. Notice a gated pathway into an interesting conservation
area on your right, pass it and continue along the road, passing
a rectangular slope on your right. This is not marked on the OS
map, but is a small reservoir.
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Not
long after the end of the reservoir is a sharp turn in the road to
the right. At this point take the pathway off to the left towards
this wood diamond gate. (picture) Go through this, following the very
straight pathway towards Menwith Hill Golf Club :) in the distance. |
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Continue
almost in a straight line through (see picture) a metal gate then
a gap. |
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You
can see the spire of Blubberhouses Church situated at SE 168552
in the distance over on the right.
Go through another metal gate (picture) along the route.
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Finally
arriving here at this muddy exit. (picture) Choices of return to
the car here are
(A) To turn right on the road and walk until the A59, crossing
the road and head East back into the car park.
(B) Turn left and go to the next instruction.
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Several
hundred yards up the road, turn right at this old fashioned metal
PF post. (pictured)
Follow the pathway as far down as it goes and then turn sharp right
going through the gaps along the obvious track.
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If
wet there are very muddy areas. The path goes through water here
and then veers left behind this tree. (see picture)
Just continue along the pathway.
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You
will arrive at this farm. Go through the metal seven bar gate and
ignore the sheep dog.
Turn sharp right and walk through the farm onto the road where
you turn left and walk up to the A59. Head East back to the car.
Please take care crossing this busy road.
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