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Drive
to the Village car park located at SE 070539. (Entrance
pictured)
The parking fee is currently £4 (for all the family)
to a very large and well-kept estate. It entitles you
to use all three car parks on the estate, and to access
all areas for the day. All the fees are ploughed back
into retaining the beauty of the estate. |
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Make your way towards the hole -in-the-wall, (pictured)
and down the steps.
Either go right, through a fence gap, a short way down
these steps: or ...continue all the way down to the
river, and then turn right, to follow the path adjacent
to the river.
Keep the river on your left. |
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Better views are had higher up, especially looking
back towards the Abbey, but; nearer the river is a chance
to spot more wildlife.
After a while you reach this (pictured) metal kissing
gate. Go through and follow the path keeping the river
on your left.
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Eventually you reach the bridge, passing a wooden seat.
Then go through this gap (pictured) onto the road, turn
left and go over the bridge.
Enjoy the views from both sides.
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Only a few yards after the bridge is this waysigned
post; gate; and steps, over on the right. (pictured)
Make your way through this and follow the track under
the dual carriageway, the river now on your right.
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Emerging here (see picture) walk to the junction,
and turn right into the village of Beamsley. |
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Passing through this pretty hamlet, and up a slight
incline, you reach a left junction here (pictured).
Follow this road. It is long and gets progressively
steeper, as you get progressively weaker.
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I told you it was a long road. You are aiming for the
top of that hill.
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There
is a small car park over on your right, and just before
it, is this wooden signpost on the left.
You need to decide if you want to take this path here,
or carry on to the next path further up the road? Decisions
decisions.
This path (pictured) follows the drystone wall, curving
right then left, and eventually joins the main pathway
up to the beacon. |
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In
case you want the other route, (continue along the road...)
Take this path off to the left further up the road, which
dives between two houses. (picture)
You then follow the main rock infested path uphill...all
the way to the top, the trig point, and Beamsley Beacon. |
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You
may want/need a rest at the top!
Retrace your way back down the path. Back on the road,
turn right and wander down to the pathway on your right.
It's marked with a stone on the ground "Ling Chapel
Farm" which you passed on the way up.
Along this path and slightly left is this (pictured)
gateway to Deerstones. Go through and enjoy the views
as you steady yourself for the next hurdle.
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Pass
through a single wood gate. The path becomes stoney
and you descend into the gorge, over a small footbridge,
and back up the other side to Deerstones.
Do not turn left, at the top, but enter the lane which
takes you out onto the main road. (A59) Cross this road
(very carfully) and take this entrance footpath (pictured)
signed to Storiths.
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This
is the only confusing point. (pictured)
Listen very carefully, I will type this only once...
There are two stone stepped stiles here at this wall.
Take the right one in the middle of the wall... and
not the one at the left corner. |
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Now
just follow the footpath to here...(picture) |
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And
here... (picture) |
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Go
over this wood stepped stile. |
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Then
follow the direction of the wood signpost towards the
trees in the distance. (pictured) |
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Over
this tall wood stepped stile...(pictured). |
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Just
down from the wood stile, aim left, about ten o'clock,
for these stone stepped stiles over on the left. (pictured)
Watch out as it may be boggy.
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Keeping the drystone wall on your right, head for, and
go over this (pictured) stone stile, topped with a swing
wood gate. |
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Seek
out this Gate, (normally left open) and go through it
(pictured) turning immediately left. |
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Pass
through the farmyard, and out at this gate, (pictured)
then continue the path downhill. |
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Arriving
here at this single wood swing gate, (picture) pass
through this into a single file, walled lane.
Continue downhill...
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...Until
this point.(pictured)
Go through the gate, turn right, and follow the tarmac
path that snakes downhill back to the river.
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Cross
the river, (Wood bridge, stepping stones, or swim!) and
back to the steps and hole-in-the-wall, via this gate
(pictured). |
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Toilets
are situated near the Post Office, in the Village car
park.
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