CragFace Grimwith Reservoir
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Distance: |
About 5 miles
(9km) |
| Time:
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2
hours |
| Height:
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Not
a lot : Fairly level |
| Difficulty:
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Easy - Peasy |
| Scenery:
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Water,
Tributaries, Wildfowl, Quiet. Good Free Parking with
Picnic Facilities, and clean toilets, ironically, without
tap water! |
| Location:
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Start
at SE 064640 |
| Maps:
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Hardly
needed? OS Map: Outdoor Leisure 10 - Yorkshire Dales
South |
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Bus Service: |
See www.dalesbus.org
for details. Or drive to their car parks. Fee
payable. |

A straightforward
walk around Grimwith Reservoir: No frills.
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This walk was Complied by Cragface.
All Words, Photography, etc. are by the man himself.
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Head
right of the car park, (East) away from the toilet block,
heading uphill towards this gateway.
Squeeze through the metal barrier over on the right.
(See picture)
Walk up the main track then take the trail on the left,
downhill towards the reservoir.
You can continue the roadway as it joins up again, but
you will miss the scenery. |
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You will notice the Yacht Club over and down on the
left.
Continue forward and cross over this single file bridge.
(See picture)
Just follow the pathway. |
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At this thatched cottage, you must veer left as the
track takes it's first corner.
(See picture) |
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Another single file bridge. (See picture) Then uphill
for a short while.
Hardly Everest, but beware of mud along this two mile
stretch. |
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Eventually you arrive at this wood edifice, go left,
(See picture) cross the water and continue the pathway. |
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Further along yet, another tributary and bridge to
cross. (See picture) |
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You will meet a turn left at SE 0511 6475. This brings
you closer to the reservoir. Take it, and wander till
a wood gate and stile. Cross over the stile right of
the wood gate.
You are now walking with the man made black blocks
on your left alongside the reservoir. Keep a look out,
left. (See picture) for porpoise, whale and squid? (You
won't see any, but you can but hope :) |
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Half a mile on, your view to the right; is this. (See
picture)
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Here
is the plughole. The closer you get, the weirder it looks.
(See picture)
Pass this on your left and go through the gate ahead.
Turn left.
Walk uphill: probably the hardest part of the whole
walk, back to the car park. |
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There
are no toilets along this route. But good clean ones at
the car park. |
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