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Grassington High Lane

  Distance: 3 miles

Time:

2 hours or less

Height:

Scraping 800 ft.

Difficulty:

Easy-Peasy : Fairly level

Scenery:

Very pleasant distant views. One of the best short walks from Grassington across meadowland and riverside

Location:

Start at SE 00352 64207

Maps:

Not needed; unless you are cartographically obsessed (OCD)

Bus Service:

See www.dalesbus.org for details. Or drive to their car parks. Fee payable.

This walk was Complied by Cragface.
All Words, Photography, etc. are by the man himself.

 

1

Park and find your way to the top of Grassington crossroads and facing the Town Hall.

(Ask directions - the natives are friendly)

Turn Right. Walk East, away from Chapel street with the Town Hall on your left.


(See Pic.)

2

Ease left, walking along Low Lane, uphill.

(See Pic.)

3

Look out for the wooden Hebden Foot Path sign, pointing left. Stop.

(See Pic.)

4

You are at High Lane... turn left and strike uphill. (See Pic.)

It is a gentle, slow meander, that creates a mild desire for oxygen, but nothing that an otherwise normal horizontal physical encounter would create.

Enjoy the views.

5

Continue to follow your nose and enjoy views on both sides of the typical Dales region.

Find yourself enclosed in a walled track (See Pic.) and look out for rabbit, hare, oyster catcher, nettles, curlew, pee-wit, and ptarmageddon.

The open cast mine is high, over on your right.
Look out for a mast on your upper left.

6

Finally at this point (See Pic.) take the wood step stile over on the left of this gate combo.

Follow the obvious path right.

7

You will find yourself at the mercy of yellow topped posts and signs.

Helpful hieroglyphics, such as, "Footpath" are carved deftly into each blade facing forward and back in your travel line.

Here (See Pic.) keep the the wall on your left, and pass over the wooden rail sleepers and stone slabs combo, then aim for that gap in the wall.

8

As an afterthought, the wall left of this two stone stepped stile topped with a wood swing gate has been removed???

Feel free to use up some of your ADHD, or glucose levels; to navigate this, or walk on by...

9

At last you will arrive at a plausible gate.
However, although this double metal seven bar swing gate is unchained and was available at the time of writing...(See Pic.)

...If you look to the left of this, you will find a two stone stepped stile/field/stile combination for use, should you wish to complicate your life.

Go through these to the next field and wander forward.

10

Pass through a two stone stepped squeeze stile.

Then; this is the entrance (See Pic.) to a field of scientific import. It says so on the notice. Go through the three stone stepped stile and follow the pathway forward. You are in Grassington Park Estate Meadows.

Don't pinch the raspberries as they belong to a private house.

If it's a hot day, enjoy the shade.

11

Down the steps. Cross this road. (See Pic.)
Up the steps, follow the pathway passing rather posh expensive houses that you can't afford to live in, in this life or the next.

Continue along a well pathed stone path pathway.
It keeps you well away from the posh housing.
Enjoy the feeling of poverty and serfdom. (Pulls forelock)

 

12

You will enter a wood. At it's end is another information board, and this wood sign and stone stile. (See Pic.)

Do not use the stile or enter the next field.

Instead, just before the dry stone wall, turn right and follow the path keeping the wall on your left and enjoy a small shaded area.

13

Not very long after is this exit (See Pic.) via a four stepped ladder stile.

Go over it into the next field and head over to the right at about
45 degrees for a stone stepped stile.

However you can wander directly forward aiming for the cattle grid, if you like that sort of thing?

 

14
Here be the Cattle Grid. (See Pic.) Go over it and onto the road, turn right and head for...See cell 16.
15
OR ...Go through the field and cross at this point, the stone stepped stile, and cross the road...for...
16

On the other side of the road is your next point of entry. (See Pic.)

Go into the field and bear right by about thirty degrees.

Follow the wood footpath sign's direction panel.

17

Once through and into the field you will see over on your right a barn and some trees. (See Pic.)

Aim for the left of the fifth tree as there is a two stone squeeze gate and three wooden bar, with two wood post, arrangement.

Go through this and carry forward.

18

Go through this wood swing gate.

(See Pic.)

19

Then at this wood swing gate you get to choose.
(See Pic.) Go through the gate.

Either follow the yellow arrow forward, and edge to the left of the farm, then head towards the river, or: Turn Left and get onto the white gravel path and take the right white pathway to the river.

Either way you need to make your way towards the pathway you can see just before the rivers edge.

20

Once downhill and onto the path, turn right. Walk the path.

You will see, consecutively, the pedestrian "U" bridge, and past that, the Church. (See Pic.)

21

Here, (See Pic.) before the stepping stones are a choice of ways.

At these wood direction posts, take the gate, right and the route close to the river on your left, back into Grassington and your carriage.

If the river is slack and the steps are dry, you can consider the more dramatic route homeward.

Go left from here, and down to the bank for the steps and cross the river.

22

Notice that the steps here in the picture are dry and the river is quite placid.

Do not take the steps if any tops are wet. This is common sense.

23

Once over the stepping stones...carry forward and go through this gate, (See Pic.) into the churchyard, passing the 13thC church and onto a good metalled road.

Keep to the road and the river on your right.

Pass good free toilets in a pay parking area, on your left, untill a sign for Linton Bridge and Grassington, where you turn down steps on your right and follow the pathway round to the right, passing an ancient small pedestrian bridge on the left and end up on the wood Linton Falls Bridge.

24 Cross the wood bridge. (See Pic.)
25

Just after the bridge, on your left, here: (See Pic.) either take this gate and follow the river on your left till the brick bridge: Then turn right on the road and climb uphill to Grassington and your transport.

Or pass this gate on your left, (See Pic.) and uphill, along the walled pathway till you reach the Grassington Yorkshire National Parks Visitor Centre Car Park, and then onto the road; turning left and walking into Grassington proper.

Well Done!

Toilets are situated at cell 23 in the Linton Bridge Car Park, or the Yorkshire Dales Parks; Car Park at cell 25  
 


 


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