| |
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.)
|
|
| |
Ease left, walking along Low Lane, uphill.
(See Pic.) |
|
| |
Look out for the wooden Hebden Foot Path sign, pointing
left. Stop.
(See Pic.) |
|
| |
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. |
|
| |
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. |
|
| |
Finally at this point (See Pic.) take the wood step
stile over on the left of this gate combo.
Follow the obvious path right. |
|
| |
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. |
|
| |
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 |
|
| |
|
|