From the top of the village green, take a narrow alley immediately to the right of Manor House. Beyond a stile made of stone slabs, keep by the righthand edge of a field to another stile. Another passage leads out into Woodland Grove; walk left then first right to meet the A628, Pontefract Road. Go left for just 100yds (91m), crossing to a signed gap in the hedgerow (opposite a house called Tall Trees). Guided by the left-most finger, head across to a tiny footbridge over a beck at the far side. Continue along the right-hand edge of the next two fields. In the third, dogleg left and right to continue beside the hedge, which then curves left. After some 150yds (137m), watch for a waymarked path striking right, due east across the open field. Continue across a second field to a bridge spanning a railway.

Continue between fields towards Hundhill Farm. By the farm, turn within the field corner along its bottom edge to a stile. Emerging on to a lane, go left, walking 100yds (91m) to round a bend. Immediately after, go over a stile on the right to follow an enclosed path. Beyond the next stile, turn right along a minor road that soon meets the A639. Cross to Darrington Road opposite, and walk into the village of East Hardwick. Where the road swings left, look out for a bridleway sign on your right, just before a house fittingly called Bridleways.

The track leads away between the fields behind, shortly bending sharply left. Carry on for a further 100yds (91m) then swing off into a narrow field on the right. Accompany the right-hand hedge to the top of the strip, there doglegging right and left to continue between open fields. Meeting a crossing track at the end, go right to come out on the main road by a junction. Cross and follow Rigg Lane opposite for some 650yds (0.6km) to Whytegates Farm, where a concrete bridle track on the left is signed to Burnhill Bridge.

Follow this track past a water treatment works to a concrete bridge over the River Went (notice the old packhorse bridge next to it). Without crossing either bridge, turn right, on a field-edge path, to accompany the river. A little plank bridge takes you across a side-beck. Now walk beneath a six-arched railway viaduct.

Ignoring a field access bridge, continue to a waymarked junction just a little beyond. Bear left through a hedge gap and over a bridged ditch to remain with the main river. Reaching a stone bridge near Low Farm, swing right to a gate beside barns. Walk on at the edge of a large crop field and then a playing field to emerge in Low Ackworth.

Diagonally cross the road to a path between houses. Beyond a stile at the far end, bear half left across a field. Keep going across another field towards more houses, emerging over a stile between them. Walk forward along Hill Drive and then turn right down a cul-de-sac. At the bottom, take another passage on the left to arrive back in High Ackworth near the village green.