Walk south along Town Gate past The Butchers Arms. Some 100yds (91m) beyond, look for steps dropping left beside the end of a terrace from which a path falls steeply along the edge of a narrow field. Towards the bottom, slip over a stile and continue to a bridge spanning the stream at the base of the valley. Walk forward to a crossing path and go left to a fork. Branch right up a stepped path, eventually emerging onto the main road.

Cross to Meal Hill Lane opposite, following it beyond houses to a T-junction. Turn right up the hill past the entrance of Bank House Farm. The way climbs on as a rough track, shortly swinging right. Where it subsequently bends sharp left, leave over a stile on the right. A path takes the route more easily across the hillside, in time passing through a gate and stile. Keep ahead as a track joins from the right, walking for another 0.25 miles (400m). Approaching a farmstead, half hidden behind trees, watch for a stile on the right. Drop half right across the steep slope to a gate and continue down by the right boundary. Swinging right towards the bottom, it leads out over a final stile onto the road.

Go left 30yds (27m) to a small gate on the right beside a house drive. Cross a paddock to another gate in the far corner and accompany the fence downhill. Through a squeeze gap beyond the base of the dip, follow the ongoing boundary across the fields to cottages above Barnside. Over a final stile go left past them out to a lane.

Turn right through the hamlet. Just beyond cottages at the bottom look for a stile set back from the lane on the left. Walk away, climbing past the indented corner of a wall. Continue beside it to a gate at the top. Cross the next field to a stile and climb the rough hillside beyond to another stile beside a gate in the top boundary. Keep the same line past a redundant stile to meet a crossing track along the top of the hill.

Follow it right, through a gate beneath power cables and down to a second gate. The onward path curves right and left above a gully, dropping to a junction of tracks by the abandoned ruin of Ox Lee Farm. Go forward along a walled track. Although occasionally wet and overgrown in places, a parallel path on the right avoids the worst spots. Carry on as the going improves, eventually emerging at a junction of lanes.

Cross to Cowcliff Hill Road opposite. After 50yds (46m) leave over a stile on the right. Follow the wall away to another stile and continue across successive fields, part of the Holme Valley Circular Walk, back towards Hepworth, ultimately coming out between buildings by The Butchers Arms.