Burley in Wharfedale
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"A taste of West Yorkshire moorland from the village of Burley in Wharfedale."
Walk directions
From the station, walk back to Station Road, turn left to cross underneath the line and go left along a quiet lane. Follow the lane past houses and between fields up to Hag Farm.
When the track wheels right, into the farmyard, keep left on a track to a stile and a gate. Follow a wall downhill for 100yds (91m) to a gap stile in the wall. Don't pass through, but turn right, climbing beside a stream up to a stile. Carry on uphill, crossing two more stiles and then a footbridge across the stream. Continue up to cottages, winding out between them to meet the Guiseley–Ilkley road. (To visit The Hermit, go right here for 0.25 miles/400m.) Cross the road and continue on a stony track opposite. After 50yds (46m), leave left to ford a stream. Follow a path uphill through trees and then between walls to a gate. Turn right beside the wall, which soon curves away, leaving you heading upwards on a trod.
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Terrain
- Good tracks and moorland paths, several stiles
Landscape
- Moor and arable farmland
Dog friendliness
- On leads around grazing sheep
Parking
- Roadside parking near station
Toilets en route
- None on route
About the walk
According to the legend, a giant called Rombald used to live in these parts. While striding across the moor that now bears his name he dislodged a stone from a gritstone outcrop, and created the Calf, of the Cow and Calf Rocks on Ilkley Moor. Giants such as Rombald and Wade – and even the Devil...
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About the area
Everybody knows that Yorkshire has some special landscapes. The Dales and the Moors first spring to mind, but what about West Yorkshire? That’s Leeds and Bradford isn’t it? Back-to-back houses and blackened mills… Certainly if you had stood on any of the hills surrounding Hebden Bridge a hundred years ago, and gazed down into the valley, all you would have seen was the pall of smoke issuing from the chimneys of 33 textile mills.
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