Moorland around Laycock and Goose Eye
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"A varied walk, from intimate woodlands to the breezy moor tops."
Walk directions
Walk through the village of Laycock. Where the road narrows, go left down a paved track, Roberts Street. Beyond terraced houses, descend along a narrow walled path to emerge onto a road, which you follow down into Goose Eye. Pass The Turkey Inn. Just 50yds (46m) after you cross Dean Beck, take the steps on your right and re-cross the beck on a footbridge. Follow the beck upstream and take a footbridge on the right, across the channel of a now-dry mill leat (watercourse).
Carry on up the wooded valley, later passing through a gap in a wall. Ignore a path off right and keep ahead, breaking out onto a more open hillside. Before long, the way passes behind a farmhouse to join a farm track. Go left but then branch right on a rough track signed to Slippery Ford. Carry on through a gate, later fording a stream. Just beyond, fork right on a rising hollow path, which later develops as a track. Eventually swinging right it climbs to meet a lane.
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Terrain
- Good paths and tracks, though can be muddy, take care with route finding, several stiles
Landscape
- Wooded valley and heather moorland
Dog friendliness
- On leads where sheep graze on sections of moorland
Parking
- In Laycock; roadside parking at Keighley end of village, close to village hall
Toilets en route
- None on route
About the walk
To the west of Keighley, a tranche of moorland sits astride the border between Yorkshire and Lancashire. Here you can walk for miles without seeing another hiker – and perhaps with just curlew and grouse for company. When we think of textile mills, we tend to associate them with cramped towns full...
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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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Higher Scholes Cottage
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