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H towpath contact British Waterways enquiries enquiries Waterways British contact towpath T E L K For more information about the use of the the of use the about information more For IC M 3 Information about use of the towpath: the of use about Information AD RO GS interest of N P I K Further Information Further Shipley town centre features features centre town K Shipley E . I G R H G Lock Hirst L L Bridge E E N Y P Gap Dowley E R A Locks W O H Dowley Gap Dowley glentramway.co.uk.) A C A R D K Scourer Bridge Scourer R (Adapted from www. from (Adapted Glen. Shipley serve to 1895 2 O A P D Greenway R was built in in built was Tramway Cable Glen Shipley The 5. I M R O S E L A N E to visitors. to 3 Airedale Airedale 4 and opens regularly regularly opens and & Canal a n a C l o o p r e v i L & s d e e L Reformed Church Church Reformed Saltaire United United Saltaire of worship as the the as worship of 1 it is still a place place a still is it Five Rise BINGLEY 5 country. Today Today country. Locks Lock Hirst Bridge Stock Bridge the in architecture Dowley Gap Dowley Saltaire features of interest of features Saltaire Locks most exceptional exceptional most Dowley Gap Dowley Scourer Bridge Scourer P P R I M R P O S E L A N Keighley features of interest Riddlesden features of interest Bingley features of interest E E N A L E N Rombald’s Moor date from either the late NeolithicI or the Bronze W 2 via Ilkley Road S (CAUTION: NO Age. The meaning of these carvingsSwine isLane unclear FOOTWAY) although many theories have beenBridge put forward, 1 including representations of shamanic trance 2 B R A Cliffe Castle via D states, receptacles forF offerings of milk or blood O Spring Gardens R 1 D and territorial boundary stones.R It is known that Lane O A D 1 many of the carved rocks occur in association with burial sites. Carvings occur across most of the moor, although there are recognised concentrations in the north high above Ilkley, to the northeast along Green Crag Slack and in the BINGLEY 2 1 south at Rivock Edge. (Adpated from www.stone- St Ives Estate 4 Stock Bridge circles.org.uk.) via Harden Road 2. The Market Hall and Butter Cross Bingley (CAUTION: NO P FOOTPATH) was first granted its market charter by King John 3 P 3 in 1212. The Market Hall and Butter Cross was Locks P MO completed in 1753 by Thomas Lister “at the Rise Five RT P P ON 2 LA NE considerable expense” of £12 13/- 10½d. The 1. The Leeds & Liverpool Canal is the longest L e e d s Morton Bridge & L i 1 v e stocks are said to have been the last in use in r p canal in Britain built as a single waterway - 127 o P E o Yorkshire; 1870 is given as the date. Certainly they N l miles. It offers a coast-to-coast route across the A 3. Keighley and L C were still employed in 1866. (Taken from www. 1. Cliffe Castle E a B6265 N n north of England via its connection with the Aire I a W bingley.org.uk.) was originally Cliffe Worth Valley l S BINGLEY R Y & Calder at Leeds. The first part of the canal to S Swine Lane H Hall owned by Railway opened W O open was the lock-free section from Skipton to Bridge R on 15th April 1867. TH Christopher ‘Kit’ Beckfoot Bridge via Sycamore Avenue,KEIGHLEY ROAD (A650) AV Bingley in 1773. (Adapted from www.waterscape. E. Beech Street, public footpath (NO Netherwood. H. The line was built B 3 R D A CYCLE ROUTE) and Beckfoot Lane A com and www.penninewaterways.co.uk.) D O F I. Butterfield “from for the local textile O (CAUTION: NO FOOTWAY) R R K D R A D C A R H O O W A R 1875-1880 turned industry, which, like A E P Y D N E E L L the comparatively the steam trains, G H 3. East Riddlesden Hall is described as a 1. St. Ives Estate (Country Park) is open to the R G I . E modest Cliffe Hall relied on coal. 17th-century manor house with an intimate and public. It features an adventure playground, lake/ K K I into the present The trains brought N G atmospheric interior. It has associations with S river, fishing, woodland walks and a sculpture NE Micklethwaite Bridge R A O A elaborate Cliffe hundreds of tons L D Yorkshire’s Civil War past and is home to a trail.