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Where: a circular walk Where: Circular walk exploring a lesser-known around Leeds’ Civic Hall and area of the Brontë moors canal. hy: DES garrahaN PhotograPhy: near Haworth. aLaMy PhotograPhy: Start/end: Leeds town Start/end: oxenhope Why jet off to Madeira to walk Lane northwest towards Hall (se297338). leeds was once famously 1. STaRT Begin your walk with station, the terminus of the the famous levadas (man-made Haworth. at the end, turn L terrain: Mostly level described by Charles Dickens as your back to Leeds . heritage Keighley & Worth watercourses) when Pennine on to Marsh Lane. Pass all the roadside pavements and ‘one of the beastliest places in Before crossing Headrow and valley railway (gR032353). Yorkshire can offer something houses and take the bridleway R towpaths, with some steps england’. Well, he would hardly going down Park Cross, take a terrain: Quiet tracks, lanes very similar? This walk includes a on to Marsh Common, then to negotiate. recognise the place these days. moment to enjoy Cuthbert and moorland paths, which path high up above the Worth through fields to Upper Marsh. MapS: os explorer 289; The West Yorkshire has Brodrick’s marvellous victorian can be boggy in places. valley, which follows a carefully Landranger 104 (a to Z Leeds undergone a great transformation civic building, built in 1858. turn L MapS: os explorer 21; built watercourse around the 2. turn R and immediately L and is best, though). in the last two decades. Back at along st Paul’s street, cross east Landrangers 103 and 104. contours of the hillside – just to enter access land near the GettinG there: Leeds is the beginning of the Industrial Parade and go along the length of GettinG there: Numerous like the levadas, though in this quarries of Penistone Hill. Keep L well served by national rail Revolution in the mid-1700s, infirmarys treet. Crossing Park buses connect oxenhope case supplying rainwater to along the edge of the moorland, and coach services. the train leeds had a small but well Row, you turn R and continue with Keighley, Halifax and neighbouring reservoirs. The past the toilet block, to pick up station is on Neville street, established woollen industry down to Bishopgate street. Cross Hebden Bridge (✆ 0113 348 walk heads up from Oxenhope the track to Drop Farm. Pass the half a mile from the start. centred around . What Bishopgate and turn R down 1122, www.wymetro.com). village on to the open access farm (teas available in season) eatinG & drinkinG: the really acted as the catalyst for Neville street, which goes under a heritage steam train runs land of Haworth Moor, climbing and continue beside the Hop pub under the Dark leeds’ transformation from town Leeds station’s railway tracks. Just from Keighley to oxenhope to the watershed between the boundary fence. at the next arches on Dark Neville to city was mechanised flax before you exit the underpass, (✆ 01535 645214, www. Hebden and Worth rivers, beside waymark, take the path that street is an atmospheric spinning. John Marshall’s success, turn R into the granary Wharf kwvr.co.uk). an old standing stone known runs off R across the heather. place for a pitstop pint in collaboration with Matthew arches, which are further under eatinG and drinkinG: as Oxenhope Stoop. There’s an turn L when you reach another (✆ 0113 243 9854). Murray, encouraged others to the station. in 1864, the building When trains are running opportunity to combine the track and follow this almost to SleepinG: the Discovery build ‘the dark Satanic mills’ that of a ‘New station’ in Leeds was there’s a buffet at walk with a day out on the Harbour Lodge. the path skirts inn on Bishopgate street is flourished in Dickens’ victorian era. proposed. Construction began oxenhope station serving Keighley and Worth valley to the R of the building over a an affordable choice and These buildings, which brought in 1866 and was completed in tea, coffee, sandwiches etc, steam railway, made famous bridge. turn immediately L, right next to the station such prosperity to the city, can be 1869, built on arches that span the (see above for contacts). in the film version of The climbing up beside the house, (✆ 01843 585179, www. seen on Marshall Street. In the River aire, Neville street and other places in oxenhope Railway Children. and then follow the path steeply comfortinnleeds.co.uk). 1920s, leeds began upgrading its swinegate. it led to the creation

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Rooms (✆ 01535 645297); 1. START From oxenhope station turn L, and follow this path until Leeds visitor Centre, the ▲ the impressively grand results can street. the station is situated next (se032353), follow Moorhouse the watershed is reached just be seen around Headrow. to the terminus of the Leeds and ▼ ▼ 51-52 NORTHERN ROUTEMASTER.indd 1

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FINISH START START 1 2 a tarmac road over cattle grid, and then find the footpath L, which runs down to the L of a steep clough. Cross a little bridge and continue down the hillside. At the first farm, avoid farm road and continue almost straight ahead and down across a field to follow the path houses at Back Leeming. 5. At the houses, follow lane to a more major road and turn L to meet with the B6141 Oxenhope-Denholme a short way along road. Walk this and, just past Oxenhope Yate Lane. post office, turn R up At the end, turn L on to another quiet lane and drop steeply down to the main road. Cross this and continue downhill back to Oxenhope station. Route devised by Andrew Bibby 4 west of Oxenhope Stoop (SD994346). Stop to enjoy the views: in good weather you’ll Three see as far Yorkshire’s Peaks to the north; south lies little Crimsworth Dean and, beyond, the Calder Valley. 3. From the standing stone, continue broadly straight ahead, (northeast), back down the hillside (this section can be R at a Millennium boggy). Turn footpath sign and pick up Way the path beside watercourse as it contours the hillside. Stay on this levada for more than a mile, arriving eventually at the main Oxenhope-Hebden Bridge road, near the Waggon & Horses pub. 4. Cross and continue beside the watercourse, enjoying more great views down to the and beyond to Valley Worth Dales. Leave the the Yorkshire levada to cut down along a rough path to the prominent R briefly on to Turn mast below.

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Map not to scale. Representation of MAP 21 OS Explorer 1:25,000 www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk : South 3 Howarth Youth Howarth Youth ambler S r itor information: S uidebook ocal ocal Sleeping: Vi S l g Bay Horse pub ( ✆ 01535 642209); and the Waggon & Horses pub ( ✆ 01535 643302). Hostel ( ✆ 0845 371 9520, www.yha.org.uk); Springfield Guest House B&B, Oxenhope ( ✆ 01535 643951, www.springfield- guesthouse.co.uk). There are more bed-and-breakfast options in Haworth and Hebden Bridge. Pennines and the Bronte Moors by Andrew Bibby (£7.99, Frances Lincoln, ISBN 0 7112 2501 X). Keighley Ramblers ( ✆ 01515 655524, www. ramblers.co.uk/groups). Haworth TIC, West Lane Haworth TIC, West ( ✆ 01535 642329, www. haworth-village.org.uk). c ontinued...

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Map not to scale. Representation of OS Landranger MAP 104 1:50,000 www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk 6 2 7 on to Boar Lane and follow it until you come to Park Row. R and go up Park Row. 6. Turn Cross Headrow and continue up to the on your R. Established as the Mechanics Institute in 1819 by the Leeds Philosophical and this Cuthbert Literary Society, Brodrick creation was re-opened in 2008 as a free-to-enter museum. 7. Cross the road and walk around the back of , turning L along Portland Crescent. and L on to Portland Way Turn then L again on to Calverley Street. R on to Great George Street Turn to walk in front of Leeds Infirmary. The first hospital, known as the was built , in 1771. Construction of the current hospital on Great George Street began in 1863, to the designs of Sir George Gilbert Scott. 8. From here, turn L on to Park Street and then L again to bring Hall. you back to Leeds Town Route devised by Des Garrahan

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FINISH START START 4 5 Sweet Street West. Turn L into Turn Sweet Street West. Bath Road and R where it meets Lane. Retrace yourwith Water steps for a short distance and then turn L on to Globe Road. 4. Continue down Globe Road until it meets Whitehall Road. Cross over this road and turn L to take you down to the towpath along the Leeds & Canal. along the canal with 5. Walk water to your R. Where the canal meets the River Aire at Lock 1, turn L and then R to cross the At Neville Street continue water. straight, with the river on your R. On the skyline to your R you can Brewery see the famous Tetley’s sign. Before you turn L at Leeds note the Bridge to cross the river, blue plaque commemorating Louis Le Prince. Considered by many to be the true father of motion pictures, in October 1888 Le Prince filmed moving picture sequences single- on Leeds Bridge using his paperlens camera and Eastman’s film. Continue ahead along Bridge L End, which joins Briggate. Turn : S roup g

: Ramblers ’ ambler S r S uidebook ocal ocal g l Arcade, Leeds City Station ( ✆ 0113 242 5242, www.visitleeds.co.uk). 1: East of Leeds Volume Leeds (£4.95 + £1 p&p, ISBN 1 901184 23 4) and 2: Ramblers’ Leeds Volume of Leeds (£5.95 + £1 West p&p, ISBN 1 901184 24 2), both by Douglas Cossar and available from 11 Woodroyd Holmfirth Honley, Avenue, HD9 6LG. Cheques payable Riding Area to ‘West Ramblers’ Association’. Leeds Ramblers ( ✆ 0113 279 0229, www.leedsramblers. co.uk); Leeds & Bradford 20s & 30s Ramblers (www. takeahike.org.uk). c ontinued... Liverpool Canal, but you can gain access to the Dark Arches from towpath. At the end of tunnel turn R to exit by the side of canal. Go across the courtyard and exit via the footbridge, which takes you to Little Neville Street. R into Neville Street and cross Turn Bridge. Victoria Lane and R along Water 2. Turn then L into Marshall Street just pass past David Street. You’ll Marshall Mills on your right, built by John Marshall, who was born at 1 Briggate in 1765. The six- mill usedstorey water-powered water drawn from the nearby Hol Beck to spin yarn. Just past the site (or Mill). Also Works is Temple built by John Marshall, it was of Horus at based on the Temple Edfu, with a chimney designed in the style of an obelisk. Largely is the only Works derelict, Temple Grade I-listed building in . 3. Continue to the end of Marshall Street and turn R on to Nineveh Street. Then turn R into Bridge Road and take the first R into

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