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Walk 1 From Dauber Bridge via Broadhead Clough HEBDEN 3.5 miles; 2 hours. Moderate difficulty, Once on the moor, take the path briefly to with a couple of steep climbs. Wet the left and then bear right towards the moorland. marker post above the path. Follow this until BRIDGE Walk or take the 901 bus to Dauber Bridge, you come to a boundary stone. Just beyond just under a mile up Cragg Road from this the path bears left. On the horizon to Mytholmroyd. Take the concrete track which your left is a line of electric poles beyond forks up to the right. Follow this track gently which is a long stone wall. The path gradually uphill, ignoring a turning on your right. makes its way towards them. Just before you The concrete eventually gives way to an reach the poles, the Pike monument comes unmetalled track and soon afterwards, into sight. Go straight on to reach a very wide just beyond a cattle grid, you arrive at a pathway flanked by walls on either side. This MYTHOLMROYD is the beginning of Dick Lane, soon flanked junction of paths. Across the junction is 4 the lower entrance to Broadhead Clough by a conifer plantation on your left. nature reserve. Follow the well-used track At the far end of Dick Lane, the wall on the up through the reserve (ignore a waymarked right bears to the right. The ground in this path on your right). This often-steep path area can be pretty wet but it is possible to takes you to the upper entrance of the pick out a dry route alongside the wall. Head reserve marked by a gate. Here the path turns for a marker post on the left hand side of the sharp right and climbs steeply out of the wall. Follow the path (now the Pennine Way) woods and up on to the moor. up to the monument. Walk 2 via The Hinchliffe pub 1 3.5 miles; 1 hour 45 mins. Moderate the large evergreen wood where you make a difficulty with some gentle climbs right turn upwards along a wide grassy path From the Hinchliffe pub, Cragg Vale HX7 5TA clearly signposted as the Calderdale Way. Tel:01422 883256 Towards the top of this you leave the CW taking a left turn marked “Yorkshire Water 4 Get off the 901 bus just before Cragg Vale 1 Junior School on Cragg Road. – Permissive Bridleway”. This runs above the TODMORDEN wood. You are soon back on the CW. The Cross over and walk down Church Bank Lane past the church to the Hinchliffe. You’re path then takes a sharp turn to the right already on the Calderdale Way (CW), which through a gated field. you will mostly follow for about 3 miles. At the far gate the path runs gradually then more steeply downhill until the Pennine Way From the pub, take the metalled road uphill (and Walk 3) comes in from the left. Here you to Withens Clough reservoir. The road continues along the side of the reservoir and turn right. The often rough and rocky path soon becomes a stony track. Ignore a path then runs along the top of the escarpment to signed to Stoodley Pike opposite an inlet in the monument. the reservoir and continue until shortly before Walk 3 via The White House pub 2 5 miles; 2 hours. Easy to moderate signs for the Pennine Way (PW) keeping the difficuty – no climbs. reservoir on your right. This route stays on the Take the 901 bus to Blackstone Edge, and PW all the way to Stoodley Pike so is easy to 2 walk in the opposite direction to the bus follow. After a little more than a mile, a slight route down towards the White House pub, detour will reward you with sight of the Rain OL15 0LG Tel: 01706 378456 Stone (see www.stanzastones.co.uk). Just after passing Blackstone Edge reservoir The path then passes Light Hazzles and on your right, leave the road through a Warland reservoirs – keep to the side of these small side gate by a locked gate. Follow the and continue as walk 2 to the monument. 3 Walk 4 From Mytholmroyd Station 4 4 miles; 3 hours. Moderate difficulty – right to Hebden Bridge. Here is the Honesty Return to Mytholmroyd (walk in reverse) some uphill and one steep climb. Box hut, where you can buy food or drink for 4 miles; 2 hours. An easy wallk. turns off left. Go straight over for 100 yds From the station, follow the main Cragg your walk! Follow the path which soon heads From Stoodley Pike follow the Pennine Way until the track turns sharply left downhill. sharply left uphill, and continue until you Vale Road then turn right at the Fire Station downhill. The path goes through a gap in a Follow this track until the path turns sharply reach a T-junction. Gallery. Walk up the short, steep road and stone wall. A few yards after this there’s a right. Continue through the hamlet of Old turn left into Nest Lane. Turn right here and follow this long track 3 signpost pointing the Pennine Way through a Chamber. Just after the last building, turn left keeping straight on towards the monument, gap in another wall. Follow this rather stony down the road – tarmac at first but eventually Follow this lane for about ¾ mile. When the eventually joining the Pennine Bridleway. Go path down to a T- junction. cobbled. tarmac ends keep right and continue until through the gate at Swillington farm and Turn right here. After a farm, continue to a At the bottom of this lane, turn right into you reach a left turn marked as Spencer Lane. soon a Pennine Way signpost directs you up crossroads. Here the Pennine Way turns off to Wood Hey Lane, and continue to the far end Follow this steep lane – cobbles at first but the track to the left - a steady incline. The From White House Pub the left, but you continue straight on along of Nest Lane. Then take the short steep road eventually tarmac. Turn right at the top and track goes through a gap in a wall where you this very long track until you reach a second on the right down to Cragg Road, then left to follow the track through the hamlet of Old turn right and you can see the monument cross roads where the Pennine Bridleway head back to the station. Chamber keeping straight on past a turning ahead. This is the quickest route to the Pike. Map © Crown copyright and database right 2014. Ordinance Survey Licence No: 10023069 P P Health Centre parking, weekends only weekends parking, Centre Health Parking Cycle Path Cycle Cragg Road Cragg Bus stop Bus River Calder River Station Rochdale canal Rochdale Brearley P A646 P P Caldene Ave. Caldene and Leeds and \ Bus stop Bus To Halifax To and Manchester and To Hebden Bridge Hebden To minutes walk. minutes reservoir on your right – 13 minutes on the bus then 5 5 then bus the on minutes 13 – right your on reservoir opposite direction, crossing Turvin Road and keeping the the keeping and Road Turvin crossing direction, opposite left onto Rochdale Road just before the stop. Walk in the the in Walk stop. the before just Road Rochdale onto left Blackstone Edge reservoir on your right. The bus turns turns bus The right. your on reservoir Edge Blackstone all the way up Cragg Vale. Ring the bell as the bus passes passes bus the as bell the Ring Vale. Cragg up way the all Get off at the bus stop on Rochdale Road after traveing traveing after Road Rochdale on stop bus the at off Get White House pub pub House White Walk 3 - Mytholmroyd to the the to Mytholmroyd - 3 Walk Follow the signs to the pub for the start of the walk. walk. the of start the for pub the to signs the Follow for St John’s church and the Hinchliffe pub on your right. right. your on pub Hinchliffe the and church John’s St for pub on your left. Or ring the bell when you see the sign sign the see you when bell the ring Or left. your on pub Church Bank lane. This is four stops after the Robin Hood Hood Robin the after stops four is This lane. Bank Church before the earlier monument was built. was monument earlier the before Get off at the bus stop on Blackstone Edge Road opposite opposite Road Edge Blackstone on stop bus the at off Get that some sort of structure existed on the site even even site the on existed structure of sort some that from the edge of the hill. There is evidence to suggest suggest to evidence is There hill. the of edge the from Hinchliffe pub Hinchliffe weathering. Its replacement was built slightly further further slightly built was replacement Its weathering. Walk 2 - Mytholmroyd to the the to Mytholmroyd - 2 Walk in 1854 after an earlier lightning strike, and decades of of decades and strike, lightning earlier an after 1854 in the Battle of Waterloo (Napoleonic Wars), but collapsed collapsed but Wars), (Napoleonic Waterloo of Battle the Mytholmroyd railway station. station. railway Mytholmroyd the surrender of Paris. It was completed in 1815, after after 1815, in completed was It Paris. of surrender the four walks four Bridge. Four stops from the Dusty Miller, three stops from from stops three Miller, Dusty the from stops Four Bridge.