The Worth Way LANE
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KEIGHLEY CAVENDISH ST Keighley Station LOW MILL The Worth Way LANE 11 mile/17.5km circular walk or a EAST PARADE 1 Low 5 /2 mile/8.75km linear walk (returning to Keighley either by bus Bridge Mill or train from Oxenhope). PARKWOOD STREET WORTH WAY PARK (Allow at least 6 hours to complete the 11 mile/17.5km walk). LANE Parkwood The Walk Greengate Knowle Mill WOODHOUSE ROAD SOUTH STREET Woodhouse Museum Crag Place Crag Hill Ingrow Station Farm Ingrow Kirkstall Wood y a w il a R y e ll a short unofficial V h diversion t HAINWORTH r LANE o River Worth W d n The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway Line Bracken Bank a y e l h Hainworth g i e K D E DAMEMS ROAD AM MS Damems LA NE Station SYKE LN. GOOSE COTE LANE Damems Hill Top Harewood level Hill crossing E Cackleshaw G D New House E Farm R EAST O ROYD O STATION M ROAD S Oakworth Oakworth HALIFAX ROAD (A629) Station E level E PROVIDENCE crossing L LANE VALE MILL LANE Hebble Row reservoir Toll tunnel House VICTORIA AVE. Barcroft ROAD EY EB L River Worth O NG R L I Mytholmes A HAWORTH ROAD B N E LEES LANE Cross Roads HALIFAX ROAD (A629) MYTHOLMES LANE Haworth Sugden H school A Station Reservoir R playing D G fields A MILL HEY T E L A N Haworth E BROW TOP ROAD CENTRAL PARK STATION ROAD STATION Stump Cross BROW Farm BRIDGHOUSE ROAD LANE Naylor Hill Quarry, Brow Moor BROW MOOR War Memorial Bridgehouse Beck HEBDEN ROAD Wind Turbine CULLINGWORTH Naylor Hill MOOR Quarry diversion to viewpoint Lower NaylorHill Upper Naylor Farm Hill Farm y a Ives w l i Bottom a R y y e l l Donkey MARSH LANE a V Bridge BLACK MOOR ROAD h Delf Hill t r o W d n a y le h ig e North K Birks Sewage MOORHOUSE LANE Works Oxenhope Station Key KEIGHLEY ROAD Lower Route Hayley NE MILL LA HARRY Farm LANE DARK LANE OS Map Oxenhope Sue Explorer 21 Ryder N Manorlands South Pennines Donkey Bridge, Bridgehouse Valley City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council Countryside & Rights of Way Starting at Keighley Railway Station with your back to the The Worth Way building, turn left at the station forecourt and immediately left again down the cobbled Low Mill Lane. Pass over the 11 mile/17.5km circular walk or a River Worth to turn right just before the stone built railway bridge off the road to walk along the narrow Victorian ginnel. 1 5 /2 mile/8.75km linear walk (returning to Keighley either by bus or train from Follow the footpath as it weaves under the Worth Valley railway line, turning right across the metal footbridge spanning Oxenhope). the now dismantled GNR railway line and under the stone archway, to emerge onto a road (Park Lane) at Low Bridge (Allow at least 6 hours to complete the mill. Turn left and cross over Park Lane onto the road 11 mile/17.5km walk). opposite (The Walk) and walk along for approx. 100yds/91.5m before taking the path off the road to the left and up the slight incline between the railway and the old mill buildings. Ordnance Survey Map Explorer 21 South Continue along the path along side the River Worth, climbing Pennines covers the whole route. the 12 stone steps at the end of the path onto Woodhouse Road. The walk has been devised by linking existing footpaths, Turn left following Woodhouse Road as it bears right and tracks and roads and is best described as strenuous. then left to go over the railway bridge. Continue uphill over Walking boots and good wind and waterproof outdoor the road junction to where the surfaced road finishes and clothing is strongly advised. a narrow, unmade track starts, just beyond the row of terraced houses on the right (Springhurst, Crag Place). It is essential to carry enough food and drinks to last Turn right here up the 3 stone steps leading off the rough throughout the day. Refreshments may be available at track and up the very steep, narrow walled path. Nearing Oxenhope station when the trains are running. There the top of the path go through the stone kissing gate, then are also several food shops and a public house near immediately turn left over a stile back onto the rough track. Haworth station. Turn right up the track passing the entrance to Crag Hill Farm and continue uphill for approx. 100yds/91.5m, turning Public transport information: right at the corner of the dry stone wall on the right into the Metro Line: 0113 245 7676 woodland (Kirkstall Wood). Follow the path as it meanders Worth Valley Railway: 01535 645214 through the trees along the bottom of the wood to a gated gap stile. Worth Way cloth badges are available and are obtainable from Haworth Tourist Information Centre, 2/4 West Lane, Through the stile the path goes diagonally left across the Haworth BD22 8EF, or by post. Tel. 01535 642329 for field to the 2 gateways ahead, here the definitive line of the details. path goes through the left hand gate keeping the dry stone wall on the right, to a stile at the other end of the field. THE ROUTE However, when surveyed the path has been unofficially From the rundown Victorian ginnels of industrial diverted through the right hand gateway, to follow the same Keighley, climbing steeply to the contrasting hill top wall but now with it on your left, finishing at the same point village of Hainworth where the route offers superb views 75yds/68.5m by the stile. along the whole of the Worth Valley. Then on to Oxenhope, a typical South Pennine village and terminus Continue straight forward for a short distance to go through of the Worth Valley Railway. Returning along the the stile in the next wall which can be seen ahead, keeping picturesque Bridge House Valley, between Oxenhope the wall on your right, continue straight ahead across 2 and Haworth, before continuing along the Worth Valley fields and over 2 more stiles onto a rough farm track. Follow via Oakworth, Damens and Ingrow, back to Keighley. the track with the wall on your left and pass between the farm buildings, emerging onto the surface road (Hainworth Lane) at Hainworth village. Cross the road to walk through the village, where, after a short distance the surfaced road ends and changes to an unmade road (Hill Top Road). Follow the unmade road for approx. 300yds/274m to where the road forks at Hill Top, called Mill Lane. Our route continues by turning right at the here take the unmade road to the left uphill, walking behind bottom of Harry Lane and along the track just beyond the the farm buildings and cottages along Lees Moor Edge for house on the right. approx. 1/2 mile/0.8km as it passes between the old quarries, moorland and fields before joining a surfaced road (Bingley Follow the track for a short distance and go through the Road). stile at the end into the field. The path now goes along the side of the beck (Bridge House Beck) to the metal footbridge. On reaching the road turn right downhill through the hamlet Turn left across the bridge and turn right on the opposite of Barcroft, following the road as it bears left downhill to join side along the narrow walled path, still following the beck, the main A629 Keighley-Halifax road. Cross the main road to emerge through a kissing gate onto a farm access track to join the unmade track opposite (Hardgate Lane). Follow near to Oxenhope water treatment works. Hardgate Lane as it climbs steeply uphill to meet a surfaced road (Brow Top Road). Cross over onto Brow Moor and Continue straight forward passing the treatment works follow the wide path straight forward keeping the wall on before bearing right to a stile adjacent to a renovated the left, until you meet a surfaced road (Black Moor Road) farmhouse. Follow the path round to the right and across near Naylor Hill Quarry. a metal footbridge, turning left to go through a stile into a field. Turn left up Black Moor Road for approx. 100yds/91.5m before turning right off the road and across the grass and The path now follows the beck over a wooden bridge and heather verge, to a stile in the stonewall. Go through the round the edge of the field, passing on the left a stone built stile and down the hillside and the steps onto the farm 'Packhorse Bridge' (Donkey Bridge), bearing right uphill access tracks, taking the second track on the left to walk onto the farm access track. Turn left down the track and in front of the farmhouse at Lower Naylor Hill Farm. walk in front of the former farmhouse building (Ives Bottom Farm). Just beyond the building the path bears slightly down At the far end of the farmhouse turn left and bear to the to the left, follow the dry stone wall to a stile. Go over the right, walking between the fence and wall and across the stile and across another farm access track to walk straight field for approx. 100yds/91.5m to the far end of the field. forward, passing on your right a derelict farm building. The Here a small amount of surplus soil has been dumped path now runs parallel with Bridge House Beck and the creating a steep slope, thereby making direct access to the Worth Valley railway line along the valley bottom, passing stile below difficult.