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warn villagers to take cover. At one time the keeper of the Post Welcome to Darley A DARLEY MILL was built in the 17th Century as a Office was also the local registrar of births and deaths. K WALLER SQUARE was the name of this row of flour mill. A miller’s cottage and walled gardens were cottages, including CLOGGER’S COTTAGE which was The award-winning village of Darley lies away from the added in 1761 and in 1874 a large waterwheel, METHODIST CHURCH (Wesleyan Chapel) was the site of a cobbler's shop run by Mr Waller. Aldon’s Bicycle main road, so that many visitors to Nidderdale see only the E manufactured by Todds of Summerbridge, was installed. built in 1829, near to a farmhouse where services had Shop was also in this row. The road here was once much village sign, the Wellington Inn and Darley Mill Centre. This 27 foot wheel ceased working in the 1950s and the mill previously been held. It was a thriving chapel, with many of the narrower and opposite was the building known as the This Trail gives an insight into the heritage of the village then operated over the next 50 years as an aminal feed congregation walking several miles to attend services. In 1851, ‘raghole’. when it was a thriving industrial and farming community, store, a hire shop, a nursery garden and a retail outlet. In a religious census counted 38 adults and 39 children attending by labelling and explaining sites of interest. 2009 the wheel was restored so that it could once again morning service, 91 adults and 39 children in the afternoon and power the building, the new Darley Mill Centre. Teas have You can choose to walk along the Main Street with a few atotalof80peopleintheevening.TheSundaySchoolroom “Visit The Darley Mill diversions and see all the sites, or you may wish to was added in 1929. incorporate a few of them with one of the several riverside Centre for shopping, or field walks that are detailed, and come back for a number F DARLEY HOUSE was built around 1850 for the of visits. The choice is yours! local Dales doctor, Dr Clarkson. Members of the Skaife family (local shop and mill owners) later lived in it. The village eating and generally WALKER HOUSE was built by Thomas Wilkes in Parking is available at Darley Mill Centre, the Wellington cricket pitch was once behind the house. I Inn, Christ Church Community Centre and Darley Memorial 1771, but later the house was owned by the Walker family milling about in the Hall. The village can also be reached from Harrogate or for many years, hence the name of the house and also the lane FIELD HOUSE and its associated barn used to be a by a regular service of Transdev bus No. 24, G opposite. The farmer who lived in the adjoining farm was a heart of Nidderdale” shop owned by one of the Skaife brothers and passed on joiner who made coffins for the local people. which runs along Main Street. to his sons. It was known as Top Shop to distinguish it from the other main shop in the village (Low Shop), and it sold The main trail, taking in the labelled sites, is about 5km STOCKS GREEN is the original village green and Three fabulous floors of shopping for (3.5 mls) and will take around 1.5 hours (add an extra everything needed for man and beast. You could buy animal J it was where the local brass band played for a church The OLD RAILWAY LINE can still be made out quality household linens, stunning 1.3km (1ml) and an extra 30 mins if you continue to The feed, screws, nails, flour eggs, sweets and carrots. The shop L service every Hospital Sunday. A set of stocks gives the green down by the river, though Darley Station was removed homewares and gifts, books, Holme ).TheotherwalksstartingandfinishingatChrist Y its name and the cottages at the back of the green are some of soon after the line closed in the 1964 and houses are now on confectionery and preserves, gardening Church Community Centre have their distances noted. been served from the miller’s cottage for more than a the oldest in the village. On the green is a stone products and much, much more… the site. The railway, running between Harrogate and Pateley century, and that tradition continues today. commemorating the recent national and international Bridge, opened in 1862, and allowed flax and hemp to be Enjoy our traditional licensed restaurant successes of Darley in Bloom. brought into the village for processing, and coal, milk and –fromhomemadecakes,biscuitsand B BRIGHTWATER MILL (now demolished and dressed stone to be taken out to the neighbouring towns and light snacks to full lunches, Sunday High Mill House is in its place), was built in the 1770s and cities. Local children took the train to high schools in roasts and afternoon tea along with our was at one time a bobbin mill and a flax mill, before ending its Knaresborough and Harrogate. The line closed to passengers award winning tea and coffee. life as a Paint Mill in 1951. A wooden water wheel used water in1952andtofreightin1964. stored in a dam fed by Darley Beck.

C THE WELLINGTON INN has been an inn for many years, serving the local farmers and mill-workers. During the mid 20th Century, Roman Catholic Church services closed in the late 1950s. were held in the small detached building at the rear, accessed by the flight of stone steps. The room below was used for H CHRIST CHURCH was built in 1849 as a Chapel of storing carcasses by the local butcher. Ease for at a cost of £340, and was re-built THE DARLEY MILL CENTRE, DARLEY, and consecrated in 1887. The vicarage was built next door at NR HARROGATE HG3 2QQ D THE OLD POST OFFICE operated from a that time for the first vicar. Adjoining the Church was a hall Tel: 01423 780857 wooden hut next to the building in the triangle between which was used for concerts, dances and snooker matches www.darleymill.com the roads. It was also the local telephone exchange, and was before the Memorial Hall was built. The area now occupied by responsible for alerting the local garage when an air-raid was the car park was once the home of Darley Tennis Club. The hall imminent. The garage then sent out a wagon blaring its horn to was totally rebuilt in 2007 as Christ Church Community Centre. 1 Low Hurst 3 Riverside 4 The Holme Key Distance 2.5K Distance 3.1K Distance 4.5K Going: Muddy in fields in wet weather Knaresborough Forest Going: Muddy along the riverbank with stones through the Going: Muddy in fields and on tracks in wet weather boundary marker Darley Heritage Trail Turn left on leaving the car park, cross the road to the worst section Turn right along Main Street, passing Stocks Green on the left pavement and in 200m, just past the bus stop take the Turn right from the Community Centre car park and walk down and then Low Green on the right before dropping down to the narrow footpath to the right, skirting the back of Field House the Main Street for 500m then turn down Station Road. When Post Office and the little garden at Fringill Beck. Climb the rise A Z G . Climb the stile over the wall and walk down the field to the road takes a bend to the right at the bottom of the slope, from the Beck and in 200m Daleside Park is reached. Turn left Village Walks the second gate on the opposite side. Next aim for the carry straight ahead on a narrow footpath between hedges and directly in front is a cobbled drive named Meadow Bank diagonally opposite corner at the bottom of the field and until the river is reached. Climb the stile on the right and pass Farm. Walk down the drive and at the Starting and finishing at Christ Church Community Centre H climb the stile into the next field. With Darley Beck on your along the riverside in front of 3 houses, built on the site of the gateway take a ginnel at the right hand side following it round Walk 1 Walk 4 left go to the corner and climb the stile into the third field old station and railway cottages. Follow the river downstream, to the wall stile into the field. Turn left and walk down to a stile with a footbridge over the beck in the far corner. Go over the through 2 gates and over a footbridge. The path follows the in the centre of the wall at the bottom of the field. Climb the Walk 2 Walk 5 bridge and take the squeeze stile in the wall slightly to the river, over a boggy area by means of stones, another stile and stile and the river is 50m ahead. Turn right and in 200m the right. Turn left and with the stream now on your left follow open meadow until a gate in a wire fence is reached. footbridge over the Nidd is reached. Turn right and in 20m, Walk 3 Walk 6 the path, aiming for a point 25m to the right of Low Hurst A footbridge over the is on the left at this point. when the track levels out on what was the old railway line, turn Farm which is ahead for you. Go through the gate and take If you cross the river and turn right, one of the boundary marker left and after crossing a bridge climb the bank to the field on the path to the side of the bridge where there are steps and a stones for the King’s Forest of Knaresborough which has V the right hand side. Walk round the edge of the field with the Distances stile to the road. You will pass near to the site of the old been excavated recently may be seen 25m from the bridge. wood on the left until you reach a wall and stile with an open 1/2km Brightwater Mill B . Turn left and keeping to the footpath The walled track Nidd Lane leads from the end of the bridge pasture field beyond. The path, which is indistinct, goes half walk up the hill and take the left hand branch past the village back to Darley Main Street, about 400m. Turn right along the k right diagonally to the corner by the house on the road leading sign and in 500m you are back at the Community Centre. c road back to the Community Centre L , a distance of 1.2K 1/4km e to . Follow this path to the road. Just round the corner D B B arley of the road towards Birstwith is one of the oldest houses in the Dale, Holme Hall W , with its thatched roof. This was the origin A 1 of Darley Laundry, which then developed into other specially built buildings which have now been demolished. Turn right on N 5 Fringill Lane D the road back towards Darley and in 300m take the signposted is 2 m bridleway on the left. Proceed up the lane for 600m to Cinder Distance 1.4K a W n Hills hamlet and after the first farm on the right, turn right on a Going: Surfaced roads, hard tracks and field paths, muddy t Darley le E signposted footpath across the fields with the hedge first on d in wet weather R the left and then on the right after going through a metal gate a Turn right from the Community Centre car park and walk Head i S l in the hedge on the right. The last field before Stumps Lane is w along Main Street passing Stocks Green J on the left. a reached is crossed diagonally to the far lower corner where a y Passing Low Green on the right, the Post Office and convenient stile is found. Turn right down the hill and take the O E school are reached in another 100m. The bridge over Fringill footpath through the farm yard on the left. Go through the M L Beck R adjoins the school and the bridleway to the right C D ain G J Playing farmyard which turns into a walled track and leads to Fringill St I (Fringill Lane) is now taken passing the mill Q and the two reet K Field Lane, which will lead you down past the dams and Fringill Mill R mill dams to end at two cottages. Go along the drive of the Q before regaining the Main Street by the bridge over the iv right hand house and turn into an opening just past the 3 e Beck. Turn left and follow the road back to the Community F r disused pig sties on the right. Go through a small yard and N Centre 1 kilometre away. id over the step stile into the field round the head of the dam, H Darley d through a gate and then over the step stiles in the walls further up the hill until Sheepcote Lane is reached. Turn right W

a down the road and at the next junction take the right hand l k e branch passing the old Primitive Methodist Chapel Z on the r Cricket L V left and Darley Memorial Hall Y on the right. The junction Christ Church a c k Pitch n M e with Main Street is reached in another 100m, when a left turn e B l l 4 i will lead in about 700m back to the Community Centre. ne g La n e i ot r pc F ee Sh R 6 Z N Y T 6 Crake Lane O U Distance 2.5K 2 Green Lane P M ain Going: A walk on metalled, quiet country lanes with a Distance 2.3K St short steep section C re Going: Surfaced roads and grass ra Q S et Turn right out of the Community Centre car park and walk ke The W covered meadows which are L e down Main Street for 100m. Take the right hand junction a n Holme muddy in wet weather n a X – Walker Lane – up the hill until its junction with Sheepcote e L l l lane is reached in 500m. Continue up the hill – a steeper Turn right from the Community Centre car park, cross the i Moke g 5 n climb here but stops to admire the view, which improves as road to the footpath down to Stocks Green J and turn left i r e Hill down the track – Green Lane – at the left hand side of the F n you get higher, are quite acceptable. After another 300m a the gradient levels off and the junction with Crake Lane is green. Notice the limestone boulder with the plaques L reached. Turn down Crake Lane for approximately 1 mounted on it. These are the awards Darley received for s kilometre enjoying the views to the north over Nidderdale, winning the gold medal in the Entente Florale in Bloom p Sheep m until the road from Otley to Dacre is reached by the village competition, when it represented Britain in the European cot e u cricket field. Turn right down the hill and then opposite the Large Village Class in 2005, and also the gold award in La t Champion of Champions in 2009. ne S Wellington Inn C turn right past the side of the Old Post Office back into Main Street D and back to the At the end of the track climb over the stile into the field and Community Centre. keeping near the wall on your left walk forward down the hill. Then aim for the stiles over the walls in front until you see the footbridge over Darley Beck in front of you. Go over the bridge, turn right and go through the metal gate into the next field. Climb up the slight slope, round the trees and then, through a metal gate into the next field. Keeping the wall on your left, walk through the field to the kissing gate at the bottom, and then follow the footpath to the Cinder underpass bridge under the disused railway line L . Hills There is a stile over the fence directly in front of you leading to the stepping stones, but take the gateway on the right and follow the path by the side of the river to the next fence, stile and footbridge over Darley Beck which joins the river a few paces from the bridge. Turn left and walk round the field with the river on your left until you reach the next stile. Turn right on the hedge enclosed path for 50m until you join Stocks Green the metalled road which is Station Road. Go up the road, passing the playing fields on your right, until the Main Street is reached. Turn right, and the Community Centre is Designed and printed by Avenue Printing House, 500m on your left. The Holme 42-44 Avenue, Harrogate HG2 0AU. 01423 562924