Victorian Gardens,

Introduction Map Pateley Bridge has long been a focal point for visitors to . In the 19th century it was a bustling small town OS Explorer 298: whose inhabitants engaged in a variety of agricultural and industrial activities. The number of large houses reflected Nidderdale the prosperity of the town and many incorporated large gardens designed in the fashionable styles of the day. Distance/Time Join us for a tour of the lost Victorian gardens. Walk A: 3.75 miles (6km) Walk B: 4.75 miles (7.5km) Walk A 2-3 hours K Walk B (extension Starting Point to Walk A) J L The centre of Pateley Bridge at the river P Parking bridge (SE 157655). Victorian Terrain O F Gardens N P Walk A: mainly on tarmac or gravel paths. Walk B: mainly on tarmac or gravel paths M but with some field/woodland paths, which may be muddy. A I H Useful Information G Pay & Display parking is available at F Pateley Bridge Showground car park. B C Other parking is available in the town centre but it is limited to 4 hours. E D B2 B3 There is a regular bus service from (Transdev Harrogate & District No.24).

For more free guides of walking and cycling routes in Nidderdale AONB, visit our website at nidderdaleaonb.org.uk The Route take the next right to join a footpath old brewery (**) and onto Wath Road 3. Take the right hand footpath over a alongside the river. When this re- to Grassfield House. On the left view wall stile to follow a paved path uphill Directions for Walk A joins the road, take care as there is Ashfield Villas [J] and Grassfield House ‘The Monk’s Steps’ next to the wall, [K] 1. Starting in the centre of Pateley no pavement. A different view of . go through a kissing gate and walk Bridge at the river bridge, walk up the Castlestead is on your right. 13. At Grassfield House cross the road diagonally down the field to cross a high street. Pateley Bridge Club near 7. Continue along the road past and take the path to the river signed broken wall and a small stream. With the top of the high street was the Bewerley Home Farm. On the left hand ‘Bessie’s path’. Don’t cross the bridge, the wall on your right, walk towards a George and Dragon. The garden on bend, admire the stone gateposts of instead turn right and walk along the small gate in the wall, to join a minor the corner is the site of its brewery. Bewerley Hall, now the entrance to a raised banking between the river and road. Turn left and follow this to the Greenhow/Pateley Bridge Road (1km). 2. Turn right and follow the Harrogate riding school. Then look for a building the caravan site to the recreation [L] As you join the road, look ahead to road for approximately 1km. On the surrounded by a stone wall. This wall ground (1km). marks the former kitchen garden of 14. Follow the path along the river glimpse the tall chimneys of the Mount left the stone terrace, parallel to the [M]. road, was built in 1780 and was home Bewerley Hall. back to the car park. Look across the 4. to the first George Metcalfe. 8. Continue along the road past Tudor road to the stone gates at the car park Cross the road to join the bridle [C] [O] path ‘Nidderdale Way’. Follow this 3. Take the right turn signed ‘Harefield House and its packhorse bridge entrance . (which may be glimpsed through the uphill past Eagle Hall [N] (0.5km). The Hall’ and follow the drive behind the wood on the left contains small lakes hotel [A] (as it is a hotel you will need trees) to a junction at Turner Bridge Directions for Walk B: (1.5km). Turn right towards Bewerley and is part of the garden of Eagle Hall. to buy a coffee or a snack to access the Follow Walk A until you reach the iron You may glimpse this over the wall to gardens) to pick up a path which goes and cross to the left side of the road. On the hillside on your left, see the gate at point 9 (*) and then walk as your right. across a field, downhill to the river. follows: Stone Pillars known as Yorke’s Folly 5. Where the track bends left, look in a 4. At the river turn left and walk along [D]. 1. Go through the iron gate and enter small patch of trees for a way marked the riverbank to Glasshouses (1.5km). [E] 9. Cross Peat Lane and shortly after Fishpond Wood . Walk up 6 stone post on your right and turn sharp right Look for the crenelated wall, fine steps and follow the worn permissive back to the wall. Climb over stile into [B1] observe the small iron gate (*) into iron bridge , and large Victorian path to the lake (this can be muddy). the fields. At this point there are good [B] the wood, known as Fishpond Wood. house known as Castlestead with Alternatively turn left up Peat Lane [no views of Eagle Hall, the old coach specimen trees in the garden and Fishpond wood contains a small lake and a former ice house [E]. pavement], before you reach the iron house, the gardens and the orchard. a dilapidated summerhouse in the gate, and look for a waymark on the 10. 6. Continue on the footpath downhill wood. Further on the right, the large Continue along the pavement to right into the wood. Follow the path through three fields, always with a wall pond [B2] supplied Glasshouses Mill. Bewerley Village. Take time to visit the to the lake and turn left. Nowadays, it is used for canoeing restored Medieval chapel [F] which is or fence on your right, into a fenced on the right. Look left at the modern The path to the right leads to an ice path (very muddy) which emerges by by the Bewerley Outdoor Education house. Centre. bungalows [G] and then at the older a converted barn. Follow the gravel 2. Turn left along the southern bank drive to the minor road which emerges 5. village buildings on the right [H]. After passing the pond you arrive at and dam of the lake then follow the opposite the old Brewery (0.5km). a road, turn left if you wish to see the 11. As you pass the village green note footpath around the East side of the 7. village [B3], the mill or the weir. Swiss Cottage on the left[I] and bear At this point, refer to the short walk right towards the main road. lake to the edge of the wood. Look at point 12 (**). 6. Turn right over the river bridge, carefully for remains of a boathouse in 12. signed ‘Bewerley Home Farm’ and Cross the road and walk past the the left bank.