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PPennine Way HANLITH

Isles. The terrain, however, must not be taken for ennine granted and walkers must be adequately prepared, 11 9 kms (5.6 miles) and, in particular, must be properly shod. Proper walking boots giving adequate ankle support are Malham 10 Turn right out of the YDnPA car park, and walk essential for this area as, although some of the TarnTarn W up the road for 320 metres until you cross a 9 a 10 stile on your right, signposted to Kirkby Malham. most popular paths are now surfaced almost to y 1 town centre standards, most paths are uneven if The footpath is not very distinct in the field you not actually rough. Trainers, for example, are not have now entered so aim towards the left of the adequate for most of the walking in the area. TTarnarn 2 hummock in front of you, going diagonally up FootFoot hill, crossing the farm track and over the stile. It should also be noted that the limestone of 5 6 Continue along the edge of the field, keeping which the spectacular scenery of Malhamdale 17 14 to the fence which bends to the right, on your is composed can be a testing surface on which right hand side, until reaching the corner of the to walk, and great care must be taken especially field where there is another stile. Follow the path when the limestone is wet or has a rime of mud slightly downhill to another stile. Cross the next on it when it becomes very slippery. Mastiles Lane field to a stone stile to the right of a field barn, That having been said, the delights of the walking after which bear slightly right to cross the field in Malhamdale are self-evident. A pause for breath to another stone stile set to the right of a large at almost any point on any of the walks described tree. Cross the field to another stone stile and here will give the opportunity to look around at Ing Scar then bear slightly left to reach a field gate, before some of the most breathtaking scenery you are (Dry Valley)Valley) turning right onto the road. Follow the road for ever likely to come across! PPennine 300m before turning right onto a track signposted The backbone of walking in Malhamdale is the ennine ‘Footpath’. After 100m turn left at the footpath Pennine Way which is shown on this map as a Malham finger-post to ‘Cow Close Lane’. Cross the stile broad dotted green line heading more WayW CoveCove to follow this path, keeping a stream bed to your or less north-South. All of the walks described ay left towards a field gate which appears to the left here use the Pennine Way for some part of their GoGordalerdale of a disused small quarry. once through the gate journey. Where this is the case the Pennine Way is Scar continue ahead, curving round to the left in front not overlaid on the map by the appropriate route of a farm house (new Close) and crossing a stile colouring. The walks described all start and finish to climb slightly uphill to the right to access the at the Yorkshire Dales national Park Authority car PikedawPikedaw farm track. park in Malham. Hill Turn left along the track and follow it to Cow Close Lane, where turn left again and go downhill to Kirkby Malham. At the commencement of the walk 1 village houses turn right to follow the roadway Malham to the front of the parish church. (If refreshment MALHAM LANDSCAPE SPECTACULAR See ininsetset ababoveove JanetJanet's's WeetsWeets TTopop is needed at this point the Victoria Inn is about 7.125 kms (4.5 miles) FossFoss 75 metres ahead.) In front of the church, by a parking/turning area, follow a signpost for the Turn left out of the YDnPA Car Park and follow footpath to ‘otterburn 2¾ miles’ over a footbridge the road through the village. By the last building and up some steps through two gates. Turn to pass through the hand-gateway on the right to the right, uphill, to cross a stone stile, and then follow the well-made and well used footpath, bear left to cross another stone stile at the lower part of the Pennine Way, to Malham Cove. on left corner of a small plantation. Continue uphill approaching the Cove, continue straight ahead keeping the small plantation on your right. Cross to gain a view which gives a striking impression the farm track and over the stile into a field and y of the grandeur of the feature. Back-track to the a navigate diagonally left over the crown of the field footpath junction and turn right to follow the WayW down to a stone footbridge alongside Deepdale path which climbs steeply up the western end Plantation. Uphill and slightly right will bring you of Malham Cove. The path has been stepped for 15 to a stile in the right hand wall, adjacent to a field much of the climb. At the top follow the path to ennine gate. Cross the stile and turn left, following the PPennine the right crossing the limestone pavement. [*] At wall on your left uphill to a handgate on your the far side of the pavement leave the Pennine left signed to ‘Airton ½ mile’. Through this gate, Way (which veers to the left) and continue ahead the path drifts slightly left, down hill to Deepdale and then to the right on the Pennine Way uphill 19 hanlith Barns where, after passing through the field gate, towards the corner of a wall. Continue with the 10 look for the stile (with a ‘Footpath’ finger-post) wall on your right for about 250 metres when over the wire fence on your right, the stile being you will encounter a road which you should cross, to the left of another field gate. Bear left around going downhill for a few metres to a gate on kirkbykirkby the corner of the field wall, and, before reaching your left. The path proceeds slightly downhill to the gateway ahead, turn right to follow a more pick up the corner of a wall which it then follows, y Malham a distinct footpath along the wall side and over passing a barn on your right. The path turns right WWay stone stiles. Immediately after the third stile, and passes through a gate. Cross the field to the follow the fork in the path diagonally to the left stile, after which the path leads downhill until it which picks up another field wall on your left. reaches the road. Turn left along the road, crossing walk 1 ennine Follow this footpath through a stile, three gates a small bridge, to a gate on your left giving access walk 2 PPennine and another stile, the last one of which drops you to Gordale Scar. Pass through the gate on your walk 3 13 into the main road along the valley. Turn right to left and follow the path into the gorge of Gordale follow the road slightly uphill for about 70 metres. Scar – a spectacular demonstration of the power walk 4 Here a footpath on the left through a gate is of the natural elements. Retrace your steps back 18 walk 5 signed to ‘Malham 2½ miles’. (If refreshment is to the road, turn right and continue along the road required at this point continue along the road for for about 100 metres to access the footpath on pennine way another 50 metres for Town End Farm Shop and your left to Janet’s Foss, an attractive waterfall. airtonairton Tea Room at Airton.) Follow the footpath down to Continue past the waterfall as the path follows the Footpath the footbridge over the infant , cross the Gordale Beck (on your left hand side) through the PPennine WayCaltonCalton Bridleway ennine bridge and walk ahead towards another footbridge wooded gorge, carved out of the limestone by the but turn left before the second bridge to follow Beck, passing through two gates and out into the Way of the the Pennine Way as it follows the riverside to fields on the floor of the valley. Follow the surface Roses Cycle Route W Hanlith Bridge. Turn right on to the road and path through another four gates, keeping the river a y continue uphill through the hamlet to the acute on your left. After passing a barn on the left, the right-hand bend of the road, from the left of path meets the junction with the Pennine Way which the Pennine Way continues up the valley to where you should turn right, immediately passing Malham. on entering the village turn left over the through the first of three gates. stone clapper bridge, cross the road and return to As you come back into the village, turn left over the starting point. the clapper bridge, cross the road by River House and follow the road to the left to return to the otterburnotterburn Car Park. walk 5 MALHAM, HANLITH, KIRKbY MALHAM, PPennine walk 2 ennine ACCRAPLATTS, MALHAM MALHAM COVE, DRY VALLEY, 5.9 kms (3.65 miles) MALHAM TARN AND PIKEDAW WWay Turn left out of the car park, cross the road by a 12.25 kms (7.6 miles) y River House, cross the stone clapper bridge and Bell Busk turn right to follow the Pennine Way to Hanlith. Follow the route of Walk 1 as far as the top of on reaching the road to Hanlith, turn right down Malham Cove, indicated by the symbol [*]. After 7 through the hamlet and continue ahead over crossing the limstone pavement, turn left and 8 Hanlith Bridge into Kirkby Malham. At the junction cross three stiles as you walk up through dry with the main road cross straight ahead, passing valley. After crossing a fourth stile, take the right (or not!) the Victoria Inn and the parish church on fork in the path. Your path leads past the area, on your right, and curving to the right. At the junction your right, where the stream flowing from Malham in the spectacular view across Malhamdale and posted to the right. Take the track to Weets Top to the river bridge below the village of Airton. down the Aire Valley beyond Skipton. Continue and pass through a gate, adjacent to which are the Before crossing the bridge turn right down a short with Cow Close Lane, turn left (towards Settle) Tarn sinks underground, emerge at the foot of and proceed uphill for just under a kilometre. along the footpath, passing a limestone outcrop, remains of an ancient wayside stone cross, on to track and over a stile to pick up the Pennine Way Malham Cove. Turn right onto the road, crossing Where the road bears about 30 degrees left a the stream before taking the footpath on the left until you regain the bridleway. Turn right on to the open moor. Just beyond the gate where the footpath. on the opposite side of the River Aire the bridleway and follow it downhill until it joins surfaced bridleways fork, take the right hand route farm track continues ahead (stile on the left of by the small car parking area and following the you will see a former mill building (now converted the gateway) signed to ‘Malham 1½ miles’. (This path to Tarn Foot, where lovely views can be had the Cove Road at a gate. Turn right and follow the signed to ‘Calton 2¾ miles’. Follow the footpath into residential accommodation), which serves road downhill. After a kilometre or so you will pass gateway is the one referred to in the last pages of Malham Tarn and its surroundings. Retrace your downhill for about 450 metres at which point the as a reminder of the hidden industrial past of the point at which the path you took to Malham track from Hanlith joins. of Bill Bryson’s “notes from a Small Island” from steps back to the road turning right onto it and this and similar rural areas. The Pennine Way which he took his last look at Malhamdale.) Go crossing the stream again. Turn left off the road Cove takes off, on your left. Follow the road back If you wish to follow the shorter route, bear right through the village to your starting point. continues alongside the river, and after passing ahead along the track to turn right as directed onto the Pennine Way, this time taking the broad and follow the waymarked track downhill over left through a stile and three gates, crosses a by a footpath finger-post, over a stone stile and track (bridleway) which curves to the right around the open moor. After about 1100 metres the wooden footbridge over a stream. (Your route now downhill across the field to another stone stile, the hillside (leaving the Pennine Way), and bears track passes through a gate and continues as a turns right, however, if you want refreshments the and continue downhill, passing to the left of a left after passing through a gateway to lead up to lane between two walls (Windy Pike Lane). Just walk 3 second footbridge ahead gives access to ‘Town End ruined barn to a wooden step stile which gives a road. Bear left along the road for a few metres over 1200 metres further on, the track acquires JANET’S FOSS, WEETS TOP, CALTON, Farm Shop and Tearoom’). Turn right after the first access to a footbridge over the beck in a wooded and, immediately after the cattle grid at Langscar a tarmac surface as it descends steeply into the gully. Cross the next field keeping the modern Gate, turn right through a field gate on to a broad, footbridge, keeping the main river on your left. AIRTON AND HANLITH hamlet of Hanlith. on the second of the downhill farm buildings about 50 metres to your left, to well defined track which leads uphill, curving Follow the Pennine Way to Hanlith Bridge, turning Full route 13 kms (8 miles) hairpin bends look for the signpost to the right a ladder stile. Cross the stile and continue with to the right. Turn left once through the next right over the stile and follow the road steeply for the Pennine Way, and follow the Pennine Way the wall on your right to Ploughleys Barn. Cross gateway, and follow the path, still well defined, uphill to the right-hand hairpin bend. on the left Shorter route 8.6 kms (5.3 miles) back into Malham. the next ladder stile, and follow the track as it uphill through other gateways until you reach at the apex of this bend the signpost indicates curves to the right behind the barn and through the junction with the Malham to Settle bridleway Turn left out of the YDnPA car park, cross the road the continuation of the Pennine Way to Malham. a gateway into the next field. Bear slightly left where there is a prominent finger- post beside a by River House to cross the clapper bridge behind For Calton, continue gently downhill following Follow the path, now somewhat up the hillside as you head down through the field (no longer a field gate. Turn left through the field gate, and bear the blacksmiths, turn right on to the Pennine Way the bridleway across the open moor, taking in the from the river, passing through five gates, which track) to a fingerpost directing you onto another right off the main bridleway on to a route through and follow it to the third gate. Immediately after splendid views of Malhamdale and beyond, and will return you to the point at which the path to farm track. Follow the track as it slopes down to access land which passes on your right the the gate leave the Pennine Way turning left on to after 3.25 kilometres (2 miles) you will descend Janet’s Foss turns off, on which you started this meet the main road, turning left before the road remains of spoil tips associated with the former the path sign-posted to Janet’s Foss and follow quite steeply via a zig-zag track into the wooded walk. Continue along the Pennine Way and re- into the car park. mining activity in the area. Follow the path until the surfaced path through five gates alongside Foss Gill. Here the track runs beside the beck, it appears to be about to plunge steeply downhill the Gordale Beck, through the wooded gorge and crosses a ford and rises slightly between stone cross the clapper bridge as you enter Malham to at a point where a less well-defined footpath past Janet’s Foss to the road. Turn right along the walls to enter the hamlet of Calton. Turn right return to the Car Park. Mapping information based on the crosses at right angles. Turn left on to the crossing road and follow it (steeply) uphill until, just below down the road and continue ahead, following Ordnance Survey – Outdoor Leisure Map 2. footpath, but not before you have paused to take the crest of the road, a walled, rough track is sign- the road down and around a right angled bend Crown copyright 2005. All rights reserved.