LEISURE TIME

DIRECTIONS Local attractions Leave the campsite via the wooden Constable Burton Hall Gardens, Leyburn, North 1pedestrian exit gate (near to the green DL8 5LJ. Tel 01677 450428 or see corrugated shed). Carefully cross the constableburtongardens.co.uk. Open 18 Mar-16 Oct. railway line and its flanking gates, before Adult price £3; seniors £2.50; children 5-16 50p. Woodland continuing to the road. Here, turn left walks and interesting collections of trees and shrubs. House towards the Pheasant Inn. not open to visitors. Wheelchair access is possible and dogs are welcome. Walk past the pub, and just after its car Forbidden Corner, Tupgill Park Estate, Leyburn, Yorkshire 2park (opposite the campsite’s entrance DL8 4TJ. Tel 01969 640638 or see yorkshirenet.co.uk/ lane), cross the main road to your right and theforbiddencorner. Open 1 Apr-31 Oct. Advance booking follow the public footpath sign down a fir essential – telephone direct or visit Leyburn Tourist tree-lined lane. Information Centre. It consists of a unique labyrinth of tunnels, chambers and follies within a four-acre garden. Very soon veer right off the tarmac Bolton Castle, Leyburn, Yorkshire DL8 4ET. Tel 01969 3lane and keep straight ahead at the 623981 or see boltoncastle.co.uk. Open March-early path’s junction (unless you want a quick Nov. Adult price £5; children/students/OAPs £3.50. look at the waterfall, before returning to There is limited access for wheelchair users as the this spot). staircases are too narrow. Cross the stile at the end of the path and 4pass through the wooden gate. Keep to the right side of the field before heading left at the wall and passing over a stone stile Tourist beside a cockerel weathervane. information Continue across the field, go through and turn right along the pavement. Turn right at the road and, at the end, 11another gate and keep to the right Leyburn TIC, Continue through Leyburn’s town centre, side of the next field. Pass over three 4 Central 5right again before almost immediately at a left bend, turn right following a yellow along the High Street (sp Police Station). wooden stiles and follow the path as it bends Chambers, turning left, beside the Methodist church arrow and a wooden footpath sign. Pass the King’s Head Pub, (sp Richmond (sp Public Footpath). Next to the Throstle around to the left, along the right side of the Railway Street, and Catterick Camp), the Evangelical Nest Farm sign, turn right over a cattle grid field, before crossing another stile. Leyburn, North church and Wensleydale School on your Just before the mini-roundabout, (sp Public Footpath). Cross another cattle Continue and then cross another stile on Yorkshire DL8 right (near the top of the hill). turn right just past a house called grid, then turn left over a stone step stile your right (which takes you over a wooden 5BB. Tel 01969 14 Bonair, down a pedestrian tarmac path. following the yellow arrow. bridge). Immediately turn left. 623069. Open 3 Apr-29 Oct. Keep ahead across two roads, but when you get to the children’s play area keep left Go through the kissing gate and over the Continue through a stone gap to as the road bends to the right, passing stile, and follow the barbed wire fence another stile – cross this and turn 6 12 through a gap in the stone wall ahead. before turning left when level with a gate onleft following the yellow arrow. At the end Continue past two large trees on your left, WalkWalk onon thethe your right. The track leads towards the river.of the field, keep ahead and cross three go through a metal gate, and veer to the Follow the yellow arrow, bearing slightly stiles and another stone gap. Pass through left towards a house, through a small right across the field, towards the river. a gate at the field’s end, and across the stile wooden gate. to its right. Keep to the left of the field Cross the bridge beside the next passing through another stone gap. Cross 7wooden public footpath sign, and followanother stile and through another narrow Veer left across the field, towards a the arrow around to the left, following the wooden gate. 15gap in the dry stone wall just to the stream. Pass by a stile and continue ahead right of a stone barn in the next field. Turn before passing through a green metal gate Then it’s over some concrete steps right immediately after the gap, pass and crossing the road bridge. either side of the railway lines and through another gate onto a lane, and then WILDSIDE 13 turn right. Continue until you return to Continue along the road for a short cross diagonally across the next field the campsite. JO VAUGHAN VISITS THE ATTRACTIVE MARKET 8distance before turning right at a barn, towards the stone barn. Walk to the road, General information following the green signpost down a track. TOWN OF LEYBURN, SITUATED AMID GLORIOUS After the cottage continue through a gate, NEAREST CLUB SITE: Lower Leyburn: 6miles/9.7km Wensleydale Caravan Club Site, leaving the river temporarily behind you, YORKSHIRE DALES COUNTRYSIDE and follow the hedgerow on your right side Harmby, Leyburn DL8 5NU. Tel 01969 A6108 623366. Open 24 Mar-6 Nov. until a break in its line.Turn right here and OT ONLYis the Club’s terraced place for window shopping and eating out. head towards the river. This junction is and wooded site at Leyburn Nearby attractions include a steam railway,DISTANCE: 6 miles/9.7km TERRAIN: Tarmac paths and unsigned, so watch out for a blue arrow beautiful, but its nearby castles, gardens and arts centres. What more pinned to the tree to your left on the N grassy fields Hill Top High Side surroundings are nothing short of stunning. could anyone want? Farm NUMBER OF STILES: 15 junction (sp Wensleydale Wander). If you LEYBURN Start The site is situated within half of a disused Our walk takes us through some stunning reach the barn you’ve gone too far. quarry, and consequently, just outside the Wensleydale countryside, following the ESSENTIAL EQUIPMENT: campsite’s gates, the other half can be spied River Ure before heading up through the Ordnance Survey Explorer OL30 P Woodlands LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY: Moderate At a metal gate, after a stone crossing – a water-filled paradise for birdlife and valley and back into Leyburn’s town centre, Wensley REFRESHMENTS: In Leyburn over a stream, veer left to pass through a Bridge A684 Argill birdwatchers. Just five minutes’ walk away, taking in both rural and urban scenery. It’s as 9 Farm A684 CRAFTCRAFT the market town of Leyburn is a perfect varied and interesting as the area itself. TOILETS: In Leyburn gate, and then slightly right to walk along the CENTRESCENTRES river bank. Continue until you reach Myer’s Waterfall Farm C another road bridge, passing through two olliw ath CANDLEWORKSCANDLEWORKS A6108 Lane gates as you go. At the bridge, pass through a WENSLEY HARMBY Low small metal gate, and walk into Wensley. Lane Throstle The Nest Farm Wisings CRAFTCRAFT Just past the church, at the road CENTRESCENTRES junction, continue straight on (sp 10 Leyburn). Continue past the Three Horseshoes pub and turn right just after the bus stop (but before the phone box), down a narrow path. Turn left at the road, but soon,

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