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The route is divided divided is route The landscapes. of variety wide a covers recommended in conjunction with the leafl ets, the map map the ets, leafl the with conjunction in recommended route around the Wakefi eld Metropolitan District and and District Metropolitan eld Wakefi the around route The use of Ordnance Survey Explorer maps is is maps Explorer Survey Ordnance of use The The Wakefi eld Way is a 70 mile, waymarked walking walking waymarked mile, 70 a is Way eld Wakefi The THE WAKEFIELD WAY WAKEFIELD THE WAKEFIELD WAY - WALK 4 HORBURY BRIDGE TO KIRKHAMGATE - DISTANCE 5.47 MILES (9.61KM) Start the walk at Horbury Bridge GR SE 280 179 on the A642 opposite the Bingley Arms PH. Follow the towpath of the Calder & Hebble Navigation 1 To Batley to a right hand path (about a mile) after two locks, a house and a small bridge (here joining the Kirklees School Kirkhamgate Park Grange Way). Follow the path round to a footbridge and Maypole SE 297 227 roadway. Turn left along it (50 metres), to pass WF2 0SH Batley Road through a factory site. Keep to the designated narrow Gawthrope M1 footway along the right hand edge until you reach SE 273 222 the far end of the factory next to the car park, with a A638 kissing gate by a large metal gate. 5 To Wakefield Gawthorpe Maypole 2 Keep forward along the track over fi elds to reach the high fence of the Dewsbury Waste Water Treatment Works. Keep to the right of the fence, along the fi eld Chickenley edge, and then uphill. Continue along the path to go through a kissing gate 3 Holmfield Dewsbury/Ossett on the left, then follow the path which Greenway 4 B6128 bears right immediately. When the path reaches a clear fork, turn left and walk back 45 degrees along a wide track. Continue on this track all the way down Love Lane to Pildacre Mill Beck. (Can be boggy). Pildacre Mill Beck Cross the beck and continue to the top and turn right at a row of trees. Follow Sewage Works the path with the beck on your left. until you are at the top of the fi eld. 4 At the road, cross over and turn right along the footway. Turn left at Love 2 1 Kilometre Lane. When the main street turns right, take the left fork along a short 3 Turn right with the path, and continue stretch of tarmac road, which leads into a hedged footpath. When this along the line of a former railway which 1 Mile ends, keep forward for a few metres, then take the fi rst street on the is now the Dewsbury-Ossett Greenway. right (Holmfi eld). At the end keep forward along a ginnel which leads to Continue along the tarmac cycle path the B6128. Cross over and turn left along the footway. Follow it all the to a grassy knoll with benches and way to a major roundabout. Walk anti clockwise round the roundabout proceed left up the footpath to Pildacre Calder and Hebble Navigation and take second right into Hillcrest Avenue. Follow this road to the end Lane car park. and turn left to cross over the A638 on the road bridge. Continue along Horbury Bridge River Calder the road into Gawthorpe, and the maypole. 5 Turn right along the main street and continue all the way through the village. The road becomes a track. Continue to the end and under 1 the M1. At the T junction turn left along Batley road or take a bus to Bingley Arms PH Wakefi eld. To Middlestown Horbury A642 Bridge SE 280 179 WF4 5NL OS Explorer map 278 Sheffi eld and Barnsley 289 Leeds Visit the Area website www.ramblersyorkshire.org This leafl et was created in 2018 in created was et leafl This Embankment, London SE1 7TW. Should you encounter any problems please report these to the local authority 03458 506506 03458 authority local the to these report please problems any encounter you Should 7TW. SE1 London Embankment, No 4458492. Registered Charity in England and Wales – No 1093577. Registered offi ce: 2nd fl oor, Camelford House, 87-90 Albert Albert 87-90 House, Camelford oor, fl 2nd ce: offi Registered 1093577. No – Wales and England in Charity Registered 4458492. No The Ramblers’ Association is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England, Scotland and Wales. Company registration registration Company Wales. and Scotland England, in registered guarantee, by limited company a is Association Ramblers’ The • Wear suitable footwear and clothing and footwear suitable • Wear Telecoms • Leave farm animals alone, do not feed them feed not do alone, animals farm Leave • Golf course Golf • Keep to the waymarked rights of way, especially across farmland across especially way, of rights waymarked the to Keep • Country park Country 3 after your dog your after FP Footpath Footpath FP • Keep dogs under eff ective control, on a lead near livestock – clean up up clean – livestock near lead a on control, ective eff under dogs Keep • + Church Church + • Take your litter home litter your • Take Railway station Railway 4 • Leave gates & property as you fi nd them nd fi you as property & gates Leave • Parking Parking 1 Bus stop stop Bus Follow the Countryside Code: Countryside the Follow Key: Motorway footpath Adjoining Water 2 Road Way eld Wakefi 10 South Elmsall South 2 Hemsworth Bretton Notton 11 9 3 Horbury Bridge to Castleford to Bridge Horbury 1 6 4 WALKS - Park Thorpe Audlin Thorpe Anglers Country Anglers Horbury 8 Wakefield of 4 a k e W f City City i d e n l d u o ’ s r 7 Pontefract Kirkhamgate a r u k r l a a 6 l Stanley Castleford 5 w b o e l u i n direction. clockwise a follow and Park Country m d Anglers at start ets leafl these but direction either in and a 0 order any in done be can walks The walker. individual r 7 the suit to together added or split be may Sections y www.wymetro.com or 10pm and 7am between 7676 points accessible by public transport. public by accessible points A 245 0113 on Metro contact information train and bus For into 11 sections of varying length with start and end end and start with length varying of sections 11 into number is quoted on each page. page. each on quoted is number covers a wide variety of landscapes. The route is divided divided is route The landscapes. of variety wide a covers recommended in conjunction with the leafl ets, the map map the ets, leafl the with conjunction in recommended route around the Wakefi eld Metropolitan District and and District Metropolitan eld Wakefi the around route The use of Ordnance Survey Explorer maps is is maps Explorer Survey Ordnance of use The The Wakefi eld Way is a 70 mile, waymarked walking walking waymarked mile, 70 a is Way eld Wakefi The THE WAKEFIELD WAY WAKEFIELD THE WAKEFIELD WAY - WALK 4 HORBURY BRIDGE TO KIRKHAMGATE - DISTANCE 5.47 MILES (9.61KM) Start the walk at Horbury Bridge GR SE 280 179 on the A642 opposite the Bingley Arms PH.