Crackpots Mosaic Trail, Dallowgill, near Kirkby Malzeard Introduction Map This enjoyable trail around part of Dallowgill is illuminated with 22 mosaics depicting local scenes and flora and fauna OS Explorer 298: which might be encountered along the route. The trail was created as part of a community project to celebrate the designation of Nidderdale as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The mosaics were made in 1997 by ‘The Crackpots’ from Kirkby Malzeard who met regularly under the expert supervision of Margaret Murphy from Rural Arts Distance/Time North . 7 miles (11km) 4 hours KIRKBY MALZEARD 1.5 MILES Starting Point 6 7 4 5 8 Walk route Car parking area on the moor above Tom Corner that has been provided by the P Parking Dallowgill Estate (SE 181727). 3 Mosaics 8 Terrain This is a moderate route with tarmac 9 2 roads, gravel tracks and fields. Walking 10 boots are advisable as some parts of P 22 1 the trail can be wet, muddy and rough 11 underfoot. 21

12 Useful Information If parking somewhere other than the 13 recommended place, please make sure that you park safely and considerately – 20 14 farms in the area need to use the roads to move machinery and they also receive 19 18 frequent visits from large lorries which 15 often fill the narrow roads. 17

16 PATELEY BRIDGE 5 MILES

For more free guides of walking and cycling routes in Nidderdale AONB, visit our website at nidderdaleaonb.org.uk The Route The most convenient place to start is lane, cross the footbridge and bear at the end. Following the track with Head towards the next buildings, the parking area on the moor above left through the gate uphill to the the woods on your right you reach a “Pete’s Place” on your left, go left Tom Corner that has been provided next gate (MOSAIC 9: Friesian Cow). right hand bend (MOSAIC 16: Fungi). through the gate in the new planting by the Dallowgill Estate (MOSAIC 22: Bear left through the gate downhill to Go through the gate that takes you then right through another gate into Roman Soldier). where the track turns right (MOSAIC downhill through the woods. a field. Keep the wall on your left 10: Flag Iris & Tadpoles). Take this and cross the stepping stones to the Walk back to Tom Corner (MOSAIC 1: lane and continue, crossing the stream Stay on the track that bends down next gate, then cross the next field Sheep) and continue down the road using the footbridge (MOSAIC 11: to a footbridge, cross and continue diagonally to a gate in the right taking the moorland track just before Brown Trout). round to the right (MOSAIC 17: Deer) hand corner. the wall on the left(MOSAIC 2: Red ignoring the track to your left and later Grouse). Carry on up the track to meet with the some double forestry gates. Take the With the wall now on your right, keep tarmac road at a corner, with a farm steep track uphill to your right and to the left of a small barn and you Follow the track down to the ‘sheep on the left. Continue up the tarmac cross the stile near the gate into a field eventually meet a lane. Turn right wash’ pen, cross the ford (MOSAIC 3: road to the junction of Dallowgill on your left (MOSAIC 18: Rabbits). here (MOSAIC 21: Pheasant) and Dragonfly) and head uphill to a gate in Road, (MOSAIC 12: Leaves) where follow the lane before bearing right the wall. (MOSAIC 4: Adder). you go straight ahead to a T-junction. Cross the field diagonally making for past a derelict building then continue MOSAIC 13: Curlew is to be found in a gate in the bottom left hand corner, up the sunken lane - it can be a little Turn right through the gate and the wall on your right before the road. which leads into beautiful old oak overgrown with gorse bushes. proceed along the walled lane into Turn right and continue along the road woods that are carpeted in bluebells the hamlet of Carlesmoor. Carry on to the site of the Drovers Inn (sadly in May (MOSAIC 19: Barn Owl on At the top of the hill go through a past MOSAIC 5: Potato House and destroyed by fire in 2013) (MOSAIC right through gate). The track through gate and you will finally emerge onto continue along the lane, noticing 14: Boots & Beer). the woods can be rather overgrown the moor – to enjoy a view which is an aqueduct down to your right with nettles and brambles but, breathtaking, especially in August (MOSAIC 6: Sighting Tower on the Take care on the narrow road as you keeping near the wall on the right, when the heather is in bloom. From right opposite Low Farm), until you walk to Dallow Lane, which can be you’ll soon emerge through a small here you can see the gravelled parking reach a tarmac road (MOSAIC 7: Wild found on the right after the farm gate into the fields. area where you started the walk off to Rose) and then turn left. buildings (MOSAIC 15: Bluebells). your right. Behind the wall to your right are the With the wall on your left you soon A few metres up the hill, take the remains of an Iron Age fort. Continue reach Bents House (MOSAIC 20) narrow Drift Lane to the right on to the hamlet of Dallow, taking in where you go through a small red gate (MOSAIC 8: Greater Spotted good views across to the Greygarth next to the buttressed barn. Woodpecker). Continue along the Monument, and through the gate Mosaics 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

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