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St. Ives Goblins the Druids Altar & Lady Blantyre's Rock St. Ives Goblins , the Druids Altar & Lady Blantyre’s Rock (5 miles) An interesting 5 mile walk around the St Ives Estate above the town of Bingley. The climb up through the woods from Myrtle Park is quite steep but, after that, the going is easy on good paths and you will be rewarded with some fine views along the way! Start point: Bingley Rail Station. Bingley was probably founded about the time of the Saxons; certainly its name is Saxon in origin, meaning “Bing's clearing”, though this would not be the original spelling or pronunciation of Bing. Bingley is thought to have been founded around a ford on the River Aire. The ford was superseded by Ireland Bridge. In medieval times Bingley was a manor which extended several miles up and down the Aire valley, extending upstream to Marley on the outskirts of Keighley and downstream to Cottingley. Bingley became a market town with the grant of a Market Charter in 1212 by King John. According to the poll tax returns of 1379, Bingley had 130 households, probably around 500 people. The nearby towns of Bradford, Leeds and Halifax had about half this population. At this time Bingley was the largest town in the area. In 1592 Bingley was shown on a map as a single street with about 20 houses on each side. The church sits at the west end of the street opposite a single large house, possibly a manor house. Since Bingley was a market town, the market stalls would have been set up on either side of the main street. One of the oldest buildings in Bingley is a coaching inn, the Old White Horse Inn, situated on the flatter north bank of the River Aire by Ireland Bridge. Like most towns of the West Riding, Bingley prospered during the Industrial Revolution. The Bingley section of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal was completed in 1774, linking the town with Skipton, and Bradford via the Bradford Canal. The canal passes through the centre of town and climbs dramatically up the side of the valley via the Bingley Five Rise Locks and Bingley Three Rise Locks. Several woollen mills were built and people migrated from the surrounding countryside to work in them. Many came from further afield such as Ireland, especially in the wake of the Irish Potato Famine From the main entrance of Bingley Station, go across the road diagonally left walking up Foundry Hill and the main road. Cross via the pelican crossing towards Bingley Arts Centre and make a short detour to the right to view the 13th century Butter cross and Market hall. Walk back to the Arts Centre where you turn left heading up towards Bingley Pool and Myrtle Park. Enter the park and walk ahead with the bandstand on your left, towards the tennis courts. On reaching the first bowling green on your right, proceed passing the War Memorial and then a children’s play ground to head down a flight of steps to cross an iron footbridge (commemorating the 1951 Festival of Britain) and over the river. Now continue over another grass area for about 50 yards to go up a flight of wooden steps into a wood. Follow the direction of the steps all the way up through the wood (this is the steep bit!) to emerge at Harden Road. With care, cross directly across the road into the St. Ives Estate and continue upwards on another steep path in the same direction. On reaching a wall, turn right and keep the wall on your left where the path can be a little indistinct. At the top, ignore a field gate on your left with a yellow way marker turning left at the T junction of paths towards a bench and your first Goblin. The goblins, with all the other figures in the woods are chainsaw carvings by Rodney Holland of Dumfriesshire. The St. Ives area is known to have been inhabited from at least the Neolithic or Bronze Age from artifacts left behind. Up until the dissolution of the monasteries in 1540 the land was divided between the monks of Rievaulx Abbey and Drax Priory. In 1540 the land was purchased by a Walter Paslew and subsequently was owned by the Laycock and Milner families. The St. Ives mansion house was built in 1616. In 1635 the Ferrands purchased St. Ives, at the time known as Harden Grange and it was in 1835 that the names of Harden Grange and the local St. Ives were interchanged. There are stories of a local connection with General Fairfax and the English Civil War, regrettably little is known with certainty. Sarah Busfield inherited St Ives from her uncle and she and her son William changed their family name to Ferrand and when she died in 1854 her son William Busfield Ferrand inherited the property. The estate and mansion were bought by Bingley Urban District Council in 1929. After passing several other goblins, at a bench and a public footpath sign, turn left to continue further into the wood, passing more goblins along the way. At the end of the wood, exit via a wooden gate and immediately right along a public bridleway called Blind Lane. Continue up the wide lane passing the Sports Turf Research Institute on your left. The Sports Turf Research Institute is a consultancy and research organisation that studies sports surfaces and turfs for golf, soccer, rugby, cricket, racing, bowling, and tennis. The institute advises more than 2,000 organisations. On reaching a T junction of tracks, turn right along another bridleway called Crossgates Lane. Follow this wide walled track and as you reach a dilapidated barn, turn sharp left to continue following the bridleway all the way to the end as it emerges into Altar Lane. Now cross this wide track to take a footpath between two large logs to a cluster of large gritstone rocks known as the Druids Altar. From here there are extensive views across the Aire Valley towards Ilkley Moor and on a clear day, further up the valley to the Yorkshire Dales. Long believed to have been used for Druid’s ceremonies, the altar was featured in Disraeli’s book Sybil as a place of meeting for trade union revolutionists. After admiring the views, turn around the way you came and back to Altar Lane and take the 2nd track on your right, by a metal gate, into a wide walled lane. Continue up the lane for about ½ a mile and as it levels off, opposite a wooden post, turn left through a metal kissing gate and carry straight forward on a public footpath passing a golf green on your left. Continue downhill for about ½ a mile to a marble obelisk in honour of William Busfield Ferrand and next to it, Lady Blantyre’s Rock. William Busfield Ferrand, who died in 1889, was a deputy lieutenant of the West Riding and an MP for Knaresborough and Devonport. He was a leading voice in the campaigns for worker’s rights and against the harshness of the Poor Law. Lady Blantyre’s Rock is a memorial to his second wife taking the form of a large natural boulder with a sheltered overhang. She used to rest under it on walks around the estate which she designed and planted. Today she sits as a carving among the bracken and an account of her virtues is engraved into a tablet beside the rock. After the rock continue further down through the wood where eventually the path bears to the left to pass Coppice Pond. Keep on the wide path to the right of the pond and before the end, go through a field gate to cross a minor road to take the footpath directly ahead. On reaching a picnic site, turn right sharply downhill and the path soon bends around to the right and then, at a cross roads of paths in front of a cottage, turn left. Just as you think that you have passed the last of the carvings, the chilling figure of a faceless hooded monk appears under a tree, next to a rope on the far side of a pond. As the path now goes up leftwards take the main downhill right hand fork with open fields on your right. At the next footpath sign continue straight forward heading downhill and as the path starts to rise up ahead of you again, turn right to go through a metal gate. Now turn left with a wooden fence on your right heading towards a couple of small squeeze stiles to come out on the main access road into the estate and opposite a car park. Turn right down the road and immediately left down a path between posts with red bands on them. After approximately 50 yards, turn right down a path to Harden Road. Cross the road with care and continue ahead down Beckfoot Lane. Continue down the lane passing Beckfoot House on your right and ignoring any other footpaths to either the left or right. Soon you will pass through the tiny hamlet of Beckfoot eventually crossing a pack horse bridge beside the ford which was built for just £10 in 1723 to replace an earlier wooden bridge and Templar Cottage on the other side dates back another century still; with the stone lanterns on gable ends showing that the farm was once owned by the Knights of St. John. Continue following the narrow road and then bear left on a footpath at the side of allotments to cross a metal bridge back into Myrtle Park.
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