magazine summer 2011 magazine summer 2011 Northern England Northern England 03 Oxenhope, West Yorkshire 04 Leeds, West Yorkshire 11/05/2011 10:20 l Distance 13km/8 miles l Time 4hrs l Type Upland farms and moorland l Distance 8km/5 miles l Time 2hrs l Type City tour NAVIGATION FITNESS NAVIGATION FITNESS 2 LEVEL 2 3 LEVEL 3 1 LEVEL 1 1 LEVEL 1 Plan your walk Plan your walk Keighley l WEST YORKSHIRE WEST YORKSHIRE Haworth Seacroft l LEEDS l Cullingworth Armley l OXENHOPE l Pudsey Hunslet N l l l Deholme Beeston Clough Y GARRAHA M A Illingworth L A Hebden l l Batley l HY: DES HY: HY: HY: P P WHERE: A circular walk WHERE: Circular walk exploring a lesser-known around Leeds’ Civic Hall and area of the Brontë moors canal. PHOTOGRA near Haworth. PHOTOGRA START/END: Leeds Town START/END: Oxenhope Why jet off to Madeira to walk Lane northwest towards Hall (SE297338). Leeds was once famously 1. START Begin your walk with station, the terminus of the the famous levadas (man-made Haworth. At the end, turn L TERRAIN: Mostly level described by Charles Dickens as your back to Leeds Town Hall. heritage Keighley & Worth watercourses) when Pennine on to Marsh Lane. Pass all the roadside pavements and ‘one of the beastliest places in Before crossing Headrow and Valley railway (GR032353). Yorkshire can offer something houses and take the bridleway R towpaths, with some steps England’. Well, he would hardly going down Park Cross, take a TERRAIN: Quiet tracks, lanes very similar? This walk includes a on to Marsh Common, then to negotiate. recognise the place these days. moment to enjoy Cuthbert and moorland paths, which path high up above the Worth through fields to Upper Marsh. MAPS: OS Explorer 289; The West Yorkshire capital has Brodrick’s marvellous Victorian can be boggy in places. Valley, which follows a carefully Landranger 104 (A to Z Leeds undergone a great transformation civic building, built in 1858. Turn L MAPS: OS Explorer 21; built watercourse around the 2. Turn R and immediately L and Bradford is best, though). in the last two decades. Back at along St Paul’s Street, cross East Landrangers 103 and 104. contours of the hillside – just to enter access land near the GETTING THERE: Leeds is the beginning of the Industrial Parade and go along the length of GETTING THERE: Numerous like the levadas, though in this quarries of Penistone Hill. Keep L well served by national rail Revolution in the mid-1700s, InfirmaryS treet. Crossing Park buses connect Oxenhope case supplying rainwater to along the edge of the moorland, and coach services. The train Leeds had a small but well Row, you turn R and continue with Keighley, Halifax and neighbouring reservoirs. The past the toilet block, to pick up station is on Neville Street, established woollen industry down to Bishopgate Street. Cross Hebden Bridge (✆ 0113 348 walk heads up from Oxenhope the track to Drop Farm. Pass the half a mile from the start. centred around Briggate. What Bishopgate and turn R down 1122, www.wymetro.com). village on to the open access farm (teas available in season) EATING & DRINKING: The really acted as the catalyst for Neville Street, which goes under A heritage steam train runs land of Haworth Moor, climbing and continue beside the Hop pub under the Dark Leeds’ transformation from town Leeds station’s railway tracks. Just from Keighley to Oxenhope to the watershed between the boundary fence. At the next Arches on Dark Neville to city was mechanised flax before you exit the underpass, (✆ 01535 645214, www. Hebden and Worth rivers, beside waymark, take the path that Street is an atmospheric spinning. John Marshall’s success, turn R into The Granary Wharf kwvr.co.uk). an old standing stone known runs off R across the heather. place for a pitstop pint in collaboration with Matthew Arches, which are further under EATING AND DRINKING: as Oxenhope Stoop. There’s an Turn L when you reach another (✆ 0113 243 9854). Murray, encouraged others to the station. In 1864, the building When trains are running opportunity to combine the track and follow this almost to SLEEPING: The Discovery build ‘the dark Satanic mills’ that of a ‘New Station’ in Leeds was there’s a buffet at walk with a day out on the Harbour Lodge. The path skirts Inn on Bishopgate Street is flourished in Dickens’ Victorian era. proposed. Construction began Oxenhope station serving Keighley and Worth Valley to the R of the building over a an affordable choice and These buildings, which brought in 1866 and was completed in tea, coffee, sandwiches etc, steam railway, made famous bridge. Turn immediately L, right next to the station such prosperity to the city, can be 1869, built on arches that span the (see above for contacts). in the film version of The climbing up beside the house, (✆ 01843 585179, www. seen on Marshall Street. In the River Aire, Neville Street and Other places in Oxenhope Railway Children. and then follow the path steeply comfortinnleeds.co.uk). 1920s, Leeds began upgrading its Swinegate. It led to the creation include: Drop Farm Tea up the hill. At another signpost VISITOR INFORMATION: inadequate civic buildings, and of the ‘Dark Arches’ over Neville ▲ Rooms (✆ 01535 645297); 1. START From Oxenhope station turn L, and follow this path until Leeds Visitor Centre, The ▲ the impressively grand results can Street. The station is situated next (SE032353), follow Moorhouse the watershed is reached just be seen around Headrow. to the terminus of the Leeds and ▼ ▼ 51-52 NORTHERN ROUTEMASTER.indd 1 51-52 NORTHERN ROUTEMASTER.indd 2 Ordnance Surveymap Ordnance Surveymap Continued... 8 7 Arcade, Leeds City Station (✆ 0113 242 5242, Map not to scale. ping ©Crowncopyright.AM34/08 www.visitleeds.co.uk). 1 ping ©Crowncopyright.AM34/08 Representation of GUIDEBOOKS: Ramblers’ START OS Explorer MAP 21 2 FINISH 1:25,000 Leeds Volume 1: East of www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk Leeds (£4.95 + £1 p&p, 6 ISBN 1 901184 23 4) and Ramblers’ Leeds Volume 2: West of Leeds (£5.95 + £1 1 START FINISH p&p, ISBN 1 901184 24 2), 5 both by Douglas Cossar and available from 11 Woodroyd 4 2 Avenue, Honley, Holmfirth 3 HD9 6LG. Cheques payable to ‘West Riding Area 5 Ramblers’ Association’. 3 LOCAL RAMBLERS GROUPS: Leeds Ramblers (✆ 0113 279 0229, www.leedsramblers. co.uk); Leeds & Bradford 20s Map not to scale. Representation of & 30s Ramblers (www. OS Landranger MAP 104 takeahike.org.uk). 1:50,000 www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk 4 Liverpool Canal, but you can gain Sweet Street West. Turn L into on to Boar Lane and follow it until access to the Dark Arches from the Bath Road and R where it meets you come to Park Row. Continued... west of Oxenhope Stoop a tarmac road over a cattle grid, towpath. At the end of the tunnel with Water Lane. Retrace your (SD994346). Stop to enjoy the and then find the footpath L, turn R to exit by the side of the steps for a short distance and then 6. Turn R and go up Park Row. Bay Horse pub (✆ 01535 views: in good weather you’ll which runs down to the L of a canal. Go across the courtyard and turn L on to Globe Road. Cross Headrow and continue up 642209); and the Waggon see as far as Yorkshire’s Three steep clough. Cross a little bridge exit via the footbridge, which Cookridge to the Leeds City & Horses pub (✆ 01535 Peaks to the north; south lies and continue down the hillside. takes you to Little Neville Street. 4. Continue down Globe Road Museum on your R. Established 643302). little Crimsworth Dean and, At the first farm, avoid the farm Turn R into Neville Street and cross until it meets Whitehall Road. as the Mechanics Institute in 1819 SLEEPING: Howarth Youth beyond, the Calder Valley. road and continue almost Victoria Bridge. Cross over this road and turn L to by the Leeds Philosophical and Hostel (✆ 0845 371 9520, straight ahead and down across take you down to the towpath Literary Society, this Cuthbert www.yha.org.uk); 3. From the standing stone, a field to follow the path to 2. Turn R along Water Lane and along the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. Brodrick creation was re-opened Springfield Guest House continue broadly straight ahead, houses at Back Leeming. then L into Marshall Street just in 2008 as a free-to-enter museum. B&B, Oxenhope (✆ 01535 (northeast), back down the past David Street. You’ll pass 5. Walk along the canal with the 643951, www.springfield- hillside (this section can be 5. At the houses, follow the Marshall Mills on your right, built water to your R. Where the canal 7. Cross the road and walk around guesthouse.co.uk). There boggy). Turn R at a Millennium lane to a more major road by John Marshall, who was born meets the River Aire at Lock 1, the back of the Leeds Civic Hall, are more bed-and-breakfast Way footpath sign and pick up and turn L to meet with the at 1 Briggate in 1765. The six- turn L and then R to cross the turning L along Portland Crescent. options in Haworth and the path beside the watercourse B6141 Oxenhope-Denholme storey water-powered mill used water. At Neville Street continue Turn L on to Portland Way and Hebden Bridge. as it contours the hillside. Stay road. Walk a short way along water drawn from the nearby Hol straight, with the river on your R.