Decided to do a new walk today, even though I’ve been to Wycoller many times – I have never done this walk so it felt nice to be going somewhere different. Parked in the car park on the road down to the village. The weather was lovely so the car park was pretty full.
I set off down through the village following the stream past all the tumbledown buildings and out of the hamlet. From here I followed the beckside through Turnhole Clough.
It was lovely and quiet and clearly off the beaten track for most Wycoller visitors. The path just follows the beck for quite a way eventually coming to a substantial bridge which is part of a bridle way – here I turned right up onto the moor pathway. This follows what is called a sturdy wall. It was very tall and well built not like the usual moorland tumble down walls that are all over the place. . This eventually comes to a junction of tracks in the middle of moorland.
Here I took the right hand turn down a farm drive and past a farmhouse. A few fields and farm houses further on I entered a grassy track which I should imagine is pretty boggy in winter, it was full of reeds and still felt pretty damp even today.
As I kept walking down eventually bearing left across some steep fields Wycoller and Fosters Leap came back into view. Eventually going past a farm house I turned down a wall side to drop back down to Wycoller beck. Turning left I followed the stream back into Wycoller. This was a really lovely walk and I think I will probably do this again later in the year. It was about 4.5 miles and not hard going at all.
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