A Walk From The Towpath

Never done this walk before – it’s from a magazine and now the afternoons of daylight are quite short I don’t want to travel too far to get to the start of the walk. This walk starts at Bar Lane, Riddlesden walking along the towpath towards Skipton. 

  I continued along until I came to Booths Bridge, 

here I crossed over the canal and headed up a rough track until it came out at the 18^th hole of Riddlesden Golf club.  

Thought of my Dad here as this is where he grew up.  Unfortunately the Golf club has now closed down.  From here the path went up past the club house to the first tee, then left up to the top of the fairway.  I then turned right following the wall and the topside of the green.  

The views were pretty good today.  From here I made my way across a field to a field gate and onto  a grassy track to meet the track to Wood Head Lodge and onto the hamlet of High Wood Head on the right. Eventually coming to Banks Lane – here I turned up and then took a drive to Larkfield Farm – 

here there were some goats in a paddock and I continued along the back of the house to a stile through a field to eventually come through a stile onto a muddy farm track.  Here I remembered walking around here in the opposite direction and it taking ages to find this little stile. In the farmyard in the past there has been a Guard dog that is chained up – no dog came out today and I got through the farmyard and into a really muddy field – last time I came through here it was full of cows, not today thank goodness.  Eventually after going through fields I came to Rivock Farm

 which is disused here I turned right and into a steep downhill field eventually emerging by a Methodist Church. From here I went down steps onto Banks Lane crossing over and down another set of steps and down the road to emerge onto Bar Lane where I started.

This was a good walk I’d like to do again – in summer maybe as it will look totally different then and hopefully not be so muddy a pleasant 4 miles.