The Standard

It’s a few years since I’ve walked here and I’ve only ever done the walk once before.  In my book all I wrote was 2 miles up and 2 miles down so interesting to see how I find it today. 

The walk starts by Snaygill swing bridge and follows a farm track up the hill to a gate. 

  Here I must have misread the directions and walked all the way up a field on the left – I went down again and took the field straight in front of me to go back up the hill again.  

None of this walk was striking any memories at all. As I continued along finally I came to a grassy lane which I vaguely remembered.  The views today were stunning across the Aire Valley.

The grassy lane brought me to a hamlet High Bradley.  The directions said go right along a drive rising across the fields.  I went up to the top and wasn’t sure I’d gone the right way so I trogged back down to High Bradley, re-read the instructions and set off again.  (Back the way I’d just walked).  I don’t remember getting lost so much the last time I did this walk although to be fair I don’t remember much of this walk at all.  As I kept climbing up the views just got better.  Today you could see all the hills in the distance Boulsworth Hill, Pinhaw. 

  As I reached a cross roads of paths I realised I had turned up too soon and should have been on the top of Millstone Hill on my right, this is being the highest point of the walk I should have then turned to the path I’m already on.

The next part was pretty straight forward, thank goodness – I then turned left and took a clear path back down the fields to Cawder Gill past Cawder Hall then to a gate opposite Horse Close, This is easier to see once you’ve walked past it to then look back.  From here the way back down to the canal was straight forward, thank goodness as the light was dropping now.

Excellent walk – good views 4 miles that I managed to turn into 5 ½ miles by getting lost several times.  Note to self – don’t leave it so long to do this walk again.