Micklethwaite

Walked around here lots of times before – it’s a lovely afternoon winter walk just long enough to get around before the sun starts to set.  Today instead of starting in Bingley I picked the walk up at Micklethwaite Lane and crossed the swing on Morton Lane taking the path and forking right to the footbridge on Morton Beck walking upstream – 

then up through a field and onto a level path to pass the curly pig and black spot pig and then reach a mill pond and continue up a path to a corner of Micklethwaite

 – here there was a local retired gentleman who I stopped and had a chat with – when I told him I came from Haworth he said he used to go there a lot in his youth and had now retired just higher up from where his family lived.  I think he just wanted someone to chat with. 

From here I turned right up to the steep sloping green turning right along the path above Fair Lady Farm.  From here a path heads off enclosed by walls walking along here you can look across the valley towards Druids Alter and the bare trees of the St Ives Estate. 

  At the end I turned right up Greenhill Lane then left onto Lady Lane.  From here it was a straightforward treck down a path through woodland  to cross a road at Pinedale through a snicet down again to a narrow access road down Becks lane and onto the canal at Five Rise locks.  From here it was a walk back to Morton Lane where I’d parked the car.

4 miles and all the better for the leg stretch – and it stayed fine and bright.