Happy New Year. This
morning it has kept showering and then fairing up – come half eleven it was
fine so I decided to join the Bradford Council New Year’s Day guided walk. This started from Bingley Arts Centre. When I got there I was surprised how many
people had funny hats on so I quickly put my hat on to feel part of the
group. From here we headed off onto the
canal to Dowley Gap
we then turned off up through Hirst wood and I fell into
conversation with a lady who had recently moved here from Kent and was
exploring the paths and tracks around and about. She was good company.
Eventually we came out up at the top of hillside and here we
stopped for a well earned break – I was glad I’d packed a sandwich and a
drink. After a good 20/30 minute break
we set off again.
However we hadn’t
been walking more than a few minutes when it started to rain, looking at the
sky this was set in for the afternoon – Jeff Broderick who was leading said
that in view of the bad weather we’d walk along the bottom of Gilstead Craggs
instead of going up onto the top.
The
path led us out onto the main road down into Bingley where we crossed over and
went into the Prince of Wales Park. I’d
kept wanting to walk through here so it was nice to finally get the chance to
explore this park. This is one of the
first public parks and is rade II listed created in 1865 by the people of
Bingley. In March 2013 the Friends of
the Prince of Wales group formed to rejuvenate the place and it is lovely.
From the park we dropped down to the Five rise Locks and on
a pleasant day we would have all gone for coffee in the café there but today we
were all absolutely wet through and so from here we all said goodbye and headed
back to the Art Centre to pick up our cars and get off home to get warm and
dry. Even so it had been an excellent
walk on new paths – just shy of 6 miles.
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