Newsholme Dean & Goose Eye

First walk since breaking my wrist so it had to be close to home as I am still not driving (pot doesn’t come off until 9^th April).  This walk starts in Laycock – where Mum grew up and my Nan and Grandad lived.  It wasn’t sunny today by any means but at least it was fine and not windy.  Once in Laycock the walk proper starts at Totley Hall Road going through a stile on the left. I didn’t want to walk anywhere too muddy and slippery but this was going to be just that.  At the bottom of the field I even had to cross the stream by some stepping stones so that was a challenge.  From here I followed the stream back down into Goose Eye itself. 

The name comes from Goose Hey (field where Geese are kept) today there were lots of ducks. 

I then turned towards the Haworth end of the village and took a stile leading to a footbridge over the stream following up the valley the path led me through Oak and Alder woods eventually joining a track into Newsholme Dean.

  Here there was a lovely hump back bridge and path through some woods. 

It was boggy everywhere but not quite so bad as I thought it might be and I just kept thinking this is a lovely place to come in the summer-time.

At the farm at Newsholme the track twisted through the hamlet and past Low Laithe Farm eventually after going through stiles and tracks I was walking along a lovely old cobbled lane past a small mill pond and back into Goose Eye, 

from here it was a steep walk up the main road to a paved path bringing me back into the centre of Laycock.  I felt a lot better for getting out for a walk even though I was cautious and wary of falling (I did take my trekking pole with me).  4 miles done and I’m sure I’ll soon be back up and running as before.