Troller's Gill

I’ve been wanting to do this walk for about two years but until today it has never been the right time.  I stopped off in Skipton and bobbed into Cotswold Outdoors and saw these beautiful green summer walking boots on a shelf with my name on them saying “buy me” – so I did.

No time like the present to try them out.

I found my way to Skyreholme okay and parked up on the little stone bridge just by the telephone box.  The first directions said go through a field which when I looked was full of cows so that was a no no.  As I read further I realised I could skip that bit of the walk and headed towards Parcevall Hall.  Here I turned left over a stile into a field to follow a beck upstream.  There were a few people in front of me and one or two heading back to the road. I carried on upstream until I came to a junction of paths here I took the right hand path to curve around the hillside eventually opening up to show me the Gill. 

It’s a small narrow ravine with a limestone streambed that was dry today.

The path was just to keep going up through the limestone streambed to eventually arrive at a ladder stile onto open countryside.   

Further on there was another ladder-stile to climb and just beyond a small bridge left over the steam - but my route was to continue up to an old spoil heap, ruined building and an old lead mine entrance.

From here a green path took me right up to the top of hills and to a gateway on Black Hill Road.  Here I turned right heading in the direction of Simons Seat.  This was a long walk on a track to eventually come to a junction where I took a right and followed this road back down to Skyreholme.  Really please I’ve done this walk.  As  a bonus on the way back at a road junction a there was a tractor rally going past.

 Only disappointment I didn’t see any Trolls in Troller’s Gill. Just over 4 miles on hot day. Home for tea and toast.