Addingham, and Moor Edge

Addingham, and Moor Edge 27-10-18

New Walk I’d printed from the Internet, having done a search for walks around Addingham.  It was a lovely clear day although a little cool and Autumny but to be expected at end October.  The walk set off from the Main street in Addingham – across the cricket field and up on to the by-pass to cross over and up a field side.  The  route then headed up through  Lumb Ghyll Wood – here I just spotted a couple of deer, but a blink and they had gone although I kept looking for another glimpse of them all the way through the wood.

Leaving the wood behind I crossed over Cocking Lane and headed up a farm drive passing Plumtree Banks Barn.  

From here I should have followed a way marked path across Hall Gill Beck – instead I went a little further up the road and walked up and down a fence for a while looking for the route,  after a lot of searching eventually spotted a stile past the fence and in a field wall.  From here after getting back on the right track  I headed up to Netherwood House this was a beautiful place .  Today I was doing the short version of this walk – the long version takes you to Hebers Ghyll in Ilkley, but because the days are shorter and I haven’t done this walk before I decided to save the long version till summer. The next few fields were horrid.  One was full of sheep with rams who decided to follow me – they looked pretty aggressive too.  I’d just recovered from that when I had to go through a field full of cows who decided to follow me too.  My heart was thumping like mad by the time I’d got to the cottages and driveway.

  When I had to turn down another field with another flock of sheep and these had rams too they followed me as well. 

Clearly October/November is not a good time to walk through fields full of sheep.  The rest of the walk was a series of fields back down to Addingham.  It was a good walk but I think it was nearer 5.5 miles than 4 miles it said on the leaflet.  Would like to do the longer walk in summer and stop for a coffee in Ilkley before coming back to Addingham.