Distance: 11 miles
Ascent: 1800 ft
Walking: Andrew & Mark
Pies: Robertshaw's Farm Shop, Keelham - Pork & apple pies + slab corned beef pie
Weather: Sunny
OS Map: OL21 - South Pennines
Starting point: Station Road, Oakworth
Photography: Andrew using Nikon D750 / Nikon 24-70 mm f2.8
Walking in the opposite direction to last time (and not getting lost this time) I have to say I preferred the other way round. It doesn't leave you with a long drag up Goose Cote Lane at the end. Still a great walk though.
Hewenden Viaduct is very impressive and in remarkably good condition considering it is 150 years old.
Goit Stock used to be Bradford District's best kept secret, a peaceful, relatively easy walk through woodland, alongside a stream to a beautiful waterfall. Sadly, that is no longer the case and, particularly during lockdown when people aren't able to travel, the hordes descend and the rubbish piles up.
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| "Big Jim" on his way to Oakworth Station to take part in filming for The Railway Children Return. |
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| I'm no expert when it comes to fungi but a bit of Googling suggests these are Glistening Inkcap. If so, they are edible but have no nutritional value. |
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| Footpath alongside Bridgehouse Beck near Ebor Mill |
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| Looking back down the path at the side of the derelict Primitive Methodists Chapel on Mill Hey, Haworth |
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| A view of Haworth from Hebden Road |
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| A beautiful wildflower meadow full of buttercups and clover on Hebden Road. The wild flowers seem to be a couple of weeks late this year but a wet early spring followed by dryer warmer weather has led to some spectacular displays of colour. |
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| Middle Brow Farm |
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| They think it's all clover.....It is now! |
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| Another view of Haworth, this time from Brow Moor |
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| Scotch Broom on Brow Moor |
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| Naylor Hill Quarry, one of a handful of working stone quarries remaining in the area. For hundreds of years stone has been quarried here for buildings and the ubiquitous dry stone walls. |
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| Oxenhope seen from Lower Naylor Hill Farm |
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| Delph Hill Farm |
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| Black Moor, looking towards Cullingworth |
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| Cow parsley (or Keck if, like me, you are from Northamptonshire) |
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| Pottery House Farm |
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| Hawthorn blossom |
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| Mark sets the pace at Manywells Height |
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| Hewenden Viaduct was in operation for 80 years from 1883 until the line closed in 1963. It has 17 arches and, standing at 123 ft, it one of the highest in Britain. It now forms part of The Great Northern Railway Trail, popular with walkers, runners and cyclists. |
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| Hewenden Reservoir was built in the 1840s to supply a number of mills down Hewenden Beck, Hallas Beck and Harden Beck. |
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| Looking east from the southern end of the viaduct |
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| Bluebells (in the middle of June!) and wild garlic on the banks of Hewenden Beck |
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| Bents Mill |
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| Footpath near Bents Mill leading into Goit Stock Wood |
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| Hallas Bridge over Hallas Bec |
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| Goit Stock Waterfall |
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| Robertshaws pork & apple sauce pies in their natural habitat |
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| Oak leaves |
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| Goit Stock Cottages |
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| More buttercups on Hill End Lane |
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| Pepper Hill Farm, Harden |
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| Looking back towards Harden from Ryecroft |
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| Many of the houses in Ryecroft have these characters outside. Not sure if you'd call them devils, gargoyles or something else entirely but they certainly add character to this lovely little hamlet |
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| Ryecroft Farm |
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| Ryecroft Farm again |
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| What I suspect is some very old graffiti on the barn doors at Ryecroft Farm |
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| Harden Moor at Midgeham Head |
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| More evidence of abandoned stone quarries |
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| The Guide Inn, currently undergoing extensive renovations so no opportunity for a much-needed pint, sadly |
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| A very nice old milestone opposite The Guide. Probably early 19th century, at a guess. Later ones, of which there are quite a few runs here, are made of cast iron |
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| Hainworth |
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| Looking across to Hermit Hole, Bracken Bank and Bogthorn from Hainworth |
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| Footpath down the very steep hill to Hermit Hole |
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| You can just make out Lower Providence Mill chimney in the distance and, beyond that new the horizon, Top Withens, aka Wuthering Heights. |
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| The remains of a railway bridge over Damems Lane. This was part of the Queensbury line that passed over Hewenden Viaduct |
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| Damems Station on The Keighley And Worth Valley Railway is the smallest railway station in Britain with a platform only long enough for one carriage. It was built to serve a local mill. |
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| There is no access for vehicles to the station, just this steep cobbled track |
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| My favourite view of Haworth from Cackleshaw |
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| The wonderfully named Cackleshaw |
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| Yet more buttercups at New House Farm, Oakworth |
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