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Walks Diary
The following month's walks are currently online:

  - May 2008

  - June 2008

  - July 2008

  - August 2008

  - September 2008

  - October 2008

To download the full Summer walks diary in Microsoft Word format click here.


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Starting out
For all walks you need walking boots (for some easier routes other footware may be acceptable), waterproofs, and a drink (at least 1 litre of water, consider 2 or more for longer walks or hotter days). For most walks you will also need to bring a packed-lunch and snacks for along the way - most full-day walks last at least 4-5 hours.

If you are new to walking read the Ramblers guide to getting started for more information before heading out into the hills.

Walking with the RA
You are welcome to try out the Ramblers Associaiton before you join! All walks are free of charge and anyone is welcome to come along for a taster session before joining, just indicate to the leader that you are not a member and have come along to try the group out.

Membership to the RA not only provides walks but more importantly helps fund our work in protecting and maintaining the countryside and promoting walking for health. For more information take a look here.

Local groups
 
Group information
Many groups will be able to provide you with more information about where they walk and some produce their own walks diaries in printed form. For more information on your nearest group choose from the list below.

Note that once you are a member of the Ramblers Association you can attend walks with any RA group.

   - Bradford
   - Calderdale
   - Castleford & Pontefract
   - Craven
   - North Kirklees
   - Harrogate
   - Huddersfield
   - Keighley
   - Leeds
   - Lower Wharfedale
   - Ripon
   - Wakefield
   - Wetherby & District
   - 20s & 30s Group
WALKS DIARY June 2008
JOIN US FOR A SUNDAY COACH RAMBLE!
For more information and dates click here
   
Saturday 21 – Sunday 29 June
RA FESTIVAL OF SUMMER WALKS
Castleford & Pontefract, and Wakefield Groups
Further details click here
 
Sunday 1 June
RIBBLESDALE TO LITTONDALE (WR A+)
Meet: 10.30 Horton in Ribblesdale car park
14 miles minimum – strong pace
WILSDEN, HEWENDEN, HARDEN ROUND (WR)
Meet: 10.30 Bingley St.Ives bottom car park
(GR SE 100389) PT (to Bingley) 11 miles M
DOWN THE SPOUT AND ROUND THE TWIST (Hd)
Meet: 10.00 Widdop Reservoir cp
(GR SD 938328) 12½ miles S
TROUGH EDGE END (Ce) PT
Meet: 10.30 Todmorden Rail Station
(GR SD 935242) 8-10 miles M
SKIRETHORNS, BOSS MOOR & BORDLEY (Wy)
Meet: 10.30 Skirethorns Lane, near Threshfield (nr. Grassington)
(GR SD 983638) 8 miles M
AROUND HAREWOOD (WR) PT
Meet: 10.30 Church Lane, Harewood (opp. Harewood Arms)
(GR SE 321541) 7½ miles M
NEWSHOLME DEAN (Ky)
Meet: 14.00 Layby by Oakbank School, on B6143
Oakworth-Keighley road
(GR SE 048400) 5 miles M
HEATH (CP)
Meet: 14.00 Heath Common cp (off A655) south east of Wakefield (GR SE 356198) 4 miles L
   
Tuesday 3 June
HULLOCK HIKE (Hd evening)
Meet: 19.00 New Mill cp, on A635
(GR SE 162089) (nr. Holmfirth) 6 miles S
   
Wednesday 4 June
ADEL WOODS (LG evening)
Meet: 19.00 Lawnswood Arms ph, Otley Road, Adel, Leeds
(GR SE 269401) 4-5 miles
   
Thursday 5 June
WHAT THE WITCH THREW! (wr)
Meet: 10.30 Layby, Blue Stone Delph, Hare Hill Edge,
Oakworth, nr. Grouse Inn (GR SE 007381) 11 miles M
Cockersdale (NK evening) Meet: 19:00 Drighlington Cross Roads (A56/B6135) BD11 1LH
(GR SE 224 290) 5¼ miles M
RA Themed Walk – Summer Evening HOW MANY SCARECROWS CAN YOU SPOT? (Bf evening)
Meet: 19.15 Saville Arms rear car park, Hunsworth Lane,
Hunsworth (off A58)
4-5 miles
   
Saturday 7 June
The Kirklees THREE Peaks Walk (NK)
Meet: 10:00 Marsden Station HD7 6EA PT
(GR SE 047 118) 15 miles S
GRIMWITH AND GILLS (Hg)
Meet: 10.00 Grimwith Reservoir cp,
(off B6265 Grassington to Pateley Bridge rd.)
(GR SE 064640) 10 miles M
LODGE HILL (LG) PT
Meet: 12.30 Hebden Bridge Rail Station
8 miles M
WHITE WELLS – TWELVE APOSTLES –
WHETSTONE GATE (LW) PT
Meet: 13.40 Ilkley Rail Station
6½ miles M
 
Sunday 8 June
HOWARD’S WAY (Hd ‘A’ walk)
Meet: 10.00 cp ¼ mile south of Malham Tarn
(GR SD 894658) 12½ miles M
MOSSDALE MEANDER (WR)
Meet: 10.30 Conistone, Wharfedale
(GR SD 981675) 9 miles M
BEFORE THE MAST (Hd ‘B’ walk)
Meet: 10.00 cp behind p.o./village cross, Emley
(GR SE 243131) 8 miles M
A VISIT TO LANCASHIRE (Ce)
Meet: 10.30 Station Road, Portsmouth (nw of Todmorden)
(GR SD 899264) 7-8 miles M
 
Tuesday 10 June
B & Q and HTFC (Hd evening)
Meet: 19.00 by Netto supermarket, on A629 Wakefield Rd,
Aspley, Huddersfield
(GR SE 152163) 5¼ miles L
 
Wednesday 11 June
ALL THE GREENS (Bf evening)
Meet: 19.15 Half way up Rookes Lane, off A58 Leeds Road, signposted Norwood Green
4-5 miles
 
Thursday 12 June
CANAL AND RIVER (LG evening)
Meet: 19.00 Barge ph, Rodley
4-5 miles
Milfield Lagoons (NK evening)
Meet: 19:00 St Peter's Church, Horbury WF4 6ND
(GR SE 295 183) 4 miles M
 
Saturday 14 June
MALHAM, PIKEDAW HILL & DRY VALLEY (Cn)
Meet: 10.00 Malham YDNP car park (fee)
7½ miles M (GR SD 900627)
KIRKSTALL ABBEY TO NEWLAY (LG) PT
Meet: 13.00 Kirkstall Abbey car park
6 miles L
 
Sunday 15 June
COACH RAMBLE (WR) WEST BURTON AND PEN HILL, WENSLEYDALE
A walk 10 miles approx. A+ and B walks Meal to be arranged Coach starts Bradford,
calling at Thornbury and Leeds and other stops by arrangement
Further details click here
ACCESS TO THE DOG (Hd)
Meet: 10.00 Booth Wood Reservoir cp, by dam, on A672,
south of Ripponden
(GR SE 031166) 11-12 miles M/S
RYLSTONE & CRACOE FELLS (Ky)
Meet: 10.30 Embsay Moor Reservoir Car park
(GR SD 999545) 9 miles M
CAPPLESTONE GATE, HIGHGATE LEYS & DALESWAY (Wy) Meet: 10.30 Conistone (Nr Kilnsey), park opp. Chapel
(GR SD 983675) 8 miles M
JUMBLE HOLE & COLDEN VALLEY (Ce)
Meet: 10.30 Hebden Bridge Marina
7½ miles M (GR SD 993271)
THORNHILL (Wf)
Meet: 11.00 Thornhill Park
(GR SE 256186) (south of Dewsbury) 7½ miles L
Sculpture and Countryside (NK)
Meet: 13:30 Bretton Country Park cp S75 4BX
(GR SE 294 125) 5 miles L
 
Tuesday 17 June
THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN (Hd evening)
Meet: 19.00 Holme Moss cp, on A6024 (overlooking valley)
(GR SE 098039) 4½ miles M Some rough moorland. No dogs
 
Wednesday 18 June
A WALK ON THE WATERFRONT (LG evening)
Meet: 19.00 Woodlesford Rail Station
4-5 miles
 
Thursday 19 June
ALONG THE DALES WAY (WR) PT
Meet: 10.30 Grassington YDNP cp (fee)
10 miles M
ON my door step (NK evening)
Meet: 18:30 Wilton Arms & Bridge Inn , Bottom of Carlinghow Hill, Batley WF17 8LP
5 miles M (GR SE 237 248)
RA Themed Walk – Summer Evening
A MID SUMMER WANDER (Bf evening)
Meet: 19.15 War Memorial, Cullingworth Village (B6429)
4-5 miles
 
Saturday 21 – Sunday 29 June
RA FESTIVAL OF SUMMER WALKS
Castleford & Pontefract, and Wakefield Groups
See separate feature click here
 
Saturday 21 June
THREE MOORS WALK (LW) PT
Meet: 08.00 Otley Jubilee Clock
(GR SE 202455) 30+ miles Very Strenuous (Circular)
WESTFIELDS-HIGH LEASES – GILLING WEST (Hg)
Meet: 10.00 Old Railway Station car park, Richmond,
or 09.00 Trinity Methodist Church, Harrogate
(junction of A61 Leeds Road and Beckwithshaw/Knaresborough road) 11 miles M
SHIPLEY GLEN & BAILDON MOOR (LG) PT
Meet: 12.45 Saltaire Rail Station
5 miles L/M
Gawthorpe Ramble
Meet: 10.00 Public Car Park, Cross Street,
Near Gawthorpe Maypole.
(GR SE 273221) (S.east of Dewsbury). 5 miles L
Birkin and Gateforth
Meet: 14.00 Birkin Church
(GR SE 530265) (N.east of Ferrybridge) 4 miles L
 
Sunday 22 June
HAWORTH SCENIC ROUTE (Hd ‘A’ walk)
Meet: 10.00 Bronte Parsonage Museum cp (fee)
(GR SE 029372) 15 miles S
LET’S WALK THE PENNINE WAY THRU’ CALDERDALE
1st of 3 parts (Ce) Meet: 10.00 “White House” Blackstone Edge
(GR SD 968179) 13-14 miles M/S
HEBDEN TO CONISTONE (NOT THE DIB) (WR)
Meet: 10.30 Main Street, Hebden, nr. Grassington
(GR SE 025631) 12½ miles M
PACKHORSE TRACK (Hd ‘B’ walk)
Meet: 10.00 Fall Lane, Marsden
(GR SE 048114) 8½ miles L
TWO SPRINGS, TWO WELLS AND TWELVE APOSTLES (WR) PT Meet: 10.30 White Cross ph, Guiseley
8 miles M/L LINEAR – return by bus or train from Ilkley
Selby Horseshoe
Meet: 10.00 Selby Abbey Gates
9 miles M
A Walk Around Horbury With Naturalist Richard Bell
Meet: 14.00 St Peter’s Church, Horbury
(GR SE 294183) 3½ miles L
 
Monday 23 June
Roundheads & Ice Cream (NK)
Meet: 10:30 Oakwell Hall Top cp WF17 9LG
(GR SE 217 270) (nr. Birstall) 7½ miles M
Notton and Woolley
Meet: 10.30 Woolley Village Green
(GR SE 322133) 7¼ miles L
Flanshaw Park, the Garden City and Lupset Estate
With local historian Kate Taylor, MA Oxon, FSA
Meet: 10.30 St. Georges Church, Broadway, Wakefield
(GR SE 307194) 2-3 miles L with lots of stops
Carleton to East Hardwick and return
Meet: 19.00 Carleton Grange School, nr. Pontefract
(GR SE 463203) 3 miles L
 
Tuesday 24 June
CROMWELL CORNERS (Hd evening)
Meet: 19.00 Cromwell Bottom cp, just off A6025
between Elland and Brighouse
(GR SE 125225) 4 miles L
Horbury Bridge
Meet: 10.00 Outside Bingley Arms ph, Horbury Bridge
(GR SE 280179) 8 miles M
The Aire and Calder Navigation Island Walk
Learn about our industrial heritage with local historian David Wilcox. Meet: 19.00 Golden Lion Public House, Ferrybridge
(GR SE 484244) 3 miles. Leisurely walk and talk.
 
Wednesday 25 June
WHERE’S THE FAIR LADY (Bf evening)
Meet: 19.15 Bingley Arts Centre, off Main Street (A650), Bingley
4-5 miles
A Country Walk (NK evening)
Meet: 19:00 Oakwell Hall Lower cp BD19 4LL
(GR SE 212 269) (nr. Birstall) 3 miles L
Stanley Ferry Walkabout
Meet: 13.00 Car park Stanley Ferry Marina
(GR SE 355230) (N.east of Wakefield) 5 miles L
Pontefract Circular Walk
Meet: 14.00 Main car park, Pontefract Park
(GR SE 443225) 5½ miles L
Brockadale & Smeaton Crag
Meet: 19.00 Shoulder of Mutton ph, Kirk Smeaton
(off A1 south of Ferrybridge)
(GR SE 519167) 4 miles L
 
Thursday 26 June
ROECLIFFE AND COPGROVE (Hg)
Meet: 10.00 Copgrove Church PT
(GR SE 346632) 5-6 miles L
YEADON BANKS (LG evening)
Meet: 19.00 Nunroyd Park Gates, Leeds Road, Guiseley
(opp. West Side retail park)
4-5 miles 		 
Rivers and Canals
Meet: 13.00 Car Park, Holmfield Park, Wakefield
(GR SE 327194) 7 miles L
City to Ferry
Meet: 19.00 Junction of Leeds Road and Westfield Road,
Wakefield, on A61, by Cliff School
(GR SE 329215) 5 miles L
 
Friday 27 June
Purston area circular (near Featherstone)
Meet: 10.00 Public cp, Purston Park, off B6421 Ryhill road
(GR SE 430197) 12 miles M
Midgley to Middlestown Circular PT
Meet: 14.00 Black Bull Midgley GR SE 273147
(on A637 west of M1 Junction 39).
Lunch or tea available at the Black Bull.
5 miles L
Notton and Woolley Circular
Meet: 09.00 Notton Village Hall car park, Main Street, Notton
(GR SE 353130) 5-6 miles L
 
Saturday 28 June
GRASSINGTON TO KETTLEWELL (Hg)
Meet: 09.30 NPCP Grassington
(GR SE 003637) 13 miles M
RAVENROYD & ST. IVES ESTATE (LG) PT
Meet: 13.00 Market Hall/Stocks by Bingley Arts Centre,
off Main Street (A650), Bingley
6 miles M
Fairburn Ings
Meet: 10.30 RSPB car park at Fairburn Ings
(GR SE 453278) 5 miles L
Pugneys and Sandal Castle
Meet: 18.00 Visitor Centre, Pugneys Country Park
(off A636 south of Wakefield - GR SE 324180)
2-3 miles L
 
Sunday 29 June
Newmillerdam Circular
Meet: 10.30 Newmillerdam Pay & Display car park
(GR SE 332158) 8 miles M
Waterton Trail
Meet: 14.00 Visitor Centre, Anglers Country Park
(GR SE 375154) (nr. Wintersett, S.east of Wakefield)
5 miles M
WENSLEYDALE – Castles & Waterfalls (WR)
Meet: 09.00 West Burton Village Green
(GR SE 018867) 20 miles M
Leader: Chris Stone (01274 604075; mob: 07986 823929)
GRIMWITH RESERVOIR & TROLLERS GILL (Hd)
Meet: 10.00 Grimwith Reservoir cp
(off B6265 Grassington to Pateley Br. Road)
(GR SE 063640) 12½ miles M/S
A VIEW FROM THE BEACON (Ce)
Meet: 10.30 Open Market Canal Side, Brighouse
(GR SE 145229) 11 miles M
ON TOP OF THE WORLD (WR)
Meet: 10.30 Malham Moor (cp just below Malham Tarn)
(GR SD 893658) 9-10 miles M
(incl. one mile Open Access land – easy terrain)
DOUTHWAITE DALE, HUTTON LE HOLE (Wy)
Meet: 10.30 Kirkbymoorside Public cp behind Kings Head
(GR SE 697866) 7½ miles M
Cleckheaton circular visiting Hunsworth & Hightown (NK) PT
Meet: 14:15 Cleckheaton Town Hall BD19 3RJ
(GR SE 191 254) 6 miles M


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