frank'sYORKSHIRE WALKS
My Walking Diary
These Diary pages are just a few notes and pictures of the routes I walk. I hope that they give you some ideas for walks of your own and if you need more details of a particular route you can use the route request form to contact me
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26 June
2003
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This
morning we drove to the end of Rudland Rigg and parked on a gravel
area off the road at map ref. SE 659926. It was a fine day and
we set off at about 9.45 to walk back down the road for about
a kilometre to turn right onto a farm road at Hope Inn Farm. We
followed the footpath past Common House farm and through the woods,
down the fields to Penny Holme at map ref. SE 647911. Just beyond
Penny Holme we stopped to watch a mother pheasant and a brood
of around a dozen tiny stripped chicks scuttle across the track
in front of us. We followed the path for another kilometre to
the crossing of Hodge Beck at map ref. SE 640919. This used to
be a pleasant ford and there were rough stepping stones across
Ouse Gill, the watercourse that joins Hodge Beck here from the
north, but
both crossings are now uninspiring railway sleeper bridges for
the pheasant shooting. As we climbed the hill up to Ankness Ridge
there were several wood ants' nests in the woods with hundreds
of the centimetre long ants busily dashing about tidying the pine
needles on the nest heaps.We continued along the path through
Ankness to the road at map ref. SE 638944.Our route took us up
the road for 1.7km where we turned right on to a moorland track
for about 700m to map ref. SE 635967. Here we turned right to
follow a bridlewayfor a kilometre across a valley and up to the
track on Rudland Rigg, unfortunately the bridleway is not well
defined on the ground and it's fairly rough going through the
heather. Once on Rudland Rigg we followed the stoney track for
4.5km back to our start. The bell heather is in full bloom beside
the track but the main show, the ling heather will not be in flower
for at least another month. The whole route was about 14km and
took us four and a half hours to walk including our stops.
