{"id":2226,"date":"2021-03-27T01:32:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T00:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/?p=2226"},"modified":"2021-03-22T09:56:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T08:56:01","slug":"grassington-hebden-wharfedale-north-yorkshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/?p=2226","title":{"rendered":"Grassington &#038; Hebden, Wharfedale, North Yorkshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">function popwalk(walk) {var url = \"\/Walks\/amap.php?f=\"+walk; varwalkwindow=window.open(url,\"walkwin\",\"height=740,width=1230,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes\"); if (window.focus) {walkwindow.focus()}}<\/script><br \/> First published in: The Times <a href=\"javascript:popwalk('Grassington.jpg');\" rel=\"nozoom\" title=\"Click here to view a map for this walk in a new window\">Click here to view a map for this walk in a new window<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/50911454652_1af92a9124_z.jpg\" title= \"50911454652 view of Wharfedale from Scar Side\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/50911454652_1af92a9124_s.jpg\" alt=\"picture\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/50911456017_05ae87815e_z.jpg\" title= \"50911456017 walking up from Wharfedale towards Edge Lane\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/50911456017_05ae87815e_s.jpg\" alt=\"picture\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/50911325056_2aa74ec58e_z.jpg\" title= \"50911325056 view over Wharfedale from near Wise House\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/50911325056_2aa74ec58e_s.jpg\" alt=\"picture\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/50910637328_766508d7a4_z.jpg\" title= \"50910637328 Near High Garnshaw, looking across Hebden Beck&#039;s valley to Scar Side and Edge Top\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/50910637328_766508d7a4_s.jpg\" alt=\"picture\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/50911324761_40bdb9a523_z.jpg\" title= \"50911324761 looking across Hole Bottom to Scar Side\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/50911324761_40bdb9a523_s.jpg\" alt=\"picture\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/50910636963_fd52f8d24e_z.jpg\" title= \"50910636963 stone walls of Wharfedale\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/50910636963_fd52f8d24e_s.jpg\" alt=\"picture\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/50911455227_1a6ba79979_z.jpg\" title= \"50911455227 stepping stones across Hebden Beck\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/50911455227_1a6ba79979_s.jpg\" alt=\"picture\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/50911324216_1df244ee8f_z.jpg\" title= \"50911324216 slow worm digests a large meal\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/50911324216_1df244ee8f_s.jpg\" alt=\"picture\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/50911323761_756e6e8892_z.jpg\" title= \"50911323761 Dales Way beside the River Wharfe\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/50911323761_756e6e8892_s.jpg\" alt=\"picture\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/50911454242_b0bf332d2e_z.jpg\" title= \"50911454242 Linton Falls near Grassington\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/50911454242_b0bf332d2e_s.jpg\" alt=\"picture\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/50910635763_5cfefa168f_z.jpg\" title= \"50910635763 old mill buildings at Linton Falls\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/50910635763_5cfefa168f_s.jpg\" alt=\"picture\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/50911323171_f0daa5b3b5_z.jpg\" title= \"50911323171 view back over Wharfedale from near Wise House\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/50911323171_f0daa5b3b5_s.jpg\" alt=\"picture\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nFacebook Link: <script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2226\" layout=\"button_count\" show_faces=\"true\" width=\"200\" colorscheme=\"dark\"><\/fb:like><br \/>\n<a href=\"javascript:pwindow=window.open('\/Walks\/prn.php?f=2226','pwin','height=700,width=1000,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes');\" title=\"Click for printable version\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Walks\/print.gif\" align=\"right\"><\/a><br \/>\nLow cloud was swirling clear of the fell tops along Wharfedale as we set out from Grassington. The village was packed, as busy as ever, but ten minutes put us high above the stone-built houses on a path rising through sheep pastures to the walled track of Edge Lane, where no-one came or went.<\/p>\n<p>The narrow squeeze stiles between the fields were each sealed with a tiny wicket gate on a powerful spring that shut smartly behind us with a rat trap snap. Nothing was more reminiscent of our former walks in this delectable dale than that sharp \u2018crack\u2019 of wood on stone \u2013 though the hinges have been modernised since the days when they were bodged from the soles of discarded rubber boots.<\/p>\n<p>Wharfedale ran away north-west, exuding its habitual aura of peace and plenty, neat green fields walled with stone barns dotted here and there, the gently \u2018inbye\u2019 grazing rising to wild moorland tops with rugged profiles, and a far view of Pendle Hill\u2019s broad back some 25 miles off in Lancashire.<\/p>\n<p>Pine trees sighed in the wind around Wise House. Across the cleft of Hebden Beck the ground rose abruptly, too steep for farming, a jumble of red-brown bracken and pale grey rocks fallen from the scars or gritstone cliffs at the rim of the valley.<\/p>\n<p>Down at Hole Bottom we teetered across Hebden Beck\u2019s slippery stepping stones, collecting a boot full of beck water apiece. Scale Haw Force\u2019s waterfall crashed down its rock steps just upstream, a fine noisy spectacle.<\/p>\n<p>A steep climb through meadows led to a zigzag path up through the coarse gritstone rocks of Scale Haw where we came upon a large sleepy slow worm, the smooth bronze belly distended with its latest meal.<\/p>\n<p>A blasting wind up at Scar Top, a puzzling scramble down hard-to-read paths on a bracken slope, and we were threading the walled lanes of Hebden towards the green and level homeward path beside the peat-brown River Wharfe.<\/p>\n<p>How hard is it? 6\u00bd miles; a moderate walk by field and fell paths; rough going just below Scar Side House<\/p>\n<p>Start: Grassington National Park Centre car park, BD23 5LB (OS ref SE 003637)<\/p>\n<p>Getting there: Bus 72 (Skipton-Buckden)<br \/>\nRoad \u2013 on B6265 Wharfedale road.<\/p>\n<p>Walk (OS Explorer OL2): Left into village; right (Hebden Road); in 200m right (Low Lane, High Lane). In 250m, left (006640, gate, yellow arrow\/YA). Field path (stiles, YAs) to Edge Lane (013641). Right, in 550m, at gate, left (017638, \u2018Hebden Gill\u2019). Just before High Garnshaw, right (020643, gate), down fields to drive (022642), down to Hole Bottom (024641). Right along drive. In 200m, left (024639, fingerpost\/FP \u2018Edge Top\u2019) to cross Hebden Beck by stepping stones (NB: if beck swollen, return to drive, left to Hebden).<\/p>\n<p>From stepping stones, right along opposite bank. In 250m grassy track rises to gate (025637). Either continue parallel to Hebden Beck to cross B6265 in Hebden (see last paragraph below); or to continue this route, don\u2019t go through gate, but turn left uphill along wall. Near top, bear left to wicket gate (026639). Grassy path up through rocks to Scar Top House (028639). Right (FP) to cross drive, stiles, FPs to pass Scar Side House (028637). Down through bracken (Access Lane = a bit of a scramble \u2013 pick your own path!) to stile\/wicket gate at bottom (027635). Next gate, fields and FPs down to cross B6265 in Hebden (026632).<\/p>\n<p>Ahead down road, in 150m, left (027630, kissing gate, FP); follow \u2018Suspension Bridge\u2019 beside Hebden Beck to road (027624). Right; in 150m left (\u2018Dales Way\u2019 FP). Right along Dales Way for 1\u00bd miles to Linton Falls (001634); right (FP) to car park.<\/p>\n<p>Conditions: Hebden Beck is crossed by stepping stones. Slope below Scar Side is steep and scrambly in places &#8211; for adventurous walkers!<\/p>\n<p>Info: National Park Centre, Grassington (01756751690), <a href=\"http:\/\/yorkshire.com\">yorkshire.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/satmap.com\">satmap.com<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/ramblers.org.uk\">ramblers.org.uk<\/a><br \/>\nMore walks info: @somerville_c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low cloud was swirling clear of the fell tops along Wharfedale as we set out from Grassington. The village was packed, as busy as ever, but ten minutes put us high above the stone-built houses on a path rising through sheep pastures to the walled track of Edge Lane, where no-one came or went.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-walks","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}