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This walk explores Malham Moor and the limestone country in the vicinity of Bordley. To reach the start take the B6265 Skipton to Grassington Road as far as Rylstone where you turn west for Hetton. At the T junction in turn right and then immediately left at the fork. This leads you to a parking place by the quarry (Grid ref. SD955619). Exit the quarry and walk north along the lane towards Bordley to reach the telephone box and farm at Lainger. Leave the lane by the far track on the left which runs alongside a beck to cross the main beck at the bottom. Take the stile on the right and follow Bordley Beck upstream, over another stile and then across to a gate to the left of a small group of trees. From the gate, head across the often boggy reed pasture high above the beck. Ahead is the isolated farm of Bordley Hall. Bearing always to the left you will find, eventually, a ladder stile (the path has been diverted here). Alternatively, if you can’t find it then backtrack along the beck, cross it, climb the locked gate and the next and walk across the meadow with Bordley Hall on your right to the gate opposite which you negotiate and then turn right. Follow the right hand wall (Grid ref. SD942364), until you come level with the farm buildings when a bridge takes you over the beck and to a bubbling spring where you turn right. Follow the track to a gate behind all the buildings (Grid ref. SD941639). Turn left, climbing the steep field to a gate. In the large field behind, pass through a gate which appears in the top wall. With the gradient easing head half-right to locate a hidden stile in the corner (Grid ref SD940645). Go straight ahead through two gates, then pass between the farm buildings on the left via gates on to a track. Hopefully you will find these easier to open than I did! Turn left in the hamlet and make your way up to the left hand gate at the end of the track. A clear track heads away from the gate, but in a few yards take a lesser track right, following the right hand wall; at a wall-corner ignore the wall as it falls away to the right, maintain your line, heading for the corner, a gate, a finger post and an odd sign (Grid ref. SD937657). Turn sharp right after the gate making for Threshfield. Follow the right hand wall, eventually reaching a crossroads of paths where you keep ahead up the tarmac arm. The lane becomes enclosed, with a recently constructed beautifully crafted 200 yard stretch of drystone walling - simultaneously new and medieval – on your left, facing the ancient moss-covered wall on the right. Follow it for ½ mile to the point where signposts indicate a junction right with a bridle path (Grid ref..SD960650). From the gate on the right follow a level and outstandingly maintained track. At another gate we descend more clearly past the barn of Height Laithe. Head along an enclosed way to a gate at the far end. From it a track heads right (grid ref. SD958645) crossing the marshy beginnings of a small beck to rise to a gate in the fence. The track leads across the open Threshfield Moor, again with marker posts assisting. On reaching a wall we are channelled through a pleasant walled green way to the next section of moor. Stay with the right hand wall as far as a gate on to Boss Moor. A clear, if often boggy track leads across the moor, and with Bordley Lane in view, our track avoids it until suddenly you arrive at the old quarries and the car park. Suggested Maps It is recommended you take a map with you when following a walk route. The preferred scale is 1:25000 used by the Explorer series.
Note : If two maps are listed at the same scale then either (a) both are required for full coverage of the route or (b) the route is covered on both maps. River House, Malham, near Skipton - North Yorkshire Bridge End Farm, Grassington - North Yorkshire The Old Station Inn, Giggleswick, Settle - North Yorkshire Shibden Fold, Shibden, Halifax - Calderdale Brookhouse, Clapham near Settle - North Yorkshire Arbutus Guest House, Clapham - North Yorkshire Ruby's Cottage, Sedbergh - Cumbria Cherry Tree Cottages, Barkisland, Halifax - Calderdale Lakeland Lodge, Borwick, Carnforth - Cumbria Tyas Cottage, Slaithwaite - Kirklees Self Catering Directory Walks & Peaks Bedsearcher Hostelbookers - Hostels in England, Scotland and Wales
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