Turn left out of the car park, through two gates and along the track beyond, past the embankment of Withens Clough Reservoir and a farmhouse. Ignore the first path to the right and take the track 600yds (549m) beyond the farmhouse, signed ‘Calderdale Way’. Leave this track and the Way after just 240yds (219m), bearing left on a permissive bridleway to pass through an open gate, winding along the top side of a small plantation. Beyond another field gate, the Calderdale Way soon rejoins from the right and the fence-side track continues a further 340yds (310m) to a crossroads.

Bear right here, ignoring a walled lane ahead to stay with the Calderdale Way to a gate by the inscribed Te Deum Stone. The track continues across open country beyond the gate; keep right when it forks, to follow causey stones, to a crossroads of paths by a 7ft (2.1m) tall obelisk, Long Stoop.

The stoop marks the point at which you turn right on the Pennine Way along the edge of Langfield Common, which brings you to Stoodley Pike.

The Pennine Way bears right here. Stay with it for a further 550yds (503m), past a spring, the Slake Trough, to pass through a stone gap stile. Just beyond, the Pennine Way bears left over a wall. You, however, turn right, across the field, and pass through a stone stile in the wall opposite.

Follow the wall on your left. The path briefly becomes a narrowing walled track before passing through a gate and dropping across open country by a fence towards Withens Clough Reservoir. Yellow-topped poles guide you through a wet, reedy area and over a tiny wooden footbridge. You should then bear immediately right, over to a pair of stone gate posts and through a new gate into a walled lane. This is sometimes so wet as to be impassable. Instead, walk parallel to it in the pasture to its right and left, using the toppled wall as stepping stones where possible. Enter the lane at a point at which it looks acceptably dry (accept, though, that your boots will get wet!). When the walls fade away, more yellow topped markers guide you over a second rotted small footbridge and down to a walled enclosure, from which several paths depart.

Take the lowest path, signed ‘To Withens Clough’, cutting a diagonal line across open pasture toward another fingerpost by the wall below. Go through the wall and turn left along your outward track to the car park.