Begin from the junction of Church Lane with the A58 and head south along the main road. After 150yds (137m), take a path off left beside a gate into a wood where there is a small lay-by. It rises to the overgrown embankment of the former Leeds–Wetherby Railway, which opened in 1876 and operated until 1964, when it fell victim to Dr Beeching’s cuts. Go right and almost immediately left through a gap. Soon emerging into a field, continue beside the perimeter. Passing into a second field, keep with the boundary as it swings right down to more trees.

Pass through a kissing gate into Hetchell Wood Nature Reserve. Keep right where the path later forks, soon passing beneath Hetchell Crags, whose soft gritstone façade offers a challenge to local climbers. Leave the reserve through another kissing gate at a junction by a footbridge spanning Bardsey Beck. Turn left along a climbing track that was once part of a Roman road. Look for a bridleway signed off through a gate, a short distance along on the right.

Through the gate, a path leads away above the stream, skirting the Roman earthworks (Pompocali). Beyond an overhanging rock, the path rises to a junction (to the left, you can wander back to investigate these intriguing mounds). The onward path, however, keeps to the right, joining a track that shortly leads past ruined mill buildings. Carry on beneath an old railway bridge and across a stream. Wind around two sides of a paddock and then swing left along a drive coming from Moat Hall. Look for a stile breaking the right-hand wall, a few paces along on the right.

Take a field-edge path, with a hedge to the right (from here back to Bardsey you are walking the Leeds Country Way). Towards the far end of the field, your path turns right into a copse. Cross a beck on a little wooden footbridge and swing left through scrub above the stream. Shortly wind right to emerge into the corner of a field. Climb away beside the right-hand hedge, dropping beyond the crest of the hill to a junction. Go left here on a track that follows a broken wall to meet the A58 road.

Walk left for just 20yds (18m) and turn right into Wayside Mount, an unsurfaced road that serves a collection of detached houses. Beyond the last house go through a gateway and follow the track ahead, a tall hedge on your left. When the track later swings left, leave and walk ahead, ignoring a stile to follow the field edge downhill. Approaching the bottom, bear right across the field corner to find a path dropping into the trees below. Cross a stream and climb to a gate into the churchyard. Keep right of the church to meet a road.

Go right on Church Lane to return to the start point.