Holmfirth and the Holme Valley
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Walk directions
From Crown Bottom car park, walk to the right along Huddersfield Road for only 100yds (91m) before bearing left just after the fire station, up Wood Lane. The road soon narrows to a steep track. Keep left of a house and through a gate, to continue on a walled path. At the top of the hill, by a bench, follow the road to the right, leading to a track. Follow this track, soon enclosed, as it wheels left, down into a valley. Soon after you approach woodland, you have a choice of tracks: keep left on the walled path, uphill. When it eventually joins a stone farm track, turn left and after about 50yds (46m), climb steps on the left to cross a stile. Immediately afterwards, go through a swing gate and across a field path to another gate. Walk on an enclosed path to a track. Turn left to join another enclosed path before emerging on a road by Midgley Cottage. Turn left and follow the road as it bends through the top of the village.
Continue along the road, which wheels round to the right. Walk downhill, with great views opening up of the Holme Valley. After 150yds (137m) on the road, take a cinder track on the right. Walk down to meet a road. Cross over and take the tarmac lane ahead, steeply down into a little valley and up the other side. When this minor road forks at the top, go right, uphill. Immediately after the first house, go left on a gravel track. Follow this track to Lower Hogley Farm, where you keep right, past a knot of houses, to a gate and stile. Cross this on to a field path, with a wall to your left. Go through four fields, aiming for the mast on the horizon, and descend to the road.
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Terrain
- Good paths and tracks, several stiles
Landscape
- Upland pasture
Dog friendliness
- On lead in fields with livestock, off on lanes
Parking
- Crown Bottom car park on Market Street or Sands Lane long stay car park
Toilets en route
- At Sands Lane long stay car park
About the walk
Holmfirth and the Holme Valley have been popularised as ‘Summer Wine Country’, forever linked to the whimsical TV series Last of the Summer Wine, written by Roy Clarke and starring a trio of incorrigible old buffers, Compo, Foggy and Clegg. The cast were familiar faces in the town until the series...
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About the area
Everybody knows that Yorkshire has some special landscapes. The Dales and the Moors first spring to mind, but what about West Yorkshire? That’s Leeds and Bradford isn’t it? Back-to-back houses and blackened mills… Certainly if you had stood on any of the hills surrounding Hebden Bridge a hundred years ago, and gazed down into the valley, all you would have seen was the pall of smoke issuing from the chimneys of 33 textile mills.
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Old Bridge Inn & Coffee House
The Old Bridge Inn & Coffee House is a contemporary inn located in the heart of the vibrant town of Holmfirth. While the inn’s stylish public spaces exude modern charm, its traditionall...
Mount View
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Lane Farm Holiday Cottages
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Trough Cottage
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Mistal Cottage
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Castle House Farm Cottages
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Laithe Cottage
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Stable Cottage
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