Shipley Glen Tramway and Baildon Moor
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"A glimpse of moorland and a traditional rural playground for the mill workers of Shipley and Saltaire."
Walk directions
Walk down Glen Road, passing The Old Glen House pub. Continue as the road becomes Prod Lane, signed as a cul-de-sac. Where the road ends at the entrance to the Shipley Glen Tramway, keep straight ahead to locate an enclosed path to the right of a house. Follow this path, with houses on your left, and woodland to your right. As you come to a metal barrier, ignore a path to the left. Keep straight on downhill. About 100yds (91m) beyond the barrier, there is a choice of paths; bear left here, contouring the steep hillside and soon getting good views over Saltaire, Shipley and the Aire Valley.
Keep going as a path later joins from the right, undulating through scrub and more open heath beneath the old quarried face of a sandstone cliff. After a further 0.25 miles (400m), watch for a stepped path and handrail climbing to the left. At the top, turn right on a fenced path that skirts two sides of a school playing field. Emerging onto a road, cross and go left for 150yds (137m). Drawing level with the entrance to the primary school, turn off onto a narrow, enclosed path that climbs between the houses on the right. Meeting a street higher up, cross to the ongoing path. Continue up to a gate, which opens onto the bottom of a sloping pasture.
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Additional information
Terrain
- Moor and field paths
Landscape
- Moorland, fields and gritstone rocks
Dog friendliness
- Keep on lead by roads or near livestock
Parking
- Lay-bys on Glen Road, between Bracken Hall Countryside Centre and Old Glen House pub
Toilets en route
- In Saltaire, near railway station
About the walk
For the people of Shipley and Saltaire, Baildon Moor has long represented a taste of the countryside on their doorsteps. Mill-hands could leave the mills and cramped terraced streets behind, and breathe clean Pennine air. They could listen to the song of the skylark and the cry of the curlew. There...
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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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Higher Scholes Cottage
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