New traffic free route helps Dales Way walkers
Thanks to a unique collaboration between the Chatsworth Estate at Bolton Abbey, volunteers from Burley Walkers are Welcome and the Dales Way Association, a new section of permissive footpath has been constructed that takes walkers away from the busy and dangerous traffic on the B6160 near Bolton Bridge.
Walking Beside Water
Walking for recreation is not only an excellent way of obtaining physical exercise, it's also particularly good as a means of pursuing a wide range of interests such as enjoying the birds and the bees, and the flora and fauna, perhaps to appreciate the views of which our part of the world has many to offer. Walking beside water has all of these, and it is usually fairly level walking too, particularly welcome for those whose limbs are becoming less lissom than in their more youthful days. And walking beside navigable water, i.e. navigable rivers, and canals, is often bountiful in providing historical interest. The reason for this is that for most of human history anything big and heavy that had to be transported had to go by water. Yorkshire is rich with examples. Finding out more about this has been an enjoyable journey of discovery for me, much of it from written sources, but involving quite a lot of waterside walking too
Forget the Munros - climb the Allans!
Sir Hugh Munro could hardly have known what he started when he decided to catalogue all the Scottish peaks over 3000 feet in altitude. His idea was soon copied - the Marilyns being thought up by some bright spark who latched onto the obvious connection with Munro. The ball having been set rolling, other minds got to work, and we now have Corbetts, Donalds, Grahams, Humps, Hughs, Murdos, Simms, Tumps, Hewitts, Nuttalls, Birketts, Synges, Deweys, Dodds, Hardys, Wainwrights and others too numerous to mention.
Turbines on the Bronte Moors - a threat to an iconic South Pennine landscape
It sounds like a dream scheme for any committed climate activist or environmentalist – a clean, green, wind power project capable of meeting the energy requirements of 286,491 homes and saving 426,246 tonnes of carbon release annually. So why is it causing so much anger and dismay among so many Yorkshire ramblers?
WASHBURN VALLEY PATH CLOSURE
The popular path from Blubberhouses to Thruscross Reservoir is closed for 6 months for tree-felling purposes. The path is part of the Six Dales Trail. No alternative routes have been indicated, but two possibilities (unchecked !!!) are turn left along the A59 at Blubberhouses, then first right along Hall Lane (a pleasant minor road) , or turn right right along the A59, then first left along the road to Greenhow, a straight dull route for walkers, but, more adventurously, path on left via Skaife Hall Farm and then use Access Land at Limekiln Plantation and Hanging Moor to reach Thruscross. Comments on alternative routes welcome, please email Keith Wadd