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Whitehouse Reservoirs Circular

Main features of the walk
This circular route is easy to walk, passes one of the famous Stanza Stones and will give you some great views.

Length and time
It’s about 6km (approx 3½ miles) and should take you under 2 hours (plus stops and bus ride).

Blackstone Edge Reservoir

Gradients – how strenuous?
Totally flat, except for a couple of very mild inclines.

Terrain – how uneven?
All on reservoir tracks – some gravel and some hard core. Mostly dry underfoot.
(The walk is buggy friendly if you take a slight detour noted in the text)

Obstacles – stiles, steps etc.
A gate at the beginning and end to prevent vehicles (and unfortunately wheel chairs as well).
Facilities on the walk
The White House pub does food, but check opening times.
What to take?
You need a pair of reasonable walking shoes and whatever the weather
when you start, always take a wind resistant waterproof jacket (and a hat!).

DIRECTIONS

1 Ask the driver to drop you off at the track just before the reservoir at
Blackstone Edge (some people call it the Pennine walk stop). Cross
the road if coming from Hebden Bridge direction. Go through the
access gates and follow the reservoir access road ahead, following
a channel which catches the water coming off the moors. On your
right, the sloping area of moor you are passing is Nigher hill, Middle
hill and Farther hill – we don’t know why it is called these names!

2 After about 20 minutes, you come to White Holme reservoir where
you can go left or right. Take the left hand track over the bridge and
follow it round along the edge of the reservoir (ignore the tracks that
go off to your left).

3: After about 15 minutes, you come to a fork near an electricity pylon.
This is the junction with the Pennine Way. Just before you reach this
T junction, turn left on an indistinct path with yellow waymark posts
which runs alongside a drain (the Pennine Way track is on the far side
of the drain from you).

4 After ten minutes you come to Light Hazzles small quarry where the
path becomes clearer. Very shortly after you reach a rock outcrop
on your left with a poem, fittingly titled RAIN, inscribed on it. (If you
have a buggy you should actually take the Pennine Way on the far
side of the drain…you will still see the Stanza stone but not close up).

5 Carry on the path from the Stanza stone which follows the drain
until you reach a little stone bridge. Cross this and turn left joining
the Pennine Way where you will see a panoramic view of Rochdale,
Oldham and Greater Manchester (assuming that the mist hasn’t
come down!). This is a well maintained reservoir access road passing
some spectacular rocky outcrops. The road eventually swings left
then right over a small bridge above the reservoir outlet.
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6 After about 40 minutes the track ends at the road with the White
House pub on your right. Presumably well watered and fed, allow for a 15 minute walk to get the next bus back. Turn left outside the pub and follow the footpath by the road heading slightly uphill to reach Blackstone Edge
Reservoir. Keep going on the road for 500 metres to the junction.

7 Turn left and after 600 metres you reach the place where you got off
the bus. Wave the next bus down.

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901 BUS WALKS 2

Cragg Vale to Todmorden along the Calderdale Way

Main features of the walk

This linear walk follows The Calderdale Way. It takes in the wooded valley of Cragg Vale before climbing out of the valley onto the open moors between Cragg Vale and the Calder Valley with far-reaching views of Stoodley Pike and beyond.

Length and time

It’s 9km (5½ miles) and should take you about 3 hours (plus stops).

Gradients – how strenuous?

The outward walk involves a steady climb out of the valley .

Terrain – how uneven?

Much of the high moorland is very uneven in places. Some of the walk is on farm tracks and lanes.

Obstacles – stiles, steps etc.

There are a few sets of causey stones, some of which are quite uneven along with some stiles.

Facilities on the walk

This walk passes by the Hinchliffe Arms and the Top Brink Inn. There are many pubs and restaurants in Todmorden.

What to take?

This walk goes across high, exposed moorland so windproof/waterproof
clothing is essential. You need a pair of reasonable walking shoes with ‘grippy’ soles (boots would be better) as parts of the route can be muddy after rain.

DIRECTIONS

Ask the driver to put you off at the junction of Cragg Road and the road
down to the Hinchliffe Arms. From the bus stop go down hill, cross the road before turning sharp left down to St. John’s Church and the Hinchliffe Arms. From the pub follow the tarmac road uphill bearing left to go up Rudd Lane. Continue along the road for almost 2km to Withens Clough Reservoir. Pass the house called the Pastures and follow the track along to the right of the reservoir

2 Walk past the sign to “Stoodley Pike” and take the next path on the right, signed “Calderdale Way”. Turn left at the Yorkshire Water Permissive Bridleway sign and follow the well-made track up the hill through two metal gates until you reach a wooden gate.

3 Go right through the gate signed Calderdale Way and follow the track
uphill. Watch out on the right the for stone tramadol online bearing the inscription ‘Te deum laudamus’ – we praise thee O Lord; and go through another gate at the top of the slope. Carry straight on following the stone guideposts with Stoodley Pike on the right.

4 As you start to go downhill, go straight over the junction with the Pennine Way and carry on downhill along the causey stone paved path.

5 At the gate turn right to go into Mankinholes village. Go through the village passing the Youth Hostel and the bus stop.

6 Opposite the converted Methodist Sunday School turn left down the
Pennine Bridleway. At the Top Brink lnn, carry straight on down a cobbled path into Lumbutts village with its distinctive water tower.

7 On reaching the tarmac road, turn right and continue for 800 metres where you turn right at Croft Gate East signed Calderdale Way to Croft farm. Continue straight on through a metal gate onto a track. Follow this track for 100 metres and then cross the stile in the wall on the left. Keep the wall on your left to the next stile, then follow the way-marked path straight ahead, eventually reaching Longfield Farm.

8 Bear left through the farmyard and go left over a stile by electric pole 273, following a field path over a stile onto a track through the equestrian centre. Turn left on the drive, then right at the next T junction. Follow the track around the fields, dropping towards Todmorden in the valley below. At the bend is the Quaker burial ground. Continue down the lane to a tarmac road, passing the Unitarian Church on the left before entering Fielden Square Todmorden.

9 From Fielden Square, turn right on the main road and the bus terminus is straight ahead on the other side of the roundabout. There is a great choice of pubs and cafés in Todmorden at the end of your walk.

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Cragg Vale to Ripponden along the
Calderdale Way

This walk follows the Calderdale way (there are Calderdale way waymarks along the route) and takes you through upland pastures and moorland

Length and time
It’s about 8 km (approx 5 miles) and should take you about 3 hours (plus stops).

Gradients – how strenuous
The walk includes two uphill sections each followed by a downhill.

Terrain – how uneven
Some of the walk is on farm tracks and lanes, some is on footpaths.

Obstacles – stiles, steps etc.
There are several stiles and gates.

Facilities
White House pub does food, but check opening times

Points of interest
Spectacular views of Lancashire and Greater Manchester, upland moors, occasional sightings of skylarks and curlews

DIRECTIONS (Click here for Printable Version)

Ask the driver to put you off at the 901 bus stop on Cragg Road opposite the
Hinchliffe Arms turning.

1. Walk 50 metres back down the road to the start of a terrace of houses and take the track, going off to the right behind the terrace. At the ornate gates take the narrow path going up to the right of the laurel hedge. After a short climb, turn left after the laurel hedge onto a stone paved path heading uphill. At the end of the wall cross the stream, turn right uphill towards a farmhouse. At the farmhouse, go over the stile, and turn sharp right uphill on to a track.

2. This track zigzags uphill for 500 metres, ending up at Bent Close Farm on the right. At the junction just after the farm, turn right along the road for 200 metres. At the cross roads, go straight over onto a tarmac bridleway. Continue past Catherine House Farm (with the chimney) and keep on the track, with the wall on your right. The track continues through a field, still with the stone wall on your right.

3 At the top of the hill, turn right on to a walled wide track. Continue straight ahead on this track for 1 km until you reach a crossroads of paths where you turn left, passing the brick air raid shelter. 150 metres past the air raid shelter, you reach a junction with several way-mark posts. Cross
the wall on your http://healthsavy.com/product/celebrex/ left, by the collapsed stone stile. The narrow
path heads diagonally across a patch of rough moor towards the
embankment of Flints Dam. Cross a stile on to the dam wall and
walk to the end, where crossing another wooden stile into a lane
down to Greave Road.

4 Turn left at the junction with a tarmac lane (known as Eccles
Parlour) and continue on the lane for 750 metres. At the first
junction, bear right downhill then bear right again after Hole
Head farm. After about 500 metres, you reach a T junction
where you turn right then immediately left down Gough
Lane. Continue straight ahead for 500 metres (ignoring paths
going off left and right). Keep an eye out as the lane bends
sharply to the right, take the path off to the left through a
wooden barrier. Follow this path down through the woods
for 500 metres. The path merges with a track and then meets
the road at the bottom of Mill Bank.

5 Turn right up the road for 200 metres and turn left on to a
track that joins sharply from the left. After 50 metres, take
the stone steps on the right through a way-marked gate.
Continue straight uphill through two stiles before coming
to a T junction where you turn right along a track. After 100
metres take the stone path on the left just before the houses.
At the end, turn left along the road and head downhill
towards Soyland village.

6 At the beginning of the village, at Lower Fold, turn left downhill on a grassy track until a gap stile on the right. Go through the stile and follow the path along the wall to the right. Go straight ahead at the gap stile and follow the walled track ahead emerging at driveway of a house on your right. Continue to the end of the terrace, go through a makeshift gate and walled path. The route is now straight ahead, through a field on a flagged path to a stile.

7 When the path reaches the road, turn left and head downhill into
Ripponden. Turn left again on the main road to reach the 901 bus stop at
Brigg Royd or stop of at one of the pubs and cafes in Ripponden.