A walk from Guiseley -  Distance approximately 4 miles.

Courtesy Ian Hobson...Thanks Ian

A good place to finish this walk is Harry Ramsden's Fish and Chip Restaurant, so I'll start there, but you can start anywhere along the route, as it's a 'circular' walk.  It's an easy walk but may be muddy in places so boots or strong shoes are recommended. If further incentive is needed, there are two or three pubs along the route.

Next to Harry Ramsden's is the Damn Yankee Restaurant and to the right is a sign-posted footpath.  Follow the footpath through a small cops, and then pass through a gap-stile and into a field.  Immediately turn right through a gateway and keep to the left of the field, passing farm buildings and a house overgrown with ivy, to reach Ings Lane.  Turn left along the road and at The Ings public house turn right along a short road leading to Netherfield Road.  Here turn right and continue on passing Wendy Wools and Brook Crompton, immediately after which is a row of terraced houses.

Take the footpath between the terraced houses and the field and continue on, crossing a road, and eventually emerging at a junction of roads and paths. Here turn left up a track with houses and gardens to the left and right, cross the road at the top of the track and bare left along a stony track, which bends to the right.  There are views over Guiseley to your left and the track gradually narrows and leads downhill between fields and towards houses.  Just before the first house on the right, turn sharp right and pass through a gap-stile.

Climb the steep path and keep to the left of the field to reach a wooden stile in the corner.  Over the stile, follow the narrow footpath passing under an over hanging holly bush and negotiating a stile into the corner of a field. Join the track in the center of the field and make for the farm buildings ahead (Bracken End Farm).  Climb the wooden stile and pass to the right of the farmhouse. The views ahead and to the left are of Wharfedale and Ilkley Moor. Turn left at the end of the farm track and go downhill to the road. (To shorten the walk continue straight ahead, skipping the next paragraph)

Here turn right along the road, taking care, as for a short distance there will be no pavement.  As you come over the brow of the hill you will see The Chevin public house ahead. Cross the road at the junction and pass through the pub car park to follow a muddy footpath down through fields, with a stone wall first to the right and then to the left.  To the right are stables and a house with a lane leading to it. Turn left along the lane and continue on to the road. Cross the road, pass through an old stone stile and follow the path over the fields and stiles, making for the left of farm buildings (Intake Farm). Walk along the short farm track, and turn right at the end.

The track narrows as it goes downhill between fields, rises to cross the railway line, and then widens to become a tarmac road. At the junction with the A65 turn right (to shorten the walk turn left and continue on to Harry Ramsdens) and cross the main road at the pedestrian crossing.  Continue straight ahead along the road into Menston, with a wall to the left and houses to the right.  After the park on the right and at a sharp right-hand bend, keep walking straight ahead along a narrower road with fields to the left and houses to the right. Where the pavement ends, cross from right to left where a narrow pavement continues, but take the next left up a wide track passing stables on the left.

At the end of the track pass through an old kissing gate and follow the green track as it snakes left and right crossing a stream. The track climbs slightly, towards hills ahead, and a gate leads to the right of stone buildings (unfinished at time of writing). Turn left but keep to the right of the buildings and climb a stile, not seen at first. Follow the green track with views of Guiseley and the western end of the Chevin ahead, eventually reaching the stone dwellings (Thorp Farm) ahead. Here turn right along the stony track but turn left just before the road and follow the path down through a long narrow wood.  Eventually pass through a stile ahead and to the right and cross the A65 to Harry Ramsdens.

Have you got an interesting walk round Guiseley? Send it to me peter@guiseley.co.uk