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550 Upper Dunsforth Map and Directions

Written by the Wanderlust Team

Wednesday, 21 November 2007

550 Upper Dunsforth

Reproduced from Explorer^®1:25 000 scale by permission of Ordnance Survey^® on behalf of The Controller of Her Majesty'’s Stationery Office. ^©Crown copyright 2000. All rights reserved. Licence number 100047589.

Directions

When in doubt look at the map. Check your position at each point. Keep straight on unless otherwise directed.

01 From Post Box in Upper Dunsforth, cross T-junction, road, 200 yards, snickelgate on left (Wildlife Trust info board). Fieldgate.

02 Before fieldgate and troughs, left 100 yards, snickelgate into wood, footbridge, duckboards, snickelgate, field-edge path, snickelgate, 50 yards, snickelgate on right (info board), path, gate.

03 Right to road, 100 yards, road on left (fingerpost) becomes track. Pass house and sheds, ‘gate’, 300 yards.

04 About 50 yards before fieldgate, left, 50 yards by trees to gates with pond to right, 25 yards, right through scrub for ten yards, field-edge path.

05From corner, angle across field if path reinstated to hedge gap (fingerpost behind hedge and out of sight), otherwise stay by edge then left by sweetcorn/thistles or, if gone, by hedge.

06Right to track, becomes grass, fieldgate into field (old sign), path by trees then to right of big ditch, 100 yards.

07 Rickety footbridge on left, immediately right. Left to riverside path (gateway, 10 stiles).

08 Left immediately before a stile to verge with hedge to right (no waymark), left at corner, 50 yards, drive on right through chalets. Left to road in Lower Dunsforth.

09First path on right (garden wall stile, fingerpost), 2 adjacent stiles and left near fence, fieldgate, 100 yards, fieldgate (fingerpost), cross lane, path to right of hedge until 100 yards before corner then angle 1 o'clock to hedge gap and footbridge.

10Large field. If path reinstated follow. We took hedge to right. 100 yards before road path angles across field next to house.

11Right to road back to Upper Dunsforth.

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