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474 Thornton Rust Map and Directions

Written by the Wanderlust Team

Friday, 30 November 2007

Reproduced from Yorkshire Dales Northern & Central areas Explorer^® 1:25 000 by permission of Ordnance Survey^® on behalf of The Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. ^©Crown copyright 2005. 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.
Left from parking area to road.
02.
Ladderstile on left (fingerpost Addlebrough), ladderstile (arrow), uphill by wall to right, ladderstile on right (arrow) and left uphill by stream, stile (arrow), path, skirt area of fenced young trees and return to streamside, gateway.
03.
Ladderstile (arrow) and keep gently uphill on path about 25 yards away from wall as it curves round, stile, stile, ignore a path forking right after a sleeper footbridge.
04.
Just past a wall coming down hillside left to ladderstile (arrow), duckboards, steep climb.
05.
On top, west to view Semer Water, watch for steep drops, retrace steps. 200 yards to cemented cairn, immediately ladderstile (GR 947881), faint path at 1 o'clock i.e. c120 degrees for 200 yards over hillock (white top post on ground), path steep down hillside towards nearest field corner on plateau.
06.
At handful of rocks and waymarked post turn right, 50 yards, then path angles across wall corner and uphill angling away from wall, not the grassy track downhill to left.
07.
Ladderstile, 10 o'clock on path for 50 yards, left to path/track at fingerpost, 50 yards, ladderstile/fieldgate, track for 2/3 mile, fieldgate, track crosses field, right at wall to track (fingerpost), ford and fieldgate, stony track back to village.