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468 Hebden Map and Directions

Written by the Wanderlust Team

Friday, 30 November 2007

Reproduced from Yorkshire Dales Southern & Western 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.
From village shop, left 100 yards, cross main road, 50 yards, bridge on right and immediately left to track. Gate to grass path, stile/gate, angle up to stile in corner, wall to left, stile in corner and straight on 100 yards then by wall to right, curve right then path angles 10 o'clock to foot of scar.
02.
Small gateway, path uphill steepens then wall to right, gateway at top, cross field and pass house, cattlegrid and large gateway.
03.
Left to grassy path beside heather (fingerpost), pass reservoir, slab bridge just before fieldgate (fingerpost), path descends gradually, fieldgate, fieldgate.
04.
At third fieldgate, option to take path on right straight uphill then angle 10 o'clock on narrower path to Pillars.
Otherwise, 100 yards, path becomes gravel, swings left to beck. Two fords close together over a side stream are avoidable.
05.
Left to beckside path/track (4 easy fieldgates).
06.
Stone bridge to track, becomes metalled into Hebden.
07.
Waterfall option: Fieldgate, green ‘huts’ above and below, (fingerpost signed Edge Top 1/2 ML), path 200 yards to fall.