Fewston & Timble - short walk

Please take care when using this map as it also includes a longer route.

Start at Swinsty Moor car park 1 at the southern end of Fewston Reservoir Dam.

Leave the car park by the main entrance, cross the road into the wood and take the path to the left downhill to the reservoir and the path that runs along the western shore of Fewston Reservoir. This path is easy to follow and for most of its length is within a few metres of the water 2.

After about 2 miles, a wooden gate with an ‘A’ frame access point leads into the car park beside the A59 at Blubberhouses 3. Turn almost immediately back on yourself, crossing a gated stone stile with a footpath sign and climb a steep pasture. Go through the gate at the top and head diagonally to the left across a broken down wall to the next wall corner. Keep this wall on your right, cross a wire fence and head for a mature oak tree with a gate to the right of it. Cross the stile to join an obvious track: now keep the wall to your left 4.

After the next gateway the wall alongside the track is on the right. Continue through a squeeze stile into an open field 5 and head for the gate straight ahead. Cross the stile next to the gate, follow the remains of a wall before that peters out, and then head uphill towards a solitary tree in an old boundary line. Follow the track that is visible on the ground across to the wire fence with some mature hawthorns beside it. Keep this fence on your left until you arrive at three gates. Go through the middle gate, the track down the hill becomes a lane with a squeeze stile and a footbridge into the wood 6.

Head up through the cleared plantation, to a stoned forest track 7.  Turn left on this track and passing a track on your left; with a footpath into the wood on your right; continue on the track to a ‘T’ junction at the edge of the wood at point 8, turn left down the track to a junction at point 9 and turn right on a grass track along the edge of the wood. Go through a gate on the right on to a fenced grass track, follow this track back to the road at point 10 and back to the car park.

OS Map: Explorer 297 Ilkley and Otley

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