Ogden

Start from the far end of the car park near a gate onto a track alongside the wood point 1. Go through a kissing gate in the wall on the left into the wood. Follow the path for approximately 80 metres to a path junction with a ‘Woodland Trail’ sign. Here turn left and head downhill through the wood and a gap in the wall to the waterside. Turn right and walk along the path between the water and the wall. Go through the gate before the head of the reservoir just as the footbridge comes into view and turn sharp right and follow the path for about 70 metres up hill through the wood to the stoned track. Turn right and follow this uphill to a stile at the side of a gate onto a track 2. Turn left along the track alongside the woodland edge for a while until it starts to move away from the edge of the wood and off onto open country. Continue along this track and through the metal gate. The path continues slightly off to the left and is a well-defined track. Continue until you reach the end of the broken down dry-stone wall on your right. 

At the way-marker post and at the end of the wall 3 turn left and descend the steps to the old dam wall and up the steps on the other side 4. This leads to a stile (left stile) in a wire fence and out onto open moor. Follow the clear path over the moor to the highest point and pause there to look at the view. Continue forward again with the windfarm now obvious on your right. Eventually the path crosses the bridge at Skirden Clough 5 and shortly after joins the wide track known as Withens New Road 6. Here there is a choice to make. If you do not wish to visit the wind farm, turn left down Withens New Road to Ogden Reservoir, across the dam 7 passing Calderdale Council's information centre, uphill to the T- junction and turn left to the car park.

If you'd like to see the windfarm, turn right at Withens New Road 6 to the large property (formerly a pub) on the skyline 8, then right along the road to the windfarm entrance, car park and information point 9. To return, retrace the route back to the house at 8, turn left and follow the wide track down hill to Ogden Reservoir, across the dam 7 passing Calderdale Council's information centre, uphill to the T- junction and turn left to the car park.

 
OS Map: Outdoor Leisure Map 1

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