Fewston & Timble Ings Woods

Leave the car park point 1 by the main entrance; do not take the first narrow road but the second road downhill to the left into the dip in the road. Here you'll see a gap in the wall on the right leading to a gate onto a Yorkshire Water permissive bridleway. Follow the bridleway running between the wall and fence until you enter the wood, via another gate. Follow the track alongside the wall to meet the forest track at the crossroads point 2. Turn left and follow the track up a slight rise to a junction at point 3 where you turn right and follow this track passing a track on the right to point 4 just before a barn on the left. Turn right through the trees to a grassed track below the building and turn left to the bridle gate and road crossing at point 5.

Cross the road and via another equestrian gate follow the tree-lined track down to the stream at point 6 and turn left alongside the stream and up a short, very steep climb to follow the fenced grassy path alongside a field to meet a lane at point 7. Turn right along the old unsurfaced lane and through a gate at point 8. Here a further two gates may be across the lane, please leave the gates in the position they were in.

Follow the track with the stream on the right around the edge of the fields and into the wood. Continue for 50 metres until you meet a grassy unsurfaced forest track at point 9. Now, turn right and follow this track past a junction on the right to the corner at point 10 where you turn the corner and follow the surfaced track uphill passing dead end forest tracks and rides on either side to the junction at point 11 near some ponds. The track you meet is a bridleway which, if you turn right, leads out on to Blubberhouses Moor.

Turn left and follow the surfaced track passing Red Gate at point 12 via the equestrian gate at the side and continue to a stile on the left into the field at point 13. Turn left over the stile on the public footpath through fields to the farmstead point 14. Cross the stone stile in the wall and go through the corner of the garden following the way markers. Head for and cross a stile at point 15 at the bottom of the meadow following the fence to a stile at point 16. Here turn right and follow the track to cross another stile onto a lane at point 17.

Turn right up the lane passing Cherry Tree Cottage on the right to the public road at point 18. Turn left following the road for a short distance and then turn right along the public footpath at the bottom of the house (Rues Farm) point 19. Follow the old track and enter the wood. Continue to follow the way-marked path up to point 20.  Turn left and follow path through woods to the track at point 21. Cross the track which runs left to right, taking the track in front heading down hill to the corner at point 22. Follow the track round to the right and back to original point 2. From here retrace your steps back to the car park point 1.

OS Map: Explorer 297

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