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  WALK ROUTES 

Long Walk:

Leader Tommy - 16 miles Challenging

From coach drop off point head NE on Long Lane towards Churn Milk Hole, East on the Pennine Way, turning left NE at road, follow road to grid ref. SD85607 73241.

Leave road on path NE above Pen-y-Ghent Gill (this path is narrow and stony/rocky in places), rejoin road @ SD872 744 towards Hesleden Bergh, take path on left above Halton Gill towards Foxup, turning W at Low Bergh onto Foxup Road(path) turning S to Plover Hill & onto Pen-y-Ghent.

From Pen-y-Ghent follow Pennine Way N then W then SW to Horton in Ribblesdale.

A minimum of approx 2 hours is required to reach Horton in Ribblesdale after turning S to Plover Hill, so there is an option to shorten this route if there is not enough time to do Plover Hill and Pen-y-Ghent

 

Short Walk:

Leader Keith - 7 miles Moderate

with hill climb

From Horton in Ribblesdale, north past the Crown Hotel on the Pennine Way, SE towards Brants Gill Head then S back onto the Pennine Way and onto Bracken Bottom, Dub Cote, up onto Long Lane, heading S to Helwith Bridge, Foredale, Cragghill Farm, follow the river Ribble on the Ribble Way back to Horton 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Medium Walk:

Leader Eddie- 10.5 miles Moderate

From Horton in Ribblesdale, north past the Crown Hotel on Pennine Way to Old Ing, Gods Bridge, Nether Lodge, Low Birkwith, Selside, then West of Boring to Sulber(Sulber Nick) and back to Horton in Ribblesdale.

August Walk - Horton in Ribblesdale

Organised by Tommy Hogg

Sunday August 9th 2015

The long walk is linear from near Helwith Bridge and is challenging.

The Medium and Short being circular starting from Horton in Ribblesdale.

 

Further information:

 

Toilets and parking in Horton in Ribblesdale.

 

Horton in Ribblesdale is a small village in the Craven district of North Yorkshire. It is situated in Ribblesdale being a stop on the Settle–Carlisle Railway to the west of Pen-y-ghent. Horton in Ribblesdale is the traditional starting (and finishing) point for the Three Peaks walk. The Pennine Way and Ribble Way footpaths pass through.

The village has two pubs, The Crown Hotel and The Golden Lion, a village store and the

Pen-y-ghent cafe and Blind Beck tea rooms

The Grade I listed village church of St. Oswald has a complete Norman nave, south door and tub-font and is the most complete of the Norman churches built in the Yorkshire Dales.

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