{"id":158,"date":"2023-09-29T22:39:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T21:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ilkleymoorbarmap.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2023-09-29T22:39:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T21:39:33","slug":"walk-3-oxenhope-circular-leeshaw-reservoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ilkleymoorbarmap.com\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"Walk 3 : Oxenhope Circular (Leeshaw Reservoir)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Oxenhope circular walk passing Leeshaw Reservoir, a natural bird sanctuary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a difficult walk up steep inclines with parts of the route in (or after) rainfall turning into streams with mud and poor footing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If setting off in the Winter at noon from Oxenhope station you will be back there for 4.30 before the light fades quickly, (if you are a regular walker and do not need to stop en route)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Always wear boots that cope well in mud and running water. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check out the predicted weather for the day so you have suitable outer wear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take Hiking Poles for more stability, this covers difficult terrain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Exit Oxenhope station left towards the overspill car park<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Continue a short way on the narrow made road, Mill Lane, to turn left into the overspill car park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Continue past a detached house on your right to a footpath past the Engine Shed on your left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Continue straight ahead with Bridgehouse Beck on your left hand side on a well defined path until a turn left over a metal bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end go up the stone step stile facing you leading onto the KWVR Steam Railway crossing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cross with care to climb the steps at the other side up to a bench and small wooden gate<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Go through the gate and ascend this steep hill keeping the drystone wall to your left until the top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pass through the wooden swing gate and turn immediately left, past “Three Chimneys” house (Bents House) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Continue on “Perks” delivery path from the Railway Children Film with a stone wall to your right and the gardens of houses to your left<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The path continues through a stone gap stile <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the end of this path walk down to the main road, cross over with care and turn right walking a short distance before the first left hand lane<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Continue on Moorhouse Lane until you reach pasture and a stile into the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Walk across the field to a small metal gate exiting past Hoyle Syke farm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pass the farm and walk ahead to turn a corner heading right with a footpath sign bearing left up ahead, follow this sign<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Walk on this path with a stone wall and stream to your left <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Exit by a metal kissing gate<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Continue straight ahead zig zagging left then right between a row of cottages<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Continue through the stile at the end of the narrow path<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Go straight across the field to exit between two stone pillars<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Walk past Pin Hill End Farm down the lane to exit opposite Hawksbridge Lane <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turn immediately right up Moorside Lane and walk a short distance up the hill with a field on your left<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turn left at the first road off onto Lee Lane behind the row of cottages <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Continue straight ahead passing “The Lee” farmhouse on your left and follow the now unmade track as it bends upwards towards Leeshaw Reservoir <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pass the Reservoir run off on the right<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Continue on the track as it bends right on the side of the reservoir <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Continue on as the path straightens out ahead<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Follow the path as it bends steeply left uphill towards a farm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ignore the first public footpath sign to your left onto pasture and continue the steep ascent past the farmhouse <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the next footpath sign go on the Calder Aire Link<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Go through the metal gate with far reaching views to the Moors and the Reservoir and start the gentle descent on the well defined path<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This track is often muddy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Go through the first gate where much of the lower section starts to form a stream after any rain<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Past a second gate and on a further wet and muddy path to emerge with another Calder Aire link footpath sign pointing left<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Continue on the lane ignoring the next Calder Aire link sign down through a hamlet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Walk straight on until the top of Hawksbridge Lane<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Descend the lane<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Go past the dairy farm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At the end of Hawksbridge Lane there is a junction with the main road<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cross the road to retrace your steps back through Pin Hill End farm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pass through the field and the zig, zag to the kissing gate<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here turn immediately right through the farm yard instead of going through the gate on the route from the station<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Open the gate usually by removing a camping tie hooked through the wrought-iron and out onto a path which is walled on each side<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Continue down the path to the bottom where there is a stile in the left hand corner <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Continue over the stile until a little bridge to your right which can be ankle deep in water to get onto it<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cross the bridge and follow the footpath left <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cross over the stream and up the other side<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Walk diagonally to a gate in the wall<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Exit the gate again walking diagonally towards the bottom football pitch at Oxenhope F.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Continue with the stone wall to your left until you reach the gate into the second (sloping) football pitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Go through the gate and across the pitch diagonally to exit onto the drive from the football club<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Continue until the main road and turn left here to go past the Bay Horse Pub and down the road back to the station <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Difficult Oxenhope circular walk with long distance views over Leeshaw Reservoir and the Moors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hard-walks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ilkleymoorbarmap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ilkleymoorbarmap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ilkleymoorbarmap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ilkleymoorbarmap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ilkleymoorbarmap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":53,"href":"http:\/\/www.ilkleymoorbarmap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"http:\/\/www.ilkleymoorbarmap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ilkleymoorbarmap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ilkleymoorbarmap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ilkleymoorbarmap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ilkleymoorbarmap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}