10.0 miles.
Explorer Maps Nos OL30, - Yorkshire Dales Northern & Central Areas
A walk suitable for just about anybody, - using mostly
well sign-posted footpaths.
There are no gradients to worry about, and navigation is very straightforward.
The walker is rewarded with some superb views of Penhill in particular
and Wensleydale in general. As you approach Redmire, there is also
a highly rewarding view of Bolton Castle.
this is a walk that can be thoroughly recommended for just about
any time of year.
HOWEVER, following heavy rainfall the River Ure can flood and cover
the footpath between Wensley Bridge and Lords Bridge. If this is
the case then the alternative is to take the track from Wensley
to Bolton Hall.
For a Memory Map overlay of the walk described, please select the
above link.
(Overlay made with Version 4 of Memory Map)
Some new mapping software is now availabe which you may want to try, - QUO mapping. You can download the software for free from the link below, complete with demonstration maps. Having installed QUO, you can import and export Memory Map overlays. Thus YOU DON'T NEED Memory Map to use any of the overlays provided on the Grey Panthers website, - just use QUO!!
Start from the centre of Leyburn (we use a small car
park opposite the Polic Station), - SE11112 90624.
Take the road towards Wensley village, passing the Bolton Arms Hotel.
Head downhill for about 200 yards, and on your left there is a footpath
sign leading you across fields in the direction of Wensley. This footpath
is waymarked, but at one point you come to a stone wall where you
have to turn sharp left and continue for about 100 yards.
The footpath enters Wensley village, where you continue along the
road past the parish church.
Here, turn left along the road and cross the River Ure by the road
bridge.
Immediately on your right is a footpath that follows the river bank
to bring you to Lords Bridge (where you have a fine view of Bolton
Hall).
Cross the river at this bridge, and immediately take the footpath
on your left that takes you to West Wood. This footpath is NOT well
sign posted, and it helps to use the 1 : 25000 map at this point.
Continue along the track through West Wood, leaving at the gated exit
for the footpath to Redmire.
In Redmire, head North along the main street.
At the top of the village, where the road bends right, there is a
footpath that takes you across a couple of fields in the direction
of Redmire Station. Turn right on the road, but do NOT continue under
the railway bridge, Instead, take the track that leads to Jonas Place,
- a holiday camp.
From here, there is a footpath that takes you beside the railway line,
then over the line and across fields, in the direction of Preston-under-Scar.
When you reach the road, follow the road until you come to a footpath
sign directing you to the village.
Head East along Preston-under-Scar's main street. Leaving the village,
take the footpath to Gillfield Wood.
From here, there is a well-marked field footpath that takes you to
the Leyburn Shawl, which you follow East all the way back to Leyburn.