Walk
3 Hole Bottom and Garnshaw
1 miles (3km)
Walk along Main Street towards the crossroads, passing on the left the Village Institute opened in 1903 (page 80). Part of the building on the opposite side of the main road was the original Clarendon inn, later the Jolly Miners (page 75). Cross the B6265 and follow the surfaced road straight ahead with its gradual climb up Town Hill. A high wall on the left shields much of the early seventeenth century Town Head Farm, behind which is an impressive barn (page 42).
After passing through a gate the road enters the High Green (1). The wall on the left formed the boundary with the north-west common field and has characteristic large boulders at its base as well as a few ‘anti-jump’ stones along the top. Also on the left is a fine example of a traditional sheep-wash (2), where the animals were penned and then put into a stream that had been dammed.
The road goes through another gate. At the foot of the steep hill ahead it is worth entering the field on the right to see Scale Force (3), an attractive waterfall deriving its name from the Old Norse ‘skali’ (page 16). Return to the road and climb over Scale Haw to reach the hamlet of Hole Bottom (4)
The farmhouse on the left has a 1743 datestone, the ‘WR’ initials referring to its rebuilding by William Rishworth, ‘gentleman’ of Grassington (page 44). On the oppo-site side of the road the first cottage on the right has a Yorkshire sliding-sash window at first-floor level. It was probably built in 1675 for the marriage of Mary Knight and Henry Rathmell.
Those combining this route with Walk 4 pick up the description here. With the cottage behind you, follow the tarred farm road that climbs a hill and runs above the aptly named Paradise Beck. Beyond a cattle grid the right-of-way goes through a series of stiles, although most users seem to stick to the parallel track. This passes farm buildings, the field stretching ahead being New Ears, a name that often causes mirth among those in the know. It comes from the Old English for a rounded hillock or buttock (drop the first letter of ‘ears’ to get the general drift!).
Track and path lead to High Garnshaw Farm (5), owned by the Young family in the eighteenth century and bought by Matthew Wilson of Eshton Hall in 1799 (page 45). Until the eighteenth century the term ‘Garnshaw’ was widely applied to that part of the township north of the turnpike road and west of Hebden Gill.
Keep to the left of the farmhouse garden and turn left onto Tinkers’ Lane. This soon passes through a gate and enters an extension of Hebden’s moorland. The wall to the right forms the boundary with Grassington and also of Hebden’s stinted pasture. It has been built in sections marked by abutting wall-heads, placed close to boulders inscribed with differing initials that probably signify the stintholders responsible for the upkeep of specified lengths.
The track gradually climbs and affords magnificent views over Hebden village and down Wharfedale. Bear left at the point where another track comes in from the right, the route following a wall on the left to reach a marked corner. Turn left over the ladder stile and drop down to Pickering End (6), probably built soon after 1721 when the land formed part of an endowment made by Richard Fountain to fund his almshouses at Linton (page 43).
Turn right before the farm croft as signed, passing through a narrow gate and heading towards the clearly visible ladder stile. This surmounts the gradually curving boundary wall of the north-west common field, which characteristically was loosely oval-shaped. The portion between here and the village was known as Sedbar, from the Old Norse ‘sed-berg’ meaning a seat-shaped hill.
Head across the field to a squeeze stile left of a gateway. Turn left to follow the wall to a ladder stile and then go diagonally down the next field to a gate at the far corner. Follow the track past sheep pens, beyond which you turn right into a walled lane to reach the main road just above the Clarendon inn.
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1 miles (3km)
Walk along Main Street towards the crossroads, passing on the left the Village Institute opened in 1903 (page 80). Part of the building on the opposite side of the main road was the original Clarendon inn, later the Jolly Miners (page 75). Cross the B6265 and follow the surfaced road straight ahead with its gradual climb up Town Hill. A high wall on the left shields much of the early seventeenth century Town Head Farm, behind which is an impressive barn (page 42).
After passing through a gate the road enters the High Green (1). The wall on the left formed the boundary with the north-west common field and has characteristic large boulders at its base as well as a few ‘anti-jump’ stones along the top. Also on the left is a fine example of a traditional sheep-wash (2), where the animals were penned and then put into a stream that had been dammed.
The road goes through another gate. At the foot of the steep hill ahead it is worth entering the field on the right to see Scale Force (3), an attractive waterfall deriving its name from the Old Norse ‘skali’ (page 16). Return to the road and climb over Scale Haw to reach the hamlet of Hole Bottom (4)
The farmhouse on the left has a 1743 datestone, the ‘WR’ initials referring to its rebuilding by William Rishworth, ‘gentleman’ of Grassington (page 44). On the oppo-site side of the road the first cottage on the right has a Yorkshire sliding-sash window at first-floor level. It was probably built in 1675 for the marriage of Mary Knight and Henry Rathmell.
Those combining this route with Walk 4 pick up the description here. With the cottage behind you, follow the tarred farm road that climbs a hill and runs above the aptly named Paradise Beck. Beyond a cattle grid the right-of-way goes through a series of stiles, although most users seem to stick to the parallel track. This passes farm buildings, the field stretching ahead being New Ears, a name that often causes mirth among those in the know. It comes from the Old English for a rounded hillock or buttock (drop the first letter of ‘ears’ to get the general drift!).
Track and path lead to High Garnshaw Farm (5), owned by the Young family in the eighteenth century and bought by Matthew Wilson of Eshton Hall in 1799 (page 45). Until the eighteenth century the term ‘Garnshaw’ was widely applied to that part of the township north of the turnpike road and west of Hebden Gill.
Keep to the left of the farmhouse garden and turn left onto Tinkers’ Lane. This soon passes through a gate and enters an extension of Hebden’s moorland. The wall to the right forms the boundary with Grassington and also of Hebden’s stinted pasture. It has been built in sections marked by abutting wall-heads, placed close to boulders inscribed with differing initials that probably signify the stintholders responsible for the upkeep of specified lengths.
The track gradually climbs and affords magnificent views over Hebden village and down Wharfedale. Bear left at the point where another track comes in from the right, the route following a wall on the left to reach a marked corner. Turn left over the ladder stile and drop down to Pickering End (6), probably built soon after 1721 when the land formed part of an endowment made by Richard Fountain to fund his almshouses at Linton (page 43).
Turn right before the farm croft as signed, passing through a narrow gate and heading towards the clearly visible ladder stile. This surmounts the gradually curving boundary wall of the north-west common field, which characteristically was loosely oval-shaped. The portion between here and the village was known as Sedbar, from the Old Norse ‘sed-berg’ meaning a seat-shaped hill.
Head across the field to a squeeze stile left of a gateway. Turn left to follow the wall to a ladder stile and then go diagonally down the next field to a gate at the far corner. Follow the track past sheep pens, beyond which you turn right into a walled lane to reach the main road just above the Clarendon inn.
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