Walk · North Yorkshire

Askrigg, Mill Gill Force and Whitfield Gill Force

Askrigg · DL8 3HJ

3.5MILES

2hON FOOT

150mCLIMB

CircularSHAPE

The route A-road B-road Lane Track Path Water Woodland

Off-road 90% 10% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 65%Lane & track 25%Road with traffic 10%

Our drawing of the route, over road and path data from OpenStreetMap. It shows where the walk goes and what it goes through. It is not a survey and not a navigation aid — carry OS Explorer on the hill. Off-lead information here is what walkers reported or what signage allows — never our advice. Whether and when a dog is off the lead is the owner’s decision and legal responsibility; keep dogs under control near livestock and follow signs on the day.

Starts at

DL8 3HJ

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Three and a half miles in about two hours to two hidden waterfalls in a deep wooded ravine, on field paths and a narrow, rooty, often muddy gorge path with steps and a short scramble at Whitfield Gill. Start at St Oswald's church in Askrigg, where there is free parking on the cobbles outside the Kings Arms; the Little White Bus links Askrigg with Hawes and Leyburn. The gorge path is close to a steep drop into the beck and is no place for a dog off the lead, and there are stone squeeze stiles on the field sections that a wide dog will not fit through; the beck below the falls is shallow and cold for a drink on the way back.

THE SMALL PRINTLeads in the gorge - the path runs along a steep unfenced drop into the beck - and through the grazed fields. Stone squeeze stiles too tight for a broad dog.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on

REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE

GRID · 54.3078, -2.1035

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.WALKINGENGLISHMAN.COM/DALES20.HTM

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