Askwith Moor and Snowden Crags

Askwith sits under the moor and the moor is the reason to come. The gritted parking area on Askwith Moor Road is the standard start: from it you walk north along the lane, then turn east through the heather past the lip of an old quarry onto Snowden Moor, where a cairnfield and a scatter of carved rocks sit above Snowden Crags looking south over Wharfedale to Otley Chevin. This is registered open country and Natural England records no local dog restriction over it, so within the standard access rules a dog may be on the open moor here. It is keepered grouse moor with sheep on it, and the going is heather, peat groughs and hidden boulders rather than path, so it is slow work even though the climb is small.