Walk · North Yorkshire

Denton Moor by Low Badger Gate

Denton · LS29 0HG

4.8MILES

2h 30mON FOOT

200mCLIMB

Out & backSHAPE

Off-road 65% 35% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 10%Lane & track 55%Road with traffic 35%

Our drawing of the route — the shape of the walk, 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

The junction of Denton Road and Smithy Lane at the top of Denton, LS29 0HG LS29 0HG

Parking

Roadside on Denton Road only, free, room for perhaps four or five cars on the verge without blocking farm access; there is no car park anywhere in Denton and the lane carries tractors, so park tight i

Directions to the start →

Denton is a hamlet of about a hundred people with no shop and no pub, so what it has is the way out of it. Smithy Lane leaves Denton Road at the top of the hamlet and runs north-east as a single-track lane, then becomes Low Badger Gate, an old walled track that climbs steadily onto Denton Moor with the length of Ilkley Moor behind you across Wharfedale. The moor here is registered open country under the CRoW Act and carries no local dog restriction at all, which is not true of every grouse moor in this valley, so it is a rare one where a dog is welcome on the open ground within the standard rules. Sheep graze the walled fields the whole way up and the moor is keepered, so a lead is the sensible default rather than an occasional courtesy.

THE SMALL PRINTOpen access land: GOV.UK requires dogs on a lead of no more than two metres from 1 March to 31 July for ground-nesting birds, and at all times around livestock. Natural England records no local dog restriction over Denton Moor as at 30 July 2026. Sheep in the enclosed fields along Smithy Lane and Low Badger Gate all year.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead allowed

Livestock — leads on

REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE

GRID · 53.9366, -1.7827

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.GOV.UK/RIGHT-OF-WAY-OPEN-ACCESS-LAND/USE-YOUR-RIGHT-TO-ROAM

Denton Moor by Low Badger Gate

House rules, decoded

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