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Walk · North Yorkshire

Denton to Askwith by Low Park Road

Denton · LS29 0HG
N 880 YD
2MILES
55mON FOOT
55mCLIMB
Linear — plan the returnSHAPE
Off-road 5% 95% shares tarmac with cars
Lane & track 5%Road with traffic 95%

Our drawing of the route — the shape of the walk, not a navigation aid. Carry OS Explorer on the hill.

Starts at
The junction of Denton Road and Smithy Lane at the top of Denton, LS29 0HG LS29 0HG
Finishes at
The Penny Bun, West Lane, Askwith LS21 2JQLinear — plan how you get back
Parking
Roadside on Denton Road in Denton, free, four or five spaces on the verge; there is no car park at either end, and at the Askwith end you are on West Lane or in the pub car park if you are eating ther
Directions to the start →

The lane link between the two smallest villages on this side of Wharfedale, and the way to walk to a pub from Denton, which has none of its own. Drop down Denton Road to the valley floor, turn east on Low Park Road and follow it and then West Lane all the way into Askwith, with the Wharfe below on your right and the whole face of Ilkley Moor opposite. It is single-track tarmac nearly the whole way, with grass verges, high hedges and very little traffic, but there is no pavement and no continuous verge, so a dog stays on the lead from start to finish. The Penny Bun at the Askwith end takes dogs in the bar, the snugs and on the terrace, which gives this two miles a proper finish.

THE SMALL PRINTCountryside Code: keep your dog under effective control and on a lead around livestock. This is a public road with no pavement and no continuous verge, and the fields either side are grazed, so it is a lead walk throughout rather than a place to let a dog range.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on
REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE
GRID · 53.9366, -1.7827
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Also in Denton
N 1 MILE
Walk SOME LIMITS

Denton Moor by Low Badger Gate

LS29 0HG
4.8 MI · 2H 30M · 65% OFF-ROAD

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.

Off-lead OK Livestock — leads on
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