Walk · North Yorkshire

Eavestone Lake & Fishpond Wood

Sawley · HG4 3HD

3.4MILES

1h 40mON FOOT

130mCLIMB

CircularSHAPE

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

Off-road 90% 10% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 75%Lane & track 15%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

HG4 3HD

Directions to the start →

Three and a half miles and roughly an hour and a half around a monks' fishpond turned wooded lake, following the Ripon Rowel east through Fishpond Wood and back by Picking Gill nature reserve, on rooty, rocky woodland paths with a gritstone crag standing over the water. Start from the small roadside parking on the lane at Eavestone, south-west of Sawley village and signed off the B6265 Ripon to Pateley Bridge road; there are no facilities at the start, so bring what you need. It is quiet, shaded and one of the better spots in the district to let a steady dog off in the trees, but the lake sides are steep and the surrounding fields are grazed, so leads on where you leave the wood.

THE SMALL PRINTOff lead with good recall in the woodland; on the lead through the grazed fields on the Ripon Rowel and at the steep lake edges.

House rules, decoded

Off-lead allowed

Livestock — leads on

REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE

GRID · 54.1005, -1.6402

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.GPS-ROUTES.CO.UK/ROUTES/HOME.NSF/ROUTESLINKSWALKS/EAVESTONE-LAKE-WALKING-ROUTE

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