Walk · North Yorkshire

Gouthwaite Reservoir Circuit

Pateley Bridge
Wath Light Hill Nidd Yates Wood Gouthwaite Reservoir N 880 YD © OpenStreetMap contributors
6.1MILES
2h 39mON FOOT
100mCLIMB
CircularSHAPE
The route A-road B-road Lane Track Path Water Woodland
Off-road 60% 40% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 30%Lane & track 30%Road with traffic 40%

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.

A six-mile lap of the reservoir that fills the floor of upper Nidderdale, out along the quiet Wath Road on the west bank to Ramsgill and back down the eastern shore on the Nidderdale Way, with barely 100 metres of climbing and about two and a half hours of walking. Start from the small roadside car park above Wath, a mile north of the Sportsman's Arms; the summer Sunday DalesBus 821 also runs up the dale from Pateley Bridge. Gouthwaite is a Site of Special Scientific Interest full of wintering wildfowl and the shore fields are grazed, so dogs stay on the lead the whole way round and should not go in the water.

THE SMALL PRINTDogs on leads throughout: Yorkshire Water asks for a short lead from 1 March to 31 July for ground-nesting birds and all year near farm animals, and no swimming in the reservoir because of blue-green algae.

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Livestock — leads on
REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE
GRID · 54.1063, -1.7853
SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.KOMOOT.COM/GUIDE/199848/HIKING-AROUND-GOUTHWAITE-RESERVOIR
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2.4MILES
1:15TIME
60mCLIMB
80%OFF-ROAD
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Two and a half miles over the river and round the hamlet of Bewerley, an hour and a quarter, flat riverside meadow and a short lane climb into the village with a handful of gates and one stile. Start from Southlands car park at the bottom of Pateley Bridge high street, pay and display but cheap, and the number 24 bus from Harrogate stops on Nidd Walk a minute away. The fifteenth-century Grange Chapel sits behind a gate in the village and is worth the two-minute detour; the meadow between the bridge and Bewerley carries sheep for most of the year, so leads on there, but the Nidd below Pateley Bridge is shallow, gravelly and perfect for a dog to lie down in on a hot day, and the riverside path stays passable through winter although it will be muddy.

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