Walk · North Yorkshire

Twisleton Scars and Scales Moor limestone pavement

Ingleton

6.7MILES

4hON FOOT

300mCLIMB

CircularSHAPE

Off-road 95% 5% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 55%Lane & track 40%Road with traffic 5%

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.

Six and three quarter miles and about four hours across one of the largest sheets of limestone pavement in England, out along the scar top with Ingleborough and Whernside filling the sky, down to Chapel-le-Dale and back on the old Roman road. The clints and grykes are hard walking and there is peaty moor between them; park on the verge at Twisleton Scar End on Twisleton Lane above Ingleton, or start from Ingleton and add two miles. Limestone pavement is the single worst surface for dogs' pads and the grykes are leg-breakers, so pick your line carefully and consider boots; this is open access land requiring short leads from 1 March to 31 July, sheep are on it all year, and there is no water between Ellerbeck and Chapel-le-Dale.

THE SMALL PRINTShort lead on open access land from 1 March to 31 July and near sheep at any time. Deep grykes in the limestone pavement can trap and break a leg; little water on the route.

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Livestock — leads on

REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE

GRID · 54.1668, -2.4487

SOURCE · HTTPS://WALKINGAWAY.UK/2024/06/01/SCALES-MOOR-AND-TWISLETON-SCAR-TO-CHAPEL-LE-DALE/

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