Walk Wharfedale from Bolton Abbey, Wharfedale
Stunning river walk
This 7¼ mile, Grade 2 (Easy), easy-to-follow, hand-crafted walk, complete with GPS Waypoints, starts at Wharfedale in the Yorkshire Dales & will take you about 3 hrs to complete.
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Detailed walk route map PDF | |
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| Walk No.: | ny147 | |
| Length: | 7¼ miles (11.5km) | |
| Ascent: | 210 ft (64m) | |
| Time: | 3 hours | |
| Grade: |  | |
Route outline for this walk:
Wharfedale - Bolton Abbey - The Dales Way - The River Wharfe - Wharfedale - Pickles Beck - Stead Dike - Posforth Gill - Black Sike - Bolton Abbey Aqueduct - Barden Bridge - Bolton Abbey Aqueduct - The Strid - Strid Wood - Cavendish Pavilion - Sand Holme - Bolton Priory - Bolton Abbey - Wharfedale
Points of Interest/Notes on this walk:
Bolton Priory near Bolton Abbey is a ruined 12th-century Augustinian monastery abandoned in the 1539 Dissolution of the Monasteries ordered by King Henry VIII.
Peaks, Summits and Tops reached on this walk:
 0 English Mountains |
 0 Wainwrights |
 0 English Nuttalls |
 0 English Deweys |
 0 Wainwright Outlying Fells |
 0 Marilyns |
 0 Bridgets |
National Trails & Long Paths included on this walk:
Part of this walk follows a section of The Dales Way, a 130km (81 miles) linear footpath connecting Ilkley in West Yorkshire, England with Bowness-On-Windermere in Cumbria, England. The Dales Way is waymarked by named posts. For more walks that include a section of this trail see The Dales Way.
Free-to-access Interactive Walk Planning Maps:
1:25,000 scale OS Explorer Map (orange/yellow covers):
1:50,000 scale OS Landranger Map (pink/magenta covers):
An Interactive Walk Planning Map for OS Landranger 104 Leeds & Bradford, Harrogate & Ilkley is not currently available
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