Moody Moors

A walking alert for today, January 4:

The Ramblers Association
Winter Festival Highlight Walks, 2009

Yorks
Moody Moors
West Yorkshire
Date: 4 January 2009
Start town: Ogden, Causway Foot Inn
Grid Reference: SE0631
Start time: 13:00
Estimated distance: 7 miles
Contact name: Murial O’ Flaherty
Contact phone: 07981 106470

This brooding walk under Bronte country’s moody skies gives hardier walkers the chance to explore delphs, cairns, windmills, and unsurpassable views from Yorkshire’s open access land.

Festival goers will start from the dog-friendly Causeway Foot Inn and walk up past Ogden and Thornton reservoirs, to join the Bronte Way and the moorland ridge. There stop and admire sweeping views of the Haworth moors – the inspiration for Wuthering Heights. Next, a detour onto open moor for a wonder amongst the disused ‘delphs’ (quarries) and sheltered stone cairn viewing points that pockmark the scrubby land. A trig point facing 20 working wind turbines spells the edge of the access land and the sign for walkers to drop down a cobbled lane into woodland, skirt the Ogden reservoir, and head back to the Causeway Foot Inn to sample their ‘excellent’ food and drink in front of a roaring fire.

Categories: Alert, Haworth