| JOURNAL 2000 |
| North Craven Heritage Trust |
Autumn landscape with two peaks Len Moody
Leader - Ray Jessop
4 July 1999
Meeting Place - Bentham Grammar School Car
| The school had kindly agreed to our using their car park as a meeting place. We crossed the Wenning and turned into the lane by the Punchbowl Inn and after a hundred yards or so turned into the woods following a path to a bridge over the Eskew Beck which for much of its course forms the boundary between Yorkshire and Lancashire. This bridge was in fact designed and built by pupils at the Grammar School as part of a design and engineering project. The route then climbed a series of steps up the steep side of the valley which ended at a stile leading into a wide meadow. Continuing up the now gentle slope of the valley we came to the access road which took us to Robert Hall and the footpath to Greenfold Farm. Leaving the main path we made for the hamlet of Higher Perries then ascended a grassy slope that brought us to Park Lane. This little lane connects the River Wenning near Tatham Bridge with the River Hindburn at Mill Houses and we were on its highest point between the two valleys and followed it as far as Russells Farm. We then crossed a series of meadows where our path met the Mill Houses, Low Bentham Road, at Ashleys where we rested a while until everybody caught up. We now had just over a mile to go and a few people opted to avoid a very muddy and slippery slope that lay ahead and use the road back to Low Bentham but the majority climbed the nearby stile and negotiated the descent down to Greenside. We then crossed the fields to Hunters Barn, over a stile bearing the legend “Beware of the Bull” (we satisfied ourselves that there was no bull) and rejoined our outward route after reaching the Robert Hall access road. R.J. | ||
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Autumn landscape with two peaks Len Moody |