3rd November 2019 - Nab Hill
Walk Details
Distance walked: 10.0 miles
Total ascent: 1825 ft
OS map used: OL21 - South Pennines
Time taken: 5 hrs
Route description: Penistone Hill Country Park-Bronte Way-Old Oxenhope Farm-Old Oxenhope Lane-Marsh Lane-Bronte Way-Harry Lane-Keighley Road-Dark Lane-Worth Way-Bentley Hey-Black Moor Road-Leeming-Leeming Reservoir-Bronte Way-Hambleton Lane-Nab Hill-Nab Water Lane-Isle Lane-Back Leeming-Jew Lane-Oxenhope-Lowertown-Hill House Lane-Hebden Bridge Road-Millennium Way-Shaw Lane-Millennium Way-Marsh Lane-Millennium Way-Penistone Hill Country Park
Not the best of weather this weekend, but today promises to be good enough for it to be worth me going somewhere for a walk. I'm definitely staying local though, so the short drive across to Bronte Country was done for a walk taking in the moors around Oxenhope. I left setting off from home as late as I dared to give it chance to brighten up, so it was 1130 when I arrived at Penistone Hill Country Park. It was worth the delay as it soon brightened up, and I enjoyed a nice bit of autumnal sunshine before the cloud rolled back in and the mist descended. I didn't get much of a view from Nab Hill.
From the car park at Penistone Hill Country Park I crossed Penistone Hill and joined the trail of the Bronte Way. I followed this south to Old Oxenhope Farm, down Old Oxenhope Lane, along Marsh Lane and then down a footpath to cross the line of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. After crossing the line I turned right and followed the path out to Harry Lane where I turned left and walked uphill and crossed Keighley Road onto Dark Lane. I then walked up Dark Lane until I reached the trail of the Worth Way on the left. I made my way north across fields on the trail until I reached a bridleway (difficult to spot) up to the hillside of Bentley Hey and Black Moor Road. After walking south along Black Moor Road I made my way down to Leeming on a path through a disused quarry and then a track to the main road. I crossed the road and took the footpath opposite around the eastern end of Leeming Reservoir to the trail of the Bronte Way, which I followed uphill to the track of Hambleton Lane. I then walked south along Hambleton Lane, took the footpath on the right and made my way west along the northern edge of Nab Hill and down to Nab Water Lane, which I walked down until I reached a left hand bend and the restricted byway of Isle Lane. I followed Isle Lane down to Back Leeming and onto Jew Lane, which took me into Oxenhope. I then turned left onto the road of Lowertown, went straight on at a right hand bend onto Hill House Lane and followed this track uphill until I reached a footpath on the right up to Hebden Bridge Road. It was here that I joined the trail of the Millennium Way, which I followed north down the hillside of Stones to Shaw Lane, down to and across Rag Clough Beck and up to Marsh Lane, then finally up through fields to Upper Marsh Farm and back to Penistone Hill Country Park.
Total ascent: 1825 ft
OS map used: OL21 - South Pennines
Time taken: 5 hrs
Route description: Penistone Hill Country Park-Bronte Way-Old Oxenhope Farm-Old Oxenhope Lane-Marsh Lane-Bronte Way-Harry Lane-Keighley Road-Dark Lane-Worth Way-Bentley Hey-Black Moor Road-Leeming-Leeming Reservoir-Bronte Way-Hambleton Lane-Nab Hill-Nab Water Lane-Isle Lane-Back Leeming-Jew Lane-Oxenhope-Lowertown-Hill House Lane-Hebden Bridge Road-Millennium Way-Shaw Lane-Millennium Way-Marsh Lane-Millennium Way-Penistone Hill Country Park
Not the best of weather this weekend, but today promises to be good enough for it to be worth me going somewhere for a walk. I'm definitely staying local though, so the short drive across to Bronte Country was done for a walk taking in the moors around Oxenhope. I left setting off from home as late as I dared to give it chance to brighten up, so it was 1130 when I arrived at Penistone Hill Country Park. It was worth the delay as it soon brightened up, and I enjoyed a nice bit of autumnal sunshine before the cloud rolled back in and the mist descended. I didn't get much of a view from Nab Hill.
From the car park at Penistone Hill Country Park I crossed Penistone Hill and joined the trail of the Bronte Way. I followed this south to Old Oxenhope Farm, down Old Oxenhope Lane, along Marsh Lane and then down a footpath to cross the line of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. After crossing the line I turned right and followed the path out to Harry Lane where I turned left and walked uphill and crossed Keighley Road onto Dark Lane. I then walked up Dark Lane until I reached the trail of the Worth Way on the left. I made my way north across fields on the trail until I reached a bridleway (difficult to spot) up to the hillside of Bentley Hey and Black Moor Road. After walking south along Black Moor Road I made my way down to Leeming on a path through a disused quarry and then a track to the main road. I crossed the road and took the footpath opposite around the eastern end of Leeming Reservoir to the trail of the Bronte Way, which I followed uphill to the track of Hambleton Lane. I then walked south along Hambleton Lane, took the footpath on the right and made my way west along the northern edge of Nab Hill and down to Nab Water Lane, which I walked down until I reached a left hand bend and the restricted byway of Isle Lane. I followed Isle Lane down to Back Leeming and onto Jew Lane, which took me into Oxenhope. I then turned left onto the road of Lowertown, went straight on at a right hand bend onto Hill House Lane and followed this track uphill until I reached a footpath on the right up to Hebden Bridge Road. It was here that I joined the trail of the Millennium Way, which I followed north down the hillside of Stones to Shaw Lane, down to and across Rag Clough Beck and up to Marsh Lane, then finally up through fields to Upper Marsh Farm and back to Penistone Hill Country Park.
Route map
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Stanbury and Oakworth Moor from the car park on Penistone Hill
Lower Laithe Reservoir
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On the Bronte Way above Haworth..
The skies seem to brightening above Haworth
From Marsh Lane I take the track down to the KWVR line
and cross it just north of the station at Oxenhope
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A bit of autumn colour on Dark Lane above Oxenhope..
On the Worth Way below the hillside of Bentley Hey
Views of Oxenhope and its surrounding moorland..
Haworth from the footpath up to Black Moor Road
There are great views across the moorland of Bronte Country, and of Oxenhope, Haworth and Oakworth as I walk south along Black Moor Road..
Nab Hill and Leeming Reservoir
The village of Leeming below
I take a footpath through a pocket of access land that was a disused quarry down to Leeming..
Leeming and Black Moor
Looking back down to Leeming Reservoir as I follow the Bronte Way up onto Nab Hill..
Haworth Moor, Oakworth Moor, Leeming Reservoir and Black Moor from Hambleton Lane
Thornton Moor Reservoir
Haworth Moor, Oakworth Moor, Leeming Reservoir and Black Moor from Thornton Moor
Thornton Moor Reservoir with Denholme in the distance
Looking north across Bronte Country..
..as I follow the path west along the northern edge of Nab Hill. I don't think I'm going to get much of a view.
Misty views from the cairns..
The Stanza Stone of "Mist". Appropriate, given the weather.
Brow Moor, Black Moor and Leeming Reservoir
A partially drained Warley Moor Reservoir from the path from Nab Hill to Nab Water Lane
Nan Scar
Following the byway of Isle Lane down to Back Leeming....
Leaving the back streets of Oxenhope
Mossy walls and autumn colours
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After crossing the Hebden Bridge Road I'm on the Millennium Way down to Shaw
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Penistone Hill and Oxenhope
Looking across to the hiilside of Stones as I follow the path up to Marsh Lane
and to the hillside of Bentley Hey above Oxenhope
I don't know the name of this beck but it made a good subject for a photo with all the moss, leaves and rock around
It's a grey and misty end to the afternoon in Bronte Country as I follow the path from Marsh Lane up to Penistone Hill...
