🥾 Walking route
A Pennine Journey
North Yorkshire
- 📏 11.6 km · 7.2 mi
- ⛰ +388 m
- ⏱ 3 hr 15 min
- 🐕 On lead
Walk stats
- Distance11.6 km · 7.2 mi
- Elevation+388 m
- Duration3 hr 15 min
- DifficultyChallenging
- Route typeLinear
- TerrainLimestone uplands, walled lanes and a steep rocky gorge
- Best seasonLate spring to early autumn
- DogsDog friendly on leads, livestock present
About this walk
This 11.6 km section of A Pennine Journey threads through some of the finest limestone landscape in North Yorkshire, climbing a total of 388 m as it links quiet hamlets with high open ground. The route sets out across pastures scattered with ancient tumuli, a reminder that these hills have been walked and farmed for thousands of years.
You drop into the tiny settlement of Feizor, tucked beneath pale crags and long a welcome halfway pause for walkers crossing this corner of the Yorkshire Dales. From here the path rises again through walled lanes and sheep country before reaching Trow Gill, a steep-sided limestone gorge that funnels you between towering walls of rock. It is a dramatic and memorable stretch, and a fitting climax to the day.
Nearby, the celebrated cavern of Gaping Gill, the woodland cascades of Clapham Falls, the curious folly known as The Grotto and the handsome village of Austwick all reward anyone with time to linger. Allow around 3 hours 15 minutes for the walk itself, and expect a properly challenging day out.
Route map
Route line drawn from OpenStreetMap footpath data. Numbered markers are waypoints on the route; amber star markers are points of interest a short detour away.
Waypoints along the route
9 waypoints along the way
- 1
Start: Giggleswick
- Start
The start of the route.
- 2
tumuli
- 3
Bells Wood
- 4
Elaine's Tea Rooms
- 5
Flascoe Bridge
- 6
Spring Valley Sike
- 7
Thwaite Scars
- 8
Trow Gill
- 9
Finish: Clapham cum Newby
- Finish
The end of the route.
Worth a short detour
Points of interest just off the route, look for the amber markers on the map.
The Grotto
~292 m off the route
Clapham Falls
~435 m off the route
The Lake
~357 m off the route
Thwaite Plantation
~207 m off the route
Gaping Gill
~243 m off the route
Route & waypoint data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).