🥾 Walking route
Farmland, Big Skies and Birds of Prey Walk, Brimham Rocks
North Yorkshire
- 📏 8.4 km · 5.2 mi
- ⛰ +190 m
- ⏱ 2 hr 15 min
- 🐕 On lead
Walk stats
- Distance8.4 km · 5.2 mi
- Elevation+190 m
- Duration2 hr 15 min
- DifficultyModerate
- Route typeLinear
- TerrainField paths, farm tracks and moorland edge
- Best seasonLate spring to early autumn
- DogsDog-friendly on leads near livestock
About this walk
Starting from Summerbridge in Nidderdale, this linear route climbs steadily onto the high farmland fringing Brimham Moor, opening up the wide skies and long views that give the walk its name. The ascent of around 190 metres is spread across gentle field paths and quiet tracks, making it a manageable moderate outing of just over five miles.
The route passes High Gilmor Farm and skirts close to Brimham Lodge Farm, with the famous weathered outcrops of Brimham Rocks SSSI rising on the horizon. Look out for kestrels, buzzards and other birds of prey hunting over the pasture and rough moorland edge, a habitat they share with skylarks and curlews in season.
Beyond the rocks, the path brushes past High Wood and the open expanse of Brimham Moor before dropping back down towards Summerbridge. Keep an eye out for the small spring known as Adam's Ale, one of several quiet features tucked into this varied landscape of farmland, woodland edge and gritstone moor.
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
3 waypoints along the way
- 1
Start: Summerbridge
- Start
The start of the route.
- 2
High Gilmor Farm
- 3
Finish: Summerbridge
- 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.
Brimham Lodge Farm
~350 m off the route
Brimham Rocks SSSI
~338 m off the route
High Wood
~242 m off the route
Brimham Moor
~338 m off the route
Adam's Ale
~347 m off the route
Route & waypoint data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).