(Pathfinder Guide Yorkshire Dales - Walk#15 7 Miles, 3 Hours)
After a day off from walking and visits to Kirkby Lonsdale, Sedbergh and Settle, we chose to visit Skipton market the day after the above drive with a walk in the afternoon at Ribblehead.
So after a scenic drive we parked by the side of the road opposite a rather full lay-by at ribblehead (Near the station Inn)
The weather was warm, but cooler than the hot and humid days previous, perfect walking weather.
The route took us across a fairly busy wide track directly to and then under the Ribblehead railway viaduct of Settle-Carlisle railway fame. Much work was carried out in the 1990`s to repair the viaduct and the line thankfully remains open(and quite busy, by the number of trains we observed during the course of our walk).
Once under the bridge it became obvious that most were simply parking, looking at the bridge then returnnig to the car park, and the track ahead became much quiter, and opennig out into open dales.
The 3 Yorkshire peaks of Whernside, Pen-Y-Ghent and Ingleborough were all easily visible for much of this low level flat (but very splendid) walk.
Pressing on along mainly good tracks and passing several farm steads (some abandoned and derelict) we turned back towards Ribblehead and the viaduct became visible again in the distance.
The final stretch of the walk took us back to the viaduct approaching level with the railway over the bridge, and then decending down adjacent to it, and back along the wide track again to the car park.
We arrived back at the car at 16:20 having taken around 3 hours around this interesting, very scenic low level walk. Highly recommended.
Our Walk Score: 7.5/10
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