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Saturday Walk 25th October – easier category – 7 miles from Horsforth
October 25, 2025 @ 9:15 am – 12:15 pm
The next walk is a nice relatively easy walk starting from the free Fink Hill car park in Horsforth. There is a short hill fairly near the start of the walk (Hunger Hills area) and a gradual climb back up to Horsforth from the River Aire during the final third of the walk. In total there is over 900 feet of ascent, but it doesn’t make this a hard walk. I estimate that it will take us a maximum of 3 hours. We will have lunch at the Greenhouse on Horsforth Town Street at 12:15. This is an excellent vegan café which we’ve used before. They’ve introduced a restriction on numbers for the first time – 10 max, so I could take 12 on the walk but only 10 for the lunch. I’m sorry about this, but they say they get too busy on a Saturday lunchtime to accommodate and more. Note that there is no cow’s milk served in hot drinks. They like the idea of pre-orders for the food, so please have a look at the menu and let me know what you would like to eat. I love the food here and I’m not a vegan. We’ll change out of our boots at the cars and then walk up Town Street.
https://www.thegreenhousehorsforth.co.uk/menu
The walk will start from the Fink Hill car park in Horsforth at 9:15am. This was a free car park next to Hall Park but we may well have to pay, so bring a card/cash etc. See attached map.
There are no toilets at the start of this walk.
A lovely, varied walk around parts of Horsforth that takes in Hunger Hills, the canal at Rodley and Cragg Hill.
We will walk from the car park up to Hunger Hills, where there are great views, then drop down to the canal at Rodley. From there we walk by the canal to Newlay where we cross the river and walk alongside it for a while. We come up and away from the river to cross the A65, up onto Outwood Lane and back via Cragg Hill and Featherbank.
Much of this walk is on decent paths but there are a couple of stretches where we walk through woods and by the edge of a field.
We may encounter some muddy stretches on this walk, especially if we have any rain between now and then. There aren’t really any areas where we’re likely to encounter livestock and stiles are few and far between on this walk.
Please wear appropriate clothing and footwear, which take account of the weather forecast, and bring a drink. I do my best to assess the weather and the likely walking conditions but would ask everyone to decide whether a particular walk is right for them on that day. Please note that everyone taking part in the walk does so at their own risk.
Here’s the link for those of you who have the OS Map App. It should appear in the tab labelled “Bookmarked” when you download it.