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Saturday Walk c.6.6 miles Easy Category:- Fewston and Swinsty Reservoirs
January 24 @ 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
The walk around the 2 reservoirs is described by the Yorkshire Post as being 7 miles long but I’ve plotted it on my OSMaps App and it reckons 6.6 miles – so that’s the general distance. There is very little climbing (most of it up the steps when you leave the Swinsty reservoir). The OS Map App calculates that there’s 430ft in total. I think this walk will take around 2.5 hours.
The walk will start from the car park at Blubberhouses near the western end of Fewston reservoir (by the A59) at 9:30am. Note that we have to pay to park there now.
https://www.yorkshirewater.com/things-to-do/reservoirs/fewston-reservoir/ so £3 for 6 hours. You need a card or the RingGo app they mention in this link.
There’s not much to describe about this walk as we just follow the paths around the 2 reservoirs. We are going in an anti-clockwise direction. There are toilets less than half-way around at the Swinsty Moor car park. We might encounter some muddy stretches but there are no stiles and no livestock either.
We are going to the Fewston Café for refreshments afterwards. It’s not run by the Fewston Farm (which runs the Farm shop) and the farm website is out of date with regard to the café. It’s a 3-minute drive eastwards on the A59. It’s not a great menu from what I can see but it’s all there is in the area. The lady who runs it (Wendy) is on holiday at the moment. She’s back on Wednesday so I’ll make contact then to book and see if she needs a pre-order. I’m hoping you might be able to open this Facebook link.
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