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c. 7.3 miles Goit Stock Waterfalls & Hewenden Viaduct walk
March 15, 2025 @ 9:30 am – 1:30 pm
The walk will start from the car park at Woodbank Nurseries, Harden Road, Bingley, BD16 1BE at 9:30am
As it’s a large carpark, I suggest we all park on the right-hand side as you drive into the car park – up against the fence boundary. This is a free car park. We can use the toilets in the garden centre before the walk, but please make sure you arrive early enough to do this. It opens at 9am.
The walk starts along a few roads, with pavements, before we join a quieter lane which passes houses and joins Harden Beck. We entre Goit Stock Wood and waterfalls of differing sizes. It’s a lovely route – trees and water, fabulous in my book. We pass a mill complex; now apartments and walk along their access road before more trees and a stretch above a steep wooded bank. We get our first view of the Hewenden viaduct around now. We cross the B6144 and then approach the viaduct and eventually pass under the arches. There’s a short steep section as we have to reach the path which goes over the viaduct. There are great views over Hewenden reservoir at this point too.
The path over the viaduct is called the Great Northern Trail and is the route of an old railway line. If you’re tall enough (I’m not!) you will be able to look over the walls to see the view! After crossing the viaduct, we walk down a lane and enter more woodland. We walk on lanes, pavements and through fields before entering the St Ives Estate where we walk by a pond and then descend through more woods and join a lane back to Harden Road, which we cross to arrive back at Woodbank Nurseries.
The Potting Shed café, in the garden centre, would like us to do a pre-order, so please have a look at the attached menu and let me know what you would like to eat. They also do homemade soup with homemade bread but can’t tell us until a couple of days before what flavour it might be.
There were some very muddy sections near stiles today and previously it was very muddy through the woods near the waterfalls. There is a variety of stiles on this walk and there may be livestock in the fields. There were horses today.