NOVEMBER NEWS
Urgent working party request
We have been asked if we can provide some volunteers for a joint working party with Burley House field volunteers this coming Thursday 17 November. The plan is to put down hard-core on the footpath in the entrance area to Burley House field near the Back Lane gate (adjacent to Burley House). This is on our Welcome Way route and has become increasingly muddy due to the increased use of the path and is likely to become worse through the winter. If you are available, please meet Stuart Bottomley at the Back Lane gate at 10.00. The work will involve barrowing and shovelling hard core along the first stretch of the path, so please come prepared. Refreshments will be supplied, and the aim is to finish before 12.00!
October walk
Sixteen brave souls set out in light rain for our October walk, walking along the river and across the fields to Ellar Ghyll and Menston, ending up in the conservatory at Bleach Mill House for very welcome refreshments courtesy of Simon and Sue Richmond. A log fire was even on offer for those needing to thaw out! A great walk which actually ended up in sunshine, but I will never start a walk again by announcing it should be a ‘dry walk’.
November walk
Our next walk is Sunday November 20, meeting as usual in Burley Station car park at 10.00. This time we will head south to Burley Woodhead and along the edge of Burley moor, then west again for refreshments at Clevedon House restaurant before returning via Catton Wood. Approximately 5 miles in total. Now that our mild and mostly dry autumn seems to have rather abruptly ended, please come prepared for muddy paths, and not necessarily a ‘dry walk’! There will be some moderate climbing to get up onto the moor, but the pace will be sufficient to accommodate everyone in the group. No-one will get left behind!
December walk
For the Sunday December 18 walk, Simon and Sue Richmond have kindly offered to provide some seasonal refreshments. Our 5 mile walk will explore some of the lesser known footpaths of Burley Woodhead, with a foray southwards onto the edge of the moor at Stocks Hill.
Otley Brass Band play for the bridge
A fundraising event featuring Otley Brass Band in aid of the Burley Bridge campaign is being held at the Queens Hall on Saturday November 19 at 7.30. Tickets cost £10 including refreshments can be purchased from the Coffee Station, from me (862965)or on the door. This 40 piece band, just back from a tour to Paris, should provide a great evening’s entertainment.
Footpath improvements
We now have landowner permission to replace the field gate on the path from Green Lane to Stocks Hill in Burley Woodhead with a kissing gate. The existing gate is very heavy to lift to open and is beginning to fall apart. Given it is also on the new Welcome Way route, we anticipate much heavier use in the future. We have had the generous offer from two walkers in the village of a donation to cover the cost of purchase of the gate, which is superb. We hope to organise a working party to install the gate and potentially undertake other nearby improvement work in the New Year.
On the subject of the Welcome Way, we can also confirm that a very muddy section of the route further on from Stocks Hill on Burley Moor near Horncliffe Well is going to be radically improved at some point in the winter. Grants have been given to the joint Walkers Are Welcome team (of which Burley is a member) to enable 3 bridges and a section of boardwalk to be installed. Those who walked to Baildon with Colin Speakman during the Festival will remember the struggle to get over this section in comparatively dry conditions. Again, a working party will do the installation jointly with Bradford Countryside Services.
We have been asked if we can provide some volunteers for a joint working party with Burley House field volunteers this coming Thursday 17 November. The plan is to put down hard-core on the footpath in the entrance area to Burley House field near the Back Lane gate (adjacent to Burley House). This is on our Welcome Way route and has become increasingly muddy due to the increased use of the path and is likely to become worse through the winter. If you are available, please meet Stuart Bottomley at the Back Lane gate at 10.00. The work will involve barrowing and shovelling hard core along the first stretch of the path, so please come prepared. Refreshments will be supplied, and the aim is to finish before 12.00!
October walk
Sixteen brave souls set out in light rain for our October walk, walking along the river and across the fields to Ellar Ghyll and Menston, ending up in the conservatory at Bleach Mill House for very welcome refreshments courtesy of Simon and Sue Richmond. A log fire was even on offer for those needing to thaw out! A great walk which actually ended up in sunshine, but I will never start a walk again by announcing it should be a ‘dry walk’.
November walk
Our next walk is Sunday November 20, meeting as usual in Burley Station car park at 10.00. This time we will head south to Burley Woodhead and along the edge of Burley moor, then west again for refreshments at Clevedon House restaurant before returning via Catton Wood. Approximately 5 miles in total. Now that our mild and mostly dry autumn seems to have rather abruptly ended, please come prepared for muddy paths, and not necessarily a ‘dry walk’! There will be some moderate climbing to get up onto the moor, but the pace will be sufficient to accommodate everyone in the group. No-one will get left behind!
December walk
For the Sunday December 18 walk, Simon and Sue Richmond have kindly offered to provide some seasonal refreshments. Our 5 mile walk will explore some of the lesser known footpaths of Burley Woodhead, with a foray southwards onto the edge of the moor at Stocks Hill.
Otley Brass Band play for the bridge
A fundraising event featuring Otley Brass Band in aid of the Burley Bridge campaign is being held at the Queens Hall on Saturday November 19 at 7.30. Tickets cost £10 including refreshments can be purchased from the Coffee Station, from me (862965)or on the door. This 40 piece band, just back from a tour to Paris, should provide a great evening’s entertainment.
Footpath improvements
We now have landowner permission to replace the field gate on the path from Green Lane to Stocks Hill in Burley Woodhead with a kissing gate. The existing gate is very heavy to lift to open and is beginning to fall apart. Given it is also on the new Welcome Way route, we anticipate much heavier use in the future. We have had the generous offer from two walkers in the village of a donation to cover the cost of purchase of the gate, which is superb. We hope to organise a working party to install the gate and potentially undertake other nearby improvement work in the New Year.
On the subject of the Welcome Way, we can also confirm that a very muddy section of the route further on from Stocks Hill on Burley Moor near Horncliffe Well is going to be radically improved at some point in the winter. Grants have been given to the joint Walkers Are Welcome team (of which Burley is a member) to enable 3 bridges and a section of boardwalk to be installed. Those who walked to Baildon with Colin Speakman during the Festival will remember the struggle to get over this section in comparatively dry conditions. Again, a working party will do the installation jointly with Bradford Countryside Services.