Thursday, 3rd July 2025
| Walk: | River Wharfe, Skyreholme, Trollers Gill, Kail Lane, River Wharfe | ||
| Start Point: | Burnsall Bridge | Grid Reference: | SE 031 611 |
| Distance: | 8 miles | Ascent: | 800 feet |
| Time: | 4.5 hours | ||
| Weather: | Sunny and windy at times | ||
| Comments: | Having navigated Trollers Gill in 2012 and 2014 I decided to visit it again but on a shorter walk this time. It is only 0.5 miles long but great care is needed along the narrow rocky route. |
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Burnsall Bridge
Dales Way beside the River Wharfe
Simons Seat comes into view . . .
further along the River Wharfe
Approaching Trollers Gill . . .
Skyreholme Beck travels underground . . .
making it possible to navigatethe limestone gorge
Supposedly the haunt of the "Barquest" or "Barguest" . . .
the terrifying spectral hound of Craven . . .
and which may have even been the inspiration for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story "The Hound of the Baskervilles"
But it's also the home of a lead and fluorspar mine last worked in the 1960s
Finally opening out the path leads to a footpath and the route back