(S/E) From the garden of the Shibden Mill Inn, turn right through the car park out to the road, and turn left. Bear left at the bottom of Whiskers Lane, then turn right into Simm Carr Lane by the bridge.
(1) Just before Simm Carr Farm, turn right onto a footpath with a Calderdale Way waymark. Turn left over a stile to cross a field diagonally to another stile in the far corner, then walk uphill along the field edge, which develops into a slabbed path.
(2) At the top, turn right along a walled path and walk through Addersgate Farm. Exit via the entrance track and pass a couple more properties until you reach a road. Go straight on (Paddock Road).
Beyond two stone buildings on your right, turn left into Cowling Lane.
Just after a large boulder blocking the lane to traffic, turn right and follow the wall uphill. At a farm entrance, go straight over between more boulders into a tree-lined path, still on the Calderdale Way. On meeting a walled track turn left, slightly uphill, then swing left behind another farm.
Cross a farm drive and head uphill, eventually passing an old farmhouse on your left and then the premises of a commercial vehicle business.
(3) At the main road, turn right briefly then cross carefully into Cross Lane. Pass a chapel and then turn left in the hamlet of Pepper Hill. Turn right into Bridge Lane, an unsurfaced no-through road. On reaching the tarmac road at the far end, turn left then right into Brackens Lane.
(4) When the road bends right, turn left into a walled farm track, and at the end keep on in the same direction beneath beech trees.
Beyond a stile, swing left down a cattle-eroded bank to cross the stream via a small footbridge (not the farm bridge) and pass a Brontë Way waymark.
Walk uphill to a gateway and keep straight on through the end of the farmyard to a squeeze stile into a field. A short way across the field, level with a stile where the Brontë Way turns right, turn left and walk behind the bungalow, before joining the farm drive via a stile on your left.
Turn right and pass the end of a metalled road, continuing on a descending unsurfaced track. After 1⁄2 mile, at the end of the track, turn right and then right again to reach the main road (Brighouse Road).
(5) Cross over and follow Jackson Hill Road opposite. Take a footpath along a driveway on the right, then turn left down a grassy path along a tumble-down wall and out to the road by a farm. Turn right down the pavement then go a little way uphill along Deanstones Lane, before turning left onto a footpath, signposted to “Hazelhurst”.
Follow the path along the edge of the deepening valley on your left, before crossing an unsurfaced driveway to follow a walled path, ignoring a right turn. Exit over some grassed-over spoil heaps to a narrow road below a high stone retaining wall. Follow the road left, then turn left into a farm drive signposted “Hanging Royd”.
(6) Before the farm, swing right and follow a stony zig-zag path down to a pumping station.
Follow the road beyond and turn left at a T-junction. After entering woodland and before the remains of a building, go through a gateway on the right.
(7) Exit the woodland and follow the remains of a wall to a stile into a walled green lane that leads up to the main road (A647).
Turn left and walk down through Catherine Slack, then turn left into Swales Moor Road.
Rejoin the Calderdale Way on your left opposite the first buildings you encounter.
(8) Zig-zag right then left as you descend through woodland, keeping right at a path junction. Shortly after a gate into more open country, keep left on a briefly paved path, losing height gradually to a stile.
Follow a fence to meet a track that passes Scout Hall, and follow the driveway beyond out to the cobbled Lee Lane.
(9) Head downhill then leave the road at the next bend, along a footpath above a house. After two stiles the path climbs a little before levelling off. At an indistinct fork, turn left (if you reach a stile heading up to the stony Hag Lane, you’ve missed the turning).
Follow the vague path downhill to pass above and beyond a stone building, to a stile on your left leading into enclosed fields (ignore a stile into woodland ahead).
Walk downhill (to the left of the wall) to a stile into a walled and paved track. Turn left to return to the Shibden Mill Inn. (S/E)
