(S/E) From the front of The Fountaine Inn, cross the green and the packhorse bridge by the ford. Turn right, with Linton Beck now on your right, past the second footbridge on the village green.
At the entrance to Linton Laithe, turn left in front of Grange Farmhouse. Follow the track then, at the entrance to the farmyard, go through a hand-gate on the left. Follow the wall to another gate and continue to a third gate through the wall on the right.
(1) Turn left along the track for a short distance, then cross a stile on the left signposted ‘FP B6160’. Climb between two trees and follow the path ahead under power lines to another stile in a corner.
Follow the wall to the right of a small wood until a further stile, then cross the next field, passing to the right of a stone barn.
(2) Cross a ladder stile and continue in the same direction across the next field; on the far side, climb another stile in the wall on the right and turn left. Cross the next field to meet the B6160, where you turn right along the road. After a short distance, turn right by an old guidepost into a walled lane.
Follow this lane uphill past a barn conversion and continue for half a mile to Thorpe village, ignoring a turning to the right by a farm on the left.
(3) In the center of the village, keep left at the triangle, past the Manor House, and climb out of the village, past a farm on the right. Follow Kail lane round a left-hand bend, ignoring the signposted footpath to Burnsall.
The road winds down to the B6160 once more, where you cross onto a footpath signposted ‘Mill Lane Hebden 1⁄2 ML’.
Follow the wall on your right through a succession of fields divided by gates, the last marked with a public bridleway fingerpost, then descend the last field to a hand-gate into Anniversary Wood, planted to celebrate the anniversaries of the Yorkshire Post and the Dales National Park.
(4) Bear right down the grassy slope to the river Wharfe. Cross either via the stepping stones or the suspension bridge. Turn left along the riverbank and follow it upstream for a straightforward mile and a quarter.
(5) Beyond a brief wooded section, the path leaves the riverbank to cross a footbridge and meadow to the right of a water treatment works. At the far side, cross a track (if the river is not too high, Linton Church can be visited via stepping stones to the left) and go through a gate into a track.
Pass a house and fish farm then, when the lane bends right, follow the Dales Way footpath on the left signposted towards Grassington. This path rejoins the river and runs through a series of waterside meadows to an old stone barn.
(6) Turn left here, crossing the footbridge over Linton Falls.
Follow the winding path to the right around the houses on the opposite side of the river (noting but not crossing Little Emily’s Bridge on the right) to reach Church Road. Turn right here, and follow the road to a junction.
Bear left and climb the hill to a crossroads. Go straight on and follow the road past the Memorial Institute and Reading Room back to Linton and The Fountaine Inn. (S/E)
