Route
Description: Full-length Calder & Hebble Navigation CanalRoute: Sowerby Bridge to Wakefield route
Length: About 24 miles
Length: About 24 miles
Duration: 13 hours (10 hours moving time)
Type: Come and Go
You can come and go as you please, but the full route will be from Sowerby Bridge train station, heading through Elland, Brighouse, Mirfield, Dewsbury, Horbury, Wakefield, stopping off at the famours Brookfoot Beach, and Horbury Beach (near Ossett Brewery) to finish at Fall Ings which is a 15 minute walk to Kirkgate Station or a 15 minute walk to Sandal & Agbrigg Station and so is good for services via Leeds or Dewsbury or Huddersfield.
We've walked most of the Calder and Hebble Navigation Canal a few times, between Sowerby Bridge, Savile Town (Dewsbury), and Wakefield, though not quite as far as Fall Ings, being about 25 miles and about 13 hours with about 9 hours moving time according to Strava.
We propose a group walk with multiple points to join and leave, ideal points being:
| Dst | + | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sowerby Bridge (train station) | ... | ||
| 2.6 | +2.6 | Salterhebble A good first break point. Sights: Aquaduct carries the canal over the river. |
🅿️ Lockkeepers, Parking Off A6026 Wakefield Road Off A629 Huddersfield Road by Stainland Road |
| 3.8 | +1.2 | ⊩ Elland Bridge, Gasworks Lane |
Vehicle Loitering possible on Gasworks Lane |
| 4.5 | +1.3 | Park Nook Lock | Good for short break |
| 5.1 | +0.6 | Cromwell Bottom Nature Reserve | 🅿️ Parking |
| 6 | +0.9 | North Cut, and Brookfoot Beach which is good for a riverside rest and lay down | ️️🅿️ Parking on North Cut but not adjacent premesis |
| 6.7 | +0.7 | Brighouse public toilets next to Wilko | 🚻 train station |
| 7 | +0.3 | Brighouse Basin. Good lunch spot. | 🚻 Toilets nearby at Lidl |
| 9.7 | +2.7 | Bradly BP Station | Shop but no toilets Here is the split to Huddersfield |
| 10.7 | +1 | Wood Lane Bridge | Pickup or dropoff point |
| 12.1 | +1.4 | Mirfield Lidl Near Train Station |
🚻 Toilets at Lidl |
| 13.7 | +1.6 | Calder Road Bridge, Dewsbury | Ravensthorpe Train Station |
| 15.4 | +1.7 | Lock Street, Dewsbury | By the split to Saviletown. Car loitering seems permissable. |
| 16.6 | +1.2 | Split to Horbury Beach (0.2miles) and to Ossett |
Healey Road Ossett (Bus Service: 102, Bus Stop ID: 45020136) |
| 18.1 | +1.5 | Horbury Bridge | Horbury Bridge (A642, Bridge Road, Netherton Lane, and buses) |
| 19.8 | +1.7 | Broad Cut, Navigation Inn. | Possible parking at the Navigation Inn, and at Broad Cut Road, and maybe in the car parks at either end of the moorings. Conditions may apply. We cross the river here to avoid the cow field with partially collapsed towpath. |
| 21.3 | +1.5 | Thornes Flood Bridge 30 Good resting point |
.... |
| 21.4 | +0.1 | Monkton Road | 🅿️ Monkton Road parking |
| 21.8 | +0.4 | Wakefield Denby Dale Road | Toby Carvery |
| 23 | +1.2 | Heworth Gallery | .... |
| 23.8 | +0.8 | Fall ings, Doncaster road | buses, 15 minute walk to Sandal & Agbrigg Station, 15 minute walk to Kirkgate Station |
Impassable Areas
The canal towpath is largely impassable:
- Wakefield between 27 Thornes (Denby Dale Road) and 28 Fall Ing (Doncaster Road).
- We will divert to suburbia between Denby Dale Road and The Wakefield Hepwporth gallery
- Brighouse Basin and Anchor Pit Brigde 9
- We will divert to Armytage Roadm Huntingdown Road, River Street
- The Canal & River Trust map does show a footpath so we will scout this area
Other than these points, the route is easily navigable with any closures and diversions well signed.
Updates and Blog Posts
Updates are on the Calder & Hebble blog posts.
Other walks you can join are on the Come and Go blog posts.
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