Distance Covered: 9 miles Time to complete walk: 4.5 hours
Safety Tips: Take care crossing over the roads as they are busy ones.
Take plenty of water as a lot of the walk is in the open without shade. Wear sunscreen if a hot sunny day. Keep out of the private areas which are well signposted.
A walk around the countryside surrounding the beautiful country house of Harewood House. Visit the house before or after your walk. A good challenging walk for those who don't relish the orienteering part of walking. All the paths are obvious, there are steady inclines on the walk. Look out for birdwatchers at the beginning of the walk looking to catch sight of the magnificent Red Kite which are prominent in the area. For more information on Harewood House click the link: https://harewood.org/
The Harewood Walk
From Middlesbrough follow the A19 until it joins the A1 southbound. Take the exit which is junction 47 and will be signposted to Leeds Bradford Airport. Follow the signs to the airport until you come to a roundabout clearly signposted to Harewood House at the left turning which is the A61. Park in the car park at the Village Hall. The parking is free but there is an honesty box.
Map of the Harewood walk
The Walk
From the car park turn right and follow the estate road.
Follow the estate road to the right
The road emerges to a view of Almscliffe Crag to the right. Keep on the estate road until you come to a junction.
Emerge to the view on your right
Reach the junction
Turn left at the junction and pass some estate buildings and over a bridge.
Go through gate and pass by estate buildings
Head over the bridge
Keep ahead at a junction of paths passing by the buildings and follow the path as it swings to the right passing by a high wall.
Follow the path as it swings to the right and past a high wall
Pass through a cattle grid and follow the path as it turns to the right
Follow the path as it bends to the right
Follow the road up past some buildings and into the woods ahead
Follow the path to the buildings
Head past the buildings
Enter the woods
Follow the track in the woods and look for a sharp left turn after 100m
Look for a sharp left turn
Follow the track up and then take the track signposted to the Leeds Country Way to the left
Follow the Leeds Country Way
Follow the track as it meanders through the woods until you come to a bridge
Reach the bridge
Go over the bridge and through the gate onto the path which crosses over pastures. You will glimpse Harewood House in the distance to your left.
Head through the gate
Follow the path ahead
View of Harewood House
Eventually the path leads to a gate to a busy road.
Go through the gate
Cross over the road carefully. Head onto the country road ahead
Follow the country road ahead
Look for a public bridleway sign to the left
Join the track to the left
Continue on the track through a gate onto fields until you come to Biggin Farm
Go through gate
And another
Biggin Farm
Walk past the farm buildings and continue on the track ahead
Follow the track ahead
Go through a gate and keep to the path with the hedge to your left
Go through gate and keep the hedge to your left
When you come to another gate go through it and turn left following the signpost
Follow the signpost to the left
Follow this path as it winds to the right and past the entrance to Gateon House Farm. Look out for a sign to the left at a white bungalow.
Follow the track as it bends to the right
Look for a sign to the left near a white bungalow
Follow this track passing the bungalows to your right and through some woods until you eventually come to a minor road.
Follow the track through the woods
Join the road ahead
Turn left passing a farm and turn left again
Pass the farm
Keep to the right again staying on the road
Keep on the road to your right
Keep on the road until you reach a junction. Cross the road and pass by some cottages and through a gate onto a field
Pass to the right of the cottages
Head through the gate
Keep to the left and head down the field until you come to an open field
Head down the track
Look for a clear yellow post ahead and walk towards it across the field
Cross the field heading towards a yellow pole
Arrive at the yellow pole
Follow the yellow pole trail until you come to a stile onto a field
Follow the yellow pole
Cross the stile and head to the right and a grassy track on the banks of the River Wharfe
The banks of the River Wharfe
Go over stile
This path follows the river for some time. Eventually look for another yellow sign to the left.
Follow the River Wharfe
Turn left at the signpost
Head up the rocky path until you come to the main road
Keep on the rocky road
Arrive at the main road
Cross this road very carefully as it is very busy. Head to the left back into Harewood and take the road to the right which is Church Lane and follow the road back to the Village Hall carpark.
Harewood
The A61 from Leeds city centre to Harrogate passes through the village. The A659 from Collingham joins the A61 outside the main entrance to Harewood House (/ˈhɑːrwʊd/ HAR-wuud) to descend the slopes of the Wharfe valley before continuing towards Pool-in-Wharfedale.
The Harewood Arms public house and hotel is located opposite the entrance to the Harewood Estate.
Other facilities in the village include a Post Office, a medical centre, mobile library, community cafe, and a village hall.
It is the location of the UK's longest motorsport hillclimb, Harewood speed Hillclimb (pronounced HAIR-wuud). The exterior set for the soap opera Emmerdale is located in the Harewood estate.
Harewood House, a country house was designed by architects John Carr and Robert Adam and built between 1759 and 1771 for Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood. Its garden was designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown and spans 1,000 acres (400 ha).
Harewood House
Still home to the Lascelles family, Harewood House is a member of the Treasure Houses of England, a marketing consortium for ten of the foremost historic homes in the country. The house is a Grade I listed building and a number of features in the grounds and courtyard have been listed as Grade I, II and II*.
The Lascelles family claim to have arrived in England with William the Conqueror, during the Norman Conquest of England. The family had settled in Yorkshire by 1315 as the "de Lascelles". Prosperous members of the county gentry, the Lascelles served as members of parliament and held prominent military positions. In the late seventeenth century the family purchased plantations in the West Indies, and the income generated allowed Henry Lascelles to purchase the estate in 1738; his son, Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood, built the house between 1759 and 1771.
Edwin initially employed the services of John Carr, an architect practising in the north of England and previously employed by a number of prominent Yorkshire families to design their new country houses. The foundations were laid in 1759, with the house being largely complete by 1765. The fashionable Robert Adam submitted designs for the interiors, which were approved in 1765. Adam made a number of minor alterations to Carr's designs for the exterior of the building, including internal courtyards.The house remained largely untouched until the 1840s when Sir Charles Barry was employed by the Henry Lascelles, 3rd Earl of Harewood, the father of thirteen children, to increase the accommodation. Barry added second storeys to each of the flanking wings to provide extra bedrooms, removed the south portico and created formal parterres and terraces.
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