[Closed] Help me with a route from wycoller to Haworth (West Yorkshire)

The Bronte Way links these places . . . and Strava Heatmap suggests it does get ridden . . . but I've no idea how "rideable" it might be.

The bronte way looks perfect but is it a footpath?

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I've run the Bronte Way, there's a fell race from Wycoller to Howarth, mostly a footpath, from memory the bit below Watersheddles reservoir wouldn't be particularly nice on a bike. There's also a few styles made from recycled plastic! Bad enough to get yourself over let alone with a bike. Not something I've ever been tempted to ride TBH.

Head back up the hill from Wycoller to the track you'd followed on your way out (no way to avoid that bit), turn left and follow the Bronte Way up to the road then alongside the road until you get to the dam of Watersheddles res. Follow the road down into the valley floor and just after it flattens and you have Ponden reservoir on your R there's a track to your right that goes over the reservoir and climbs up the other side to meet up with the Bronte Way. (there's a track before this just as you drop down the hill but I've never been on it) Follow the BW to the dam and turn right up the hill on the Pennine Way. Keep going south until you come to Bronte Bridge, turn left and follow the track out to the road. From here it's probably easiest just to take the road into Howarth but you could go over Penistone Hill and through the old quarry workings but beware NIMBYs, they were moaning about runners disturbing wildlife not long ago.

It's all a bit convoluted but that's just the lay of the land really.

Ignore me.

Don't know where you're travelling from or parking, but please take note that the A6033 between Hebden Bridge and Oxenhope will be closed every weekday from July 6th until November.

@offcumden thanks. My friend sent me that this morning. Apparently its in the top 50 most dangerous roads which was a surprise.

I'm setting off from my house on my bike and riding over ogden to start.

There must be a better way of linking wycoller with some nice off roads route to somewhere heading back in the direction of Bradford or Keighley?

Anyone?

Thanks

@damascus - there's very little. Plus it's a bit different asking to get to Keighley than to Haworth and much more so for Bradford. Where *exactly* do you want to get back to?

To get to Keighley (raises the question WHY?) follow the route I gave above to Watersheddles dam then take the upper road to Oakworth, when you get to the Pennine Way follow that north and when you get to Old Bess (an old boundary stone) turn right down to Keighley Tarn and then down to Slippery Ford, all this is cheeky. From Slippery Ford there's a little bit of road until you can drop down into Newsholme Dean which leads to Goose Eye. Just road from there to Keighley.

Bradford - dunno, never go there.

@damascus I wasn't aware that the A6033 was that dangerous either!

You could pick up the Bingley Bash route in Cross Roads (just outside Haworth) which would obviously take you into Bingley. Then use the canal tow path back into Keighley.

Not really sure where you are starting from, but I’d not follow any route trying to cross from Walshaw Dean towards Top Withins or Bronte Falls. Either not permitted route or rough or both. Have a look at Calder-Aire Link (Clough Foot – Walshaw – Shackleton (or over Coppy) – Grainswater Bridge, up Thurrish Lane). Plenty of choices from then on towards Ogden, Oxenhope or Haworth.

Apparently that’s now changed a bit, after many complaints. Six weeks shut then traffic control. Calderdale Council’s excuses and the stuff about dangerous road is rubbish – there were 3 fatal or serious accidents in 2019 between Pecket Well and Oxenhope – but only one on the closed stretch (and then not really where the main work is being done).