Kilnsey Crag - Hubberholme - Cow Close Gill - Arncliffe

The next day on our way to Hubberholme we stopped at the trout ponds at Kilnsey Park to see Kilnsey Crag, the limestone outcrop that is 50 metres high and half a mile long. Our main walk started at Hubberholme with in upper Wharfedale with its lovely old church and bridge. We walked pass Yockenthwaite with its packhorse bridge and turned round a little further at the bronze age ring cairn. Although many historians call it a stone circle, these stones are in fact the kerbstones of what remains of a burial cairn where a tribal chieftain was buried. We drove a short distance to Cray. From there Frank walked up to Cow Close Gill. It is situated on the flanks of Buckden Pike and tumbles down the fell in four large drops. On our way back to Pateley Bridge we detoured to Arncliffe. It is a small village in Littondale, a tributary valley of Wharfedale. We climbed up to the top of the steep fell to the north of Arncliffe to Old Cote Moor and enjoyed the fantastic views.