Ripponden — Sowerby Bridge
Ripsow one
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By a Slow Ways Volunteer on 07 Apr 2021
Description
This is a Slow Ways route connecting Ripponden and Sowerby Bridge.
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This is a Slow Ways route connecting Ripponden and Sowerby Bridge.
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Reviews - 1
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Is this route good enough? - Yes (1)
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Downloads - 4
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Geography information system (GIS) data
Total length
Maximum elevation
Minimum elevation
Start and end points
Ripponden
Grid Ref
SE0404919898
Lat / Lon
53.67555° / -1.94018°
Easting / Northing
404,049E / 419,898N
What3Words
stay.configure.keeps
Sowerby Bridge
Grid Ref
SE0619423476
Lat / Lon
53.70769° / -1.90764°
Easting / Northing
406,194E / 423,476N
What3Words
heads.locals.pink
Ripsow One's land is
| Ripponden | |
|---|---|
| Grid Ref | SE0404919898 |
| Lat / Lon | 53.67555° / -1.94018° |
| Easting / Northing | 404,049E / 419,898N |
| What3Words | stay.configure.keeps |
| Sowerby Bridge | |
|---|---|
| Grid Ref | SE0619423476 |
| Lat / Lon | 53.70769° / -1.90764° |
| Easting / Northing | 406,194E / 423,476N |
| What3Words | heads.locals.pink |
| Pasture | 8.9% |
| Urban | 22.7% |
| Woods | 68.4% |
Data: Corine Land Cover (CLC) 2018
review
Sneil68
23 Feb 2022What looked on the map like a fine off-road route which avoids the busy A58 along a dismantled railway line between two old mill towns, following the River Ryburn mostly through deciduous woodland, in fact turns out to be for the most part on a wet, wintry day a squelch through quagmire.
The problem being that the old railway line passes through an impressively deep rock cutting for about half of its length - which has no drainage. In the boggiest bits the muddy water will even go over your wellies. These are avoidable to some extent if you climb up the sides of the cutting and then follow instead the network of obviously well-walked muddy paths that run along the top.
But if you also add in a section where, amongst some dilapidated huts, horse boxes and rubbish lying about everywhere, there has been a fair bit of flytipping, it all leads to the impression that, certainly in winter, this is a disappointing walk which can be surprisingly hard going in places.
I hope others who may walk and review this route in spring or summer will find it an altogether more pleasant experience!.
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