Shibra three

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I walked this route again, in the opposite direction, before I read Irene’s description, to find the correct entrances/exits from the paths, and this is what I successfully walked.
After passing near some of Bradford’s grander buildings the route goes up steps behind the cathedral and on up back streets and a buses-only road to cross the busy A650 at pedestrian lights. A short way up Bolton Road there is a cobbled turnoff which the footpath starts from. This goes through woods, and past Spink Well and under a pylon. It feels quite isolated and yet it is not far above the main road. It comes out over some gravel, onto Kings Road close to another pylon.
Soon after crossing at the busy crossroads, you arrive at Hollin Close Lane, which is a puddly dirt track. A little way along here, the route turns right just before a house, up a narrow, walled footpath, then between some metal posts and onto a grassy footpath. This appears to be a bit of a fly-tipping spot, but soon you are onto green paths and fenced walkways through a new housing estate.
At Poplars Park Road a long fence behind new housing prevents you from using the original route onto the Bolton Woods hill and you have to go up a lane, which is at least partially signposted as a public bridleway – another fly-tipping area. There is room to walk around the side of the locked green gates before turning left onto the field.
There seems to be a variety of rough paths mostly following the contours around the hill but even from the lower route I used, you get a fantastic view over Bradford. The football ground is quite prominent. You will probably pass near some tethered horses along here, and also some woods. I tried to find a route off the fields onto Chestnut Grove, but the owner of the house at the end has gone to some effort to make that difficult, and you can either go a lot higher up (as Irene described, in reverse, and as I did in Shibra 2) or you can descend a steep rough path down to the end of the cul-de-sac of new housing of Primrose Lane. It is a bit of a scramble like all the possibilities here, but at least there is no blockage.
A steep walk down the road brings you to a pleasant easy off-road cycle-track, then a footpath between river and railway, leading round to Shipley Station.

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