The path started off between a railway line to the west and Bradford Beck to the east. However, 5 minutes later, I was onto the well maintained tarred track which is also part of the Shipley to Bradford Sustrans cycle route Route 66. After about 10 minutes a left turn took me onto the only major up slope of the route, perhaps 15 minutes. The designated path on the route map was fine and dropped down to the new houses in Poplar Park Road, and then onto an old snicket between the houses down to Brow Wood Crescent. The more interesting and, in parts, scenic route, is to turn right just before Brow Wood Crescent on a path through a woodland. After crossing main roads at traffic lights the route soon took me into the Boars Well Urban Nature Reserve, where the trees are now quite dense, but the path is good. This, (new to me), I found out, goes from Bradford Cathedral to Ripon Cathedral, and the Bradford to Shipley section is almost identical to the Slow-way....

Howieland

Unfortunately, due to overgrown footpaths, we had to make a few diversions, and parts of the route were inaccurately plotted (on non existent footpaths). With a few small edits, I would recommend this route....

Ellie C

Shame about the short section along the road at this point but the road is quiet and a footpath appears as you approach Esholt. Then out the other side of Esholt, you are briefly back onto an extremely quiet road before heading into the woods. The worst bit is the long drag up the hill to the town centre at the end!...

robliz

Great walk through the woods from Yeadon to Shipley - this is the first time I'd walked here despite it being on my doorstep...

Tom P

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. 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....

Mary Oz

1.The path along Bradford Beck under the train bridge on the gpx map goes along to the A6149 – which is why people have found themselves on the road bridge. Instead, when walking along the Beck path, keep an eye open for the path to the left that goes downhill to a bridge over the Beck (it can be a slippy path). Just before Gaisby Lane, there’s a green area to the left of the path; walk across this to the football changing rooms and onto Powell Road; turn right to main road and left up Livingstone Road2 Follow the path along the beck to a tree with a tyre swing, the path goes left here up through an opening to a cul de sac. Follow the road round until meeting Kings Road; cross here and up the steps opposite to a path behind trees, turn right and follow the path to the traffic lights....

Irene Lofthouse

A local resident told me I needed to go further up the road, past the traffic-blocking stones and through Bolton Woods onto the hill, and that new housing blocked the previous route2 The route to leave the hill field is blocked by fencing along the back of the new housing which you can see in Ross’s third picture, and it is necessary to go some way further north east....

Mary Oz

From the A6037 cycle route 66 is accessed and followed until Gaisby Road. Weaving through the housing and up some steps leads to a busier road which in turn leads to a steep main road uphill past locked allotments....

Mary Oz

The route leaves Bingley Station past a big supermarket on over a footbridge to access the canal towpath. Unfortunately, the bridge to leave the canal has a flight of steps before crossing the canal itself....

Mary Oz

I walked this route with a group of 15, and found it quite an easy walk....

Sarah Njeri

The gpx directs the walker through an area of allotments but the path continues along the road through the junction. walking the other way you will end up back tracking to the cross road junction and walking around the allotments where you find the path....

Ross

An easy route to follow using street footways down out of Yeadon, a short length of walking down a lane then into the woodland tracks. After another section of walking along a quiet lane, the slow way crosses fields, then after crossing the river on a sturdy footbridge continues into Shipley along the well maintained towpath....

Ross

Easy, mostly flat walk, mostly along canal towpath...

Rambler

Easy to navigate along canal towpath...

DB

Lovely walk predominantly by the Leeds-Liverpool Canal....

jskinner

Only thing that let's it down is the long stretch along the main road....

robliz

Straightforward, flat, easy to navigate walk along the canal towpath....

robliz