Walking Maps

Wray Walks: Trees, Hedges and Timber

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Walk Description

1. Leave Bridge House Farm tearooms and continue straight ahead up the steep road and follow this road for about 1km passing on your left the sawmill at Above Beck.
2. Take the next footpath to your right down a track lined with laid hedges and into Pike Gill Wood. Cross over the river and out into a small field. Up the steep bank to the road outside Alcocks Farm.
3. Turn right and follow this road down back into Wray village and Bridge House Farm tearooms. You will pass a group of buildings including Roeburn House where, over the years, a mill processed silk and bobbins. Nails were also made in one of the adjacent buildings.

About this walk

You’ll follow lanes with their high, thick and diverse hedgerows teeming with wildlife and go past a small timber yard where local trees are processed. The woodlands of Hunts Gill are also important for their wildlife and believed to have been in existence for over 400 yrs. On the return into the village you’ll pass the Old Bobbin Mill and associated cottages adjacent to the River Roeburn.

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