{"id":301,"date":"2015-06-22T21:59:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T20:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/?p=301"},"modified":"2015-06-22T22:15:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T21:15:17","slug":"rombalds-moor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"Rombald&#8217;s Moor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>04\/04\/15<\/h6>\n<p>Any navigation around Ilkley is buggered due to the large number of paths in existence; nose-following seemed the best plan which eventually got me to the Cow and Calf rocks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-302\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0011-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Ilkley Moor\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0014-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Cow &amp; Calf rocks, Ilkley Moor\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-304\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0018-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Footsteps worn in Cow &amp; Calf rocks, Ilkley Moor\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/GOPR2639.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-307\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/GOPR2639-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Cow &amp; Calf rocks, Ilkley Moor\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Untitled_Panorama2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Untitled_Panorama2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Cow &amp; Calf rocks, Ilkley Moor\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On over paved pathways to the peak at the trig point, then after visiting some stanza stones and a cross, lunch in the shelter of a wall. \u00a0For a brief moment I thought I had seen a very hardy chicken, but on later examination of the bird book it was revealed to be\u00a0a red grouse. \u00a0There were quite a few of them about, strutting their stuff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0040.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-305\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0040-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Menwith Hill and wind farms near Harrogate\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0058.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-306\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0058-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Rombald's Moor\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/GOPR2648.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/GOPR2648-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Rombald's Moor\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Untitled_Panorama3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Untitled_Panorama3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Rombald's Moor\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/GOPR2651.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-310\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/GOPR2651-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Stanza stones on Rombald's Moor\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There used to be a Keighley to Ilkley road, no longer passable by traffic but a few cars had stopped at the top&#8230;and some scrote had dumped building rubble in a lay-by. \u00a0Which part of someone&#8217;s brain thinks that driving up to a viewpoint is the best way to offload some crap? \u00a0Drive to the dump, how much more work is that?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/GOPR2655.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-311\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/GOPR2655-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Rubbish dumped on Rombald's Moor\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The final stretch followed a great path through a quite different landscape down a glen alongside Bradup Beck. \u00a0It would have been more peaceful without the clay pigeon shoot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/route150404.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-316\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/route150404-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Route of walk on Rombald's Moor\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Rombald&#8217;s Moor: Marilyn, HuMP; 402 m\/1319 ft<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>9.8 miles<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Start Ilkley train station, finish Crossflats train station<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>04\/04\/15 Any navigation around Ilkley is buggered due to the large number of paths in existence; nose-following seemed the best plan which eventually got me to the Cow and Calf rocks. \u00a0\u00a0 On over paved pathways to the peak at the trig point, then after visiting some stanza stones and a cross, lunch in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,9,2,3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linear-walks","category-marilyn","category-sloeadventures","category-walking","category-walks-from-train-stations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sloeburn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}