THIS short walk passes through attractive limestone scenery with excellent views across Three Peaks country. Feizor, where the walk starts and finishes, is a small hamlet, superbly set around a working farm with an excellent café to finish the walk. The walk starts at the little hamlet to Feizor, a few miles from Settle and accessed along a narrow road off the A65.
Feizor is little more than a farm and a collection of traditional buildings built in with Yorkshire Dales stone. In the centre lies Elaine’s Tea Rooms (more of that later) and a small car park. A few metres south from the café a signpost points towards Settle, walk through the farm yard and on to the open hillside.
This is a bridleway and initially a farm track which climbs steadily south west. Just after the field boundary on the left turns away from the path it splits. Keep left and continue along a footpath.
Pass over three stiles on the path before reaching a wall on your right. Here the path splits again, take the left hand fork (do not climb the wall). The exposed limestone rock is lovely but is about to get even better.
The views are also wonderful. Ahead is Ribblesdale, the home of the Three Peaks. Two of these (Penyghent and Ingleborough) have a very distinctive and flat topped outline so are easy to pick out.
They are also the highest points in view. The path is not obvious but the walking easy on soft grass. Head east over another wall before turning sharply north after 300 metres.
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