Walking the Brighouse Boundary Walk
During August 2021, I walked the Brighouse Boundary Walk (BBW).
It's about 29K.
The Walking Englishman's web page
says
"The Brighouse Boundary Walk is a circular footpath which was created in 1993 to celebrate the centenary of the former Borough of Brighouse. As the name suggests, the walk encircles the town and includes walking across areas of moorland, through local villages and also a crossing the Calder Valley. On Hartshead Moor it links with several other long distance paths, namely the Bronte Way, Calderdale Way and Kirklees Way and Spen Way Heritage Trail. From start to finish and when taken in a anti-clockwise direction the walk visits Bailiff Bridge, Green Royd, Norwood Green, Wynteredge Hall, Jum Hole Beck, Dark Lane, Bank Top, Milking Hill, Ashday Hall, Cromwell Botton, Calder and Hebble Navigation, Strangstry Wood, Elland Upper Edge, Ridge End, Fixby, Toothill, Bradley Wood, Woodhouse, Kirklees Cut, Bradley, Hartshead Moor and Clifton."
That web page provides both a GPX Route File and a Google Earth KML file.
The route of the BBW is shown in brown on the above map.
The route was derived from
the GPX file provided on
The Walking Englishman's web page.
The underlying map is an OpenStreetMap map but I've used
www.rowmaps.com
to superimpose lines in red, magenta, green and blue that show public rights of way.
rowmaps uses data kindly provided by Calderdale Council and Kirklees Council.
Whilst I'm out walking, for navigation I used the OSMAnd app on my mobile phone.
It shows where I am on an OpenStreetMap map.
I've superimposed on the map the routes of public rights of way
using GPX files I've obtained from
www.rowmaps.com.
(How to obtain and use those GPX files with OSMAnd is described on this web page.)
I've also superimposed on the map the route of the BBW using
The Walking Englishman's GPX file.
For backup, I'm also took a paper map: OS Explorer 288.
So the OSMAnd app is showing me an image like the one in this screenshot. Here the blue arrow shows my current location and the direction I'm walking, the cyan line shows the route of the BBW, the red lines show the routes of public rights of way that are Footpaths according to the Council's data and the underlying map is an OpenStreetMap. I'm on a path indicated by a dashed grey line - it has been mapped by an OpenStreetMap contributor. The solid line that's adjacent shows the line of the fence. The cyan and red lines may have been accurate in the past but these days they are in areas that are fenced off as I think they are in quarry workings.
I stayed at a hotel in Huddersfield and used buses to get to the start and return from the end of each day's walking.
On the 203 bus route the buses run up to 10 minutes earlier than their timetable which is very annoying.
I haven't found an app for my phone that provides real time bus information. However, this web page does. You need to type in the number of the bus route (e.g., 203) or a stop number (e.g., 45016741) or a postcode (e.g., HD1 6NW). A map appears and when you click on the bus stop you get a pop up to say when the next buses will arrive at that bus stop. It's great!
Here's a table summarising my holiday.
Click on the link for the day to see a map of the route that I walked
and to see some photos that I took along the route.
Link to the index page that has links to other holidays
