The plan for this holiday was to walk the Calder and Hebble Canal from Cooper Bridge (near Huddersfield) to Castleford and then walk the Aire and Calder Canal from Castleford to Leeds. This would join up at both ends with canal walks that I'd done previously.
On the first day of my holiday (Saturday) I walked in rain from Cooper Bridge to Dewsbury. And on Sunday, I started walking in rain from Dewsbury. However I aborted the walk just east of Horbury Bridge because too much of the towpath was under water. When I got back to the hotel that night I looked at all the Environment Agency flood warnings for the River Calder and for the River Aire. There were a lot of them warning of floods.
So on Monday I abandon walking canals - I decided to walk from Penistone to Denby Dale. Although some of the flood warnings were lifted on Monday night, rain was forecast for most of Tuesday. So I decided not to go back to the canals - on Tuesday I walked (in rain) from Denby Dale to Shepley. "What a difference a day makes" as on Wednesday there wasn't a cloud in the sky - the Huddersfield area basked in glorious sunshine all day long. And I celebrated with a walk from Shepley to Farnley Tyas. I made up the route myself. It was essentially go SouthWest along the Kirklees Way as far as Fulstone and then go NorthWest and North along the Holme Valley Circular Walk to Farnley Tyas. And it was a great route with plenty of views and no difficult-to-penetrate footpaths. On my final day (Thursday), I walked from Farnley Tyas to Huddersfield. The first part of the route is via the ramparts of Castle Hill, a hilltop that Wikipedia says "has been settled for at least 4,000 years". Although, at the end of the walk, Huddersfield's surburbs got in the way, it wasn't too bad a route.
To help me walk along the canals, I looked at the Pearson's Canal Companion for the "Leeds & Liverpool" as this has lots of details about the canals in this area.
Here are links to web pages that give more details about each day's walking.
Each of these web pages has a map and some photos:
Sat Sep 28: Calder and Hebble: from Cooper Bridge to Dewsbury
Sun Sep 29: Calder and Hebble: from Dewsbury to Beeston Bridge
Mon Sep 30: Walk from Penistone to Denby Dale
Tue Oct 01: Walk from Denby Dale to Shepley
Wed Oct 02: Walk from Shepley to Farnley Tyas
Thu Oct 03: Walk from Farnley Tyas to Huddersfield