Overview: This is a beautiful walk on mainly flat footpaths along the River Nidd. Dog-friendly but be on the look out for grazing sheep/cattle along the way.
Difficulty Rating: Easy (can get a pushchair along first part of walk to field).
Distance: Approximately 3 miles round trip.
Details: Start in Pateley Bridge Fair grounds car park (pay and display coins only). Cross the road and walk along the path at the top of the park (river will be on your right). Walk past the campsite and turn right over bridge. There is a large field with a pond, rocks, picnic tables and bike track a short distance along the path directly ahead of you.
To continue on the walk turn left once you’re off the bridge and follow the path through a gate. The river will now be on your left and fields, sometimes containing livestock, to your right. Go through another gate into woodland. There will be a stile to climb over into more fields. Follow footpath
through field to gate (close gates behind you). Walk through fields and another stile to the small footbridge into Wath.
Note: Footbridge comes out onto road so watch out for cars coming over their own bridge that doesn’t provide much visibility to the driver. The Sportsman pub is a minute up the road if you turn right off the bridge and they have a large beer garden with space for little ones to run around in.
