Austwick - Feizor - Wharfe

William Kembery

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Exploring Viking Country
Starting with a short approach through various green lanes, the walk climbs a low shoulder of green pastures, passes many erratic boulders and gently drops into Feizor and back over again to Wharfe. Then a slow climb on an ancient walled lane to find an interesting picnic spot (a little gem), finally to descend on superb green turf to Austwick.

England - North England - Yorkshire - Yorkshire Dales

Features

Birds, Church, Flowers, Food Shop, Great Views, Hills or Fells, Pub, Toilets, Woodland

4/16/2025 - Michael Corfield

A delightful walk, which we started from the excellent Elaine's tea room in Feizor with a lovely lunch - highly recommended. At waypoint 4 we decided to ignore the suggested route left over the fields and instead carried on the well maintained path which led directly to Feizor a few metres to the right of waypoint 6. Also as the lanes along the route are very quiet and pretty, from waypoint 11 instead of crossing the farm track we turned right along it, to join the lane which leads straight to Austwick. Shortly after joining the lane, there is a footpath to the right to allow you to visit the 'Norber erratics' stone formations. But, we only found this out after we completed the walk!

4/16/2025 - Michael Corfield

As mentioned before, the huge ladder stiles mean this walk is really only suitable for small (well behaved) dogs that can be lifted over the stiles. Although our cocker spaniel happily scaled up one side, its leap down the other side, often unto small boulders, was far from ideal!

4/2/2013 - angela mckay

Completed this walk on Easter Saturday with our 2 dogs. WP4 - We followed the directions (which were spot on), but noticed another couple taking a short cut as they continued along the track, rather than going left over the stile as we did and they ended up in the same place (just at WP6). This would have been a better route for us to take, as the fields were full of lambs and their mums were getting a bit concerned that we were walking near their lambs. It would have also cut out about half a dozen or so HUGE ladderback stiles which some dogs might find a bit tricky. WP6 - Why no mention of the fantastic Elaine's Tea Rooms - maybe they weren't there when this walk was first done, but well worth a visit. Muddy dogs and boots allowed, really friendly service and proper mugs of coffee - what more can you want!! All in all, a fantastic walk with stunning scenery. We will defo be doing this one again. Thank you.