カウソーンでの周辺の簡単なハイキングとウォーキング

Bank House Farm was once a public house. The stocks date from 1405 and were restored in the late 20th Century.

Hill Top Cottages are the oldest dwellings in Silkstone Common. Note the Yorkshire stone roof, which was the commonly used material before the arrival of the railways in the mid 19th Century allowed the import of Welsh slate.

Woolley Manor Farm is a Grade II listed building dating from the 17th Century.

Where the new houses stand on Beacon Hill a Victorian house stood. When it was being built in 1867 the remains of a beacon were discovered under the ground. Beacons were established in the 1800s to signal messages over long distances to give warning of invasion by an enemy. A little way up Hall Royd Lane a high bank with old stone retaining wall marks the site of Hall Royd Colliery. Before 1802 the Common was open moorland but with the Enclosure in 1802 the land went into ownership of local landowners.

This shady forest path leads from/to the disused railway line.

can be muddy in the woods.

Very pleasant easy route

Cannon Hall is a really pretty country park which is worth a visit off the bike too but it's a great stop to get a coffee and a bite to eat from their very bike friendly outdoor cafe hatch.