쉬운 실크스톤 주변 하이킹 및 워킹 코스

Take a seat and take in the countryside views

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.

The Silkstone Boundary Stone at Lower Coates Farm depicts a hot air balloon which flew over the parish in the 19th Century.

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

Banks Hall was within the Cannon Hall estate which belonged to the Spencer-Stanhope family and was last occupied by Mrs Spencer-Stanhope. It was known as a Dower House, which is a term used for a residence occupied by a widow of the estate.

Just before reaching Banks Bottom Dyke there used to be an old railway track which took coal from Bank Bottom mine to join the track from Silkstone. The main track then continued down to Cawthorne Basin where there was a loading wharf for the canal system. A couple of Herons are sometimes to be seen feeding in the dike. Herons are usually found on large lakes or wetland areas but sometimes visit streams and dikes, particularly in the winter during harsh weather when lakes are frozen.

The houses on the left of Bull Haw Lane, called Pack Horse Green, are built on the site of Pack Horse Farm which some older inhabitants of Silkstone still remember. As the name suggests, it was a staging post for the pack horses carrying salt from Cheshire a couple of centuries ago.