The Walk starts from Victoria Hall in Saltaire. This was developed as a model industrial town by the textile industrialist Titus Salt in 1850 and built in the Italianate style, with huge mills and workers’ cottages, bath houses, library, school, but only a soft drinks pub! Today it is now a well-preserved World Heritage Site. There is quite a bit of undulation across the heather moor, with its prehistoric marked stones. Leaving town up through a wooded valley, then across Rombald’s Moor, you are at the southern point of the Yorkshire Dales, by Weecher Reservoir and soon crossing the famous Ilkley Moor. Reaching 380m at the highest point today, there is a stone circle nearby called ‘The Twelve Apostles’. You then come to the Lanshaw Lad boundary stone with vistas over Wharfedale. Finally, dropping off the moors through Ilkley Crags, you reach White Wells Cottage (a Victorian Spa House), where if the flag is flying, you can get a welcome tea. Finally hobble into pretty Ilkley, originally a Roman fort town but really developed by the Anglo-Saxons, whose crosses still adorn the Parish church.