Heber's Ghyll #1: Green Scene
The cache, a small clicn 'n' lock box, is hidden just off the main trail heading up this beautiful wooded and mossy gorge.
Parking is available @ N 53 55.301 W 1 50.937 adjacent to the trail head on Heber's Ghyll Drive.
Heber's Ghyll is a wooded rock-strewn ravine on the western edge of Ilkley down which flows Black Beck. This arises from the Crawshaw Spring in the peat bog wetlands of Crawshaw Moss up on Rombald's Moor, tumbles down the ghyll and across farm fields to join the River Wharfe some 2.5km north @ N53 55.880 W 1 50.967 close to the location of GC7EJ97 WRW#14: Another One.
See the nearby GC7TXQT Oaky Grove for background info on the name of the Ghyll (or Gill).
See In a green place - Heber's Ghyll, Ilkley for a fine evocative account (with photos) of a first visit to this enchanted place . . .
' . . . I still found Heber's Ghyll extraordinary. As we walked deeper in, going uphill, the main sensory impression that struck me was the greenness of the place.
The obvious, immediate greens of leaf and stalk were there, along with moss on rocks, but alongside this primary greening, a curious kind of secondary atmosphere pervaded the whole lower area. This was a shimmering, playful green of light and reflection, winking off the beck as it trickled and bubbled downhill, flashing through branches, reaching fingers into crevices between the boulders and stones and broken stumps that lay scattered on the ground.
Still the rocks stayed, as the water buffeted their solid rounded sides, relentlessly gushing in and around and down past them . . . (continues with #2)