Ilkley West Ramble #6: Grill Stile
This is the 6th in a series of 28 caches which will take you on a memorable ramble through some fine, varied West Yorkshire countryside immediately west of Ilkley and south of Addingham. The southern half of the ramble traverses Addingham Moorside.
See Ilkley West Ramble #1: Intro & Start for maps, background info on the trail, and parking waypoints.
From IWR #5 pass through the metal kissing gate and head diagonally across the field to the stone stile + metal grill gate at the location where the cache, a camo-taped pre-form tube, is hidden.
This type of stile seems to be common in this area and presumably provides a more complex obstacle to sheep wishing to see if the grass is greener on t'other side!
I have occasionally seen sheep passing over stone stiles without such a gate but it seems they haven't worked out (yet?) how to hold the gravity-assisted gate open for an ovine buddy to pass through.
