There is a well used network of footpaths in the area which can easily be utilised to form a number of circular walks centred on the village. Here are a few suggestions. Some areas can be boggy so walking boots are recommended.
Click on the walk number to get direction and a map of the area or use the drop down menu on the walks tab
Please let us know at info@yettontogether.org if any of the directions are unclear or even wrong!!! We’re not perfect!

This magnificent marker/mile stone or stoop is situated on the green lane between The Beaumont Arms and the Parish Centre. It is one of a set that are being erected  in the 10 parishes controlled by KBPC to mark the recently waymarked Kirkburton Parish Walks. The one based around Kirkheaton is Lizzie’s Lollop which is a 6 mile walk around much of the edge of the village. See kirkburtonparishwalks.co.uk for all 10 walks
There are two  images carved into the stone – one seems to be a great crested newt [in celebration of the site’s close proximity to one of the largest colonies of newts in Western Europe and second looks like a copy of an Anglo Saxon carving.[possibly in the church]
The choice of the stone acting as a milestone to Fenay Bridge and Shepley seems rather strange as neither finger points towards a discernible track which could  lead to either of the two destinations.

Click on the headings below to see each walk map and directions.

Walk 1  Kirkheaton ‘Boundary’ Walk.
A circular walk from the church with good views across to Castle Hill, Huddersfield and Emley Moor – roughly following the edges of the village  [Approximately 6.5km / 4 m]

Walk 2  Houses Hill -Thurgory – Lascelles Hall Circular
Parish Church-Landfill site-Houses Hill-Gregory Farm-The Kennels-Rods Beck-Botany Bay-Thurgory-Lascelles Hall CC-Parish Church [approx 8.6 km / 5.5m]

Walk 3  Houses Hill Circular
Parish Church – Long Tongue Scrog – Houses Hill – Whitley Willows – Laneside – Parish Church
[approx 5km / 3 miles]

Walk 4 Dalton Bank Circular
Parish Church – Hillside – Bankfield – Wellhouse – Dalton Bank – Upper Heaton – Hollin Hall- Upper Hopton – Cockley Hill – Laneside – Parish Church [Approx 7.5km / 4.75m ]

Walk 5 Whitley Estate Circular
Parish Church – Laneside – Long Tongue Scrog – Houses Hill – Gregory Farm – Liley Hall – Gregory Spring/Liley Woods – Charlotte’s ice Cream Parlour – Falhouse Lane – Paper Hall Farm – Lepton Square – Botany Bay – Lucy Lane – Lascelles Hall CC – Parish Church [approx 12.75 km / 7.9 miles]

Walk 6  Dalton Bank & Canal – amended 2016
Parish Church – Newlands Road- Cold Royd Lane – Nab Hill – Dalton Bank – R Colne – Canal – Round Hill – Upper Heaton – Cricket field – Old Junior school – Parish Church
[approx 8.4 km / 5.2 miles]

Walk 7  Charlotte’s Ice Cream Parlour
Parish Church – Laneside – Cockley Hill- Upper Hopton – Lower Hopton – Whitley Lower – The Temple – Houses Hill – Whitley Willows – Laneside – Parish Church [11.5 km / 7 miles]

Walk 8  A circular walk centred on Upper Heaton and its surroundings – amended 2016
Upper Heaton -Round Hill – Cycleway – Bog Green/Bog Hall – North Moor Lane – Meadow Park – New Road – Upper Heaton  [approx 4km / 2.5 miles]

Walk 9  A circular stroll through Kirkheaton using some of the snickets and right of ways.
Old post office – Furnbrook Gardens – Stead Lane – Bankfield Ave – Southlands – Stoney Ford Lane – Easingwood – Moorside Road – Heaton Moor Road – Epsom Way – Cockley Hill Lane – Mountain Way – Orchard Road – North Hill Drive – St Mary’s Fold/Lane – Old post office [Approx 4km / 2.5miles]

Walk 10  A circular walk around Wellhouse with good views over Huddersfield
Parish church – Old School – fields – Bankfield Lane – Cricket field – Wellhouse – Dalton Nature Reserve – fields – Newland Road – Churchyard [Approx 3.25km / 2miles]

Walk 11 Circular walk around the Trig point with excellent 360 degree views of the area
Community Centre – Stoney Bank Lane – New Road – Moorside Road – Grange Moor Road – Moorside Road – Fields Rise – Community Centre

Bluebell Walks -on some of the pleasant tracks and through  woods carpeted by bluebells in April/May

Circular Walks to Houses Hill – all 56 of them the outward routes!

Circular Walks to Houses Hill – all 56 of them – the return routes