Footpaths
The area is well used for recreation by children, hikers and dog walkers. One of the first jobs the Shelley Conservation Group decided to tackle was a muddy and overgrown footpath that ran from Westerley Lane to Shelley First School. The Group raised money from Millenium Awards for All, Kirklees Environment Unit and Kirkburton Parish Council. BCTV volunteers were then able to put in a path of crushed stone, with a boardwalk across the boggy grassland at the bottom of the site.
Though used by local people the path wasn’t a formal right of way, but as a safe route to school Kirklees has now adopted the path as Kirkburton footpath 250. There is now a circular route round the Whins, as BCTV put in a new section of boardwalk and a flight of steps up the eastern end of the slope.
Shelley Bridle is crossed by a footpath which is the final section of the circular Shelley Welly Walk. The path was improved as a joint project by Shelley Community Association and Kirklees Highways in 2001. It has since been surfaced by volunteers, with funding from Waste Recycling Environment Ltd.
Path to the First School,
February 2005.
