Walking to the Badger Stone
A 7 kilometre walk
From the station, turn right and walk down to the crossroads. Cross over to go straight up the hill - the most pleasant way is up through the gardens of Mill Ghyll. When you come out at the top of the gardens, carry on up Wells Road. Cross the first cattle grid, and at the second turn left up Keighley Road. Cross the bridge over Spicey Beck, and go up Weary Hill, passing an 18th century milestone. Turn right on to the track for Silverwell Cottage. At 110 metres along this track. turn left on to a narrow path over the moor. 46 metres to the south is ......
Weary Hill Stone
This is a medium sized rock with 10 cups, 4 with rings, and 2 with grooves from the rings.
Retrace your steps to the road - directly across from you are two paths. Take the one on the right going up hill. Just before a covered reservoir, 106 metres up and 3 metres to the right, is a small un-named stone with 10 cups, 3 with single rings and grooves.
Continue up the path to the road, and uphill to where a stream emerges from a culvert on the left. Take the broad track opposite, on the right; this leads to a group of large rocks against a wall.
Neb Stone
The markings on this large "Nose Stone", up-ended in the grass, may well be natural. However, there is a large stone immediately next to the Neb and in the wall with cups on its flat surface; next to this, and partly under the wall, is another large flat rock with 4 cups.
Back again to the road, and take the path on the opposite side which heads east across the ravine. Cross the stream; when you reach the open moor, a hump-backed stone is visible to the south. Follow the faint path to ......
The Badger Stone
This large rock has complex carvings covering the sloping face on the south west - cups, rings and grooves linking them. On the east side of the SW face, there is what appears to be an attempt at a swastika - of later date, but still prehistoric. All told, there are 95 cups, 3 with 2 rings, and 14 with 1 ring.
Take the faint path heading NNE. You'll cross directly over a main path going east-west. About 350 metres further on you'll find a stone in the centre of a clearing in the bracken, above Barmishaw Woods.
Barmishaw Stone
This medium-sized flat rock is covered with complex carvings - sadly very worn and hard to see. There are 24 cups, 9 with rings, 2 with multiple grooves, and 6 ladders.
Take the track towards the top of the wood; turn left on to the path skirting the top of it. Pass the wood and take the upper path to the left of the obvious stone. Continue round the edge of the quarry and down the stream. Cross and follow the quarry track back to the Keighley Road, and back to Ilkley town.