1 From the top of the village green, take a narrow ginnel immediately to the right of Manor House. Beyond a stile made of stone slabs (not the last you'll see today), keep to the right-hand edge of a small field, to another stile. A ginnel brings you out into Woodland Grove; go left here, then first right, to meet the A628, Pontefract Road. Go left, but for just 100yds (91m). Look out on the right for a gap in the hedgerow and a footpath sign (opposite a house called Tall Trees). Walk straight across a field (follow the direction of the sign), to a tiny footbridge over a beck. Continue along the right-hand edge of the next field, over another tiny bridge. Keep ahead between fields - going sharp left, then sharp right, over another footbridge - to follow a hedgerow. When you come to a gap in the hedge, head straight across the next two fields (towards the houses you see ahead). 2 Take a bridge over a railway line, and continue between fields towards Hundhill Farm. Keep right at the farm's boundary wall, to a stile. Bear left along the lane; after just 75yds (68m), and after a left-hand bend, take a gap stile in the wall on your right, on to an enclosed path. Beyond the next stile, bear right along a minor road that soon meets the A639. Cross the road, passing the old village pump, and walk into the village of East Hardwick. Beyond the church, where the road bears left, look out for a sign ('Public Bridleway') on your right, just before a house called Bridleways. 3 Go right here, along a track between hedgerows. Soon after the track goes left, take a gap in the hedge to your right. Follow a field path uphill, keeping a hedgerow to your right. At the top of this narrow field, keep straight ahead on a footpath between fields. Follow a drainage channel to meet a crossing track. Go right here, to cross over the A639 again. Take the road ahead (this is Rigg Lane) and, at White Gates Farm, go left, between farm buildings, on to a concrete track. 4 Follow this track past a water treatment works, to a concrete bridge over the River Went (notice the old packhorse bridge next to it). Without crossing either bridge, bear right, on a field-edge path, to accompany the river. A little plank bridge takes you across a side-beck, before you walk beneath the six arches of a railway viaduct. 5 Continue by the riverside, passing (not crossing) a stone bridge over the river. Bear right here, across the corner of a field, in front of the barns of Low Farm, to join a field-edge path. Follow a hedge towards houses, to a stile and a road. This is Low Ackworth. 6 Cross the road and take a ginnel between houses. Beyond a stile at the far end, bear half left across a field to a stile and across another field. A stile gives access to another ginnel. Continue along Hill Drive, soon bearing right, down into a cul-de-sac. At the bottom, take a narrow ginnel on the left, to arrive back in High Ackworth near the village green.