Directions

Whitestone Farm, Stanbury, Keighley, West Yorkshire BD22 0JW 
OS grid reference: 986373. ‘What 3 Words’ for our roadside turning are pass.wheat.toward

  • From Leeds/Keighley/M1 direction, head to Haworth. Then:
  • drive west towards Stanbury and Colne, through Stanbury village, down steep hill past the Old Silent Inn (on your left), then uphill again along same road. Pass a Victorian chapel ‘Scartop Sunday School’ at the roadside on your left
  • ignore a left turn to Ponden Water Sports, continuing on Scar Top Road that now skirts the north side of Ponden Reservoir for a quarter of a mile
  • approaching the far end of this reservoir, drive slowly: our turn is the first possible turn LEFT on a blind bend to the left. In daylight you can see our access bridge as you descend the final slope. At the turn there is a hand-painted sign saying Whitestone Farm and a fingerpost saying Pennine Way. If you see a hanging sign for Throstle’s Nest on the right you have gone too far!
  • over the small stone bridge, turn immediately right through a large double-metal farm gateway (please reclose gates if you find them closed) and drive up the steep track through fields to our buildings (there is another gate to open at the top of the hill).
Please don’t use Satnav for the final approach, as it will almost certainly take you to our neighbour several fields away at Old Snap Farm. We share a postcode but she is higher up the alphabet.
 

From Manchester or M6, take the M65 and A6068 to Colne

  • Continue on this road through Colne as though heading for  Keighley. At Laneshaw Bridge turn right where a sign indicates ‘Haworth’ and ‘Scartop’ and drive over the moors for about 3.5 miles, passing Watersheddles Reservoir on your right, and a roadside sign saying ‘Welcome to Oakworth’
  • just after ‘Moor Lodge Country Retreat’  on your left, follow the main road forking right downhill (towards ‘Worth Valley Railway, Haworth’ etc, on a brown sign)
  • continue past Silver Hill Farm, halfway down the hill on your right
  • at the bottom of the hill, ignore the first (unmarked) right turn and take the next possible right turn, before the triangular warning sign ‘Scartop welcomes careful drivers’. The turning is partly concealed by  flanking stone walls but is marked with a painted sign ‘Whitestone Farm’ and a fingerpost saying Pennine Way
  • over the small stone bridge, turn immediately right through large double-metal farm gates (please reclose gates if you find them closed) and drive up the steep track through fields to our buildings (there is another gate to open at the top of the hill).
Please don’t use Satnav for the final approach, as it will almost certainly take you to our neighbour several fields away at Old Snap Farm. We share a postcode but she is higher up the alphabet.
 

Call Simon on 07932 106056 if you get lost – but beware of lost mobile reception once you are in the bottom of the valley