Name: Hook Moor, East Riding of Yorkshire Place type: Other Landcover Location: Grid Ref: SE 7237 2026 • X/Y co-ords: 472376, 420261 • Lat/Long: 53.67380142,-0.90590423 Up the cliff, ride on to Peckfield Bar and stay on the A63 until the turnoff for Sherburn. Favorite Foods: Everything! Follow the well-worn path with distant views of Scout Moor Wind Farm and beyond on the left. “The Hook Moor wind farm will bring direct employment, economic and supply chain benefits to the area, and will also have a substantial long-term impact on the facilities available for local people through the community fund that will be linked to the clean, green energy it produces. Likes: Balls. Email this page. This road is proper quiet, once across the A1M. Despite the weather forecast of showers and gale force winds 16 of us set off from outside the Blands Arms in Micklefield to walk over the A1 footbridge, across the fields passing the controversial recently erected Hook Moor Wind Farms to the footpath leading up to the Lotherton Hall grounds and our destination, the cafe. Caught in the act, Dogs at work. Add a comment. Construction work on the first wind farm in the Leeds metropolitan area is set to reach a major landmark with the arrival of the turbine components at the site from Thursday (1 October). Swillington and on to the first sight of Hook Moor wind farm and Garforth, take the third exit from the roundabout. The Spaldington Wind Farm started operating in 2016 which subsequently saw the establishment of a community fund that received its first donation in 2017. Age: 3. Luckily this is only for a short time and you soon start heading down a picturesque road towards Aberford. From the wood you then merge on to Hook Moor home of many impressive wind turbines where you get to walk at close proximity to them. Banks Renewables, part of The Banks Group, is investing £14m in building the Hook Moor wind farm on agricultural land near the junction of the M1 and A1. Follow the track where it joins the lane to Old Barn farm. Scout Moor is the second largest onshore wind farm in England. Search and find company accounts information for BANKS RENEWABLES (HOOK MOOR WIND FARM) LIMITED, INKERMAN HOUSE ST. JOHNS ROAD MEADOWFIELD DURHAM COUNTY DURHAM DH7 8XL. Walking information, advice and campaigns, walking news and events, group led walks and an online library of walking routes. From this point you walk along a footpath next to a busy road and underneath the motorway bridge. The path goes between oaks on a very pleasantly open wooded hillside. Falck Renewables, the wind farm operators, make an annual donation to this fund enabling it to support a … Nicknames: Dexter . Peel Energy and United Utilites submitted a joint venture to extend the current wind farm on Scout Moor above Ramsbottom with an additional 16 wind turbines (thirteen 115-metre turbines, and three 100-metre turbines). View summary of company credit check, director search and other financial reports Dislikes: Cats. Your name * E-mail * The content of this field is … The Ramblers - Britain’s walking charity working to protect and expand the places people love to walk and promote walking for health and pleasure. Dexter enjoying a windy walk at Hook Moor wind farm, West Yorkshire,England . The company's Penny Hill wind farm near Sheffield, Hook Moor to the east of Leeds, the Marr wind farm to the west of Doncaster and the Hazlehead wind farm to the west of Barnsley generated almost 100,000 MWh of power between them during 2019, helping to displace about 24,700 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the electricity supply network. Turn right and around 100 metres go left through a gate, beside a five barred gate, into a large open pasture.