The West Yorkshire RIGS (Regionally Important Geological and Geomorphological Sites) Group has spent some years working on two walks around Castle Hill to illustrate the landscapes which can be seen from this viewpoint above Huddersfield.
We have produced a leaflet which has recently been sent to be printed so we should have the final copy in a few weeks time.    The two trails, which follow footpaths around Castle Hill, one to the north and one to the south, will be way marked soon.
We hope to launch the leaflet and the trails in the spring and then there will be guided walks during the summer to bring the attention of those who enjoy walking in the area to the rocks and landscapes around them.
Further details will follow in the Huddersfield Geology Group newsletters and on the West Yorkshire RIGS web site.

Michael Johnson and David Shore took the group to recent landslip feature near Rodwell End.     We had a rather inconclusive debate about what had happened, but Alison was delighted to find good examples of flute casts in the sandstone rubble.     The underlying rock is Kinderscout grit and the British Geological Society (B.G.S) associates Todmorden with a complex series of faults known as the Todmorden Smash Belt.
Good views were had of the glacial meltwater channels of the Cliviger and Walsden gorges.    Lake District erratics, including glacially striated granite boulders, have been found in gravels along the River Calder between Mytholmroyd and Dewsbury.
The Fielden family expanded their cotton business using the small river called Walsden Water.    Most of the water mills in the Calder Valley were sited on the tributary streams, which fell by an average of 180 feet per mile, compared with the fall of only about 15 feet.
A visit to Dobroyd Castle built by Fielden revealed a show-house with no expense spared.     Alison identified some pillars made of rare Devonshire Marble, from Torquay or Brixham.     The staircase was made of Spinkwell stone and Caen stone was used for the reliefs showing the cotton process from start to finish, including a slave master with his whip.
Todmorden literally means "Totta's boundary valley" and we had a glimpse of what this boundary involved in earlier days.     The fourth highest stone in Yorkshire overlooks the valley at Stones and this is also the site of a Scandinavian "thing mound" or "thing hold", which Alison recognised as a meeting place or Parliament from her time in Iceland.     There is another example near the Three Shires Stone at the end of Little Langdale.    So, it is possible that the historic boundary between Yorkshire and Lancashire which ran through the centre of Todmorden, goes back several thousand years.