Work will get underway this month to resurface the well-trodden pathways across Ilkley Moor.
Flagstones will be delivered to the edge of the area, ready to be flown into position by helicopter on the route between Whetstone Gate and Trig Point.
The restoration work is part of the £1.9 million South Pennines Watershed Landscape project, which aims to conserve and study the uplands stretching from Ilkley to the south of Huddersfield, including Rombalds Moor.
Flagstones will be laid out on grass between the paddling pool and Old Filter House on Wells Road during September.
The area will be fenced off but the public’s right of access will not be affected. The site will be cleared and restored.
Danny Jackson, countryside and rights of way manager for Bradford Council, said flagstones would encourage people to stick to the path. “We know it’s a successful technique to restore the vegetation at the edges of the paths,” he said. “We’re restoring an eroded landscape.”
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