Also with a visit to the source of the River Ribble and involving a km of pathless moorland. The Snaizeholme valley is a southern offshoot of Widdale, between Ribblehead and Hawes. The red squirrel refuge in the Snaizeholme Woods, and the trail and viewing area were set up by the owners of Mirk
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A Woodbridge walk.
This must be in various publications, but I'm making no apologies, as it is a remarkably pleasant town and estuary walk of 6.5miles. Starting from the car park near Wilford Bridge over the Deben (having come back from Sutton Hoo?), gain the river embankment and go downstream on it, past a small
Sheffield Pike the quiet way.
Not the cleverest choice of walk on a post lockdown August Tuesday with a good forecast, so no parking in the car park at Glenridding, nor above the Travellers Rest, where there appear to be twenty new residents with invisible houses. So by chance, as we had to park up the main road on a good
Addition to High Cup Nick walk.
That is "High Cup Nick, shortened version of walk 23 ", from 12th Sept 2018. The addition is to see the interesting floral limestone gully, Maizebeck scar, adding just over a mile. From the Nick, follow the obvious path of the Pennine Way, and descend to cross Maize Beck beyond Watch Hill and turn
Nenthead Nuttalls 2: Dead Stones and Flinty Fell.
Continuing the dialling down from big Nuttall walks like 5 of them on the Burnhope Reservoir round, this takes the northern most of that round, Dead Stones, and adds Flinty Fell, to make an easy 7.9 mile round with some interest. That comes right at the start as, starting from the car park in
Nenthead Nuttalls 1: The Dodd and Killhope Law.
If you, like us, don't fancy 13.5 miles of moor bog trotting to bag three "Nuttalls", as their book chapters 10.1 and 10.2 do, these two walks allow two each and shorten the moor walking. For the first we started at Killhope Cross, at 623m actually higher than The Dodd, and followed the fence over