This pleasant circuit of just short of seven miles was shown to us by Tim and Christine Shaw, and would be as good in a northerly winter gale as the summer. From Conistone head east up the track from the Maypole on the green, and keep going up the defile, the Dib, which is similar to many in
Walks
Gauber Quarry addendum and correction
Strange to have taken so long after the 2014 reprint, you may think, to correct an error, and a further change to the route should help. So, walk 11 in the Hillwalks from the Settle to Carlisle railway stations, page 102,second para, it should read ".... a further 250 yards watch for an oblique
Walla Crag Gully
"....which has the merit of being the first recorded route in the valley (Borrowdale). A once very popular route, it is rarely ascended now......a classic of its time" Despite the above, from the F&RCC guide book of the Millenium, and what the first ascenscionist may have written, having
Aysgarth, with Ballowfield and Seata Quarry nature reserves
An easy late summer flower walk of 6.5 miles. You could park at the large and busy car park above the falls at Aysgarth, or at Thoralby, or best of all in the pull off by the footbridge a km west of Aysgarth. Cross the bridge and continue to the B road. turn left on it for a km till the
Torver circular
A six and a bit mile walk for a day too windy for the summits, or, in my case, a bad knee. It combines a pleasant ascent through pastures, quarries and moor, with the Old Man and Dow Crag ahead, with a return along the easy Coniston Water lakeside path. A car park just north of the church, with
The Highfields walk, Halton with Aughton.
Another plague walk which we could do from home, and although this seems to be a popular walk for locals, we had never done it, and decided to do it both because of that and as we thought it would be less popular and hence less boot-churned muddy than others round Caton and the Bowland Fells. The