This 8.5 mile easy circular walk from Little Salkeld is full of interesting sights: Long Meg and her accompanying circle, one of the oldest Neolithic circles in Britain; St Michaels church with its plethora of ancient stone crosses and general stone work rescued from its previous site, now under the Eden; Kirkoswald with its old derelict castle just off the path; Lacy’s sandstone caves overlooking the Eden; the disused Gypsum workings; and at the end the old mill at Little Salkeld and the splendid tearooms (closed in January). This walk is described in Mary Welsh’s excellent book of Cumbrian walks, and is easy to work out on the map anyway, but recent changes are that the road section between Kirkoswald and the Eden going South can be avoided by a permissive path in the fields on the south-east, and that due to damage done by the Eden in storm Desmond of 2015 to the paths in Tib and Cave woods, signs at each end state the path is impassable. It is not, but take care in places and enjoy it.
Lacy’s caves from the south.
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