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| First let me introduce Molly the latest addition to our intrepid band. Molly has moved in with redpete, who, to his chagrin, has discovered dogs are not just for Christmas but also for gnawing settees, chewing telephone cables and eating laptop keyboards. |
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So, to the walk. We parked in the Cleveland Inn car park, explained to the one-eyed barman that we would have a beer on our return. He was more than happy. | |
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| Carry straight on, up, past the cottages through a gate |
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and on past another cottage to another field gate
straight ahead, it bears a 'Beware of Cattle' sign and our OS footpath
marker.[I messed up on the image] Go through the gate over a ladder
stile and follow the path 150 yds down to the stile at the railway
crossing point. Cross the tracks here. |
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on the other side of the tracks cross the stile and field to the
footbridge over the beck. Carry on up the well defined path, through
the goarse bushes to another ladder stile. |
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 Over
this and keep climbing up through the field to the farm buildings,
go through the gate and through the farm yard and up to another
ladderstile adjacent to a sign post. once over the stile turn left
and follow the path along the edge of the fields with the wall on
your left. |
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will bring you to another farm, again go straight through the farmyard,
sometimes the gates are closed, but go straight through, closing
the gates behind you and carry on out of the farmyard with the farm
cottage on your right. The farm track carries straight on for a
couple of hundred yards before bearing left then right over a small
beck. |
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 Carry
on through two gates, again keeping the wall\fence on your left
hand side. It will drop down nearly to the river before the last
gate which points out a diagonal path across the field, there is
a marker post halfway across this field. This again points the way
and the path leads to another field gate. |
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Go through this and follow the path around the mound with the
hedgerow on your right, after only 50yds you will see a stile
on your right, which will take you through the hedgerow and after
about 30yds it will open out onto another farm road, we turn left
and make our way towards the farm buildings. |
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reaching the farm carry on through the buildings and you will see
Rose Cottage on your left, carry on straight out of the farm and
follow the path down through the meadow to the gate, left, at the
bottom. |
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 As soon as you are through the gate, look for the stile to the right, cross this and follow the path to the footbridge which we cross and follow the path to another stile which opens out onto a field.  |
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left to another stile then keep to the right of the next field and
up to the final stile, go left and follow the path with the fence
and horse paddock on your left until you come to the road. |
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| Go left and follow the road until it joins the main road at the bridge, left across the bridge to the Eskdale Inn. |
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 Follow the main road out of Castleton and up until you see the bridleway and cycle path sign on your left, after about 300yards of hard uphill slog! Take this wide path and cross the cattle grid. |
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 This
will take you all the way back to Commondale, past Box Hall and
the picnic site in the little beech wood.Have a look in the garden of the little bungalow you first meet at the end on this path, he keeps birds of prey. There were at least half a dozen on display when we passed by. There's a couple of images below. Hope you enjoy this walk. The whole thing only took us 2hours. Nice for a Sunday afternoon stroll. |
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 Oh,
and for another ten points can anyone tell us what this is or
was? It looks man made and is about half along our outward stretch
of the walk.
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