Lead by Jennifer Mathias, 6 miles.
This walk is 6 miles long. There is a variety of landscape woods, mountains, rivers, waterfalls and a lake. It has its ups and downs but nothing too steep. If it is fine there could be great views. If there is more rain parts could be slippery!
Lead by Pat Guy, 7 miles, 1200ft
The B party walk this month will be led by Pat Guy. It is a scenic walk
passing tarns, waterfalls and a cave. We leave Elterwater following the
Cumbria Way to Skelwith Force, after admiring the waterfall we go over
the bridge and continue along the Cumbria Way and after a short climb
we visit the spectacular Colwith Force, the path continues gradually
uphill to High Park then levels out to Stang End and on to the Cathedral
Cave which is worth a visit, then it is a short distance to Slater Bridge, a
very ancient packhorse bridge. After crossing the bridge we make our
way up to Little Langdale village, which is just a few houses and a pub!!
Then it is back to Elterwater via Wilson Place and Sawrey’s Wood.
The walk is just over 7 miles long and 1,200ft of height gain.
There are refreshments in both the pub and tea-shop on our return to
Elterwater.
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Lead by Gwyn Jones, distance 5.7 miles.
From Settle we head up to Stainforth Force where we will have our lunch sitting on the limestone pavement. After lunch we take a short climb up a tarmac road before continuing on the road back down to Settle. A good deal of the way is riverside grassland and tarmac but there are some parts where the path is stony. There is one short climb and approx. 8 stiles.
Lead by Jennifer Mathias.
This loop is along walled paths, woodland, open pasture and up to limestone scars. There is variety and good views. It is classed as moderate but the decent into Settle is quite steep. This walk is about 7 miles.
Lead by Peter Hitchcock.
Settle is a familiar stomping ground for the Club so the aim on this walk is to visit 2
waterfalls which usually avoid the radar; but, the recent dry weather has led to just a water trickle but the sites are quite pretty and they are something you can tick off your local ‘bucketlist’!
After capitalising on the free toilets at the car park, we depart to the East on the usual exit route up to the Pennine bridleway; you will be “puffing” within 5 mins! But it is a short spell before we head northwards along the ridge line to Langcliffe, Upper Winskill and then on to the moors and Carrig Force waterfall. If the weather is good, we shall then take a slightly longer choice, very scenic route to Jubilee cave, following the track south along the base of the escarpment for a shallow climb up Sugar Loaf Hill and onwards to Scaleber Force waterfall; again, quite pretty. Finally, we return to Settle via an old drove road – the locally famous Lambert Lane – the latter part of which is quite steep downhill into the town so sticks would be a bonus. A couple of nice pubs await.
At about 9 miles, the route is quite short but the gains are in the views and you won’t be subjected to my first route which would have involved a 45 min ‘Falkland-style’ yomp along metalled track and then marshy bog! I wouldn’t have been popular!
Walk lead by Richard Hawkins, 7 miles.
After crossing the Lovers Bridge and walking beside the river we cross over the
medieval bridge and walk up Castle Hill towards the golf club. Turning right into an
overgrown pathway we climb up to the golf course and cross over to the pathway on
the far side. Continue climbing up the path which is steep and heavily eroded and
likely to be wet and slippery in places. The path rises up the ridge and meets a steep
bridleway which we follow, always walking uphill until we reach a narrow roadway
and a right turn across to fields and plantations to the village of Edensor. Tasty
refreshments are available at the tearooms in Edensor, the cake is especially good.
Cross over the main road and follow the footpath towards Chatsworth House which
can be seen across the river Derwent. The route then follows the Derwent Valley
Heritage Way and then right into Carlton Lees (toilets in the garden centre) and the
gravel track to Calton House and continues across fields following a track back to
Bakewell. The details of the final walk down to Bakewell will depend on the weather.
Walk lead by Gwyn Jones, 5.7 miles.
This walk is mostly level and has very little uphill walking. We start by crossing the bridge over the river Wye and walking to the “picture perfect” village of Ashford-in-the-Water. There is a short bit of road walking but mostly alongside the river. From Ashford we walk up a short hill before making our way through fields to join the Monsal trail. This is the old railway track and is therefore level all the way to the old Bakewell railway station where we descend back into the town. I apologise to those who were on our last visit to Bakewell where we did this walk but the other way round. After last month’s climbing I felt I had to keep it flat and there’s not much of it at Bakewell.
