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©Nigel Chadwick
The lane descends past a cluster of houses at Millgate. The Esk flows across the picture at the foot of the distant woodland, with Muncaster Castle amongst the trees.
©Andrew Hill
Junction with the Thwaites Fell Road.
©Michael Graham
Dist:0.2km<br/>The date stone on the farmhouse shown in [[1825730]]
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.2km<br/>The well kept farmhouse stands beside the A595. It has a date stone of 1706.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.2km<br/>Dated to 1827. A close up of the date stone can be seen at [[1825740]]
©Nigel Chadwick
Dist:0.2km<br/>In 1935, the Post Office commissioned a new kiosk from Sir Giles Gilbert Scott to celebrate the Jubilee of King George V. The K6 Jubilee Kiosk, as it is known, was similar to the K2 box, being made of cast iron and painted red but was 25% lighter in weight. By the end of the 1930s there were 20,000 K6 telephone boxes in use all over the UK. This box is beside the A595.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.2km<br/>The gill flows through the village. Looking downstream.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.3km<br/>The footpath takes walkers through small fields towards Waberthwaite Marsh.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.4km<br/>The footpath takes walkers to Broad Oak.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.5km<br/>The footpath takes walkers through the farmyard on its way to Waberthwaite.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.5km<br/>The old quarry is now filled with dense trees and undergrowth.
©Bob Jenkins
Dist:0.6km<br/>a heavily-used farm access route.
©Andrew Woodhall
Dist:0.6km<br/>Fells and hills are turned to a glorious yellow by the flowers of gorse in March or even earlier after a mild winter. A member of the pea family, it is also known as furze and, in Scotland, as whin. The 2-6ft bushes are useful as well as beautiful being planted for hedges in Ireland. In Scotland the young shoots used to be crushed in whinmills and fed to cattle. I myself often gave sprigs of gorse to my horses as a treat. Whinbark is still used for a yellow dye in the manufacture of tartan cloth. An old country saying is that when gorse is out of bloom kissing is out of fashion. Common gorse ceases to flower in June, but lovers are safe because there are two rarer species which ensure that there are some flowers throughout the year.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.6km<br/>Laid hedges are made by bending over the saplings of the growing bush at an angle of 45 degrees. The bent saplings are woven around stakes driven into the ground at intervals of 1-2 yards. The crest is crowned by a tightly woven layer of severed rods, known as hethers, which prevent the growing wood from springing erect. Unwanted twigs and branches are removed. To prevent it from running wild, a hedge needs this treatment every five to ten years. Because hedge-laying is a skilled, expensive and time-consuming task, many hedges have been neglected.
©Trish Steel

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