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©Nigel Chadwick
Dist:0.2km<br/>No signs!
©Bob Jenkins
Dist:0.4km<br/>A fine rural roadside inn on the A595.
©Nigel Chadwick
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©Nigel Chadwick
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©Bob Jenkins
Dist:0.9km<br/>The old quarry is now filled with dense trees and undergrowth.
©Bob Jenkins
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©Nigel Chadwick
Dist:0.9km<br/>The footpath takes walkers through the farmyard on its way to Waberthwaite.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.9km<br/>This muddy track serves as the footpath to Row Farm and Lane End.
©Trish Steel
Dist:1.0km<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
Dist:1.0km northeast<br/>The footpath takes walkers to Broad Oak.
©Trish Steel
Dist:1.2km north<br/>Looking northeast towards the Western Lake District Fells
©Bob Jenkins
Dist:1.3km east<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:1.3km east<br/>The track heads towards Grange, and continues as a bridleway across Waberthwaite Fell to Bigert Mire.
©Trish Steel
Dist:1.3km northeast<br/>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

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