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Turn L after the gate to follow 2. Turn a stone wall and then a line of willows to the R. Continue past a pond to emerge on a stony L track by Bendalls Farm. Turn to the road (Repton Road) and turn L along it for the entrance About to Foremark Reservoir. 300m up the drive, take the R turn and walk to the picnic area to enjoy views of the reservoir. edge, past Go L along the water’s a car park and playground, to the visitor centre and a sign marked ‘Local walks’. 3. Fork L here onto a path through trees, past a small sandy L, beach to a fence line. Turn then immediately R at the sign marked ‘Footpath to Carver’s Rocks’, which goes down a stony path. Follow this up steps (ignore a path to your L), then down steps to a boardwalk. Follow this then up steps down to a hollow, the up R Turn fingerpost. a to slope to a stile marked ‘Nature Country

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l 03 55-56 WALK38 ramblersrouteNORTHERN_rev1.indd 2 Ordnance Surveymapping©Crowncopyright.AM34/08 Ordnance Surveymapping©Crowncopyright.AM34/08 Continued... Continued... 1 START FINISH and Scaddows Farm Shop & 2 (✆ 01768 772322); Dandelion Café (✆ 01332 865709, ✆ Map not to scale. Café, Portinscale ( 01768 Representation of www.scaddowsfarm.co.uk). 773667, www.dandelion OS Landranger SLEEPING: Derby House cafe.co.uk); Swinside Inn, MAP 90 1:50,000 www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk B&B (✆ 01332 694565, www. Newlands Valley (✆ 01768 derbyhousebandb.co.uk) and 778253, www.theswinside 2 The Stables B&B (✆ 01332 START inn.com); Coledale Inn, 862768, www.ticknallvillage. FINISH Braithwaite (✆ 01768 778272, co.uk) are good options. 1 7 3 www.coledale-inn.co.uk). VISITOR INFORMATION: Lots of choice in Keswick. Swadlincote TIC, Sharpe’s 6 SLEEPING: Accommodation Pottery Museum (✆ 01283 available at Swinside Inn 222848, www.ticknall.org.uk). and Coledale Inn (see GUIDEBOOK: Short Walks above); Littletown Farm 7 in the Peak District (£5.99, B&B (✆ 01768 778353, Collins Ramblers, ISBN 978 www.littletownfarm.co.uk); 0007359448). Swinside Cottage, Newlands LOCAL RAMBLERS GROUP: Valley (✆ 01539 432321, 4 5 Derby and South Derbyshire www.heartofthelakes.co.uk). Ramblers (✆ 01332 558552, Lots more choice in and www.derbyramblers.org.uk). around Keswick (see Map not to scale. www.golakes.co.uk). Representation of OS Landranger VISITOR INFORMATION: 6 Reserve’, where you re-enter the MAP 128 1:50,000 Keswick TIC, Moot Hall, www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk wood. Turn L and follow a path Market Square (✆ 01768 across footbridges, veering L up a 772645, www.golakes.co.uk). 3 low bank and then L along a path. GUIDEBOOKS: Great After 80m, turn R over a low To download this route and hundreds of others, Mountain Days in the Lake bank and drop down to reach visit www.ramblers.org.uk/routes District by Mark Richards Carvers Rocks, a Site of Special (£17.95, Cicerone, Scientifi c Interest. Walk along ISBN 978 1852845162); 5 the base of the rocks and keep 5. Turn L along the road and a bridge across the trackbed, 50 Walks in the Lake 4 ahead to a path junction, where follow it past Top Farm and a side making for a gap in a limestone District by Bill Birkett you turn L onto a boardwalk. turning for Staunton Harold. Just cliff. Cross a stile to an abandoned et al (£9.99, AA Publishing, beyond a cottage on your R , turn quarry, past ponds to a stile by a To download this route and hundreds of others, ISBN 978 0749555955). visit www.ramblers.org.uk/routes 4. Follow it up steps to a winding R at a fi ngerpost, then immediately wide gate. Continue uphill to a LOCAL RAMBLERS GROUP: path into the woods and a stile. L onto the old trackbed of the T-junction on a wide track and go West Cumbria Ramblers the rather knobbly ridge is carpeted access drive to Newlands Church – Cross this into a horse-eventing Ticknall Tramway. Follow it L along it to meet with the A514 (✆ 0190 082 4519, www. in heather: a colourful foreground a small whitewashed building, course and follow the ride uphill through the fi rst tunnel and along (Ticknall’s Main Street). ralakedistrict.talktalk.net). and over another stile, turning R an avenue of hawthorn trees, when in fl ower, with Newlands rebuilt in 1843 on the site of an afterwards into a plantation. Take ignoring paths to the L and R. 7. Turn L and follow the road Valley and Skiddaw et al beyond earlier church. Look back to enjoy the L-hand track, then turn L to under the Grade II-listed Ticknall splendid, particularly looking providing a splendid backdrop. the views of the shapely green the A514. Cross into Coal Lane, 6. Go through the second tunnel, Arch. Turn R opposite the entrance along the length of Newlands From Scope End, you descend to fells. Bear R to the road and pass Coppice House Farm and a passing under the driveway to to Calke Abbey through a chain Valley, considered by Wainwright the valley and Low Snab Farm turn R along it to Little Town. fi eld entrance, and turn L through Calke Abbey, and eventually fence and across a small area of to be ”the fi nest aerial view of a (where tea may be available). Walk through the hamlet, then a gap in the hedge onto a grassy you’ll enter Ticknall lime works. grass to pass behind cottages into valley from a Lakeland summit”. turn R along a footpath signed track. Ignore a R turn, instead Follow the trackbed downhill, Chapel Street. At the junction with 7. There’s a choice of routes for Skelgill. The track leads to crossing a stile towards a wood, then across a bridge and through Ingleby Lane, cross the road into 5. Continue northwest along here: either turn R, then cross the a dwelling and, beyond, the where the track turns R. Cross the a gate to fi nd lime kilns that are the car park through a wooden Hindscarth Edge. Buttermere footbridge over Newlands Beck path continues through fi elds stile to your L into a fi eld and spanned by a smaller bridge. Go gate and back to your start point. can be seen in the valley below, and go L along the track to to Skelgill Farm and the road. head for a gap in the hedge. Pass through another gate and under Route devised by Philip Cheesewright ahead to the L. At a fork, bear Little Town. Alternatively, turn Bear R back to the start. through it and over the next fi eld, R to head on up to the summit L through the farmyard gate to Route devised by Fiona Barltrop aiming for a distant brick house, of Hindscarth (727m/2,385ft). follow the permitted path/farm

then R downhill towards a white- IN ASSOCIATION IN ASSOCIATION walled building. Cross a stile here WITH 6. Carry on northwards to descend WITH 11/02/2013 12:47 onto the B5006. HILLWALKER II GTX a narrowing ridge. Further down, HILLMASTER II GTX