INTO THE DALES - A Northern Coast to Coast Walk: From St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay - page 145

Reeth Bridge. Follow the road, left, over the bridge and up into the centre
of Reeth (page 111).

Reeth to Keld

Distance 19km (12 miles)

Height Gain 210m (690 feet)

Rightly described as the 'Royal Road', the route to Keld is magnificent riverside walk-
ing, in springtime and early summer across meadows lush with wild flowers. (The
alternative high-level route is given in Appendix A, but much of it can be confusing
in mist, and the potential for error is considerable. The lower, Swale, option is un-
doubtedly the best course.)

For map, see pages 106-9

Leave Reeth along the B6270, but soon go left down Langhorne Drive. At
the bottom of the road, turn right along a quiet lane that soon deteriorates
into a rough, enclosed path leading down to the River Swale. Ignore the
conspicuous footbridge across the Swale a short distance ahead, but keep
on the true left bank of the river, shortly to cross in-flowing Barney Beck.
Keep on to meet the road again.

Patterned fields near Gunnerside