INTO THE DALES - A Northern Coast to Coast Walk: From St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay - page 148

On Nine Standards Rigg
Head out along the road and, shortly after a cattle-grid, move right to
walk alongside a wall and follow this as it swings northwards to Whit-
sundale Beck. Then go left, following the course of the beck for a little over
2km (1¼ miles), until you can leave the dale by turning left up beside
Craygill Sike, climbing steadily to join an older route near a peat grough
and guidepost on the boundary of the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
Here, bear right to walk up to Nine Standards Rigg, keeping ahead past
the trig pillar to the Nine Standards themselves (page 99).
From the centre of the line of 'standards' a green path departs left, at
right angles, soon dropping to cross a drainage channel beyond which the
path continues to descend along the course of Faraday Gill, aiming for and
leading to a pile of stones and standing pillars at a site known on old maps
as Faraday House. Just before this, you need to cross Faraday Gill (page
98) and continue downwards to meet a rough, stony track running to the
right, parallel with a wall and leading uneventfully down to a surfaced lane,
at a bend, not far from Fell House farm.
Follow the road past the farm and on round Hartley Quarries to enter the
village of Hartley (page 97) itself, at a sharp bend. Shortly afterwards, a
path goes left across a clapper bridge to a back lane. Follow this to the
right for a short distance, to reach a quiet lane on the left leading to a gate
giving access to a meadow across which a path leads on to the River Eden
(page 97), soon crossed at Frank's Bridge.
Over the bridge, continue ahead and then right, up Stoneshot to enter
Kirkby Stephen (page 95) at the Market Place.