Travel Reference
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2 LIMESTONE COUNTRY
Kirkby Stephen to Orton
Distance
20.5km (12.8 miles)
Height Gain
80m (260 feet)
For map, see pages
84-7
Leave the Market Place in Kirkby Stephen by a small alleyway adjoining
the Pennine Hotel, or by a similar passageway near the Black Bull Hotel.
Both lead to a quieter back road. Turn left here, and follow the back road
past West Garth Avenue and into a narrow passage flanked by garages
and a drystone wall. Gradually the road deteriorates, ceases to have a
metalled surface and becomes a farm access leading to Greenriggs Farm
(Croglin Castle, page 93).
Enter the farmyard and turn right around the end of the buildings,
shortly going left between the abutments of a double railway underpass.
Keep ahead and soon pass through a wall by a gate, then follow the left-
hand field boundary alongside a drystone wall with a group of barns just
to the right. Continue to a stile, and in the next field head directly away,
climbing easily on a green path to cross a fence (stile), and then keep on
to reach a wall.
Another green path leads across the next field to an underpass beneath
the Settle-Carlisle railway line (page 92). Go through the underpass and
press on, aiming for a wall ahead, to the right of which there is a barn.
Just after the barn, turn right, and continue easily across pastureland to a
gap-stile in a wall, beyond which you reach a surfaced lane. Go left along
the lane to a junction, and then right, following the lane to a gate and stile
on the left, and there leaving it.
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