LIMESTONE COUNTRY - A Northern Coast to Coast Walk: From St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay - page 150

Smardale Beck
Follow a broad track across the northern shoulder of Smardale Fell be-
fore descending to a signpost near a wall. Now go forward, roughly paral-
lel with the wall, which flanks an elongated enclosure. Keep on through a
gate, and then descend by a wall to another gate at the head of a wide,
walled track leading down to Smardale Bridge (page 90; Severals Settle-
ment, page 89; Pillow Mounds, page 91).
Cross the bridge and immediately turn right onto a rising path above the
dale, and then bear right alongside a fence flanking an old railway line.
Cross a gated bridge and bear right towards a ruined railway cottage. At
the cottage, turn left and climb beside a wall, and then you have a choice.
Either cross the wall at a through-stile just a short way further on, then
keep left and simply follow the wall.
Or continue up beside the wall, keeping above Severals Settlement to
reach a gap-stile and waymark at the top of the large enclosure. Here
cross the stile, when both routes enjoin.
Now follow the wall, left, to a gate near a wall corner, and continue
through this to reach and pass the turning to Bents Farm. The track
presses on to a gate and forward alongside a wall, shortly approaching a