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two more gates to reach the foot of a sloping pasture. Walk up-field to a
gate at the edge of a plantation, and then continue climbing on a clear
track, passing a lime kiln and swinging left to a gate. From it, bear right to
reach a road. Turn right and cross a cattle-grid to the nearby junction with
the Crosby Ravensworth road. Here you have a choice.
Either
go left along the road, as far as a step-stile over a fence (on the
left, off the road) about 200m beyond the northern edge of a plantation
on the right.
Or
take to a narrow green trod between the two roads, which strikes
across grassy moorland, roughly targeting a plantation ahead. On reaching
the plantation, keep right of it, walking along its boundary. At the far end,
bear left to a wall corner, and there rejoin the Crosby Ravensworth road. A
short way on, leave the road by branching left to a step-stile over a fence.
Robin Hood's Grave
Over the stile, continue across a low, heathery shoulder onto Crosby
Ravensworth Fell, across which the route is waymarked. Gradually it leads
on to descend beside a wall and into a well-defined dip, within which lies
the mound of stones known as Robin Hood's Grave (page 78). Keep going
beside the wall to cross another dip with a stream in it. Beyond this, bear
left on a grassy track through heather to a wall corner, and there bear
right. Walk roughly parallel with the wall, and when it bends right again,
go with it, on a green track across moorland.
The on-going track gradually moves away from the wall to join an old
track, crossing Lyvennet Beck, from which you climb to a couple of large
erratic boulders on the skyline. Climb past these and continue to a way-
mark pole just beyond which the track forks. Branch left and immediately
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