ACROSS LAKELAND/Title> - A Northern Coast to Coast Walk: From St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay - page 157

The Goggleby Stone, Shap
Walk past the stone, following the right-hand wall to a gate and stile giv-
ing onto a narrow track. Turn right and walk out to meet a surfaced lane
at a bend.
Here you have a further choice. The favoured route - (b)(i) - uses an old
walled track, which is quite delightful, but rather boggy and often flooded
for the last 200m or so; (b)(ii) is all on roads.
(b)(i) At the lane, go left along Keld Lane for about 100m to a signposted
path ('Bampton Road') on the right that follows a walled track. This is a
lovely ancient route, and deserves more use. Sadly, it needs better drain-
age at the far end, though this is rarely a real problem. When it does fi-
nally emerge on the Bampton Road, it is immediately at the end of the
branching lane for Shap Abbey.
(b)(ii) Go forward at the road bend, following a twisting lane which even-
tually meets the Bampton road from Shap. On doing so, simply turn left
to the road bend where the lane branches to Shap Abbey. At the head of the
lane leading down to Shap Abbey all three routes have now rejoined.
Follow the lane as far as a cattle-grid, where the top of Shap Abbey
comes into view. Cross the cattle-grid and soon leave the access road
(which is not a right-of-way) to strike downfield to rejoin the access op-
posite the entrance to the car park for Shap Abbey (page 67).
Go forward towards the car park and cross Abbey Bridge, which here
spans the River Lowther, your first acquaintance with this river. Go left
through a gate, and then immediately climb steeply left to a ladder-stile.
Over the stile, follow the rim of the drop to the river, and then head across
the ensuing pasture on a green trod, bearing slightly left to reach a dis-