ACROSS LAKELAND/Title> - A Northern Coast to Coast Walk: From St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay - page 158

tant wall and another ladder-stile. Cross the stile to enter an undulating
pasture across which there is no discernible path. Head down to cross a
stream, bearing slightly away from the left-hand wall. Climb above the
stream, heading for the highest of a line of power lines that guide you
across to a wall corner, where you have a minor choice of route.
From the wall corner a permissive path runs left alongside the wall to a
step-stile, immediately before which are the remains of an ancient earth-
work in the form of a bank and ditch. Over the stile, a boggy path leads
across rough ground to a narrow, surfaced lane.
The right-of-way, however, runs from the wall corner across to a more
northerly ladder-stile giving into an enclosed pasture. On the far side, a
step-stile puts you on the narrow lane.
Turn right and walk down the lane until it bends to the left, there leaving
it by branching right to a ladder-stile giving into an enclosure containing
a group of derelict farm buildings. Cross to another stile opposite, from
which you strike half-left across the ensuing field to a wooded dell - aim
for a gate. Pass the gate and drop beside a fence to gated Parish Crag
Bridge, spanning Swindale Beck.
Over the bridge, go right alongside a fence (below Fairy Crag), which
guides you to a stone stile below Goodcroft Farm. Beyond, the path curves
round the end of a hill slope to another stile, and then follows a wall to
a gate. Through the gate, go left on a broad track to Rosgill Bridge, once
more (and for the final time) beside the River Lowther.
On reaching a surfaced lane at Rosgill Bridge, immediately go left over
a ladder-stile, and then bear slightly right up a grassy path that climbs
through a spread of gorse to emerge (hopefully) opposite the entrance to
Rawhead Farm.
Go up towards the farm, keeping ahead to a step-stile beside a gate,
and then continue in the same direction across the ensuing pasture, rising
gently and then descending to another step-stile beyond which you go
half-left towards a gate and stile. A grassy path now leads to a group of
barns - High Park - and here keep to the left of the barns, following a
permissive path (though the right-of-way seems to pass to the right of the
barns). Either way, a fence guides you down to a step-stile on the left -
the first step-stile can be ignored. Continue further down to another, be-
side a gate, over which a clear track branches right to descend towards
Haweswater Beck.