ACROSS LAKELAND/Title> - A Northern Coast to Coast Walk: From St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay - page 160

collapsed wall and shortly abandons the direct descent to Hayeswater and
Hartsop village. (Not that you need to, as the direct descent provides a
lovely alternative way down. Once through the village of Hartsop, and just
before reaching the valley road, turn right on a superb track that will lead
all the way north to Rooking or Side Farm at Patterdale. This would be a
good bad-weather alternative.) Otherwise, from below The Knott take the
descending path heading right for Satura Crag and Angle Tarn. Beyond the
tarn, the path skims past Angletarn Pikes, before threading an enjoyable
way down to Boredale Hause, beneath the great mound of Place Fell.
Go left at the hause to overlook Patterdale, and then strike off to des-
cend to an intake gate, there going left past Rooking and along a narrow
lane to Patterdale village (page 53), if your onward plans take you through
Glenamara Park, or right through another gate, arriving near the valley
bottom at Side Farm if you are heading up into Grisedale on the road past
Patterdale Hall. From Side Farm, a broad track leads out to the village road
at the George Starkey Memorial Hut.

Patterdale to Grasmere (Goody Bridge)

Distance 11km (7 miles)

Height Gain 445m (1460 feet)

For map, see pages 50-51

There are two ways into Grisedale from Patterdale village. One - (a) below
- goes from near the White Lion, the other - (b), the easier - just past the
church. Both routes rejoin at the entrance to the dale.
(a) Opposite the White Lion turn onto a signposted path climbing past
public toilets. At the rear of an isolated building, leave the track by turning
left onto a signposted grassy path through bracken and heather. This leads
to a gate giving onto open fellside.
A path climbs rockily for a short while before descending to a kissing-
gate to the left of two other gates. Through this, follow the on-going wall,
then climb to a horizontal path before descending gently to cross Hag Beck
on stepping stones. The path continues easily, crossing the slopes of Gle-
namara Park and the steeper slopes below Thornhow End.
Follow the path as it runs alongside a wall bounding a pine plantation,
and then maintain a level course as the wall drops away to the right. A