Variant Route Descriptions - A Northern Coast to Coast Walk: From St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay - page 173

the farm track, and in the next field follow the beck to a stile near a bridge,
giving onto a lane near Ellerton Hill.
Go left now along the lane, following it through the shadowy confines
of Fatten Hill and Hodber Hill plantations to a minor crossroads. Go left
and immediately right towards Whitwell, to a corner. Now follow the
road to Streetlam, a sleepy community where the telephone box is the
centrepiece!
Immediately on crossing the road at Streetlam, either stay on the road
and follow it to Danby Wiske, or look for a signposted stile on the right.
Cross this and go left along the field edge, avoiding the small white gate,
and heading for a larger one nearby. Pass through the gate, ignore the
large gap on the right, and move left, avoiding small allotments and pad-
docks, to follow the field boundary by numerous stiles towards West Farm.
As the farm is reached, a slight departure from the field hedgerow moves
half-right to a stile before resuming its hedge-hugging progress.
Eventually the fields are left at an access track to Middle Farm. Go left
here and soon rejoin the minor road leading, right, down Park Hill to Danby
Wiske.

Danby Wiske to Bolton-on-Swale

Distance 10km (6¼ miles)

Height Gain 55m (180 feet)

Keep ahead through Danby Wiske and either follow the road all the way to
Streetlam, or leave it after about 1km (0.6 miles) by a farm access track
on the left, leading to Middle Farm. Not long after leaving the road, aban-
don the access track for a signposted path, right, along a field boundary
towards West Farm, then continue ahead along more field boundaries to
emerge onto the road at Streetlam.
At Streetlam, keep ahead at a road junction, following a minor road all
the way to Ellerton Hill, with only a slight deviation, left then immediately
right, near Hodber Hill Plantation.
Pass a row of cottages (at right angles to the road) at Ellerton Hill, and
continue as far as a redbrick bridge. Leave the road there by crossing a
stile on the right. Follow the course of Bolton Beck on the left (all the way,
in fact, to Bolton-on-Swale), initially round a field edge to an access track