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Kings Arms Hotel at the southern end of the village (signed for Hardend-
ale). In a short while, follow the road to the right (signposted), and go
forward onto a broad track that soon bends left to cross the west coast
railway line. On the other side the track continues parallel with the railway
for a short distance before heading east along a walled track flanked by
pastures.
Climb easily to a signpost at a path junction, and keep forward, still
between walls, to a stile giving into a large pasture with a motorway foot-
bridge prominent ahead. Cross the field to a stile near a gate in a field
corner, and from it bear obliquely left to a through-stile in a wall, beyond
which lies the motorway footbridge.
While the view ahead, principally of the Shap granite works, is less than
imposing, the retrospective view sweeps majestically from distant Loadpot
Hill, by way of High Raise, Kidsty Pike and High Street, to the long grassy
ridge of Kentmere Pike. Soon these glimpses of Lakeland will be fewer and
then no more, replaced by the fine, swelling domes of the Howgills to the
south, as ahead the Pennine summits of Nine Standards Rigg, Mallerstang
Edge and Wild Boar Fell start to capture our attention.
Cross the motorway bridge and continue right, parallel with the motor-
way for a short distance on a narrow path. From the corner of a walled
pasture, near a collapsed drystone wall, the path slants upwards and left,
across a slope dotted with granite boulders and hawthorn, to a gate in the
corner of a wall that gives on to an open meadow near The Nab. Go for-
ward on a green path to a narrow road.
HARDENDALE
Beyond and to the left rises Hardendale Nab, a minor limestone summit much less in
stature now than of old, as huge chunks of it are removed from the as-yet-unseen
Hardendale Quarry, though the quarry access road is plainly evident, looping south-
wards to cross the motorway.
Not far away to the north lies the hamlet of Hardendale itself, birthplace of John Mill,
the Greek scholar who gave most of his life to transcribing the New Testament from
man uscripts. He died in 1707, two weeks after finishing a work that had taken him
30 years to complete. Here, too, is a farm where Bonnie Prince Charlie and his officers
stayed on the night of 17 December 1745, complaining about the high cost for food and
the use of a room.
Cross the road and continue along a green path (signed for Oddendale),
passing below a mainly grass-covered limestone lip, almost as far as a
 
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