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Each route description begins with a box that provides essential information about the walk, including the distance and time, as well as details of useful facilities such as refreshments, toilets and parking. In the route description, key navigational places and features are shown in bold.

Three appendixes provide a route summary table (Appendix A), a description of a longer route from one end of the Lune Valley to the other (Appendix B), and a list of contact details (Appendix C).

Enjoying a walk beside the Lancaster Canal (Walk 37)

WALK 1

Weasdale and Randygill Top

Start Wath (NY 685 050) Distance 8 miles (12.9km) Time 4¼hr Terrain Rough tracks and upland trods Height gain 560m (1837ft) Maps Explorer OL19 – Howgill Fells and Upper Eden Valley Refreshments Lune Spring Garden Centre café at Newbiggin-on-Lune Toilets None Parking Roadside parking at start Note The route is not recommended for inexperienced walkers in poor visibility, when map and compass are essential.

All but one of the Howgills’ major streams find their way into the Lune, although the one credited as being the river’s source, on the basis that it has the longest passage to the sea, is Dale Gill. It seeps out of the rock below the summit of Green Bell and flows down to join the rivulets bubbling from Newbiggin’s springs. Aficionados determined to walk the river in its entirety will follow the course of the peaty stream off the hill. However, more satisfying for those appreciative of striking landscape (and a drier path) is this more circuitous route, which ascends the eastern ridge defining Bowderdale and returns from Green Bell along its northern snout.