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Terry Marsh

January 2018

Easy woodland walking around Brigflatts (Stage 5)

INTRODUCTION

About the Dales Way

The total distance of the Dales Way is 126km (78.5 miles), give or take a few strides. Officially, the Way begins in Ilkley, but there are links to Leeds, Bradford and Harrogate that introduce a special dynamic of starting in major urban centres and walking out into the countryside, to the shores of England’s largest lake. These links are not included in this guide, but details can be downloaded from www.dalesway.org/link_routes.htm.

To begin with you will have the satisfaction of walking a significant length of Wharfedale, arguably the most appealing of the Yorkshire Dales, and later cross the Pennine watershed on Cam Fell, briefly meeting up with the Pennine Way in sight of the Yorkshire ‘Three Peaks’. After that, you are bound through Dentdale to the eponymous village of Dent and on to the market town of Sedbergh. The fringes of Lakeland and some of the most endearing landscapes the region has to offer bring the Way to a satisfying conclusion on the shores of Lake Windermere.