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The ongoing track passes through a gate near the end of a surfaced lane. Here, branch right on the Pennine Way at West Stoney Keld Farm. Just before reaching the farm buildings, turn left through a field gate and walk alongside a wall. Turn with the wall when it changes direction, but then drop obliquely left across a low slope to cross a corner of rough pasture towards a fence. Walk up beside the fence to a gated gap-stile. Cross the ensuing field towards the left-hand side of a barn; a short way on, another wall-stile gives into a field, across which a path leads out to join a lane.

Turn right to follow the lane, and when it ultimately divides near a compound of radio masts, bear right, descending, towards Bowes. The lane feeds into the western end of the village street, which is now followed back to the start.

NORTH WEST DALES – EDEN VALLEY AND THE HOWGILLS

‘Watercut’ on the High Way above the Eden valley (Walk 11)

Possessing a geological affinity with the low fells around Windermere in Lakeland, and owning little of the moorland bog usually associated with the high summits of the Pennines, the Howgills are unique, a diversion from the main thrust of the north–south Pennines. Yet they lie just a short distance west of the Pennine watershed, with only the bulk of Baugh Fell to intervene.