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On passing the quarry, keep climbing and stick with the fell road, which gives fine retrospective views across the Vale of Eden to the high summits of the Pennines. A short descent leads past the entrance to Fell House Farm, and beyond this climb once more to the road end.

Just after the road end, branch left (for Rollinson Haggs) and soon pass through a gate. Go forward past the crags of Long Rigg and onto Hartley Fell. A broad track now leads on, and with the increasing elevation come ever-improving views. The track soon crosses Faraday Gill and then joins company with a wall on the right.

On the Faraday Gill path

Faraday Gill commemorates the local family whose offspring, Michael, was the English chemist and physicist who discovered electromagnetic induction and other important electrical and magnetic phenomena. Such was the regard in which Faraday was held, that it is said Albert Einstein kept a photograph of him on his study wall alongside Isaac Newton.

Continue as far as a branching path on the left that leads unerringly up to the conspicuous cairns on the summit ridge. Arrival here is quite special, not just for the views, but because the ridge lies along the Pennine and British watershed.