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Beginning from the junction on Main Street by St Andrew’s Church, head down Finkle Street. Just beyond the roundabout at Back Lane, turn along a path between the graveyard and Sedbergh School’s cricket field.

Go left at the corner past the pavilion and continue over a crossing path, dropping through a kissing-gate across grass to emerge onto Busk Lane. Opposite, a sign to Birks directs you along a track beside the rugby pitches. Reaching a barn, bear off right through a wooden kissing-gate and carry on along a field, where a developing path rises around Birks House and leads out onto Birks Lane.

To the left, it winds down to Birks Mill, a path at the end on the left following the now disused tailrace between the trees to the River Rawthey, which here has cut its course through slabs of blue slate bedrock.

After passing the confluence with the River Dee flowing from Dentdale, the way breaks out at the edge of fields, where there is a fine view to Winder, the southwestern outpost of the Howgill Fells. Having clambered over the embankment of a disused railway line, the path becomes enclosed behind Brigflatts and eventually leads out to the main road.