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You begin from the Crook o’ Lune car park. This is a popular spot that serves a number of walks, so don’t arrive late in the day expecting to find parking space – come early.

Go to the back of the car park, towards some picnic tables and a painting tableau. The tableau represents Turner’s painting of the view up the Lune – a view into which you are about to walk. Follow the path to the right, but as you reach a fence go to the left of it, to descend steps and so gain the true right bank of the Lune at a gate.

Now simply follow the bank of the Lune, keeping your eyes open for the birdlife that populates the river, and indeed the salmon and sea trout that now find their way upstream (see ssss1 for more information).

Continue beyond a low weir – often a good place to spot fish leaping. A short way on and the riverbank narrows, the route running on to cross a stile at the foot of a wooded slope and then go on into woodland. You leave the woodland at a gate and press on across a large pasture, crossing a stream by a footbridge, and then keeping on towards the Thirlmere Aqueduct, piping water from the Lake District to Manchester.