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Keep on beside a fence and hedge until eventually on the far side of the field, at the rear of bungalows, you reach a kissing-gate giving on to a hedged path between houses. You emerge into a housing estate. Keep left for a short distance, and then as the estate road swings right, go down another enclosed path. At the end of this, turn right along the main village road and walk towards the village centre.

Go past the Black Bull Inn and St Paul’s church, and into Caton Green Road until you meet the outward route at Kirkbeck Close. Turn left into the close, and then right along the narrow path used earlier in the walk. From the kissing-gate, retrace the outward route to the Bull Beck car park.

WALK 4

Littledale

Start/Finish Roadside parking near Cragg farm (SD545617) Distance 8km (5 miles) Total Ascent 245m (800ft) Terrain Often muddy paths and upland tracks; some road walking Maps Explorer OL41 (Forest of Bowland and Ribblesdale)

Remote Littledale is tucked away in the folds of the hills south of Caton, and provides this lovely opportunity for tranquil wandering through wooded cloughs and glens. Caton-with-Littledale parish boasts a good range of habitats, home to a variety of birds, including the hen harrier, symbol of the Forest of Bowland AONB.