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Sandwiched between a wall and fence the track goes past the church, and then, as the wall bears to the right above Littledale Hall, you keep left, heading towards Gill Plantation. At this point the route continues eastwards for another kilometre or so before simply turning round and coming back on a lower path, little more than 100m below. Alas, no right-of-way links the two paths, but because the onward walk is delightful, and the point where you turn around to come back makes an ideal place for a picnic, to tackle this elongated extension is no hardship, and gives, as you go further into the dale, a fine sense of moorland remoteness.

So, just after passing below the plantation the track meets a gate. Keep to the right of the gate, walking beside a wall and then a fence to a gate in a corner giving onto a narrow path between a fence and rhododendron. Keep alongside the fence, cross an in-flowing stream, and press on along the top edge of a wooded slope.

The on-going path gradually drops away from the fence, moving towards the dale bottom. At one point you cross a field track with the return path just a few strides below you, but press on, crossing the track and climbing briefly before resuming a more level course. Eventually the path descends towards a footbridge and ladder-stile. (ssss1 joins the route at this point, and shares the route to its conclusion).