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Here, near the last of the buildings, pass through a gate where the roadway gives way to a broad farm access track that soon runs along the course of Higher Syke. Go past the turning to Gilberton farm, and follow the track as it continues ascending the flank of Tarnbrook Fell high above Gables Clough and the upper Tarnbrook Wyre. For a while the path escapes the clutches of the infant river, but rejoins it as the two bully their way through a narrow ravine, blessed with a fine display of cascades.

The summit of Ward’s Stone with Ingleborough in the far distance

Above the falls, you cross the stream and ascend in a northeasterly direction to the col between Wolfhole Crag and Ward’s Stone, near a small puddle known as Brown Syke. At the col, a fenceline and drystone wall meet, and here you turn left, following the wall to a stile over a fence. Cross this, and continue following the fence uphill, channelled to a point at which fences meet, where you can cross the fence once more.

Not far away stands a trig pillar, one of two on Ward’s Stone. By just one metre, the first trig you encounter is higher than the second, though it doesn’t look it. The summit plateau is largely bare, dotted with outcrops of gritstone boulders and littered with rocks. From the top there is a fine panorama, north and east especially, to the Three Peaks of Yorkshire, and northwest to the purple-blue uplands of the Lakeland fells.