Route: running from the house across Strawberry Fields to cross the A65 and descend Oxenholme Lane into Natland, stopping to chat to Andy and Trudy at their house. Then taking the footpath just south of Appletree, forking south east towards Cracalt Farm, eventually crossing the path of the canal on rather a grand bridge and descending to the bank of river Kent. Here turning right and, in trees, continuing to Hawes Bridge.
Crossing the bridge and following a signed path, diverging from the river to pass a mill, and then crossing the lower reaches of Scroggs Wood along the river, past the sewage works and to Romney Bridge. Back along the river on Natland Road then Natland Mill Beck Road, through Asda and home.
Conditions: cloudy but still and warm
Pub? Nope! A Monday morning.
