Route: leaving the car just north/up the road from the Hare & Hounds on the rocky margin of the road on the right and running slowly uphill north on the bigger road and then steeply up to Heaves Farm. Turning left on a path never before taken uphill across grass (spurning the summit of Sizergh Fell only 100m to the right) and then downhill diagonally and then due north towards Sizergh Castle, crossing the car park.
Exiting on a clear chalk path to reach a wood near Holeslack Farm, doglegging a little up and backwards to climb across a field to reach a track to Helsington Church. Taking the pathless right of way across fields to the Brigsteer road and entering the Scout Scar right to roam land at a new hand-gate. Turning left to run along the perimeter of Helsington Barrows and reach the exit gate to the road back to Helsington Church.
There continuing straight along the track then straight, off the track bending left, through a gate to descend a grassy slope to a gate in the corner. Crossing the Brigsteer-to-Levens road to take a footpath to Cinderbarrow Farm and the hamlet of Cotes and then very slowly, in the heat, along the lower road to a short steep footpath back to the main road just north of the car.
Conditions: hot in the sun with only an occasional breeze.
Pub: the Hare and Hounds, Levens, for Fell Foss Pale Ale.
