Route: from the Staveley Mill Yard, west along Kendal Road to the left turn onto the Dales Way just before the level crossing and following paths across fields to run along the river bank past Cowan Head to Bowston where the route joins the road. Turning right on a road to Bowston Farm and then along a track parallel to and then crossing the railway line and eventually carefully across the busy A591. Through woods to Ashes Lane and on this past the camp site (where tarmac gives way to track) across moorland to a crossroads with Crook Road. Across this up the road for 400m and then turning right to follow the Dales Way on a path across a field and then steeply downhill into town and following its route back to Kendal Road and hence back to the start.
Conditions: cloudy with very light drizzle at the end.
Pub: Hawkshead Brewery, Staveley for Hawkshead Black Hop, NZPA and WPA.
