Route: leaving the car in the Hesket Newmarket car park (free) and finding a path out of the car park across fields to Wood Hall and then on an apparently pathless ascent of the open fell, crossing a wall at a stile to pick up a clear path to mine workings. Here bending right, on the path and swinging left to gain a level route lower than the summit plateau. Hence heading pathless uphill to reach another clear path to the summit. Along to the Lingy Hut and then walking pathless across somewhat marshy ground to Iron Crag Hill. Here spurring the proposed route north steeply down a ridge instead to head south to descend less steeply closer to the head of Roughton Gill. Then following a pretty valley down until a path lead left, to escape the inaccessible valley bottom and round a spur and then descending on small but clear grassy paths to the flat valley bottom. Along an undulating path underneath the fells but above the valley bottom and trending right, east to Fell Side. And then first on, and then just south of, the Cumbria Way to reach Nether Row, Street Head and Hesket Newmarket.
Conditions: sunny spells and cloud, warm in the sun.
Pub: The Old Crown, Hesket Newmarket for Hesket Newmarket Brim Fell IPA.
