A small 5km stroll on impulse from the Aldi car park while waiting for the shop to open.
Route: leaving the Aldi car park and climbing some steps to reach a gravel section of old railway. Following this south east as it became a snicket between houses and then ran beside a car park to cross the A5086 and rejoin a more obvious line of track, crossing a viaduct, passing underneath Lorton Road and heading out of town. At a natural terminus, turning right on a Sustrans route and then entering a cemetery pausing to watch red squirrels darting about in rude health. Then crossing Lorton Road to head through a housing estate and down onto a path beside the Cocker. South West on this across fields to a footbridge and then along the other side of the river, in a park, underneath the viaduct and regaining the track by steps, joining and crossing the A5086 and back along the initial outward track.Conditions: high clouds and a thin blue sky to the north while the central Lake District was in cloud and rain.
Pub: much later on the drive home, Tweedies, Grasmere for Hawkshead ITI and Fell Golden Goldings and lunch.
