Route: leaving the car in the Booths car park (free for customers for 2 hours) and running through the shop and out onto the pavement of the A591 and then east to reach a footpath to the right. Crossing surprisingly marshy farmed fields and then over the railway line before heading left past garages and then left on a narrow road. At the end, turning left at a footpath signpost and then right through a gate marked 'no camping' into Schoolknott Plantation and across grass, rising slowly and selecting middle ways at subtle path junctions to exit onto open land and thence, at a walk, up to School Knott. Descending to a tarn behind and then cutting a corner to rejoin a previously taken path ascending to reach a high-point with a good tree and views back to the central fells. Descending to cross through Hagg End, turn right on a road and then the second left path to Crag House. Descending a shallow valley and re-ascending, climbing a gate to avoid local flooding. At a signpost, taking a novel left turn to Borwick Fold, across a road and then on another footpath through a small wood before joining an open road. Taking the second left turn onto a path back through Schoolknott Plantation and then back through the housing estate, right up Thwaites Lane under the railway line and back to the start.Conditions: surprisingly wet under foot but a sunny day.
Pub: Pie and Pint/The Crafty Baa, Windermere, for Barngates Red Terrier and Oakham Citra.
