Route: leaving the car by the K Shoes Factory on Natland Road and taking the signposted footpath to the factory car park and, possibly mistakenly, precariously along the river bank itself climbing back up, scaling a gate and crossing Watercrook Lane to a marked footpath, cutting the corner of the river and passing a tumulus before running alongside the river to Hawes Bridge. Crossing the bridge and following a signed path, diverging from the river to pass a mill, and then crossing the lower reaches of Scroggs Wood along the river, past the sewage works and to Romney Bridge. Back along the river through the park and then Natland Road to the start.Conditions: much colder than of late at 9C, cloudy and windy.
Pub? (C-19) A shared bottle of Abbot in the summerhouse.
