A tiny pre-pint stroll.Route: Leaving the car parked outside the Punch Bowl before it opened and heading west along the road, keeping straight when the main road turns right and then bending left at a minor fork and then spurning a path to the right. Following the road as it becomes a track to the end and then following a clear muddy track with views of the river below to the left and a curious wall to the right. Then bending right at a gate to cross two fields before heading away from the river round a square of walls and then right across two fields to find the start of a clear hedged track back towards the village. Turning right to take the bridleway underneath the village houses to the end, bending left on a narrow snicket to gain the main road and turn right to the pub.
Conditions: cold and cloudy giving way to blue skies and winter sun, with snow-sprinkled fells in the distance.
Pub: the Punch Bowl, Great Broughton, for Great North Eastern Brewing Company, Rivet Catcher.
