A 9.5km solitary (T) walk prospecting for future runs.Route: from the rectory (temporary home since 21.02.25), walking through the cemetery to the Greenway and following it east round the final housing estate of Strawberry Grange onto Strawberry How Road and then along the road, over the A66 and left for about 1km of road walking, to a clear bridleway on the left through Westway.
Crossing the A66 to take an overgrown, unpleasantly brambly path 400m to the road (it would be worth exploring the possibility of detouring left and cutting the corner) and then almost immediately left on a better grassy path under Skate Fell to Brick Kiln Wood. Back along the St Helen’s Street to the Castle Bar for a beer in the last of the afternoon’s sun in the beer garden. Then home (via Sainsbury’s).
Conditions: a beautiful sunny spring day after a period of cold grey days.
Pub: the Castle Bar, Cockermouth for Timothy Taylor’s Landlord.
