A 6km evening run, marking L’s return from Greenbelt, at the end of summer.Route: leaving the car in the Kirkgate car and crossing Kirkgate, the next car park and the footbridge to run along the bank of the Cocker to the dilapidated wooden steps up to the Greenway. Running along this past the cemetery to turn right on the Sustrans route to enter the cemetery at a hand gate.
Exiting at the main gate and doglegging across Lorton Road to Vicarage Lane onto Culgarth Avenue to the two short snickets to reach Dale View. Down steps onto the path above the Cocker along to the footbridge at Double Mill. Heading down river but bending slightly left up hill and round Harris Park to Fern Bank and Gallowbarrow and across Main Street to take the foot bridge across the river.
Then right round the park with views across the Derwent to the brewery and Castle, bending left round a field and then back along a path into the industrial quarter and back across the foot bridge. Here, T suffering a muscular twinge and falling to a walk along Main St and left on High Sand Lane to take the footbridge onto Brewery Lane and the Jennings Brewery.
Conditions: cloudy but dry, but not an evening (at 6:30pm) for sitting outside.
Pub: the Jennings Brewery for Back Yam and Sneck Lifter.
