A 5.5km run on iffy terrain on a damp evening.Route: leaving the car parked at the Embleton Spa Hotel and crossing the A66 to turn right on a farm track to High Netherscale. This time, spurning the an unmarked left turn across a footbridge continuing along the drive of the house at High Netherscale, exiting via a gate to the left of the house to pass a footpath sign on the other side. Turning left across the filed and then over a stile to a gently overgrown path to bend round a smaller house to another field (marked as a track on the map, but not). Rising gently to the far corner to enter an enclosed green lane itself joining Seacross Lonning, this time rather overgrown with brambles and some nettles.
Turning right and following this, not as far as the road this time but turning left at a sign up the edge of a field and then right on a drive (for Low and High Abbey) to a c-road. Turning left up the road and then right onto a notional path across fields, through thistles and marsh grass and a field of nervous cows. Entering the farm yard of Beck House Farm on an overgrown path to turn left up hill and the right down a familiar track to the church. Taking a path from the other side of the church yard to cross two fields and then back along the road from Lambfoot to Embleton.
Conditions: at 6pm, a damp, drizzly evening, heaily overcast.
Pub: the Embleton Spa Hotel for Cumbrian Ales, Loweswater Gold
