Yorkshire Dales
HIGH-LEVEL HILLWALK
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SD745777 Head south-west down the road passing the Water Treatment Works building left. At a footpath go left through a gate signposted for ‘Yorkshire Three Peaks’, ‘Great Douk’ and ‘Ingleborough’. Follow the track through three gates to enter Souther Scales Nature Reserve. Cross the field and rise on a track to pass through limestone pavement to continue past Braithwaite Wife Pothole (left). Pass through a gate and rise steeply on a paved path. A boardwalk helps over wet ground, after which the paved path continues to rise over the moor crossing a stream at one point. Continue on the path to reach a wall corner. From here follow a steep and rough zigzag path to pass through a gully higher up. At the top, pass through a kissing gate in a wall corner, continuing uphill on the path beyond. Stay ahead at a junction left, rising to pass a cairn left and then right as the angle eases on the summit plateau. Cross this to reach the summit.
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SD741745 Retrace your steps down off Ingleborough summit to pass through the kissing gate in the wall corner again. Now leave your outbound route to go ahead on a grassy path with a wall right. When the wall bends right stay with it to continue to the summit of Simon Fell, marked by a small cairn left of the wall.
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SD754751 Return to the wall and follow it north-east, descending to cross a stile by a gate left of a wall corner. Take the path ahead with the wall left. Follow the wall to descend to a boggy col under Park Fell. Cross the col by the wall and follow the wall up the fell beyond. Curve right with the wall higher up and at a junction, fork half-right to reach the trig point on Park Hill.
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SD764769 Take the path north-easterly towards a gate and wall corner. Pass through a gate in this wall corner to go left and then immediately left again over a stile and through
a gate. Go right to descend north-easterly with a wall right. Lower down, pass through a gate in a wall corner to continue ahead by the wall right. Continue to just before a house with outbuildings to reach a path cutting back left (near a small coppice right).
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SD771779 Take the path cutting back left to shortly leave it and take a faint path left to contour the fellside and reach a marker post and stile at SD768779. Cross this and take the path over the next field heading left of a tree line ahead. Continue through a further two gates to cut left following the path to cross a track. Continue ahead to cross a stile in wall. Go right, crossing limestone pavement to pass a small section of wall. The path now becomes vague so continue in the same direction (roughly westerly) aiming for the far left of the Whernside ridge ahead. After crossing a grassy bump continue to a good track by a solitary tree at SD755779. Go right to follow the track to cross a stile and reach the B6255. Go left back to the start.