Start/Finish By church in Holme, north of Carnforth

GR: SD524788

1 SD524788 From the church in the centre of Holme, follow the lane east towards the bridge over the Lancaster Canal. Take the ramp on the right, through stone gateposts, onto the towpath and turn left to walk north and pass beneath four traditional canal bridges. The canal is blocked and culverted at the next road – so cross the stile, cross the road and go through a gate to re-join the towpath. Walk beneath the M6 crossing and leave the canal, up steps, at the next bridge (named Duke’s Bridge on the OS map).

2 SD533807 Turn right on the lane and go straight over the A6070. Walk along the next lane for 100m, with Farleton Fell looming ahead. At Townend Farm, by a sharp right-angle bend, take the path ahead through the field, with hedge on the left, and head uphill towards the left side of a large clump of trees. Cross a stile in the top corner to gain Access Land and turn left for 100m onto the hillside. Paths soon veer steeply uphill, south-east, over a combination of scree and gorse to the plateau-like top of Farleton Knott.

3 SD542804 Walk south for 200m to an obvious stone wall, with limestone pavements and crags now visible in every direction. Turn left, with the wall on the right, to a gate where the wall bends right. Keep ahead on a broad path, initially through a broad gully with steep pavements on the left. The path bends south after 400m, with more pavements on the right and scattered trees on the left. Continue on the path/track, past Newbiggin Crags, and gradually descend rough pasture to a gate with ladder stile at a lane.

4 SD550786 Go straight over to a kissing gate, with nature reserve signs, leading onto Hutton Roof Crags. This can be a confusing area and there are few established paths – keep a wary eye for unexpected cracks and crevices amongst the bushes. Follow the path uphill for 700m, indistinct in places, through a shallow valley, and turn right at a low cliff. Keep ahead with outcrops on the right and bear left over an area of limestone pavement to reach a couple of cairns above a large bare outcrop named Uberash Breast. Another rocky area known as Potslacks lies to the east. The trig point on the south-west summit (274m/899 feet) is a further 400m to the south-south-east, across a scattering of scars with some dense bushes – and past a sculptural boulder known as Turtle Rock, which really does look like a tortoise!

5 SD556774 Retrace your steps to the lane, turn left and walk downhill for 1km. Ignore the first path on the right and after a couple of houses take Piper’s Lane (signed no through road) on the right. Follow the right of way ahead, north-west across old parkland at Curwen Woods. Pass a tennis court on the right, cross a track and cross a step stile in the wall by the A6070.

6 SD530784 Cross the road and turn left for 50m.

Turn right on the lane, which soon crosses both the M6 and the canal, to return into Holme.