Category Archives: Cumbria

Eden Way: 12 – Water Cut, Ure Force and Ruswarp

7.1 miles 3h 42m ascent 291m Thrang-Garsdale Station Well, the Eden Way proved to be quite an epic, interrupted as it was by legal lockdowns, common-sense social distancing, various illnesses, and bad weather (too hot and too cold). We had … Continue reading

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Eden Way: 10.1 – the part we missed out

6.48 miles 4h 12m ascent 197m Stenkrith Park-Thrang Part 10 was to be Stenkrith to Hellgill with a loop back to Thrang along the Pennine Bridleway. But misfortune struck and we only managed the Thrang-Hellgill-Thrang loop of part 10. We … Continue reading

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Larch Hill: Wee Monica 2

3.26 miles 1h 21m ascent 175m Larch Hill from the Yellow Trail “The planted larch trees are burnished gold. What a wondrous forest they have become.” Tomonari Wee Monica: definition – a hill whose name appears on the OS 1:25K … Continue reading

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Nine Standards: an Eden Way addendum

4.84 miles 3h 27m ascent 211m boot-wetness: extreme Nateby Common-Nine Standards Rigg circular This was day 3 of our Kirkby Stephen walks, and following the previous day’s exhausting outing, called for a straightforward route that wasn’t too demanding. Indeed, since … Continue reading

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Eden Way: 11 – Eden Springs, the source

6.69 miles 5h 3m ascent 332m Aisgill Moor-Eden Springs circular Between two sister moorland rillsThere is a spot that seems to lieSacred to flow’rets of the hills,And sacred to the sky. We had slightly damp boots but the weather was decent. … Continue reading

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Eden Way: 10.2 – where the River Eden begins

6.30 miles 3h 53m ascent 247m Thrang-Hellgill Bridge circular And still of a winter’s night, they say, when the wind is in the trees,When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,When the road is a ribbon of … Continue reading

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Eden Way: 9 – The Search for Passage

10.85 miles 5h 48m ascent 227m – Eden Way: 9.47 miles 4h 50m ascent 201m – Poetry Path, 1.38 miles 58m ascent 26m Sandford-Kirkby Stephen-Stenkrith This section of the Eden Way took us from Sandford Bridge to Stenkrith Park in … Continue reading

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Eden Way: 8 – Appleby-in-Westmorland

8.68 miles 4h 43m ascent 219m Colby-Sandford We had finished the last section a little way off the Eden Way. The closest parking had been where Colby Bridge crosses Hoff Beck, half a mile off the Way. Luckily, a public … Continue reading

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