7.1 miles 3h 42m ascent 291m
Thrang-Garsdale Station
BEING WRITTEN
Well, the Eden Way proved to be quite an epic, interrupted as it was by legal lockdowns, common-sense social distances, various illnesses, and bad weather (too hot and too cold). We had completed the Solway to Source sections and were left with the niggling epilogue – Hell Gill Bridge to Garsdale station. Part of the route that really just exists to have the walk end somewhere other than a hill top .
The quickest way to get up to Hell Gill Bridge would have been to park at Aisgill Moor Cottages and walk up the farm track but I thought it would be better to start at Thrang Bridge instead so we could include one of the Eden Benchmarks in the section.
It was a moorland kind of day. Grey skies with an occasional wink of blue, enough wind to rustle the grass and cool enough to make hat and gloves comfortable.
It was dry, which was a nice change, and meant it was easier fording the many becks we crossed. We even had a lunch break on the smooth boulders of a dry stream bed.
As you can see, the bridge at Scars Gill wasn’t needed.
