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

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). … 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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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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Eden Way 7: Satan’s stiles

7.83 miles 4h 5m ascent 117m Temple Sowerby-Colby Bridge Our first Eden Way sortie of 2022, indisposition and inclement weather having delayed us. There was neither deluge nor drama and it was no great distance. But I cannot say it … Continue reading

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Eden Way: 6 – Red River and Hag Wood

6.93 miles 3h 26m ascent 121m Langwathby-Temple Sowerby (6.4 miles of the Eden Way) The days grew shorter, frost clung to morning windscreens and we were venturing further away with each leg of the Eden Way. So we had decided … Continue reading

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