Tracks and Trails

Start and Finish: Dent
Approximate time for the walk: 7 hours
Distance: 11 and a half miles.
Landscape: High Moorland and glacial landscape
Map: Outdoor Leisure Map 2, Yorkshire Dales, Southern and Western areas

Description of the walk:
A. Start from Car Park on the main street in Dent. Walk down the high street passing Sun Inn and George and Dragon, and bear left to Church bridge to over the River Dee. At the bridge, bear right up the right-hand side of the river. Cross the narrow concrete footbridge to the left hand side and then right to enter the Keld Habitat. Continue through the fields, to a road. Cross the road and into another field to join the Dales Way by the riverside. This leads to another road. Go up the road, up-dale direction and then right past a chapel and then immediately left onto Craven Way. Continue straight along this path for a good couple of miles as climbs up over open country to meet the Boot of the Wold.
B. When you reach the Boot of the Wold, turn right alongside the stone wall path and go straight up on this path, with Whernside in the distance. Follow the stone walled path directly (no diverges) to summit of Whernside. The summit is marked a survey pillar.
C. When you have reached the summit, turn right to head west to a stone tower. Turn right to the wall corner and follow the wall down the road. After steep down hill, take a path labeled Mire Garth, to reach Deepdale Head Farm.
D. When you reach Head farm, the path crossed Coombe Gill. Turn away from the beck and go through fields to the holiday cottage of Mire Garth. Keep below the wall and pass a cottage. Continue to walk roughly parallel to the river as you cross several stiles until a farm track is reached. Continue down the track and turn left along Deepdale Lane. Follow the way to a footbridge, cross and turn right, keeping with s tree-lined beck. Turn up above the fir trees to a gated stile and continue straight ahead. Continue on this path to met the road. Cross the road and continue along the Dales Way and the banks of the River Dee to Church then left on the road which leads back to Dent where the walk finishes.

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