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WALK 2 - Fremington Edge, Hurst and Arkle Beck Location: Reeth
is situated 11 miles from Richmond on the B6270
Richmond to Kirby Stephen road. Start:
Reeth
village centre. Grid
Ref: 038
993 Parking: There
is ample parking around the village
green. Distance:
7.5
miles circular. Allow 4hrs. OS
Maps: Outdoor
Leisure Map 30 (1:25,000) or Landranger 98 and 92
(1:50,000). Refreshments: The
Black Bull, The Buck Hotel, The King's Arms, The
Copper Kettle Restaurant, The Cobbles Tea
Shop Public
Toilets: Near
the Buck Hotel. Other:
Swaledale
Folk Museum, Blacksmith's Ceramic Design, Reeth
Gallery, Philip Bastow's, Post Office, telephone,
bus service. 1
(GR:
038 993) Leave Reeth via the Richmond Road
and after crossing the bridge over Arkle Beck, go
through a stile on the left. 2
(GR:
042 992) Take the right path through a
stile, then bear left to another stile to the right
of an iron gate. Turn right and stay with the wall
through two more gap stiles, emerging onto a road
at High Fremington. 3
(GR:
046 991) At the first cottage on the
left (Brambles), turn left onto an enclosed
track and follow it uphill to join a narrow tarmac
lane. Turn left and keep on this lane, climbing
uphill to a gate. From the gate, continue up to a
fork where the tarmac lane changes to a stony track
by a spring. Follow the right fork, passing behind
the White House. Ignore public footpath signpost
and continue to climb up via a gate, passing some
old chert quarries. Ignore all forks and climb up
to the gate in the wall at the top. 4
(GR:
044 007) Go through the gate and continue
on a stone track which leads directly away from the
wall and across Marrick Moor, to the hamlet of
Hurst. After going through a gate Hurst's two
chimneys are very prominent. 5
(GR:
046 023) Go through a gate onto the road.
Turn left and continue via two gates to join a
clear stone track which leads across the mining
spoil. After passing through a line of grouse
butts, the track becomes a little greener. Follow
it round to the left and uphill to a right bend,
where a wall comes into view (Fremington Edge
Top). 6
(GR:
034 021) At a cairn on the left, leave the
track and follow a path through a break in the
heather. Head towards the wall and go through a
gate where two wall corners meet. From the gate, a
faint path leads towards some mining spoil heaps.
Pass to the left of the spoil towards a cairn.
7
(GR:
026 024) From the cairn1 the path descends
through the mining spoil on a cairned/waymarked
track and then winds down a stony section to arrive
at a gate. 8
(GR:
019 024) Go through the gate (SP
Langthwaite) and staying with the wall follow
the blue waymarks down past Storthwaite Hall and
through a gate onto a farm lane. Turn left, go
through a gate and follow an enclosed lane to a
farm, go through another gate. Continue across two
meadows, dropping down to join Arkle Beck by a
footbridge (don't cross the bridge).
9
(GR:
022 019) Using the gate to the left of the
bridge enter a small wooded area. At a fork, take
the path to the right (SP Footpath Reeth)
and follow the yellow waymarks over derelict walls.
After entering another wood, continue to follow the
yellow waymarks, cross a small stream and leave the
wood, climbing up to a signpost. Turn right here
and, after going through an open gateway (SP
Fremington) head to the right hand wall. Cross
over two broken walls, a farm track and through a
gap stile to Castle House Farm. 10
(GR:
030 009) Pass behind the farmhouse, keeping
to the wall. Cross an enclosed lane and over a
broken wall opposite. Continue on an obvious track
through a gap stile. Descend over two broken walls
to a ruined farm. Arkle Beck is rejoined at the
next wallcorner. Continue through an open gateway
and, at a fork, follow the left track climbing away
from the beck. Keep to the wall through three more
open gateways. 11
(GR:
041 001) When the clear path fades out, go
through a gap stile in the wall on the right.
Descend to the right of a barn, through two stiles,
then turn left through another stile. Keep to the
right hand wall across two fields, to reach the
stile at Reeth Bridge and then return to the
car. 1.
A detour is recommended to the left, along a narrow
path which leads to the cairns on the cliffs at
Fell End. Excellent views down the valley. Then
retrace steps to cairn. |
