• START GR327047 Elterwater Car Park
• Turn right out of the car park for 150m to the main B5343 and follow this for 2km to Skelwith Bridge. Turn right on the A593 and after the bridge go straight on up a narrow road where the A-road bends right. Follow this keeping always left to Skelwith Fold (351028)
• Turn right for  400m then left up the drive to Holmeshead Farm. Carry straight on through a gate on a rough track, forking right onto a grassy track after 300m. Follow the fence to a track leading to a house and go straight on to meet the road at (356018). Turn left for 300m to the B5286.
• Turn right on the B-road forking left towards Wray. Between the church and the vicarage (372007) turn left onto a bridleway leading to the lake. Follow the edge of the lake to Bell Grange (388989)
• Turn right and climb steeply at first through the woods. Pass a couple of cross-roads keeping straight on all the way until the track swings right and descends to Colthouse (359986). Turn left and fork right  to join the B5285. Follow this through Hawkshead to a junction (350987)
• Bear left and take the narrow lane right (Skinner How Lane). Immediately after the junction with the road through Knipe Fold, turn left onto a track.  Climb up past Iron Keld Plantation before joining the Cumbrian Way and descending to the A593 at (328018) Turn right for 1km to a junction at (332028). Turn right here dropping down to the river and forking left to Little Langdale
• 200m after the Chapel at (313035) turn right up a track. After about 1km turn left at a gate and climb up through trees. After the top descend past one track to another forestry track at (322046). Keep straight on and trend left through the old Slate Quarry to a bridge at (322052)
• Cross the bridge and turn right on the B5343 to Elterwater. Turn right after the village back to the start.

  

OS Landranger Map 90 Penrith & Keswick

  A very scenic route through lovely countryside.  Very pleasant along the shore of Windermere

  

  

Elterwater & Windermere—29km—Medium

  

  

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