Walk 25: Coverdale
The foot bridge spanning the River Cover to cross from Hindlethwaite Hall Farm to reach Horsehouse is closed and is not due to reopen until February 2021.
You can reach the nearest bridged crossing by continuing through the fields to Arkleside and joining the lane back over the bridge to Horsehouse, adding around 2km to the walk (see map below)
W25 Coverdale detour to avoid damaged bridge
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Make your way through successive enclosures across the slope of the hill, heading for buildings set in a nest of trees, marked as 'Low West End' on the map. Through a final gate a track winds down towards the farm.
After the first building, turn off right at a footpath sign to go between West End Farm House and the adjacent ruin. After crossing Lockshaw Gill, turn immediately left through a gate and head away by the right-hand wall. Beyond a fence stile bear left to a track, your outward route. Follow it left back to How Beck Bridge and keep left again back to the road at Shaw Paddock.
Walk 31 -
Revised route description for passing the farm before crossing the river: "Guided by a sign to Middle Borwins, swing between the abutments of a dismantled bridge and then go right across the top of a field following the waymarks through a large gate into a paddock. Reaching the lean-to at the top end, bear left into a small enclosure and go through a small gate on the left down to a line of stepping stones across the river."
Walk 32 - Revised route description: “… eventually passing below a large house at Hill Top to reach a junction of tracks.
Carry on straight ahead for twenty metres to a kissing gate onto the lane, where you should turn left.
At the end by Old Cams House …”
The paragraph beginning “Guided by a sign” should be ignored.
Please note the route shown on the map for this walk is incorrect. The route line should continue directly from the disused railway line onto the track at SD 915 904, rather than passing through the farm at SD 914 903.