Safe Return Doubtful

This is a superb circuit from the village, especillay now the ground has dried out. 

It begins by following the River Lowther, now laden with salmon, watched closely by kingfisher, with the beaver working hard downstream. At the hamlet of Butterwick the route climbs to the moor.

From this viewpoint we drop down to cross the Beck and up the other side. Even in high season you are very unlikely to come across other people in this part of the National Park. 

Even though its dried out a lot, its likely you will get your feet wet. The dog’s favourite places..

Coming down off the moor to Carhullan Farm, once a working farm, now a holiday let. Its at the end of a rough single track road, about 1400 feet asl. 

Our Parish newsletter features an item from the same publication one hundred years earlier – and in the last issue it quoted the opening of a school up here at Carhullan, for the children of the farms close by, so they did not have to walk the 2 miles or so down to Bampton. These days there are very few working farms on this side of the valley, the weather has beaten many. They are owned by the Lowther Estate or United Utilities, and all at the start of a 20 year ‘wilding’ programme which will see a lot of change. 

These little ones are very early for us up here – by the looks of them, just a day or two old.