Kiring one

Verified Slow Way

Verified by 100.00% of reviewers

The start of the route at Ingleton coincides with The Waterfalls Trail, for which there is a fee, but you can ignore this. Initially the route is well signposted and trodden, climbing through fields. At Thornton Hall, the Slow Ways route wrongly cuts a corner, you need to go north along the road to the footpath just before the magenta square bunkhouse symbol. The footpath now follows the hillside through a string of sheep-grazed fields, alongside stone walls, with various stiles and little gates between them. This is a lovely section with great views.
Descending to Masongill, the route through the farm is a little confusing but doable. Ditto for Parr Bank, where you need to go on to the last farmyard to access the fields again (this is probably the obvious route in the opposite direction). There is another slight inaccuracy at Ireby where you need to go slightly further south in order to bridge across the stream. This is reasonably clear on the ground.
Next there is a section of pleasant quiet country lanes to walk along to reach Cowan Bridge, where there is a tea room and shop (they stop serving food at 2pm). The shy footpath to leave Cowan Bridge is hiding behind a stone bus shelter; it takes you through fields to a narrow footbridge over Leck Beck. A few more fields take you to Whoop Hall and the busy A65 crossing (there are always gaps in the traffic so it’s not too difficult). Then more fields and an enclosed, slightly overgrown, bridleway lead you on to some quiet roads to the Devil’s Bridge and Kirkby Lonsdale.
The towns at either end of the route are both lovely with good facilities, and the route is nearly all very nice indeed, but there are some slight navigation issues in this direction.

Loved walking this route. Far better than driving.

This might just be the best way to get between Kirkby Lonsdale and Ingleton! Most of the route is along dry stone walls and fields with grazing cows and sheep. There are great views across the valley. Most of the route is inside the National Park's boundary.

There are stiles, steps, ladders, foot bridges, and small gaps to negotiate.

If land owners created a path directly from Leck to Kirkby Lonsdale that would remove a fair sizeable zig-zag... but the zig and zag are both enjoyable in their own rights.

Share your views about this route, give it a star rating, indicate whether it should be verified or not.

Include information that will be useful to others considering to walk or wheel it.

You can add up to 15 photos.