I walked this route on a lovely late summer day, from Shap to Tebay. The route followed the Coast to Coast route for the first half, although I hadn’t realised this when I plotted it, as it’s not currently labelled on the OS Map around here. It meant that the route was pretty easy to follow on the ground though, and was well-trodden. I stopped at the highest point of the route, about 40% through, where there was a lot of exposed limestone which made excellent seating! A short road section led to the end point in the pleasant railway village of Tebay....

Mary Oz

There was also a section near Shap Summit close to the railway where fencing had been erected around large areas of tree-planting, across the public right of way, with no indication of where to walk instead. I had walked most of the route northwards from Tebay, and by the time I was due to cross the A6 for yet more bog, by a mini reservoir, with the slightly worrying prospect of stepping stones about a mile and a half south of the end point, I gave up and walked along the pavement of the A6 into Shap. Seeing the Shap Summit railway sign was exciting and the section through Shap Granite Works (Cemex) was well defined and interesting....

Mary Oz

The route left Kendal via a fairly direct footpath and a bit of A6 pavement to reach a lovely path alongside then River Mint, and then a quiet lane to Patton Hall Farm. Eventually I arrived down by the noisy M6 and the West Coast Main Line railway, that follow the Lune Gorge into Tebay. The pretty-much essential detour here led to a pretty walk along the Lune, and a lane walk with views of the curving strata of rock where the M6 was carved out, to Lune’s Bridge. A lovely new off-road footpath was opened in 2023 avoiding the need to walk along the main road into Tebay, as I have done in the past....

Mary Oz