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A short walk in what I class as our local patch. We never set off until nearly midday once again as it wasn't a great day. The pictures really don't do the walk justice I'm afraid.

A short walk down a lane from the car and we join the path of a walk from Arnside to Kirkby Lonsdale known as the Limestone Link. This first section crosses an area known as Arnside Moss towards Carr Bank. It can be a little on the wet side after heavy rain. Today however it was fine.

Not a very inspiring first section but it does get better. That Carr Bank ahead with Underlaid Wood and Beetham Fell behind.

Might as well have a look back at Arnside Knott.

Approaching Carr Bank. The gate was open today but there is a stile next to it. Either way you will emerge onto a narrow road which you cross to the stile and fingerpost opposite.

The fingerpost had been decorated today. We never saw any signs of anybody hopping along the walk.

From the fingerpost the path rises slightly through a small field and then through a gate or stile into this more open space. To the left the land is used as a campsite and ahead is Hazelslack Tower Farm and Hazelslack Tower.

Hazelslack Tower probably dates from the 14th Century....Lot more info HERE

Not sure why these Ewes and lambs were in this annexe, there were plenty more out in the fields.

Catching a little sun in a porch. I wonder if it was the Peahen I saw with a chick on a previous walk.

A nice new sign to guide us on our way. Not that we need one, I don't even have a map for the area nowadays.

I've noticed that the fields this year seem very pale looking....I've been trying to find an article I either saw on the Internet or in the papers that a farm said it was with having snow lay on it for weeks on end but that doesn't apply here.

On entering the woods it's just a case of straight ahead and upwards

There are some lovely patches of Limestone pavement to be seen, most of it though is overgrown.

If you get it right you will end up here at the Fairy Steps (l) where Edith is making a less than gracefull ascent (I told her to take the rucsac off ) but she took no notice. Of course my 15.75stone frame was squeezed gracefully between the walls.

The steps are situated on one Lakeland's corpse trails, along which the coffins of those who died in more remote and inaccessible wildernesses of the neighbourhood, would be carried for burial in the nearby churchyard. The idea that pallbearers could manoeuvre a coffin up this cleft is hard to believe.

Several of the iron rings through which ropes were threaded to haul the coffins up the sheer rock face are still visible in this peaceful and idyllic haunt

Looking over to Arnside Knott from the exit of the Fairy Steps.

We then made our way along Beetham Fell a visit to which is probably best left for a few weeks when things will look much greener.

We made our way down to the quiet Beetham to Storth road which we walked down to get onto the disused railway line from Arnside to Sandside

A look over the salt marsh and River Kent to Newton Fell with the Coniston Fells to the far right.

Whitbarrow

Hampsfell

A look back as the clouds thicken

and ahead to Arnside

Over the railway bridge at Arnside to make our way back to the car.

The tree near the start of the walk is still slowly devouring the wall.

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