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Cleatop Park

Approximately 4 miles
Explorer/Outdoor leisure map No 2
 
  1. Leave Greenfoot car park by the exit away from the town centre Turn left at the junction. Take the rough lane on the right (sign Mear Beck). This is Brockhole Lane, also known locally as Watery lane, an example of a traditional 'green lane'.
  2. When Brockhole Lane ends at a tarmac road take the stole opposite (footpath Mear Beck), then to another stile in the top left hand corner.
  3. Yet another small stile can be seen straight ahead. Go through this and continue with the wall on the left to a stile at the corner of the wood. Go forward with the wood on the left.
  4. Just after a wall gap on the left turn into Cleatop Park. A clear path follows a gentle gradient through the wood. Cleatop Park is owned by Yorkshire Dales National Park and is designated a site of Special Scientific Interest. A wide variety of trees grow here including oak, birch, larch and pine, together with numerous species of woodland plants, ferns and mosses.
  5. When a path joins from the right (coming up from a small footbridge) turn left. Go along in line with the top of the wood to meet a stile leading out into open pasture.
  6. From a stile Lodge farm can be seen ahead. Aim for the wall corner and then for a conspicuous gate to the right of the farm buildings. While crossing the pasture enjoy the superb views of Pen-y-ghent ahead, Ingleborough to the left and the hills of Lakeland beyond. A birds-eye view of Settle shows it snuggling beneath the surrounding limestone hills.
  7. Turn right at the farm road and keep right up a track to a ladder stile by a gate. Follow the walled lane to where it ends at a gate.
  8. After the gate turn immediately back over a ladder stile on the left. Turn right and continue with the wall on the right. The field goes down to end at a wood. About 40 yards before the wall meets the wood there is a stone stile (not obvious).
  9. Go over the stile and down the next field to a rather shaky gate/wall combination, found in the bottom corner. Cross this and going right follow the contour of the hill to where a gate leads to the other side of the wall.
  10. Go on, with the wall now on the left, to a gate into a tarmac lane (Mitchell Lane) and turn left.
  11. Where the road forks keep left (Green Head Lane) and left again to come down by The Green in Upper Settle. At the road junction turn right. Just round the bend a footpath cuts down into Greenfoot car park.
 
PARKING: At Greenfoot car park in Settle