10.4 miles.
Outdoor Leisure Map No 30 - Yorkshire Dales Northern & Central
Areas
Circular walk, starting from West
Witton village. Car parking is not recommended on the main road through
West Witton itself; some care may be needed to find a suitable parking
place.
The walk takes in a mixture of green lanes, drovers' roads, footpaths,
and minor roads.
For the ascent of Penhill, use of the Ordnance survey map and compass
is highly recommended. The ascent isn't recommended in poor weather.
Descending back into West Witton takes in Witton Steeps. For this section,
the walker is recommended to use the road, rather than the footpath,
- which can be very wet and uneven.
A reasonably strenuous walk, though rewarded by some superb
views.
For a Memory Map overlay of the walk described, please select the above
link.
(Overlay made with Version 4 of Memory Map)
Start Point : the lane leading up from West Witton
to the Caravan Park (SE05758835)
Follow Langthwaite Lane West-North-West to descend by the footpath to
the Knights Templar Chapel (remains) at SE037887.
Take the footpath to Morpeth Gate and continue into West Burton.
Returning in an Easterly direction from West Burton, take the footpath
by the waterfalls that leads to Morpeth Gate.
Once you reach the farm track at Morpeth Gate, .continue in a North
easterly direction until you are on the old drovers' road.
Continue until you reach the footpath heading South, towards Penhill
itself, at SE04458782.
Where this footpath meets the miners' track, turn right to start climbing
to Black Scar.
Follow the boundary wall to Penhill's summit, and then to the descent.
The footpath takes you down to the minor road, where you turn left for
West Witton.
Before you reach Capple Bank Farm, turn left along the "water lane"
(a stream runs along it) to the Caravan Park. From here, descend to
West Witton.