(S/E)From Mo Cuishle turn left up Grange Lane to High Ashes Farm. Take a footpath on the right just beyond Figg Barn. Join a descending path with paddocks to the left.
In the next field, continue downhill to a central tree, cross a gravel path through a laurel hedge and aim for the bottom right-hand corner of the next field.
(1) Drop into woodland and bear right to the road. Turn right then immediately left over a stile to a footbridge. Climb the slope beyond, following the right-hand edge of two fields, to reach Far Lane. Take a few steps to the right, then turn left along a farm track between the farmhouse and modern barns.
(2) Follow the track downhill past a pond to a wood. When the track bends sharp right, head straight on into the wood, then bear right and left. Beyond the wood, follow the field edge towards the stone buildings of Johnnygate.
After the first gate, head left of the nearest building to a gate into the road (Johnnygate Lane).
(3) Turn right past the farmyard buildings, then turn left before the farmhouse into a track. In dry weather, keep along the track, which develops into an attractive hollow way down to a ford. In wet weather, this path may be very wet and the ford slightly awkward; in such conditions, a gate on the right just beyond the buildings at Johnnygate gives access to an unsignposted alternative path that closely parallels the track and avoids the ford. Negotiate the ford.
(4) Beyond the footbridge, either continue along the field edge or rejoin the hollow way; either brings you to the end of Mill Lane. Follow the lane to a second ford (footbridge to right) and continue to the centre of Millthorpe village; the Royal Oak is to your left.
Retrace your steps over the first ford to the end of the lane (4) ; when a driveway bends right, take the stile ahead of you, to the right of the track you followed before. Walk down the left-hand edge of the field to a stile, then bear half-right to a footbridge.
Climb a rail stile beyond the bridge then bear right to another beside a holly tree. Follow the hedge up the left-hand edge of the next field to a gateway in the corner, then follow the right-hand edge of the next field.
When a footpath joins from the right, bear half-left across the corner of the field to a footbridge and climb the steps beyond to the lane at Barlow Woodseats (divert left to view the historic house).
Otherwise, turn right up the track, ignoring the footpath opposite the steps. Cross a stream and follow the track as it climbs through woodland between tumbledown walls.
(5) Bear left along the track, with open fields to your right, and ignore side paths to the right and left. Further up, the track is joined by a stream on the left and eventually reaches a road (Far Lane).
Cross into the entrance to Bank Farm then turn immediately left onto a path that skirts to the left of the buildings. Bear half-right to the corner of the field and follow a fenced path between paddocks above Grange Wood Farm, crossing a track partway along.
(6) Drop down stone steps to a footbridge in a steep wooded valley, then bear left up the opposite bank. Pass to the right of Grange Lumb Farm, crossing two fields, the first containing a farm track. Go through a gap in a line of holly trees and bear half-right (uphill) to a stile opposite.
Follow the bottom of the next field to the lower (left-hand) of two gates. Follow the track beyond out to Grange Lane.
(7) Cross into the road opposite. Just before the first building, turn left over a wall stile. Walk down the right- hand side of the first couple of fields, then down the middle of the next before dropping to a stile in the far left-hand corner.
Turn left up the bridleway to High Ashes Farm. Turn right round the garden to Grange Lane. Turn right back to the Mo Cuishle campsite. (S/E)
