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Dufton round
16 km (10 miles) – challenging circular walk
Walking from Dufton
1 The walk starts in the car park in
Dufton. Leaving the car park, turn
right along the road and then take
the track to the left of Dufton Hall
signposted Pennine Way Garrigill.
2 Take the left turn off the track
signposted Pennine Way. Follow the
path until it joins the access track
to Coatsike Farm.
3 Follow the track through the farm
and continue along the tree-lined
lane that eventually descends to
Great Rundale Beck.
4 Cross the stile and stone bridge
across the beck and continue to
follow the track as it becomes a
wide straight enclosed track
bounded by dry stone walls.
5 At the end of the enclosed track
follow the obvious green track up
the hill and turn left onto the path
signposted Pennine Way that leads
to the bridge over Swindale Beck.
6 Cross the footbridge and climb
past the Moor House National
Nature Reserve sign uphill towards
Knock Old Man. There are
occasional waymarker stones
with carved arrows.
Dufton round
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Start Dufton (grid ref NY 690252)
Distance 16km (10 miles)
Height Gain 692 m (2270 ft) with
some steep slopes
Terrain Tracks, natural hillside and fields
Time 5 hours
Refreshment & public toilets
Public toilets and car parking at Dufton.
There is also the Stag Inn
How to get there Car or bike
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7 At the cairn at Knock Old Man
follow the path heading towards
Great Dunn Fell with its golf ball
radar station on top. The path can
be indistinct but is stone flagged in
parts.
8 Turn left leaving the Pennine Way
and descend downhill on the
tarmac access road for the radar
station. Follow the road to the final
right hand corner
before the road crosses
a cattle grid and into a
walled lane.
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Pennine Way
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NATIONAL TRAIL
9 At this corner a path goes straight
ahead and heads for a large ladder
stile in the fell wall below. Cross the
stile and head across the enclosure
ahead aiming to the left of Knock
Pike. Pass through the small gate
next to another ladder stile and
follow the green track around the
hillside.
10 As the track comes into a field
bear right slightly towards a walled
track leaving the opposite side of
the field. Follow the track to the
minor road at Knock village.
11 Turn left along the road until the
metal public footpath sign on the
left of the road.
12 Cross the stile and via the
footbridge walk to St Cuthbert’s
Church.
13 Follow the church access track
back to the minor road to return to
Dufton village.
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0 1km (0.6mile)
Map reproduced from Ordnance
Survey digital map data
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Try a Trail ...
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Dufton round
16 km (10 miles) – challenging circular walk
A great walk from the floor of the Eden Valley near
Appleby-in-Westmorland to the tops of the North
Pennines. The view from Knock Old Man across the
Vale of Eden to the Lake District fells is worth the climb
Dufton is a small village nestling on
the slopes of the northern Pennines
below Dufton Pike and Great Dun
Fell. It is 12 miles from Penrith and
3 miles north of Appleby-in-
Westmorland, and both the
Pennine Way and the Pennine
Cycleway pass through the village.
At about 180m above sea level, the
village is aligned roughly east-west
round a rectangular shaped green
bisected diagonally by an avenue
of lime trees. The main feature of
which is the fountain.
This fountain was provided by Mr.
Wallace of the London Lead Mining
Company, which formally worked
the many mines in the area. On it
there is a Latin inscription which
when translated reads:
The Mountain Code
Know how to use a map and
compass
Know the weather signs and local
forecast; plan within your abilities
Know simple first aid and the
symptoms of exposure
Take waterproofs and fleece
Ensure someone knows your plans
Keep alert all day
‘There is a clear pool, whose waters
gleam like silver. It is not tainted by
shepherds, or by their she-goats
grazing on the mountain. Nor is it
muddied by cattle, or by birds or wild
animals, or by a branch fallen from
a tree’
Moor House National Nature
Reserve - Upper Teesdale is one of
England’s largest National Nature
Reserves. It is particularly well
known for the plants that originally
colonised the high Pennines after
the last Ice Age. You can also see
rare rock formations such as
outcropping sugar limestone and
the Great Whin Sill. The reserve
encompasses an almost complete
range of upland habitats typical of
the North Pennines, from lower
lying hay meadows, rough grazing
and juniper wood to limestone
grassland, blanket bogs and
summit heaths of the high fells.
Route profile
Pennine Way
NATIONAL TRAIL
Great Dun Fell (848 m) in the North
Pennines is home to the Civil
Aviation Authority's air traffic
control radar. The summit radar
domes are visible for a good forty
miles around and many see them
as a visual intrusion, but of course
installations like this have to be
built somewhere.
The abandoned Silverband mine,
worked originally for lead and later
for barite, lie at an altitude of about
701 m on the west side of the ridge
of Great Dun Fell, overlooking the
Vale of Eden. They were worked by
the London Lead Mining Company
during the first half of the
nineteenth century.
www.nationaltrail.co.uk/pennineway