Cumbria Way: Rosthwaite to Keswick
Leave Rosthwaite along the road opposite the postbox (soon passing the car-park). Continue along a track to the River Derwent and follow it downstream to a bridge. Cross and go right, keeping close to the river, and then go left, around a knoll. Stay low and and enter High Hows Wood. Pass old slate workings then climb to a fingerpost, turn right and descend back to the river.
At a track junction, turn right and walk through a campsite. At a lane turn left, signed ‘Manesty 1’. Walk through Hollows Farm, then follow a stony track north through fields. At a T-junction by a plantation turn right and down a field path to a road opposite the Borrowdale Gates Hotel.
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