From the car park at Midgehole, facing The Lodge, turn right and after 100 yards (90m) turn right and follow the path for a mile (1.6km). Turn off left to visit Abel Cross, actually a pair of old waymarker stones standing beside the track. Return to the main track and continue along the valley passing farm buildings on your right.

Bear right and take a walled grassy bridleway signed for Lumb Bridge. This is Limers Gate, the ancient packhorse route, and in places is obstructed by dense reeds and running water but you can easily step off and follow it down on drier ground past the skeletal remains of Sunny Bank Farm. Firmer and clearer ground soon appears in the lane though care should be taken on grass-covered boulders. The lane drops to Lumb Falls, crossing Crimsworth Dean Beck on the ancient packhorse bridge. On the opposite bank, leave Limers Gate by stepping over the stile on your left, then bearing right into an enclosed flight of stone steps. Emerging into an open field, continue uphill to another stile. Keep ahead beyond, up a pair of steps, then gently bear left to pass through a wooden gate and across a farm courtyard.

Take the clearly marked path between barns, scaling a few steps beyond, and bearing right to a latched gate. Cross the field ahead, aiming for the lower of two farmhouses. Beyond the stile through the far wall keep ahead, aiming for the far bottom field corner. Pass through a gated stile here and bear right on a flagged wallside path to a gate into the yard of Grains Farm. Bear right along the surfaced driveway then turn left up the lane.

After crossing a stone bridge take the bridleway on the left signed ‘Aire Link, Pennine Bridleway’, that follows Crimsworth Dean Beck gently downstream, soon passing through a latched wooden gate to cross a second beck near the confluence of the two. For the next 0.6 miles (914m) the track rises gently. The track passes a collapsed farm building and, 550yds (503m) later, crosses the muddy yard of an abandoned farm known as Nook Farm. Follow this path and continue down the valley and at Limers Gate carry on walking south, soon re-entering the woodland of the National Trust estate. Keep left at successive forks, eventually returning to the car park at Midgehole.