Walk west along the road, with a wall on your left. The lane bends left near a farm then passes through a gate. The next section is pleasantly elevated. Pass through another gate and continue along the winding lane for about a mile (1.6km) to the wide opening of a stony track on the left, just beyond a red-topped gas pipeline marker post.

Turn left through the gate and go down this track. About 100yds (91m) after the next gate, where the track dips down gently before rising again, with a farm on the skyline ahead, turn left, not on the obvious track to a ford, but a few paces beyond, to cross a stream by the grassed-over remains of a small dam. This is still a water intake (you can see the pump), so take care not to pollute. Go through a gate just beyond (it says ‘Bull in Field’ in very faded paint). Follow the left-hand wall for around 50yds (46m), then bear slightly right to follow a green track along the left-hand flank of a small hill with scattered thorn trees. Keep mostly parallel with the wall on the left. Continue along the track past dense stands of rushes, then turn left to find a (hard to spot) stile in a stone wall.

Cross this and turn right immediately, between the wall and a wire fence. When the fence ends bear left across the field to a gate left of a barn by a redtopped gas pipeline marker post. Go straight across the next field to a small gate/stile in a stone wall, below a large ash tree. Cross this, then turn left immediately, following the wall. Cross a wire fence and continue uphill, still following the left-hand wall.

As you start to descend, the wall on your left turns away sharply. Go half left here, roughly level across a slope, then down to a gate in the far corner of the pasture. This gate leads to a grassy causeway which is, very obviously, the only way across a very wet area. This is the heart of Cocket Moss.

Cross the causeway then follow a faint path, just right of a groove, up the slope beyond. From the top of this slope there’s no obvious path, but go straight ahead across the rough moor. It’s damp, but nowhere near as wet as the area flanking the causeway.

When you reach a faint track, parallel to a wall ahead, turn right. Follow the track to a gate with a tall post, go through and follow the left-hand wall. At the next angle of the wall, below the crag of Birchshow Rocks, bear left; there’s a very faint track and you need to keep 99 per cent of the boulders to your right. Follow the track to a gate.

Go through this gate and straight ahead, below more rocks. Pass the end of a detached section of wall, then bear left to a gate in the far corner, left of some trees. A second gate leads out to the lane; turn left and follow it back to the start.