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We Parked at Gunnerside, where there’s spaces for a dozen or so vehicles on the right of the lane on the West side of the bridge. Public toilets are down a lane that runs down in front of the Kings Head inn.
The start of the walk is a narrow lane that leaves the main road on the East side of the bridge in the village. This soon narrows to a path that follows the valley, sometimes close to the Gunnerside Beck and sometimes high up on the hillside. Much of the early part is through woodland and the path is occasionally very narrow, with a steep hillside on the left.
Just past the main mine workings there’s a crossroads of a number of paths & this is where you join the Coast to Coast way. We took the path that slants downhill towards the beck, which we crossed over a stone slab bridge near some old buildings.
Over the bridge we crossed the small stream on our left and headed on a gently rising track, as though to go back down the valley. Shortly, there’s a narrow path that climbs back right, as though heading for Blind Gill, but it zig-zags its way up the hill and meets up with a gravel road at the top of North Hush. The gravel road continues over the moor and descends towards the top of East Grain, at which point you cross East Grain and continue down the right bank all the way to Swinner Gill. We took the higher of the two paths (C to C) leading down the gill, staying on the Coast to Coast until just past the ruins of Crackpot Hall, where we turned left, downhill to follow the path down Swaledale, all the way back to Gunnerside.
Here's a link to some of the photos of our walk.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/76212734@N08/sets/72157645156821331/