Oxenber Wood, Feizor and Smearsett Scar

Norber Erratics and Crummack Dale from Austwick

Six and a half miles and around three and a half hours to the boulder field at Norber, where ice-age erratics sit perched on limestone plinths, returning by the walled Crummack Lane and Thwaite Lane; the middle section over Long Scar is rough, wet and cut by grykes that catch a paw. It starts from the village green in Austwick, where there is free roadside parking and a stop on the 581 bus from Settle. The whole route is working sheep ground and lambing runs from March, so the dog stays on the lead; Austwick Beck gives a drink at the start and finish but there is nothing on the tops, and the field walls here are crossed by very narrow slotted stone stiles - the ones above Nappa Scars are among the tightest in the Dales and a big dog will not pass without help.