Cam End from Cam Houses, where the Dales Way meets the Pennine Way

Cam Houses is a handful of farm buildings at about fourteen hundred and fifty feet at the head of Langstrothdale, and this is the walk that gives the place its reason to exist. The Dales Way climbs south-west from the buildings across peat and rough grass for a mile to meet the Cam High Road, the Roman road along the fell, and from there the two national trails run together as one stony byway down to Cam End, where the Pennine Way comes up from Ling Gill. It is all open sheep ground and moor with curlew and golden plover nesting on it, so the lead goes on at the gate and stays on. There is no circuit up here that does not add several miles of moor, so turn round at the Cam End signpost and come back the same way.