Route diagram, drawn from the recorded track — for the shape of the walk, not for navigation. Carry OS Explorer on the hill.
Three and a half miles and roughly an hour and a half around a monks' fishpond turned wooded lake, following the Ripon Rowel east through Fishpond Wood and back by Picking Gill nature reserve, on rooty, rocky woodland paths with a gritstone crag standing over the water. Start from the small roadside parking on the lane at Eavestone, south-west of Sawley village and signed off the B6265 Ripon to Pateley Bridge road; there are no facilities at the start, so bring what you need. It is quiet, shaded and one of the better spots in the district to let a steady dog off in the trees, but the lake sides are steep and the surrounding fields are grazed, so leads on where you leave the wood.
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