Walk · North Yorkshire

Hutton Roof Crags limestone pavement

Hutton Roof · LA6 1NU
N 440 YD
1.6MILES
1h 10mON FOOT
95mCLIMB
CircularSHAPE
Off-road 97% 3% shares tarmac with cars
Field & moor path 92%Lane & track 5%Road with traffic 3%

Our drawing of the route — the shape of the walk, not a navigation aid. Carry OS Explorer on the hill.

Starts at
Layby on Clawthorpe Road above Burton-in-Kendal, at the waymarked reserve entrance LA6 1NU
Parking
Free but very limited layby parking on Clawthorpe Road; two further laybys along the road take the overflow, and all of them are full on a fine Sunday
Directions to the start →

Ninety-nine hectares of the finest limestone pavement in Britain on the fell between Kirkby Lonsdale and Burton-in-Kendal, with clints and grikes running out of hazel scrub and dark-red helleborines in the crevices. Cumbria Wildlife Trust publishes the reserve as dogs on a lead and records cattle grazing at times. The red waymarked circuit from Clawthorpe Road is a mile and a half; the Trust warns that paths are narrow, uneven and muddy and cross pavement that is slippery when wet, so a dog dragging on a lead is a good way to turn an ankle. Take the OS map, because the scrub makes navigation harder than the distance suggests.

THE SMALL PRINTCumbria Wildlife Trust publishes the reserve as dogs "On a lead", with "Cattle grazing at times". Deep grikes in the limestone pavement are a hazard for a dog running loose.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on
REGION · NORTH YORKSHIRE
GRID · 54.1983, -2.7019
SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.CUMBRIAWILDLIFETRUST.ORG.UK/NATURE-RESERVES/HUTTON-ROOF-CRAGS
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