Rosedale East Kilns and Bank Top

A short, steep 4.3-mile round with 200 metres of ascent packed into the first half, roughly two hours, climbing the dale side to the calcining kilns of the East Mines and returning on the old railway formation; the pull out of the village is unrelenting and the kiln area is loose shale underfoot. It starts in Rosedale Abbey village centre by the Milburn Arms, where the National Park car park behind the green is the only sensible parking and fills fast in daffodil season and in August. The becks crossed on the way up give a drink, the railway formation is broad, firm and easy for a dog to trot along, but the kiln ruins have unfenced drops and open shafts, and sheep graze the intake fields all the way up.