Luner Walk

From car park return to & cross river bridge. Then drop left to the riverside. This soon rises up to a kissing gate & then ahead to a gap stile. Follow the riverside through fields to a building & a kissing gate before stepping up to Meal Bank Bridge. Cross the road (not the bridge) with care & go through a gap in the barrier down to a bridle way.
This pleasant old route, Back Lane, winds past a disused sewerage works & through to a rough crossroads. Turn right here & trace the field-edge path to the riverbank. Go through the kissing gate & walk downstream to another gate & walk downstream to another, pass through this & turn left along a green lane to meet the old railway. Pass through the kissing gates & turn left.
Keep the wall on your left to reach a stile. A few yards after this bear right & head across the meadows, crossing four stiles & heading in line for the towers of Hornby Castle, rising above the trees. Turn left through a muddy gateway to join a concrete track which leads alongside the River Wenning to a farmyard. The route passes to the left of a barn & then ahead to the main road in Hornby.
Turn right & cross the river bridge & go left before a dwelling along a path which soon bends right to run along the riverside. It leads to a stone step stile. Climb this & enter a large riverside pasture. Keep near to the River Wenning, lined with alders, as it approaches its confluence with the River Lune.
Now follow the Lune upstream by willow fringed banks, passing to the left of a bluff where Priory Farm stands. The path rises up to the next bluff & then the path dips again to a stile. If waters low — proceed over the stile & walk through the wood to pass beneath the arch of the bridge into the next meadow. If waters high — do not cross stile but climb the bank on your right to the fencing to the right of a dwelling. Cross a stile here& proceed ahead to the road. Turn left & walk down to Lyon Bridge turning right before it to regain river bank.
Follow the embankment as it curves away from the river. As you approach a line of trees cross a concrete track, then head slightly left to a tapering corner where you will find a stone slab bridge across the brook.
Cross the bridge & go over the stile. Now proceed ahead by an old streambed, then across to a stile in a hedge. Cross a second stile in the next pasture & once over continue through a group of trees. Once you have cleared the trees, bear right as indicated by the waymarkers. There is a hedge on your right & a water channel soon appears on your left. Cross two stiles where cattle take water & keep company with the fence on the right, ducking beneath the boughs of alders, which line the channel here. You soon reach a barred gate & kissing gate before the railway embankment, leading to a track (right) to the main road A683 a Melling.
Cross the road & turn left towards Kirkby Lonsdale. After the railway bridge turn right to pass by old station cottages, at the top of the road look for a gate on the left. Proceed across two fields & through two barred gates. In the next field continue along the fence to your left. Cross a stile & bear slightly right through a narrower pasture to cross another stile. Climb up to a barred gate & once through bear slightly left towards a barn. Go over a stone step stile & walk ahead to a barred gate & bridleway where you turn right.
The bridleway soon joins a road in the hamlet of Wrayton. Proceed ahead through the hamlet until you see the entrance to the left to Wrayton Hall & then a cottage. Opposite (right) is a stile. Cross this to walk through a corner plot where geese & ducks reside. Squeeze through a gap stile to climb the hillside in earnest. At the summit you will see a small piece of wall with stone step stile.
There's a knoll to your left crowned with conifers, but your way is ahead in the direction of a barn, or more precisely towards a summit just to the right of two barns. The latter point becomes apparent as you reach the crest of the hill, where you dip down sharply to a plank bridge across a stream & then some dexterity is required to climb a stone stile. Rise up the hillside with the boundary to your left to pass the isolated barns.
Just beyond Catgill Barn, cross a stone stile & keep ahead to another stile, to reach a track.
The actual route continues over the track but our walk goes left to follow a devised route taking us from 'A' to 'B' and calling at Low Bentham for lunch.
We turn left at 'B' up Old Moor Road (above the railway station in Wennington). The road climbs upward to find a stile on the right (before right & left bends). Cross the stile to enter a field. Head slightly left to a barred gate. On passing through this join a drive which leads ahead to Overends Farm.
Pass by the farmhouse, then go next right through the farmyard (not ahead). Pass through the gate ahead into a field, & turn left to descend a field. There is a stile by a gate. Cross this & ain=m for a stone step stile, just to the left of an old barn, which leads into Coat Bank Coppice. A clear path leads through the wood to exit at a barred gate into a high level pasture. Keep ahead to a stile, which exits on Park Lane. The landmark to look for is an old school house in the next field.
Cross the lane & walk in the direction of the dwelling, but then ease left to follow the boundary up the hillside to a stile flanked by holly bushes near the summit. Proceed ahead again to descend through three fields & over three stiles. In the fourth field, keep ahead as the hedge line dips right to Tatham Park Wood. In the next boundary cross a stile, which is difficult to see at first, & step across a small stone bridge.
Climb ahead up the bank, aiming for a top corner where you go through a barred gate. Proceed ahead to the next gate & now aim for the left-hand farm of the two you can see. There's a stile & signpost just to the right of the farmhouse. Go left on Trinket Lane, but then turn right through the farmyard as sign-posted.
Exit to the rear of the buildings into a field & proceed ahead down the hillside to a small gate above Gamblesholme Farm. The path zig zags down to a wall & gateway. Go left through it, & walk ahead along the track by the farm buildings. The track bends right & then left. It then runs ahead to the road at Hindburn Bridge.
Go right to pass over the bridge, & then climb a stile ahead where a track rises to the left. Walk up to the steps & enter the woods by the stile. This wood is riddled with paths so take care to go right, across a gully, & rise up the hillside to the right. The path is not always clear during the winter when there is heavy leaf fall but the important landmark to look for is a kissing gate in the top boundary. Go through it & walk ahead through a long field to a lane.
Turn left along the lane. It descends to a point where a closed hedge track cuts off right. Go down this old track, signposted to Alcock's Farm. It drops to a ford & a footbridge across the sparkling waters of the Hunt's Gill Beck. The path climbs slightly right up the bank to a gate by Alcock's Farm.
Turn left & follow this very quiet lane as it rises for approximately 500m. When you see a barn ahead, as the road bends slightly to the left, go over a wall stile here on the right as signposted. Your way is ahead through rough ground, proceeding over another wall stile. Keep ahead proceeding through the remnant of a hedge & over a trickle stream, then bear slightly right before reaching another gate. Keep ahead on a raised green strip.
This leads to a gate into Roeburndale. The sunken path descends through woodland to a gate & then angles right to a long bridge across the River Roeburn. Climb up steps, then bear left on a track. At the junction keep ahead to climb out of the valley on a zig-zag track, but at the next junction keep left to pass to the left of a dwelling where you cross a stile by a barred gate.
In the field, head slightly right along the boundary fence until you reach a stile. Go over this & climb up the steep valley side by way of steps to a stile. Go ahead to cross another stile, then bear right to walk up to farm buildings. Keep to the left of the buildings to go through a gate/stile.
Head slightly left over the moor to a narrow clough. Dip down to cross the stream then climb up. Head for Back Farm where you go through a gate. On the track go right up the road. Turn right & walk down Moor Lane through the flanks of Whit Moor, dropping steeply at times. Pass by a junction on the right for Wray & continue to a point where the road bends & dips just after Cold Park Wood. Cross a stile on the right over fencing just beyond a little bridge.
Head slightly left across the field away from the stream to align yourself with the fencing on the left. Go ahead through the gate & onward through pasture to another. Once through, keep to the fence line on the left to dip down to a gateway & now follow the slightly raised green track (presumably an old hedge line) towards the wood. Cross a double stile & keep ahead along Neddy Park Wood. At the far end continue to the field corner, go over a wall stile &, wall on your left, walk to the gate at the corners to join a road. Drop down the hillside into Wray.
Turn right (cross bridge & return to car park).