Castlehead
 Distance:
1.75 miles
Total Feet of Climbing: 250 feet
Suggested Time: 1 hour
Starting Point: Moot Hall, Keswick (NY 266 234)
For the effort involved in reaching the top of Castlehead
the rewards are quite spectacular: an impressive view down the
length of Derwentwater towards Borrowdale and the highest mountains
in England.
1. From Moot Hall, leave Market Square on the road past the
Lodge Hotel (St.Johns Street). Continue past The George Hotel,
the cinema and St.Johns Church. Just before the road begins pulling
sharply uphill turn right on to Springs Road (0.5 mile)
2. Two hundred yards along Springs Road is a signposted surfaced
pathway towards a wooded hillock - Castlehead. After passing through
the kissing gate the path branches in two - Follow the right hand
branch. When you reach the corner post to a field this path also
branches in two, uphill to the left, down to the right - Follow
the left path to the top of Castlehead (0.25 mile)
3. From the summit retrace your steps. At the corner post head
left, down the Borrowdale side of Castlehead and cut across to
a very obvious wooden bench where there is a path leading to Borrowdale
Road (please be careful!). Cross straight over onto the footpath
on the other side of the orad (0.12 mile)
4. Follow the footpath downhill for about fifty yards to where
a flight of steps leads off to the right giving access to an enclosed
pathway leading to Cockshot Wood. On entering the copse turn left
and this path follows the boundary of the wood, eventually leading
to a surfaced roadway following the shoreline of the lake. (0.5
mile)
5. Turn right and follow the road past the jetties and rowing
boats. At the new theatre stay on the footpath which veers away
from the road and passes beneath it by way of a subway. This brings
you to a short bricked roadway. On reaching the top of this road
turn left to return to the centre of Keswick (0.5 mile)
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