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Walking in Eden

Explore the length and breadth of Eden's landscape along fourteen circular routes on public paths, which have been improved for easier access and are clearly way marked with arrows and the disticive Discover Eden kingfisher logo.

The Discover Eden routes are located all over east Cumbria reflecting the spectacular diversity of the Eden catchment landscape which covers an area of 2200 square kilometres and extends from the Lake District fells of Skiddaw and Helvellyn and the two major lakes of Ullswater and Haweswater in the west to the Scottish border in the north, the western slopes of the Pennines in the East and the Yorkshire Dales in the south. 

Discover Eden walks map       One of the Discover Eden walk booklets

Along the walks you will also find a series of small bronze panels etched with motifs by the artist Pip Hall.  There are six on each route depicting aspects of human and natural heritage and rubbings can be taken from them using paper and crayons so that eventually a collection can be made of 84 images.

Full colour interpretative guide booklets for each Discover Eden route are available, price £2.00, which provide you with clear directions and information about the things you will see as you go along.  These are shown below and can be bought from Tourist Information Centres.  Alternatively you can download the booklets by clicking on the images below.

Mallerstang, Wildboar Fell and Pendragon Castle walk booklet  A walk along an ancient green highway with mountains, an iconic scultpure, a deep gorge, a waterfall, the Settle/Carlisle railway, and the infant River Eden.
 Kirkby Stephen, Ewbank Scar and the Nine Standards A walk with a small cathedral, a Viking god, exotic parrots, wild woods, a towering limestone cliff and nine mysterious cairns.
 Ravenstonedale and Smardale walk booklet A walk with two nature reserves, three pubs, an ancient church and priory, a flower rich meadow, a meandering beck, Giants' Graves and a railway viaduct.
 Church Brough, Great Musgrave and Brough Sowerby walk booklet A walk through an ancient farmed landscape, with two churches, a Norman castle, a river, a pub, a castellated folly, and stunning views every step of the way.
 Crosby Ravensworth and Maulds Meaburn walk booklet A walk with a church, a ruined 14th Century tower house, lost villages, heather moors and woodland, and the source of the River Lyvennet.
 Appleby-in-Westmorland, Hoff and Great Ormside walk booklet A walk with a castle, two churches, two rivers, two water mills and a waterfall.
Shap and Rosgill walk booklet  A walk through cattle country, with the River Lowther, mysterious earthworks, standing stones, ruins of an Abbey, and spectacular views of the Lake District mountains.
 Brougham and Eamont Bridge walk booklet A walk with two rivers, a Roman fort, a castle, a fortified manor house, and two ancient henges.
 Lacys caves, Long Meg and her Daughters walk booklet A walk with a water mill, the river, a hermit's cave, a lost village, a church and a druids' circle.
 Gelt woods and Greenwell walk booklet A walk in the footsteps of the border raiders, with ancient woodland, a railway viaduct, a red sandstone gorge, a Roman quarry and a wild magical river.
Wetheral and Cotehill walk booklet  A walk with a priory gatehouse, ancient oaks, rolling farmland, the River Eden, extensive woodland and a monastic hiding place in a cliff.
Holme Head and Dalston following the River Caldew walk booklet  A walk with cotton and corn mills, a salmon-ladder, an historic village, and woodland rich in birdlife. 
Carlisle and Wreay following the River Petteril walk booklet  A walk in the footsteps of Romans and a 19th Century industrialist, through a woodland nature reserve and on to a fascinating village with an unusual church.
Carlisle to Rockcliffe following the River Eden walk booklet  A linear walk with Roman and railway history, a salmon fishery, a smuggling village, and marshland rich in birdlife.

 
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