Walk Distance 6.5mls mainly on green tracks
From the New Inn front door turn right and follow the road alongside Clapham Beck. At the church turn right signed Austwick and follow the lane through the tunnels and up the hill turning right 1 at the top down Thwaite Lane towards Austwick. Continue down Thwaite Lane, The North Craven fault can be seen in front of you stretching below Norber. Climbing the ladder 2 stile on your left and following the path that follows the wall at the foot of Robin Procter’s Brow and continues below Norber Brow, where the wall turns to the right follow the path up to the left to the Norber Erratics 3. These are large boulders of Silurian rocks uplifted by glaciers from Crummockdale and deposited on the limestone shelves of Norber Brow. Erosion of the limestone by wind and weather has left the slender blocks that serve as pedestals to these massive boulders.
Follow the path over the ladder-stile and down onto the lane. Turn left 4 and follow the lane up Crummockdale past Sowerthwaite Farm entrance and up to Crummock Farm. Follow through the stile to the wooden way-marker and take the springy green path that sweeps off and up to the left 5 into some splendid limestone country. At a point where the path levels and Ingleborough Massive appears on the skyline look for the path that turns off to the left. This is the obvious point to pause and admire the all-round views and have a cup of coffee. Follow down the broad grassy track to the left 6 over a ladder-stile and down to the top of Long Lane. Follow down Long Lane to the Ladder stile over the wall on your right, at this point you have a good view of the entrance to Trow Gill, climb over the ladder-stile 7and down the short steep path to the wide track that descends from Trow Gill.
Turn left down the track over the old pack horse bridge and past the entrance to Ingleborough Cave about 200yds on your left is a hydram pump in a stone collecting chamber which produces a supply of water to farm buildings 100metres above the path. You then enter Clapham Woods. Here the nature trail begins which was set up in 1970 to commemorate Reginald Farrer botanist and plant collector. He collected many new species of rhododendron shrubs and alpine's in China Tibet and Upper Burma between 1914 and 1920. Further along a narrow path on your left will take you to the edge of a bank where the rhododendrons are growing in acid soil, and Bamboo can be seen. You have now reached the head of the lake where there is a cleft in the dry streambed which is a geological fault where the difference in levels is as much as 700metres. It is a site of special scientific interest-the North Craven fault which marks the division between the sandstone rocks of the Bowland area and the limestone of the Ingleborough area. The valley was produced from melting glaciers of the Ice Age. Electricity has been generated on the estate from a water-powered turbine, which still runs today, since 1893. When you reach the Sawmill and Yard turn left and into the village.
