A stroll around Tarn Hows

From the car park return to the road and cross over to the other side. Take the path down towards the tarn. Ahead of you is a surprisingly well manicured grass viewpoint - it gets a hard life with picnics in the summer, and grazing geese or Belted Galloway cattle at other times.

The view is out across the tarn with Iron Keld and Black Fell beyond.

To continue bear left down the grass slopes onto the path and then keep right to go through the gate beside the tarn.

Follow this well maintained gravelled track, which meanders never far from the tarn on your right hand side, to the signpost beside a junction.

At the junction bear right to continue around the tarn.

Keep on keeping right. Just past the furthest point where the path swings quite sharply there's a bench, beside which you might find some bog myrtle. Rubbing the leaves between your fingers gives a lovely resinous perfume. It's said to ward off the midges and other flying insects too.

Continue round the tarn on the track. You pass a small plantation of conifers and the track climbs a little to be high above the tarn. The view then is out to the Coniston fells.

Arriving back at the viewpoint bear left up to the road and cross back into the car park.