Settle: to the top and round, Yorkshire

From the market square turn right and head, past the co-op, up Constitution Hill and onto Highway. After the road turns sharply left take the rising track to your right where it splits (to the right of the telegraph pole) and follow the walled track up. When you come to a gate go through it and take the right hand fork, climbing and travelling diagonally across the field. Turn right once through the next, slightly tumbledown dry stone wall and follow the path as it climbs steeply. [A] Memorably described by Daniel Defoe as 'the capital of an isolated little kingdom of it's own surrounded by barren hills' for centuries Settle has acted as the focal point and largest settlement of the Ribble Valley. While it was granted a market charter in 1249 it mainly dealt with local commerce and escaped national notice prior to the arrival of a turnpike in the mid-1700s. The towns newly connected status led to a economic boom built around Cotton Spinning which employed over 300 people by the mid-18th century.The town now acts as a cultural and tourism hub rather than being built around industry, but retains it's status as the focal point for the valley.

The path will appear to run to the right once you go past the wall, but continue along the wall on your left hand side until you come to a ladder. Climb the ladder and then follow the rough path up the hill directly in front of you. The climb is steep and you'll need to scramble slightly as you move up the crag. Once you've reached the plateau turn right and walk to the trig point to enjoy the fantastic views of the moors and Ribble Valley.After you've enjoyed the view head north-east around the head of the outcrop (there is no clear path here) and then turn sharp right onto a path and down the gully south. Once you've reached bottom the cully bear leftwards, south-east, and pick up the main Dales highway path as it runs east. [B] Trig points, more formally called triangulation stations, have an beloved place in the heart of many British walkers. Constructed between 1936 - 1962 they where constructed to provide a solid, common base for theodolites used by the Ordnance Survey to conduct the retriangulation of Great Britain - their solidity and regularity meaning that more accurate and consistent measurements could be taken.The initial triangulation of Great Britain had taken place between 1783 and 1853, and had been a haphazard affair supported by local mapping projections. This initial framework could not cope with the rapid changes in Britain following WW1 and as such the OS decided in 1935 to conduct a new survey which would establish a more accurate and consistent measurements across the UK. To ensure this was possible they constructed over 6,500 trig points across the country - creating an iconic feature of our landscape. This section of the route does require a very mild scramble and quite a steep descent! Be careful!

Follow the path east for the next 750m, through four field boundaries, and then turn right to join Stockdale lane. Follow this on until it joins High Hill Lane after a kilometer or so and turn right then almost immediately left following the Pennine Bridleway sign. The track will bare right, once it does this take the left hand turn onto the footpath and follow this down towards Settle. it'll run quite steeply downwards, into a small wood and then join with Mitchell Lane. Turn right here and follow the road down to the town square where you began.