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1. A few yards along the road from the village hall, in the direction of Lowick, is a trackway leading off to the right signposted as leading to Stock Farm. Within two hundred yards the track branches in two. Follow the left-hand branch which fords a stream. Within another few hundred yards this joins another trackway. (0.25 mile).

2.Here turn right and follow the trackway northwards to Ickenthwaite. The route soon becomes a confusion of trackways but fortunately the bridleway you should be following, which soon becomes a rough pathway, is well way-marked with a series of arrows. Eventually it joins another trackway. (0.75 mile)

3.Here turn left. The track eventually reaches a narrow roadway at the hamlet of Ickenthwaite. Here turn right. The road descends downhill and eventually reaches a road junction. Here turn left and then take the first turn right on to the Rusland Hall road. (1 mile).

4.Within a hundred yards along this road a trackway leads off to the right. Some two hundred yards along this trackway, just before reaching the river Rusland Pool, is a kissing gate next to a six bar gate on the right-hand side of the track. Pass through the kissing gate and turn left to follow the left-hand side of the field you enter another kissing gate which gives access to a foot-bridge crossing Rusland Pool.(0.25 mile).

5.On the other side of the river is the terminus of a trackway. Here turn right and follow the trackway to a roadway. Here turn right and follow the road to the gate house of Rusland Hall. Here bear right again on to a trackway leading round the back of Rusland Hall and signposted as being a public footpath leading to Bouth and Oxen Park. This leads to a bridge spanning Rusland Pool. (0.50 mile).

6.On the other side of the bridge is a signposted footpath leading off to the left which follows a series of waymark posts. About a quarter of a mile from the bridge the path appears to branch in two. Bear right following a series of white posts leading through some woodland. The path finally emerges from the wood by way of a foot bridge leading to a house called Low Hay Bridge. (0.50 mile)

7.Follow the narrow surfaced road leading uphill from the house, signposted as being a footpath leading to Bouth. A few hundred yards after crossing a cattlegrid a lone signpost indicates a footpath leading uphill to the right. There is little or no evidence of a path but fortunately the right of way is waymarked with a series of waymark posts which lead to a metal gate, through which it then follows the wall to your left, through two more gates, to a roadway. (1 mile).

8.Here turn right. Fifty yards along the road is a signpost indicating a public footpath leading off to the left to a six bar gate. From the gate the right of way heads directly towards the farm you see ahead of you, by way of two more gates. Passing the right-hand side of the farm complex the right of way comes to the farm's driveway. (0.50 miles).

9.Turn left. Walk fifteen yards into the farmyard and turn right through a metal gate and follow the left-hand side of the field you enter to another metal gate. Pass through this gate and follow the wall to your right back to Oxen Park village. (0.25 miles)