Park by the simple church of St Lawrence, cross the old stone bridge, turn left and follow the lane upstream by Kirkland Beck. The Tarmac soon ceases, and a good farm track curves northwards on to the fellside. It is a corpse road, once used to carry bodies over the Pennines for burial in the consecrated ground of St Lawrence's.Climbing steadily,
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the track passes beneath the rocky scar of High Cap and swings more eastward At around the 2,297ft contour, a track turns left Go straight on here, up a cairned and rather boggy path. Cross Fell appears ringed with bouldery scree, but, by continuing just over the shoulder of the hill - the Pennine watershed - before heading for the top, the awkward scree is pretty well avoided.Once on the summit plateau, continue south-south-east to the crowning survey column and tumbled wind-break.
The fell, legend has it, takes its modern name from a cross that was erected here by St Augustine, after he drove out the resident demons and evil spirits. Until then, it was known as Fiends' Fell.Fiendish to behold is the unearthly white globe of the radar station on Great Dun Fell, two miles to the south-east But this surreal sphere makes an excellent marker. By walking off the plateau in its direction the scree is once again avoided. Below the scree, at Tees Head, a path branches south-west towards Wildboar Scar. Often, this way is merely a shadow in the coarse grass, but there are occasional cairns.Dropping over the rim of Wildboar Scar, the path picks up a superb grassy ramp, which swings down above a stream and then fords it to descend gently between gorse bushes and over rough pasture to Blencarn. Turn right into the village and follow a lane, crossing Blencarn Beck, for a mile back to Kirkland.Allow at least six hours for the walk.
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