The whole walk today follows a packhorse trail known as the Craven Way. When you get to Bruntscar farm / hamlet there is an alternative (in good weather) up to Whernside (736m), the highest of the Three Peaks. On the way down you visit the pretty Whernside Tarn. The standard route however, via Ivescar with great views of the famous Ribble Head viaduct, reaches the old signal box at Blea Moor Sidings. The two paths meet again at Wolds End. Then with views opening up of the Howgill range in Cumbria, the trail descends to Deepdale and via numerous stiles to Dent in Dentdale. This was the most important market town of the area, with at least 30 shops in the main street and very much associated with wool and wool knitting. Today it is a much quieter place with quaint cobbled streets, one shop and a couple of pubs. Perhaps only the large 12th century St. Andrews Church hints at the past wealth of the town. This was also the birthplace in 1785 of the famed geologist Adam Sedgwick. One of his students was a certain Charles Darwin. Out of Dent the route follows The Dales Way for a while, across Barth Bridge and across Long Moor towards Longstone fell, alongside the boggy Holebeck Gill. Finally, a walled lane brings you across New Bridge and up into the town centre of Sedbergh at the foot of the Howgills. This attractive 13th century market town, with its old-world atmosphere, has developed at the confluence of four rivers, where ancient trade routes merged - a staging point for commercial routes across the Pennines dating from Saxon times. The town is full of character, from its cobbled streets to its historic houses, some of which show the hallmarks of the old knitting and woollen trades which made the area such a thriving community. It is famous for its public school, set in magnificent parkland on the edge of the town. There is a fine Norman church, George Fox, founder of the Quakers, preached here, and overlooking the town is the site of Castlehaw, an ancient motte and bailey castle built to repel the Scottish hordes. After the 2001 foot & mouth disease outbreak, the Sedbergh booktown project was started in order to encourage visitors to the town. A company was set up in 2003 to develop a community of businesses involved in selling, writing, publishing and designing books and other publications.