Castlehead Viewpoint from the Moot Hall, Keswick

Start facing the clock tower end of the Moot Hall. Pass along the left hand side of the hall and continue ahead to the road in front of Keswick Boot Co. Bear right, the gradient starts gently, continue up past the incongruously brick built Alahambra Cinema. In a little over 400m (440 yards) from the cinema the road dips slightly and at the foot of the following steep rise turn off right into Springs Road. Follow this for approx 200m (220 yards), and at the public footpath sign turn right onto a fenced path between fields. Castlehead Viewpoint is now directly ahead. Go through the gate at the end into the woodland.

In the woods bear right, climbing steadily, keep left. Reaching a fence corner on your right, bear left up a steep vague path. It becomes easier to see there is path just a few metres along. Follow it along a rising terrace, and then at the foot of an outcrop of rock clamber up the worn smooth path under the last of the trees to the summit.

At the summit you'll find a couple of benches and a toposcope.

Return back down the rocky step and path to the fence corner, turn left to continue descending on the wide path and keep right. Beware of the busy Borrowdale Road in only 150m (165 yards). Drop down the steps to the roadside, and cross to the other side. Turn left and take the off-road path. In just less than 100m (110 yards) turn right onto a fenced path between fields.

Go through the gate at the end, and turn left. Follow the path to another gate and go through into a field. Cross the field (used for lambing in spring), initially ahead to a footbridge across a boggy patch and then slightly right on a wide grassy pathway to the gravel path near the shore of Derwent Water.

Reaching the gravelled path turn right to round Strandshag Bay and on to Friar's Crag. Go through the gate at its foot and bear left up steps past the memorial to the conservationist John Ruskin, and then to the benches.

From the benches on Friar's Crag turn right on to the gravel path, now heading back to Keswick. Following it above the shore, you join the promenade above the launches, and all the ducks, swans, geese, seagulls that gather at the slipway at the end. Bear right to pass along the front of The Theatre by the Lake, and bear left along the pavement beside the road and Hope Park - which is a pleasant wander through gardens.

Keep to the pedestrian promenade to Hope Cafe at the end, bear right through the underpass into Lake Road. At the top of the road at the junction outside George Fisher, turn left and follow this pedestrianised road back into the market square and the Moot Hall.