Eleven members met at the car park near the Eden Bridge, Lazonby.

The walk started five minutes later than advertised to allow a late arrival time to get their boots on. From the car the group proceeded over the bridge to the footpath leading to Kirkoswald, passing close to the church of St Oswald .

On entering Kirkoswald the group turned right to follow the path beside the Raven beck, through the woods and fields to a footbridge over the beck. Once over the bridge the route crossed the road and followed the path past Park Head to another minor road.

Here the route crossed the road into fields leading to Viol Moor. At this point the group turned right and proceeded along the road to an old lonning on the left heading to Gamblesby. Care had to be taken due to mud and ruts churned up by the farm tractors. This eventually turned into a tarmac road which was followed until reaching the Gamblesby allotments. At this point the route turned right to pass the allotments to reach Gamblesby’s hallowed turf (the cricket pitch) then on into Gamblesby. Here the group used the old bus shelter and an adjacent seat for a coffee break. After the break the group took the road towards Glassonby for a short way before tuning left towards Little Salkeld and proceeded along this road past Pinetree Nursery to an old muddy lonning to Broadmeadow.

At Broadmeadow a path on the right was used to reach Farmanby and on to Robberby. On reaching the road the group turned right for a few yards then turned left along the road to Hunsonby.
There had been lots of snowdrops at various places on the route and they were especially nice on both sides of the road and gardens on the way into the village.

Lunch was taken on the low walls on and beside Robberby Beck bridge. After lunch the group walked back up the road to a lane on the left signed to Little Salkeld and Little Gill.
At Little Salkeld there were more snowdrops and lots of Winter Aconite in full bloom. Here the group turned right and followed the road up to a lane on the left which led to Long Meg
stone circle which is Neolithic from around 3000BC. The circle has 69 stones and the largest is called Long Meg. Long Meg is local sandstone but the rest are rhyolite which a form of granite. There are two other stone circles nearby, Little Meg and Glassonby, both being on private land so could not be visited.

From here the route went past Maughenby farm to St Michaels Church, Addingham. This is a 16th century church which was built from reused stone from a 9th century church at a nearby
Anglo-Saxon settlement destroyed when the river Eden changed its course. One of the stained-glass windows is a modern one by S M Scott depicting St Michael and the dragon.
After visiting the church, the group followed the paths and track to Daleraven and turned left down the road to the bridge over Glassonby Beck. After passing over the bridge the
route went left into the fields beside the river Eden and back to the car park.