Leave the Market Place past the Allendale Inn and walk along the Whitfield road down to Mill Bridge.

Immediately beyond the bridge, turn left along a lane signed towards Wooley Scar. Where it swings right to a final cottage, walk through the gate ahead and follow the edge of a couple of fields above the river.

Cross a ladder stile at the far side and climb beside trees. Continue above a steep bank to enter a field. Keep by the left side, swinging within the corner to reach a ladder stile. Bear half right to a stile where fence and wall meet, and keep the same line to a gate in the distant boundary.

Stay by the right fence into the next field. Ignore a stile on the right and continue beside the scant hedge. Approaching trees, bear left to a waypost by a dead tree. 

Through the boundary swing left, dropping below an old hedge to a gate in the bottom corner. A grass track leads down to a cottage. Bear off right before it, joining a stepped path into the valley. Over a bridge spanning Steel Burn, keep ahead into rough meadow. At the far side, disregard a bridge over the river and continue through successive pastures, passing right of a derelict farmhouse and eventually reaching a second river bridge below Hagg Wood.

Cross and climb a steep, winding track to the B6295 beside Studdondene. Go left to a sharp bend and bridge over Parkgates Burn. 

Walk ahead over the lay-by into trees and immediately fork left (just before a duckboard) up to a stile. Cross to a second stile and bear left upfield to Low Scotch Hall on the skyline. Mount a ladder stile below the house and immediately turn right. Past the house, go left over a stile. Cross another and follow the fence across the hillside. Continue over two more fields towards the woods on Prospect Hill.

Climb a ladder stile, and up beside the wood. Entering another field, swing left past the farm. Keep ahead over a stile in the corner and accompany the left wall beside two more fields to a crossing track.

Beyond the track, bear right across another field, passing through a gate gap and on to a stile in the far left corner. Head half right downhill towards houses at the bottom, crossing an intervening wall stile. Go through a squeeze gap and walk out between the houses onto a street. Follow the walkway opposite back into town.