With the Swinton Park gates and gatehouses behind you, cross the triangle green and the road, to the footpath and steps that take you over the hedge and into the field. Turn right and skirt around the corner of the field, with Low Swinton House on your right. Shortly after this, there is a stile in the fence on your right taking you into the next door field. From here you have to walk diagonally across several fields, there are markers in the fields to follow but it is not particularly clear. You will cross a small stream and eventually the path bends right and reaches the road before a farmhouse.
At this point turn left and follow the road, you will go past a farm on your left and after the bend to the right follow the footpath on your left that takes you across Roomer Common. The path meets the road where the road bends to the left, and here you need to cross the road to take the path down the country lane to Nutwith Cote. Follow the lane through the farm, which has some interesting historical buildings – the farmhouse used to be a grange for Fountains Abbey. On the far side of the buildings go through the gate and fork left on the path heading gently downhill (do NOT take the stone track). Go through the field heading towards the kissing gate and from there down to the path running along the River Ure. Follow this path, with the river on your left.
Continue on this path, which will lead you through woodland, over a small stream and through a small section of field to a gate and the start of Hackfall. Here you have the option of exploring further, or turning right to stay on the route with the wall on your right. The path will take you up the hill, and from there turn right through the field following the signs to Hackfall car park. The rough track will take you to the road (car park on your right) and from here cross the road and head straight into the Nutwith Common woods (there are usually few cars parked in the entrance).
From here follow the path up the hill. Where you see a metal gate in the wall on your left, continue for just a few paces and from there branch left across the verge onto the unmade path. Continue, with the wall on your left. After a climb, continue until you reach a fork in the path and take the left hand fork. After some distance, the path will meet a stone track, at the end of the wood and close to the road. Turn right onto the stone track (heading away from the road) for just a few metres and then take the track to the left which heads down the hill into the woods. Continue heading towards the far corner of the woods, bearing left. You will meet a stone wall boundary, and on your left a gate into a field.
Go into the field, keeping the stone wall on your right as you head down the hill. Where you reach a gate in the wall, go through the gate into the next field and continue down the hill – this time with the stone wall on your left. At the bottom of the hill cross the stile and turn right onto the track with the stream (Den Beck) on your left. Go over the bridge that crosses the stream and from here head back up the hill until you reach Gill Head Farm. Be careful to follow the footpath signs that take you through the gate, along the rough track (with the barns on your left) and to the road.
From this point, turn right and follow the road down the hill (ignore the left hand turn). After about ¼ mile, the Parkland walls will be on your left, and from here continue along the road until you meet the Swinton Park gates again.
