Not a circular walk.
A relatively short, easy walk to Hardraw, the Green Dragon pub and Hardraw Force Waterfall, from the Brown Moor, Caravan Club site, in Hawes. Hardraw Force, is reputedly the highest single drop waterfall in England.
We got off to good start with a shortcut that got us on the wrong side of the river Ure and we had to retrace our steps.
So here are the correct directions for the shortest route to the falls. You can do the walk from the town centre, it would be about half a mile further each way (town directions are in italics). Some photos were taken on the way back and as so, we are heading in the wrong direction in them.
From the campsite entrance, turn right and walk down the road but be careful as there is no path for the first 100 yards. Around the bend in the road there is a spot on the right where you can step up onto a path through the vegetation, to a road bridge, From the town centre take Burn Acres road over the old railway and at the first turning on the left go through the gate and follow the footpath across the field to the same position.
At the bridge over the river Ure, you have to walk on the road again, once over the bridge follow the road to a gate and footpath sign on the right.
The route is straight across the field, following the course of the river, to where the path meets the river on a bend. From there the path heads away from the river following the base of a hill. Continue straight along side a wall untill you come to a gate, then through the gate, diagonally left across the field to another gate. Most of the route from here is paved or at least well worn.
There are a few more gates along the way but it basically a straight path.
Eventually you come to Hardraw beck and turn right to the bridge then up onto the the high street at the Green Dragon pub.
I mention the pub, as you have to pass through it and pay in there for admission to the waterfall. It had got very hot on the walk, so we cooled down with a beer, before continuing out of the back of the pub to the waterfall.
We arrived a a busy time (nothing like it would be on a weekend though), so we had our picnic in the picnic area, while it quietened down.
It is a short walk to the waterfall and even though there are signs along the way, saying do not walk behind the falls, there was a man behind the falls as we arrived. Just after he left, there was a rock fall where he had been standing, he will not even know how lucky or stupid he was, as he had gone before it happened.
Then it was back to the pub for another beer, before walking back the same way we came but with a slight detour to photo some bridges. The beers we had are here.
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