Seven Hills Tarn

From the Gilmonby road, a bridleway heads south as a good track, and where it splits, the branch to Citron Seat (the small dark-topped hill right on centre in this view) continues very clear, though, like the southern branch, it ends very abruptly at no particularly obvious destination (just at a change of local authority administering the definitive rights of way map). The southern branch passes through this view just at the foot of the slope, though you'd hardly know it. Since it terminates abruptly at the boundary wall and fails to enter the Yorkshire Dales National park, its original destination is unclear, but somewhere in upper Arkengarthdale seems likely, perhaps joining the public footpath which also started life as a bridleway until it hit the National Park frontier. One suspects some severe laxity in recording the rights of way after the 1949 Countryside Act.

Hidden in the bottom of the steep sided gorge is Sleightholme Beck.

The sign marks the junction of the direct Pennine Way route or the Bowes Loop alternate route.

The dry stone wall marks the edge of the open access land on the moor.

A bend of Sleightholme Beck which appears to be cutting into the rocks at Black Scar. The grassed area to the right is presumably the river's flood plain. Bar Gap is the farm above the valley and the distant hill is Rogan's Seat.

Seven Hills Tarn sits among a group of heathery knolls known as Seven Hills which lie to the north-west of Citron Seat. A small shed is at the north side of the water; it's rather decrepit externally and worse inside. The shed has what must have been a landing stage for birds, probably doves or pigeons, a feature seen at similar buildings on a number of grouse moors.

Citron Seat is a modest moorland hill with a distinctively pointed summit. The view is from the north-west, over a bog, across which runs a collapsing wooden fence.

The Pennine Way passes along this track.

Bar Gap Farm is on the horizon to the right. The lane runs to Gilmonby and Bowes.