Parking in Reeth is usually easy, but can be difficult on holiday weekends. Don’t forget to put your money in one of the honesty boxes scattered round the green. When you think it costs more for an hour in most city centres, it’s a bargain.
This walk has two different routes … one for the mountaineer in you (well, climber), the other for cissies.
For both, leave Reeth on the B6270 road (try the pavement) towards Richmond, crossing the narrow bridge over Arkle Beck. Leave the road just over the bridge, turning sharpish left if you are a wimp, and bearing right if you are in the mood for a challenge and want the lungs clearing out.
The easy walk follows the beck upstream to Langthwaite. The more difficult one involves heading east over a couple of fields to High Fremington, where you turn left alongside a cottage and start the long climb on a Tarmac road which becomes a track, then a lane, as it goes up Fremington Edge. Ignore the footpath sign branching off to the left … just keep climbing.

It’s hard going (that's it above), specially in hot weather, but honestly it’s worth it when you get to the top, not long after passing a remote house ingeniously called White House (guess what colour it’s whitewashed) down to your left.
When you get to the top, look back over Reeth and a lot further from the limit of the Yorkshire Dales National Park (Fremington Edge forms the boundary). The consolation as you get your breath back is that there are no more climbs like this on the walk (there aren’t many climbs like this outside the Lake District). Follow the track through a gate and North over Marrick Moor towards Hurst, where remains of the lead mining industry, including two chimneys, can be seen.
Hurst is hardly a metropolis, but keep the cottages to your right as you turn left at the left-hand chimney and follow the path through spoil heaps over scenery that looks more like the Moon than a beauty spot.
After a mile or so, the path goes through a gate in a dry stone wall and starts to drop, still going West, towards Slei Gill and the quaintly-named hamlet of Booze. Pass the farm of Storthwaite Hall on your right and envy the family that lives there (in summer, anyway), before crossing Slei Gill by footbridge or ford.
Climb a little and turn right, before another fork takes you left for a further gentle climb through fields and a farmyard into Booze. Turn left along the well-defined track (locals call it a road) and follow it for half a mile down into Langthwaite and the quaint Red Lion. The beer’s all right, and we really shouldn’t hold it against them that deep in North Yorkshire, they choose to sell stuff that boasts it’s from Cornwall. Oh, all right then we will hold it against them. This stuff is sold at motorway service areas … what’s it doing here?
Both walks leave Langthwaite by heading straight in front of you as you leave the Red Lion, cutting between cottages and following the Beck towards Reeth (East). There are two ways back, both of them fairly easy.
Either cross the narrow footbridge on the right about half a mile out of the village and simply follow the footpath through countless fields and through countless narrow stiles before emerging through a small gate onto the Reeth to Langthwaite road. Follow the road back to the village green, where you'll find pubs and a shop that sells really sickly nougat.
Or, at the footbridge, keep going and follow the cissy outward route on the path which mostly sticks alongside Arkle Beck back to Reeth, emerging at the bridge where you left the village all those miles/pints earlier.
The shop's nougat bars are made by those people who make Kendal Mint Cake. If you have any teeth left after pork scratchings, this will do for them.