This walk enables you to enjoy the lovely rural countryside about Casterton. Look for as many sheepfolds as you can find from Fell Foot Road, a fine, mainly tree-lined, walled track. Andy Goldsworthy, the sculptor, started constructing them in 1996 as a Millennium project. It is fun trying to spot all 16. The walk is almost wholly on level tracks and paths, with a very short stretch along the Barbon road.

Park at Kirkby Lonsdale's Devil's Bridge, grid ref 616783. The parking area lies on the slip road, close to the toilets, off the A65.

1, Continue along the slip road to cross the elegant bridge, spanning the River Lune, and on over the A683. Go ahead along a minor road, where there is more parking. Where this road winds right, take a narrow lane going off, left, at the bend, and climbing steadily (the steepest climb of the walk). At a junction of lanes and a track, turn sharp left, along Laitha Lane, a shady track. Follow the pleasing way as it bends right and comes to a signposted T-junction of tracks, where you walk right. Carry on as it winds slightly left and goes on between houses of High Casterton, now on a metalled road. At the T-junction of roads, turn right and, almost immediately, where the road swings right, go on ahead along a narrow lane, which is at present lined with summer flowers.

2, Pass under a railway bridge (the line now dismantled) and, just beyond, turn right along an unsigned track. Keep straight ahead to climb a stile. Beyond, bear left and head diagonally to the nearby hedge corner. Then go on up beside the hedge, on your left, to a stile in the corner of the large pasture, onto a narrow lane. This is Wandales Lane, on the course of the main Roman Road from Ribchester to Carlisle, which you cross. Then take the signposted bridleway opposite to walk, with fine views ahead of Leck and Casterton Fells. As you near the converted farm of Bindloss, keep to the right of the dwellings and, once beyond, follow the track as it winds right. Go through a gate and turn left to walk a walled outrake to take another gate onto Fell Foot Road (track).

3, Turn left and, almost immediately, begin to seek out the sheepfolds. The clue is to look, on either side of the walled way, for throughs' in the wall, some of which are quite high for short people! Ponder on the meaning of the huge boulder placed in the centre of each fold - you may or may not be helped by what the sculptor told The Guardian: "A stone is a living witness to the place in which it sits." Dawdle on the gated way and, just before you cross the narrow lane that leads to Bullpot, the potholing and caving centre, look for the fourth sheepfold, tucked under trees.

4, Go ahead along the attractive, often tree-lined, track, signposted Bents Lane. See if you can locate the next 12 sculptures, the last on the left-hand side, as the track winds left and drops down to the lane that runs through Barbondale. Here turn left and continue down the narrow, flower-lined way to come to footpath signposts on either side. Go through the squeeze stile on the left, signed Langthwaite. Walk ahead, with the wall to your left, to cross stone flags over a stream and take a little gate ahead. Go ahead to pass through a waymarked gate gap and wind right, as directed, to a gate. Carry on along a cut path through long grass and, just before Hole House, take a step stile over the wall, now on your left. Walk on with the wall of the dwelling to your right. Climb a little slope, under trees, to carry on, past Langthwaite, to a waymarked ladderstile, almost obscured by vegetation.

5, Turn right to descend a track to join a lane. Go on ahead to a signposted junction. Here, cross, and take the narrow road, directly ahead, to pass under a railway bridge. Walk on to come to Casterton, where you might like to visit its church. Continue on, with the church to your right, to reach the A683. Cross and take the signposted narrow squeeze stile opposite. Walk the walled way beyond, and then turn left to walk a wide track past buildings on the right.

6, Ignore a waymarked gate on the right and follow the track as it winds left, through woodland, and comes to a signpost, directing you right along a pleasing grassy track. Go through a signposted kissing gate and look ahead to see, on a building across the pasture, a large board, with footpath' painted on it and an arrow directing you to a kissing gate, which lies left of the board. Beyond, walk a path, left, to join a tarmacked access track. Walk left along this, under some fine trees, and then continue on a little fenced path beside it.

7,At the three-armed signpost, turn acute right to continue on a track. Just before you reach the magnificent Casterton Hall, take the signposted kissing gate on the left. Walk on, moving slightly left, to walk along a wide fenced grassy trod. Follow it as it winds left to come to a gate to the A-road once more. Turn left and, remaining on the same side, walk with care until you have gone round the bend. Then cross, again with care, to walk on to the signposted right turn for Casterton golf course.

8, Take one step into the access road and turn right to walk the hedged bridleway. It is Laitha Lane again - you walked the other end earlier. Continue until you reach the three-armed signpost, where you turn right to retrace your outward route. Follow the track as it winds left and go on until you reach the road at a bend. Turn right and descend. Bear right through the overspill parking area to reach the A-road. Cross and go ahead over Devil's Bridge.

Information Distance: 7 miles Time: 3-4 hours Terrain: An almost level walk on good tracks and paths, with one short piece of busy road walking. Tracks could be muddy after a prolonged wet spell.

Map: OS Explorer OL 2 NB: Restrictions on space mean that this article provides a general summary of the route. It is advisable for anyone who plans to follow the walk to take a copy of the relevant Ordnance Survey map.