Sign up to receive our newsletter! Follow a steep footpath to the right and zigzag up through the sparse birch trees to emerge below the bank on which Sleddale Hall is perched.

Wet Sleddale offers peaceful and secluded walking on well-marked paths, around a reservoir to visit the location of cult film Follow the road signs to Wet Sleddale Reservoir from the A6 near J39 (M6). Pass the barn, keeping left over stepping-stones, then go through a gate and cross a simple plank bridge over a small beck.Continue across open and very boggy land, following a line of white marker posts towards the distant river, trees and ancient packhorse bridge. Once at the hall, views open up all around you – the triangle of reservoir is cut neatly by the dam, while the whale-back of Shap Fell and the folded crease of Sleddale Beck are all below. The sky here is not usually this clear, believe me. Thanks! This well surfaced track leads back eastwards to Sleddale Grange, a collection of working barns, sheepfolds and pens, through several gates and onwards to a metalled road that skirts Green Farm.Continue along the road past the farm for 500m until you see a newly constructed footbridge crossing the River Lowther. Photo by Mathew Emmott TV SHOW Upcoming events, tickets, information, and maps for Sleddale Hall in Penrith from Ents24.com, the UK's biggest entertainment website. Sleddale Hall (lower right) and Wet Sleddale reservoir. Sleddale Hall, Crow Cragg in the film, is high above and to the right of the bridge. Sleddale Hall, Penrith Events. Our best wishes for a productive day. The target is easy to see, though often the actual footpath is much less easy to follow, being covered as Monty so aptly puts by “beastly mud and oomska” (might be worth getting fitted with “some good quality rubber boots”). Matters are not helped by the arrival of Uncle Monty, who shows an uncomfortably keen interest in Marwood.” Plot summary from IMDb.

It's not called Wet Sleddale for nowt. From the reservoir car park, follow the obvious footpath skirting above the reservoir, heading west. The ground is often wet and muddy and welly boots can be an advantage as the route stays off the higher fells.

Use this bridge to regain the access road, and head back up to the reservoir car park.A circular walk round Wet Sleddale on easy paths and well marked tracks except for a short section of indistinct boggy ground marked by white posts. BRITISH WILDLIFE

Groceries were delivered as far as Thorney Bank (Margaret's aunt and uncle's farm), over a mile away.

Approaching Wet Sleddale, just off the M6 about 12 miles South of Penrith, where Sleddale Hall is to be found, a couple of miles up a farm track.

The horizon is punctuated by the Corus plant chimneys overlooking the motorway and the industrial scars of Shap’s quarries, but these are small blots on an otherwise undisturbed and beautiful landscape.The hall is well placed to take advantage of the fine views but the elements have had free rein for many years. And plenty of curious film-fans have made the journey to enjoy the ambience.When you are ready to continue, descend to the large stone barn just below the hall and go through a gate. Under new ownership, however, the structure has been reroofed in slate and weatherproofed to prevent further deterioration. What an amazing experience to set foot inside the hallowed building that is crow crag.

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There is some road walking involved to return to your vehicle. Follow a steep footpath to the right and zigzag up through the sparse birch trees to emerge below the bank on which Sleddale Hall is perched. "We had two horses, both called Piggy," says Margaret. In the cult 1987 film ‘Withnail and I’ ‘Crow Cragg’, where Withnail and Marwood end up ‘on holiday by mistake’, is Sleddale Hall, a derelict cottage, dating from at least 1802, alongside Wet Sleddale Reservoir. In the cult 1987 film ‘Withnail and I’ ‘Crow Cragg’, where Withnail and Marwood end up “on holiday by mistake”, is Sleddale Hall, a derelict cottage, dating from at least 1802, alongside “London 1969 – two ‘resting’ (unemployed and unemployable) actors, Withnail and Marwood, fed up with damp, cold, piles of washing-up, mad drug dealers and psychotic Irishmen, decide to leave their squalid Camden flat for an idyllic holiday in the countryside, courtesy of Withnail’s uncle Monty’s country cottage.

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