Here is a challenging walk in the wilds of the Forest of Bowland.
Grade: Strenuous - nearly all of it!
1.	The walk starts benignly enough with a downhill walk towards Dunsop Bridge.
below follow the track as it descends steeply towards Brennand Farm. This path is unusual in that it has a name - Ouster Rake. "Ouster" is the old English name for "Bloody steep track". Decency prevents me from giving the Anglo Saxon version.
turn left on another bridleway which after going through a couple of gates crosses the Brennand River and then commences a steep climb towards Whitendale.
This takes you up to a col between below Middle Knoll. When you reach a wall junction close to a small tarn and before the bridleway descends into Whitendale - stop!
2.	You'll need to pause to contemplate the next and steepest climb of the day before you as you turn left. With the wall on your right commence ascent and at a rusty gate go through it and continue up the steeper slope without a path to assist you. As it levels out the wall disappears to be replaced by a fence. For the remaining part of the walk fences and walls will be an invaluable navigational handrail as you tramp across these wild remote moorlands. Follow the fence across a broad ridge which after prolonged spells of wet weather can be excessively boggy. After ¾ mile you reach a scattering of wind eroded rocks - Whitendale Hanging Stones which happen to be close to the geographical centre of Great Britain as determined by the Ordnance Survey.
You may want to spend a little time deciding which tuft of heather marks the actual centre - to the left of the fence. Grid reference SD64188 56541. After this interlude follow the fence up to the next feature - the scattering of rocks at White Crag presently the site of a seagull colony.
¼ mile after this meet a junction close to a wall. After passing through a wooden kissing gate follow the wall up to the trig point of Wolfhole Cag set in field of large boulders.
3.	On a clear day you will be able to view much of the route back to the car park. If it looks a long way that's because it is - over 4½ miles. Continue along the ridge with the wall to your right.
In just under ½ mile reach a fence and a stile over which you enter Clougha Access area. Unusually there is a sign post to help you here.
to the right of the route. Back on the path follow the wall down to Millers House. If there ever was a house here no trace can be seen now but you will be able to pick out the shape of mill stones that were made here in the distant past.
without the aid of a path to the summit of Whin Fell. ½ mile after Millers House you reach Brennand Tarn - an almost secret patch of water and little visited because of this.
if you want to bag it but the way down is through the kissing gate and follow the fence to the right down to the Trough Road.