Levens Bridge, River Kent and Sedgwick
From Levens Hall Along the Route of the Old Lancaster and Kendal Canal
Levens Hall, where the walk starts, is an Elizabethan mansion house situated in the scenic countryside of southern Cumbria. The house is surrounded by its famous topiary garden, and across the road from the hall is Levens Deer Park, which has a public right of way through it. The route winds through grassland and woods of lime, beech, oak, ash, and elm, with the River Kent in places audible through the trees. Beyond the park, a stone parapet gives a good view over a series of waterfalls and a natural limestone salmon leap; on the opposite bank are the remains of a gunpowder mill, while further upstream a larger gunpowder mill stands derelict and overgrown.
