The Walna Scar Road is an ancient route between Coniston and the Duddon Valley in the English Lake District. It has been used as a packhorse route and quarry road for at least 350 years, though it has probably been a route between valleys for much longer, possibly dating back to the Bronze Age.
A fine bridge crosses Torver Beck on the Walna Scar Road, about halfway between the Duddon Valley and Coniston. Torver Bridge, also known as New Bridge on a 1745 map, is a great spot to stop and look up towards Dow Crag, and the rock-climbing crag of the same name.
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Paul Shorrock - One Man's Mountains AKA One Pillock's Hillocks 
The amount of times I’ve been up that way to ‘The Connies’ starting with Dow Crag and his mates and then going onto the Coniston Old Man Horseshoe. Hope I get back there soon. I particularly like the quiet side of the pass from Duddon too – very unfrequented. I’m thinking they’ve stopped all the convoys of 4x4s along the route now too which is good – I hated the fumes and the dust and the damage to the track!
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