The Arkle Beck passes beneath Reeth Bridge and bisects the fields at Low Fremington between Grinton and Reeth. It converges with the River Swale. The image is taken from its confluence, looking north towards Low Fremington.

Arkle Beck begins its journey on Arkengarthdale Moor, setting out initially as Great Red Gill, then Beck Crooks before becoming the Arkle Beck. In its earlier stages there are dozens of gills, gutters and becks converging with Arkle Beck before it becomes named as such.

The path from Reeth Bridge, heading north alongside the Arkle Beck, is funnelled between two stone walls and beneath archways. It is an interesting and attractive path, with trees extending from the riverbank to overhang the path.

The riverside footpath, as it reaches a wooden gate, retires from Reeth village to access fields and a bridge. The OS map shows the path extending to Town End Hall and then crossing the Arkle Beck to meet a major path leading to Arkle Town. However, the bridge was damaged during a flood and the path now terminates here, necessitating a return to Reeth Bridge to cross Arkle Beck and start again on the east riverbank.

From Arkle Beck at Reeth there is a clear view to the steep band of limestone precipices that make up Fremington Edge. The Edge is, in actuality, the south west face of Marrick Moor. It extends from Fremington to Slei Gill near Booze.

Cuckoo Hill lies below Fremington Edge Chert Quarries, the spoil from which is quite patent. White House Farm is located on Cuckoo Hill within a small covet of trees. Chert is the petrified remains of siliceous ooze (an uncommon deep sea sediment) This means that chert was, at one time, part of the ocean floor. The siiceous ooze contains the skeletal remains of microfossils.

From the path at the foot of Cuckoo Hill an amazing pastoral view appears, looking over the tree lined Arkle Beck, over Reeth Low and High Moors to the 583m Great Pinseat.

The homes and farmsteads around Jenny Hill, and the pleasant pastures surrounding them, are idyllic to view from the east riverbank of Arkle Beck on Cuckoo Hill. These properties fringe the northern extent of Reeth.

En route to Langthwaite, along Arkengarthdale, you pass Castle Farm House. Immediately before the Farm is a dense cluster of mature hawthorn trees, flowering white and creamy and filling the air with a strong, sweet scent.

At Castle Farm you can look north along the Arkel Beck where it turns more to the north in an area known as Thorn Dale. This is where the beck has a large meander that divides into two watercourses, creating two small and one large island.

Fell End is the south west edge of Fell End Moor. It is pockmarked with disused mine shafts, mines and tips. Looking at Fell End from the Arkengarthdale Road at Raw. The west end of Fremington Edge is seen, together with the tiered descent of Fell End.

Where Fell End terminates, Low Moor begins. Between the two is Slei Gill, which flows through a deep valley and has several waterfalls. Slei Gill is subsumed by the Arkle Beck at Storthwaite Hall.

Detail of the banding of the Fremington Edge limestone cliffs is visible from West Raw Croft Farm. The cairn atop Fell End is also discernible. Tips are also clearly seen below the cliffs.

Peering into the muzzle of Slei Gill the chaotic mining terrain hints at the strength of the mining activity that once gingered up this part of Arkengarthdale.

The hamlet of Booze sits atop the south east end of Low Moor, overlooking Slei Gill and Fell End to its east and Arkengarthdale Beck, Arkle Town and Reeth Low Moor to its south. To its west is the village of Langthwaite.

On the west side of Arkenkengarthdale, opposite Fell End on Fremington Edge, is Reeth High Moor and Great Pinseat. Reeth Low Moor is another heavily mined region and is an easterly extension of Reeth High Moor, which houses part of the Old Gang Mines.