A path from the road at Stelling leads to the two Smelt Mills. From this path the Lower Smelt Mill can be seen with the top of Hardraw Scar in the background and Ellers Plantation further back.

The earliest of the two Mills is known as Low Mill, built about 1574 and is located 50 yards east of the other Mill, which is known as High Mill.

Both Smelt Mills are very well preserved and are the best surviving ore hearths in England. The Mills contain the remains of associated features including dams, fuel and ore stores.

At Nun Cote Nook the Coast to Coast path crosses over the ridge of Shaw Bank. Where the bank begins at the corner of Crook Bank Lane an intersecting footpath heads north directly to the Smelt Mills. The one seen in this image is Higher Mill.

The Higher Mill, is also seen from the Stelling path. A spring issuing 50 yards away is seen before it. The unnamed spring drains into Dales Beck.

Wild Sike springs from an area near to Marrick Barf. It flows down towards Dales Beck, creating a deep gulley near to where it converges opposite to Hardraw Scar, not 200 yards from the Smelt Mills. From here the Dales Beck is renamed Ellers Beck, soon to flow past Ellers Plantation and Ellers Farm.

Both the Upper and Lower Smelt Mills are visible in this image taken from Crook Bank Lane. In the background is Cock How, which peaks at 368m, and which is part of Skelton Moor.

The Marrick Smelt Mills can both be seen from the Coast to Coast path, midway between the village of Marrick and Nun Cote Nook, about 3/4 mile from the ruins. They are difficult to see, however, without binoculars, but easily visited by using the Crook Bank Lane path. from Nun Cote Nook Farm.