Right on the website the map suggests the best way off Whiteless is essentially a straight line upto Newlands Hause...what is the going like?
On my marking of my map I decided to take a route of 102 degrees down to the sheepfold at the stream junctions and then a long steady ascent from there of 166 degrees to Newlands hause...the issue with this is that the route from the sheepfold is according to the map a marshy route. However the descent looks a bit more runnable.