Two Days in the Lakes
Cat Bells |
Day 1 Styhead and Sprinkling Tarn from Seathwaite
Day 2 Cat Bells, Maiden Moor and High Spy from Grange
Today's walk from The Walker's Guide to the Cleveland Hills |
Parking is free here BUT... |
The Old Chapel |
Through the field gate next to the white seat |
Residents attempt to find shelter |
Black bib and black head |
A patch of blue looks hopeful... |
Ladhill Beck |
... and its bridge |
Then steadily uphill |
.. through Ellers Wood |
Looking back to the upper village |
Alongside Banniscue Wood |
High Banniscue Farm |
Hawnby Hill with unmistakable nick on its crown over to our left |
Crows Nest Farm ruins |
A fallen tree has speeded the destruction |
Sportsmans Lodge from Crows Nest ruin |
Leaving the ruin via the moor gate |
Pepper Hill and Easterside Hill behind |
Walking below Easterside Hill |
Bilsdale to our left |
Leaving the Hawnby road at the sign |
Heavily pregnant ewes |
Wass House |
Coffee time |
Heading downhill |
Cotswold sheep - a bad hair day! |
Grime Holme |
Footbridge over the River Seph |
Fair Hill Farm |
Escapees |
Broadway Foot Farm |
Weather vane at Broadway Foot |
Broadway Foot today |
... and 10 years ago |
Approaching Shaken Bridge |
Looking downstream from the bridge |
River Rye upstream towards convergence with River Seph |
Turn into Shaken Bridge Farm track |
... and follow it uphill |
Shaken Bridge Farm |
This week's stormy weather has brought down some branches |
East Ley Wood ahead |
Looking back at Broadway Foot Farm |
Looking back while climbing Peak Scar Top |
The gate has gone but the sign is still here |
The old barn |
Another sign at East Ley Woods |
Horses have made the track heavy going in places |
We emerge on Murton Bank and look across at Hawnby Hill and village |