Walk!
Lake District South with Charles Davis
ISBN 1-904946-16-X £12.99 160 pages in full colour with 40K scale OS mapping.
GPS navigation files available - see GPX Downloads Custom Maps for Garmins
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Walk!
Lake District South with Charles Davis
ISBN
1-904946-16-X £12.99 160 pages in full colour
with 40K scale OS mapping.
GPS navigation files available - see GPX Downloads
Custom Maps
for Garmins
Walk! Lake District South isbn 9781904946168 £12.99
160 pages in full colour with 40K scale OS mapping.
Each walking route
itinerary includes:-
- walking route summary
- ratings for Effort, Time, Distance, Ascents/Descents,
Refreshments and Vertigo risk
- fully detailed walk description, including frequent timings to
aid navigation and check your progress
- GPS Waypoints at every key point on every route for pin-point
navigational accuracy
- full colour 1:40,000 scale OS map of the route
- short walk and stroll alternatives
There are some easy routes. There are some challenging routes for
fit experts. With Charles Davis’ excellent walk descriptions
you’ll know which routes are for you - and all of them are a
true adventure.
Slip Cover and AWBB (All Weather
Book Bag) available, send SAE to Discovery Walking Guides Ltd. 10 Tennyson
Close. Northampton NN5 7HJ.
Contents - Walk! Lake District South
The Author
Introduction:
Walks Location Map. Symbols Rating Guide &
Notes on OS Mapping. Using GPS in the Lake District.
Area Introductions to Walking Regions.
THE WALKS
A ESKDALE and THE
SOUTHWESTERN FELLS
1 Sunkenkirk: Swinside Stone Circle: 1 walker, 1
hour 55 mins, 5 miles/8km, ascents & descents 180 metres, 0
refreshments (circular)
Strolling back to the stone age.
2 Black Combe: 3 walker, 3 hours 25 mins, 8.7 miles/14 km,
ascents & descents 600 metres, 2 refreshments (circular)
Bare fell with big views.
3 Burnmoor Tarn & White Moss: 1 walker, 2¾ hours, 6.3
miles/10.1km, ascents & descents 200 metres, 4 refreshments
(circular)
Wet and wild low level walk.
4 A River Esk Round: 5 walker, 7½ hours, 19 miles/30.6 km,
ascents & descents 600 metres, 3 refreshments (circular)
Grand tour of Eskdale.
B WASDALE
5 Greendale Tarn and Middle Fell: 3 walker, 2
hours, 3.7 miles/6km, ascents & descents 450 metres, 3
refreshments (circular)
Short excursion for a first day or during wet weather.
6 Illgill Head: 4 walker, 4¾ hours, 10.4 miles/16.8km, ascents
& descents 800 metres, 3 refreshments (circular)
High mountain panorama and lakeside rock-hopping.
7 Great Gable: 5 walker, 3½ hours, 5.3 miles/8½km, ascents
& descents 810 metres, 3 refreshments (circular)
The National Park’ emblematic peak.
8 Scafell Pike via Esk Hause and Lingmell: 5 walker, 4 hours 40
mins, 9.1 miles/14.7km, ascents & descents 1045 metres, 3
refreshments (circular)
Eccentric approach to England’s highest summit.
9 Yewbarrow: 4 walker, 2½ hours, 4.3 miles/7km, ascents &
descents 545 metres, 3 refreshments (circular)
Small walk, big adventure.
10 The Mosedale Horseshoe: 5 walker, 4 hours 40 mins, 10.3
miles/16½km, ascents & descents 970 metres, 3 refreshments
(circular)
The definitive horseshoe.
C DUNNERDALE
11 Seathwaite Tarn and The River Duddon: 3 walker,
3½ hours, 7.1 miles/11½km, ascents & descents 220 metres, 5
refreshments (circular)
"A consummation of perfection and beauty" - Wordsworth
12 Harter Fell: 4 walker, 2 hours 5 mins, 4.1 miles/6.6km,
ascents & descents 463 metres, 3 refreshments (circular)
Superficially scruffy looking fell that redeems itself with a
fine summit and fabulous views.
13 The Coniston Fells: 5 walker, 4 hours 10 mins, 10.9
miles/17½km, ascents & descents 950 metres, 4 refreshments
(circular)
My old man’s a mountain - the father of all fell walking.
D GREAT LANGDALE
14 Silver How, Blea Rigg and Stickle Tarn: 3
walker, 3¾ hours, 7.7 miles/12.4km, ascents & descents 500
metres, 4 refreshments (circular)
Langdale’s less famous face.
15 Lingmoor Fell: 4 walker, 3 hours, 6.7 miles/10.8 km, ascents
& descents 400 metres, 4 refreshments (circular)
Rugged ground and great views.
16 Pike of Blisco and Crinkle Crags: 5 walker, 4½ hours, 8.1
miles/13km, ascents & descents 1100 metres, 4 refreshments
(circular)
The Great Wall of Langdale.
17 A Great Great Langdale Round: Harrison Stickle, High Raise,
Angle Tarn, Esk Pike, Bowfell, Oxendale
5 walker, 6½ hours, 12.7 miles/20.4km, ascents & descents
1350 metres, 4 refreshments (circular)
Two great summits in one itinerary.
E CONISTON and HAWKSHEAD
18 Grizedale Forest: 1 walker, 2 hours 10 mins,
5.7 miles/9.2 km, ascents & descents 250-metres, 3
refreshments (circular)
Family fun most emphatically not for the purists.
19 The Cumbria Way: Lowick Bridge to Coniston: 1 walker, 3¾
hours, 9.6 miles/15.5km, ascents & descents 200-metres, 4
refreshments (linear)
Easy stroll across attractive, little visited countryside.
20 Latterbarrow: 2 walker, 3 hours, 7.5 miles/12km, ascents &
descents 250 metres, 0 refreshments (circular)
Pottering about in Mrs. William Heelis’ back garden.
21 Little Langdale via Tilberthwaite and Holme Fell: 4 walker, 4
hours 20 mins, 10 miles/16km, ascents & descents 700 metres,
3 refreshments (circular)
Varied low level walk with perfectly placed refreshment stops.
22 A Swirl How Horseshoe: 5 walker, 4½ hours, 8.3 miles/13.4km,
ascents & descents 850 metres, 0 refreshments (circular)
An ideal mix of the wild and the domestic.
F GRASMERE
23 Grasmere's Menagerie: The Lion, The Lamb &
The Calf: 3 walker, 3 hours 20 mins, 8.1 miles/13km, ascents
& descents 570 metres, 3 refreshments (circular)
A classic crag, long-celebrated as a star of the picturesque.
24 Tarn Crag via the back door: 4 walker, 3½ hours, 7.8
miles/12.6km, ascents & descents 475 metres, 3 refreshments
(circular)
Getting off the beaten path.
25 Steel Fell and Sergeant Man: 4 walker, 4 hours 10 mins, 10
miles/16kms, ascents & descents 780 metres, 3 refreshments
(circular)
One rather neglected fell and a grand little wilderness.
G AMBLESIDE
26 Loughrigg Fell: 1 walker, 1 hour 20 mins, 2.8
miles/4.5km, ascents & descents 250 metres, 1 refreshments
(circular)
Pleasant promenade on much loved upland.
27 Red Screes: 3 walker, 3½ hours, 7.4 miles/11.9km, ascents
& descents 700 metres, 5 refreshments (circular)
A lovely valley and an easy ridge.
28 The Fairfield Horseshoe: 4 walker, 4 hours 50 mins, 11
miles/17.8km, ascents & descents 950 metres, 5 refreshments
(circular)
Celebrated ridge walk, ideal for a first outing on higher fells.
H TROUTBECK
29 Wansfell: 2 walker, 2 hours 20 mins, 6
miles/9½km, ascents & descents 425 metres, 3 refreshments
(circular)
Mini-fell, mini-walk, maxi-fun.
30 Ill Bell and Park Fell: 4 walker, 4 hours, 9.8 miles/15.8km,
ascents & descents 750 metres, 3 refreshments (circular)
Big ridge, beautiful valley.
I KENDAL & KENTMERE
31 A Kendal Round: 3 walker, 4 hours, 9.8
miles/15.8km, ascents & descents 250 metres, 5 refreshments
(circular)
Pastoral excursion incorporating Kendal’s local fell.
32 Whitbarrow: 2 walker, 3 hours, 6.6 miles/11km, ascents &
descents 200 metres, 2 refreshments (circular)
Fairytale forest and a seat fit for a lord.
33 Kentmere Reservoir: 1 walker, 2¾ hours, 6.1 miles/9.7km,
ascents & descents 140 metres, 0 refreshments (circular)
Maximum mountainscape for minimum effort.
34 Harter Fell and Hallow Bank Quarter: 4 walker, 4 hours, 9.7
miles/15.7km, ascents & descents 630 metres, 0 refreshments
(circular)
Grand views and a lovely valley.
J HAWESWATER
35 Haweswater Reservoir: 2 walker, 4 hours, 10.4
miles/16.7km, ascents & descents 185 metres, 0 refreshments
(circular)
Lakeshore footpath round secluded reservoir.
36 Selside and Branstree: 4 walker, 2½ hours, 6 miles/9.6km,
ascents & descents 520 metres, 0 refreshments (circular)
Easy walking with great views.
37 High Street: 4 walker, 3 hours, 6.1 miles/9.7km, ascents &
descents 625 metres, 0 refreshments (circular)
The rolling Roman road via Small Water and Riggindale.
GPS Waypoints Lists
Appendices. Glossary.
Place Names Index.
GPS navigation files available - see GPX Downloads Custom Maps for Garmins
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