Beda and Place Fells

Gary Gray

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This is a walk for all proficiencies, providing enough of a physical challenge to all, but rewarding all with a high level walk with great views. This classic style little known horseshoe walk, will give any walker the opportunity to walk in fells that are uncrowded. Only on Place Fell will you encounter any numbers of people.

Starting from just below St Martins Church at Howtown, the walk begins with a relatively steep climb, which is not too long, on to Winter Crag. From here the way is easy up to Beda Head and onto Boredale Hause. Here is an excellent place to stop and admire the view down into Patterdale and back down Boredale. Place Fell summit can now be seen and is the next objective. While the path is steep it will not take to long, and your reward is of fantastic views all around.

To the north, just to the right side of Blencathra, on a clear day, the Solway Firth can bee seen. To the west there is a panoramic view of the Helvellyn range. To the south, Brothers Water, leads you through to the High Street range, while in the east the Yorkshire fells can be seen.

The walk gives you the option to walk straight towards High Dodd if you wish, but the walk is enhanced by walking down to the 'The Knight' a rocky outcrop, and along Mortar Crag and along the side of Sleet Fell, taking in High Knot with its great view of Ullswater.

England - North England - Cumbria - Lake District - North East

Features

Birds, Cafe, Flowers, Great Views, Hills or Fells, Lake/Loch, Pub, Wildlife

9/9/2024 - gordon saunderson

Completed this walk today 09/10/24, absolutely fantastic walk with views to die for but personally I would say this is more a strenuous rather than moderate walk, there is a lot of up and down in it. At the start of walk when you are supposed to walk up by the side of the wall the bracken was so overgrown it made it impossible to go that way so we just turned back up the lane and went up lane for about 50 metres where there is a path uphill and this led you up to waypoint 3.

4/27/2011 - Emma Connolly