Route: Caldbeck - Faulds Brow - Whelpo - The Howk - Caldbeck
Distance: 4.50 miles
Ascent: 600ft
Time: 1 hour 40 minutes
With: On Own
Notes:
Warm, sunshine.
A. Wainwright's 'Faulds Brow' walk in his book 'The Outlying Fells of Lakeland' [page 210]. I took the footpath back along Whelpo Beck past The Howk rather than using the road back to Caldbeck.
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Cottages in Caldbeck
St Kentigern's Church, Caldbeck
John Peel's grave, St Kentigern's Church, Caldbeck
John Peel's grave, St Kentigern's Church, Caldbeck
The Roughton Stone
Carrock Fell and High Pike from the road out of Caldbeck
The ITV mast near Waverhead from the disused quarry on Faulds Brow
Faulds Brow summit cairn
The back o' Skidda fells from Faulds Brow summit
The valley leading to Roughton Gill is on the far left and Skiddaw is the pointed peak in the centre of the photo from Faulds Brow
Looking back to Faulds Brow from the descent to Whelpo
Whelpo Bridge
Part of the limestone gorge that Whelpo Beck flows through
The remains of The Howk bobbin mill, Caldbeck
The Old Brewery, Caldbeck
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