Walk Information
Walk route: Burnbanks - Little Birkhouse Hill - Four Stones Hill - standing stones - Measand Beck - Haweswater - Burnbanks
Distance: 4.50 miles
Ascent: 720ft
Time: 2 hours 0 minutes
With: Anne
Conditions: overcast, dry
Route Map
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Photos
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Manchester Corporation Water Works sign at the start of the walk at Burnbanks
Leaving Burnbanks
Burnbanks was built to accommodate the workers on the Haweswater dam. Today it felt a bit of a ghost village with many of the prefab houses boarded up and empty
One of the TV aerials above the village
Haweswater Dam
...and zooming in
Anne trying, and failing, to push over a perched boulder
Looking east to Knipescar Common. The Pennines beyond were lost in cloud
Prehistoric round cairn
The small tarn near the cairn
Haweswater from the top of Four Stones Hill
..and the north east ridge of High Raise from the same spot
Haweswater from the two standing stones
Where have the other two gone?
Fordingdale Bottom
Measand Beck
Measand Beck
Looking towards the cloudy head of Mardale from Haweswater's shore
..and east towards the dam
Note how the walls just stop. Originally they would have carried on down into the now flooded valley
Haweswater dam
previous walk - Mon 5 Apr 2004 - Great Mell Fell
next walk - Sat 10 Apr 2004 - Lowther Park