Route: Scarside - Knipescar Common - Scarside
Distance: 3.50 miles
Ascent: 300ft
Time: 1 hour 5 minutes
With: On own
Notes:
Sunny early morning with some high cloud.
I followed A. Wainwright's 'Knipescar Common' walk in his book 'The Outyling Fells of Lakeland' [page 220]
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The Haweswater fells from above Scarside
Thistle, Knipescar Common
Looking over the gorse to High Street
Knipescar with Loadpot Hill in the distance
The Haweswater fells from Knipescar Common
Limestone pavement on the top of Knipescar Common
Looking towards the southeast end of Knipescar Common
Blencathra on the left, Carrock fell on the right from Knipescar
The villages of Bampton Grange and Bampton with the Haweswater fells beyond
Loadpot Hill
The Haweswater fells from Knipescar Common's summit
The North Pennines: Cross Fell, Little Dun Fell and Great Dun Fell
Looking over the River Lowther to Blencathra from Knipescar
The Stone Circle on Knipescar Common would be difficult to spot in the bracken without this post
Knipescar Common from the southeast end
Looking over the wall at the southeast end of Knipescar Common to see Shapbeck Quarry and the North Pennines
An old limekiln, Knipescar Common
Previous Walk: Harrop Tarn (Sun 3 Aug 2008)