High Knott

Tue 9 Mar 2004

Route: End of Browfoot Lane - The British Settlement at Hugill - Kentmere bridleway - Ullthwaite Bridge - Browfoot - High Knott (Williamson's Monument) - End of Browfoot Lane

Distance: 5.00 miles

Ascent: 620ft

Time: 1 hour 35 minutes

With: On Own

Notes:

Overcast, dull.

A. Wainwright's 'High Knott' walk in his book 'The Outlying Fells of Lakeland' [page 18].

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The track at the start of the walk. Sour Howes is to the left of the tree, Sallows to the right

The remains of the British Settlement at Hugill

Sallows from the Kentmere bridleway

A derelict cottage near Park Beck

Hugill Fell on the left and High Knott with Williamson's Monument on its summit on the right

The 17th century Ullthwaite Bridge across the River Kent. (AW spelt it Ulthwaite)

Harter Fell, Kentmere Pike and Shipman Knotts from the footpath above Browfoot

An unusual wall stile

Williamson's Monument on the summit of High Knott

The Langdales from the summit of High Knott

Previous Walk: Hugill Fell (Tue 9 Mar 2004)

Next Walk: Grisedale Pike and Coledale (Sat 13 Mar 2004)

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