Route: Newby Bridge - Finsthwaite Heights (Summer House Knott) - Finsthwaite - Low Dam - High Dam - Low Dam - Finsthwaite - Newby Bridge
Distance: 5.00 miles
Ascent: 900ft
Time: 3 hours 45 minutes
With: Ian
Notes:
Dull, overcast.
As Wainwright said '...this is not fellwalking'.
We followed A. Wainwright's 'Finsthwaite Heights' walk in his book 'The Outlying Fells of Lakeland' [page 74]. Warning - the section from the tower on Summer House Knott down to the Finsthwaite public footpath is through private woodland with no public access.
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The tower on Summer House Knott
Autumn
Finsthwaite church
Low Dam
High Dam
High Dam
High Dam
Looking back to Finsthwaite from the edge of Great Knott Wood
Gummer's How from near Lakeside
The River Leven at Newby Bridge
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