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Fountains Fell Ridge and Penine Getting there Walk 7 Settle station 7 miles (11.3km) away and Skipton station 19 miles (30.6km) away. Fountain Fell Close to the A65 and Settle; 4 miles (6.4km) north-west of Malham. Follow signs from Malham. From Skipton: 210/211 and 883/884 (passing close Skipton , Ridge and w/e, to Malham village only); from Settle: 580/210 (to Malham village only). Also, National Trust shuttle bus service Pennine Way (890), Settle-Malham Tarn, Easter-Oct, w/e only. The Yorkshire Dales Cycleway runs through Malham village and by Malham Tarn. Walking A strenuous walk up the Pennine Way to the top of Fountains Grade: Hard Fell, where you will be rewarded with fabulous views of the Three Peaks and into Ribblesdale. Some gates and stiles. Can Time: 4 Hours be muddy after wet weather. Dogs are not permitted in the nature reserve, but are Distance: 8 miles [12.8 kilometres] welcome elsewhere under close control; must be kept on leads at certain times of the year. Map: Explorer OL2 Route details Malham Tarn, North Yorkshire, BD24 9PT With thanks to the National Trust for compiling this walk. Fountains Fell Ridge and Pennine Way 1 6 Start: Malham Tarn car park, grid ref: SD882672 As you approach the cairn, take the waymarked track on your left past an old fenced mineshaft. Follow the waymarks to Turn right out of the car park, then turn left onto the track. Go another large cairn on the horizon - an excellent place to stop through the gate on your right and follow the boardwalk for a break in fine weather. around the nature reserve. Please keep to the boardwalk to safely enjoy this special place. (Dog walkers please follow Point 2). 7 Turn left with Pen-y-Ghent behind you and follow the waymarks to meet a wall; you will pass Fountains Fell Tarn on Tarn Moss your left. Keep the wall on your right and head up to the summit of Fountains Fell. “Tarn Moss is an internationally important area of raised bog and fen which has developed at the mouth of the streams feeding the Tarn.” 8 From the top of Fountains Fell head along the ridge, keeping 2 the wall on your right. Dog walkers will need to stay on the track and turn right at the post box. Pass the cottages on your left and then go through 9 the gate on the left signposted Pennine Way. Continue from When you meet a wall coming from the left, go over the stile in Point 4. the corner and continue in a roughly southwards direction, keeping the ridge wall and an old electric fence on your right. 3 Go through the gate and continue following the wall and fence At the far end, by Sandhills Cottage, turn left to exit the on your right. reserve then go through the gate on the right signposted Pennine Way. 10 At the next wall which rises up the fellside from the left, cross 4 the stile and continue following the wall on your right. When Continue along the Pennine Way, cross the road and head up you meet another wall coming from the left, do not cross, but turn left and follow the waymark sign to head downhill, the fellside past Tennant Gill Farm, leaving the limestone flower-rich pastures to walk up the rough moorside. keeping this wall on your right. Tennant Gill Farm 11 Towards the bottom of the hill, bear slightly left to go through “Tennant Gill Farm was one of the first farms to take part in two gates, then continue following the wall on your right. the NT renewable energy project. The farm is now powered by Shortly before you reach the next fence, turn right through a hydroelectricity from a small water turbine in the stream and gate and follow the bridleway, keeping the wall on your right. by solar energy from the photovoltaic panels on the barn Do not go through the next gate, but turn left at the waymark roof.” post and follow the wall on your right. When you reach the road, turn right to return to your starting point at the car park. 5 The Pennine Way heads just to the right of the true summit of End: Malham Tarn car park, grid ref: SD882672 Fountains Fell and the path emerges at a tall cairn in the midst of the old coal mining area. Deep shafts remain and although some are fenced off, some may not be, so do be careful in this area. Mining “The coal mine here was worked from the early 1800s and supplied coal for smelting and lime burning as well as for home fires.”.
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