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CUMBRIA CUMBRIA 15 SIZERGH & BRIGSTEER PARK 16 FELLBARROW NORTH WEST NORTH Distance: 3½ miles/5.8km Time: 1½ hours Grade: Easy WEST NORTH Distance: 4¾ miles/7.7km Time: 4 hours Grade: Moderate Wide-ranging views PLAN YOUR WALK Crummock Water PLAN YOUR WALK FAMILY from St John’s. from Low Fell. FEATURE WALK SEE ON PAGE 34 PHOTO: PHOTO: JAMES DEBOO JAMES ROUTE BAILEY TOM ROUTE Start/parking Start/parking National Trust car park at Roadside parking just Sizergh Castle, LA8 8AE, north of Thackthwaite grid ref SD497878 village, grid ref NY148237 Is it for me? Occasionally (Nearest postcode CHOSEN BY… farmyard to gate with NT rough paths, tracks and CHOSEN BY... Brook Farm L. Take the first CA13 0RW) JAMES DEBOO footpath sign leading between country lanes NICK HALLISSEY footpath R, signed for Low Fell. Is it for me? Mostly clear Starting at the trees. Reaching track go L, Stiles None Very much among Climb steadily up track which paths but indistinct at National Trust’s through Holeslack Farm, and the less well-known becomes enclosed green lane. times; summits are PLANNING exposed. Several of the historic Sizergh Castle, this follow NT footpath sign R of hills of the Lake District, Go through kissing-gate onto Nearest town Kendal paths used on the route family-friendly walk visits buildings. Shortly after cattle Fellbarrow is a broad, open hillside. Climb along R Refreshments National are not marked on OS St John’s Church, Helsington, grid/gate go R for 330m Trust cafe at start (Tel: self-contained upland north edge of meadow. Go through maps but are clear on with a stunning Arts and to 18th-century St John’s 015395 740204), Low of the Buttermere valley, next kissing-gate and continue, the ground Crafts-style mural and equally Helsington, unlocked 9–5. Sizergh Barn (Tel: 015395 with deep valleys either rising to meet wall-line. Stiles 2 stunning views of the Lakeland Outside, signboards name 60426) or The Strickland side of it and two lakes Go through kissing-gate PLANNING fells. Returning via Simm Well, the sweeping panorama Arms (Tel: 015395 61010) (Loweswater and Crummock through wall. Public toilets At start Nearest town of fells before you. a fairytale spring in Brigsteer Public transport 555, 755, Water) very close at hand. Cockermouth Park wood, at the end there’s 551 or 530 bus to Brettagh This area was beloved of ½ mile/0.8km Refreshments a Wild Play Trail to burn off 1 mile/1.6km Holt roundabout near pioneering guidewriter and 2Turn R and follow rising None on route – but the any excess energy. 2From signboards, head Sedgewick (20-min walk: photographer Walter Poucher; path with wall R. Stay on renowned Kirkstile Inn is diagonally R, downhill, to near follow Sizergh Castle signs) climb the varied summits higher path, tending L to close by in Loweswater Start corner of fences. Through Maps OS Explorer OL7; of Fellbarrow and you’ll climb hillside. Pass through village Landranger 97 Public toilets 1The gate at NW corner of kissing gate, go R down get some idea of what he old fenceline and continue None on route car park leads to footpath through trees to track. Go hard loved about it. on path which zig-zags up Public transport signposted Helsington Church. L, and L again at Kistwells. At NT footpath sign on telegraph edge of coombe, later crossing None to start Cross field under power lines: Heather Bank House follow pole, pointing R. Rough track Start flank of Sourfoot Fell. Pass Maps OS Explorer OL4, through gate follow path ahead signs through driveway: leads downhill then curves L to 1Head south on road, through gate and continue Landranger 89 along field edge. Go L across beyond gate go R, looking for gate at field corner. Head ¯ entering Thackthwaite. Pass (view of Crummock Water ¯ GRADIENT PROFILE GRADIENT PROFILE 600 600 400 400 es es r r t t e e 200 200 m m 0 0 km 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 km 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 ¡ NORTH WEST NORTH WEST NORTH CUMBRIA MARCH 2019 CUMBRIA MARCH 2019 16 FELLBARROW 15 SIZERGH & BRIGSTEER PARK OS Explorer map OL4 Buy maps at: ordnancesurvey.co.uk/shop OS Explorer map OL7 Buy maps at: ordnancesurvey.co.uk/shop ahead). Path continues over DON’T MISS... Watching Crag and between a series of rocky knolls. The east end Climb steeply and cross painting in stile to reach summit of St John’s: by Low Fell. Marion Saumarez, it dates from 1919 and 2 1¾ miles/3km reflects post-War 3Continue on from Low Fell 4 peace, borrowing to unnamed pike ahead for the view outside best view over Crummock 5 WALKED DATE to depict mountain, WALKED DATE Water and Loweswater. Then river, sea and 2 START retrace steps back to Low Fell kneeling angels. summit and back to gateway ©CROWN COPYRIGHT 2019 ORDNANCE SURVEY. MEDIA 001/19 ORDNANCE SURVEY. 2019 COPYRIGHT ©CROWN 1 MEDIA 001/19 ORDNANCE SURVEY. 2019 COPYRIGHT ©CROWN 3 in fenceline on Sourfoot Fell. Go through gate and turn downhill diagonally across L off outbound path. Path field, past footpath sign on contours round to join ridgeline telegraph pole, to small gate by fence on Smithy Fell. with NT footpath sign. Across Continue with fence, farmyard and over road, NT START descending then climbing TIME TAKEN sign points L, following track 1 TIME TAKEN sharply to summit of through field towards woods. Fellbarrow. Cross stile to Ignore 1st gate into woods: the trig point. follow wood edge and take second gate into Brigsteer Park 4 3 miles/5.3km Wood near edge of Lyth Valley. Re-cross stile and turn L, 4 3 descending far side of hill 1¾ miles/3.6km (beside fence) to hause 3Follow path along bottom between Fellbarrow and of hill through mixed, coppiced Hatteringill Fell. Turn R woodland for 500m to reach following new wall-line L Simm Well spring, which can YOUR RATING YOUR YOUR RATING YOUR (path not marked on OS map). run dry in summer. Beyond, Path eventually veers R away fork L, uphill: R at next track, from fence and descends to then L at kissing gate to lane. small stream. 2½ miles/4km 4 miles/6.5km kissing-gate, L. Go through 4Go R along lane for 450m, settlement – following NT and continue downhill, VIEW THE WALK ON VIEW THE WALK ON © Country Walking March 2019 March Walking © Country 5Cross the stream and 2019 March Walking © Country past Lane End Farm, then L signs. Follow field edge to gate retracing outbound steps. OS MAPS ONLINE: OS MAPS ONLINE: continue on far side. Continue lfto.com/cwroutes into field at NT signs before and NT sign L, then diagonally lfto.com/cwroutes over a crossing track. Go Pass through kissing-gates wood. Follow faint path uphill, down across field to wood through earthworks to reach and down green lane to IN ASSOCIATION WITH ahead, parallel with wood edge. corner. Ignore all paths R: path IN ASSOCIATION WITH second track (your outbound re-emerge through cottage Beyond woods go R through L through gate leads along route) and turn L. Follow the access onto road. Turn gate, then L into next field – field edge to castle car park. path downhill to return to the L to return to start. with remains of a Bronze Age Wild Play Trail is on R. ¡.