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4 7 to the car park. 800m to return 4 miles 4 café). Turn left for 5 through a series of falls. Keep on the left bank and pass through a gap in a wall as the beck disappears behind a bluff. The path wriggles down through the wood at High Lodore and bends left to meet the road by High Lodore Farm (with 5 6 m/ k 8 5 5 tumbles 3 4 4 beck gathers speed as it Grange Grange gate after 100m. The path ahead enters a shallow the where valley wooded Watendlath Watendlath 3 2 3 3 Brund Fell Brund Fell 2 2 1 King’s How King’s King’s How King’s View south from near King’s How, looking south into into south looking How, near King’s south from View beyond. Gable and Great with 2 Don’t cross the bridge but turn left into the woods Mossmire (named Coppice) and pass small a through Don’t cross thebridge but turn left into the woods Mossmire (named Coppice) and pass small a through 1 1

A path A 1 0 Start Start 0 200 800 600 400 1400 1200 1000 1400 1200 1000 MILES SEA Take Take continues east, Woodland Woodland NY275163NY275163 NY268181NY268181 NY264162 LEVEL ABOVE ABOVE METRESMETRES KILOMETRES 3 55 44 GRADIENT GRADIENT PROFILE PROFILE appears on the left as you approach a substantial footbridge over the beck, where a triangular direction stone marker is set in the path. the obvious the path signed the on west side of the bridge. Initially, runsthis alongside Watendlath Beck bends soon but left alongside a wall, then bends right adjacent to the wall and continues north, via gates, for almost 2km with beck babbling the on your right. appears on the left as you approach a substantial footbridge over the beck, where a triangular direction stone marker is set in the path. west side of the bridge. Initially, runsthis alongside Watendlath Beck bends soon but left alongside a wall, then bends right adjacent to the wall and continues north, via gates, for almost 2km with beck babbling the on your right. after 700m descend to meet a rough track with forestry behind. Goleft, through a gate, to reach northern of the shore Cross Watendlath Tarn. packhorsethe bridge if you wish to potter around picturesquethe farming hamlet with tearoom toilets. and obvious the path signed the on the wonderfully named Joppletyhow Moss, and on a low crag soon afterwards. Continue to cross a wall with ladder stile, turn left to climb onto a grassy plateau and continue a short distance to the top of Brund Fell, the highest point of Grange Fell. Chunky provide good outcrops scrambling practice. across an area of moorland burn, to a wall with a ladder stile. Walk with now east-south-east, wall on the far left, over the wonderfully named Joppletyhow Moss, and after 700m descend to meet a rough track with forestry behind. Goleft, through a gate, to reach northern of the shore Cross Watendlath Tarn. packhorsethe bridge if you wish to potter around picturesquethe farming hamlet with tearoom toilets. and ●● ●●● ●●● ● ● Leave the the Leave Turn left G G GG● Car ) 8km (5 miles) Rocky tops and OS Explorer top by following a from car park for NY258166 NY255176 4 hours ROUTE STATS ROUTE 2 1

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Start/fi nish Start/fi Distance Total ascent 610m Time park Grange, near on east side of B5289 ( Terrain moorlandopen with some boggy ground Maps OL4, (1:25,000) OS Landranger 90 (1:50,000) A small fell that delivers stunning views over the green folds of Borrowdale. of folds green views the over delivers stunning that fell A small Strenuousness Navigation Technicality path that drops south- east. Fork left on a faint path through bracken and veer towards a fence with small stile (there are several path options here.) Turn south-east over the open fell, and boggy, sometimes pass a ruined building on the left, with holly trees 200m and take driveway/ bridleway on right, with hotel on left. Pass between houses, go through gate and join grass track leading south-west into little- known Troutdale with steep woodland on either side. A path, paved in places, rises through trees, on the right bank of the stream, as the valley narrows. Out of sight, a waterfall tumbles in the trees on the left. Cross a stile and fork left on a narrow steepening path with bracken, through some steps. At the top of the steps the path keeps open through ahead scatterings and glades rock beforeof swinging right to pass an isolated landmark yew tree. Keep on the path, rocky in places, to climb onto a crown of heather at King’s How, the lower of the twin tops on Grangebumpy Fell. ne viewsThere are fi Derwentover Water, beyond. with ©CROWN COPYRIGHT 2019 ORDNANCE SURVEY. MEDIA 001/19 MEDIA SURVEY. ORDNANCE 2019 COPYRIGHT ©CROWN

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