Grange Fell 8km/5 miles 4 hours A small fell that delivers stunning views over the green folds of Borrowdale. NY255176 Turn left on a low crag soon The heather, View south from near King’s How, looking south into 1 afterwards. Continue to from car park for Borrowdale with Glaramara and Great Gable beyond. birch and 200m and take driveway/ cross a wall with ladder juniper is bridleway on right, with stile, turn left to climb recovering hotel on left. Pass onto a grassy plateau and between houses, go continue a short distance well on Grange through gate and join to the top of Brund Fell, Fell since grass track leading the highest point of the National south-west into little- Grange Fell. Chunky known Troutdale with outcrops provide good Trust tenant steep woodland on either scrambling practice. farmer agreed side. A path, paved in with Natural places, rises through NY264162 A path trees, on the right bank of 3 continues east, England to the stream, as the valley across an area of reduce grazing narrows. Out of sight, a moorland burn, to a wall waterfall tumbles in the with a ladder stile. Walk on this part ROGER BUTLER trees on the left. Cross a east-south-east, now with of the fell. stile and fork left on a wall on the far left, over narrow steepening path the wonderfully named Don’t cross the bridge but gate after 100m. The path through a series of falls. through bracken, with Joppletyhow Moss, and turn left into the woods ahead enters a shallow Keep on the left bank some steps. At the top of after 700m descend to (named Mossmire wooded valley where the and pass through a gap the steps the path keeps meet a rough track with Coppice) and pass beck gathers speed as it in a wall as the beck ahead through open forestry behind. Go left, through a small tumbles disappears behind a glades and scatterings through a gate, to reach bluff. The path wriggles of rock before swinging the northern shore of down through the wood at right to pass an isolated Watendlath Tarn. Cross High Lodore and bends landmark yew tree. Keep the packhorse bridge if left to meet the road by EASY WALK on the path, rocky in you wish to potter around High Lodore Farm (with places, to climb onto the picturesque farming 5 café). Turn left for a crown of heather at hamlet with tearoom 800m to return King’s How, the lower and toilets. to the car park. of the twin tops on bumpy Grange Fell. NY275163 There are fi ne views 4 Take over Derwent Water, the obvious with Skiddaw beyond. signed path on the NY258166 Leave the west side 2 top by following a of the path that drops south- bridge. 1 east. Fork left on a faint Initially, path through bracken and this runs veer towards a fence alongside with small stile (there Watendlath Beck are several path options but soon bends here.) Turn south-east left alongside a over the open fell, wall, then bends sometimes boggy, and right adjacent to the pass a ruined building on wall and continues the left, with holly trees north, via gates, for almost 2km with the babbling beck 2 ROUTE STATS on your right. Strenuousness G●●●● NY268181 4 5 Woodland Navigation G●●●● 3 Technicality GG●●● appears on the left as you approach a Distance 8km (5 miles) substantial footbridge Total ascent 610m over the beck, where a Time 4 hours triangular stone direction Start/fi nish Car marker is set in the path. park near Grange, on east side of B5289 (NY255176) GRADIENT PROFILE Start King’s How Brund Fell Watendlath Finish Terrain Rocky tops and 1400 open moorland with 1200 some boggy ground METRES 1000 ABOVE 800 Maps OS Explorer SEA 600 LEVEL 400 1 2 3 4 5 (1:25,000) OL4, 200 OS Landranger MILES 0 1 2 3 4 5 (1:50,000) 90 KILOMETRES 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ©CROWN COPYRIGHT 2019 ORDNANCE SURVEY. MEDIA 001/19 COPYRIGHT 2019 ORDNANCE SURVEY. ©CROWN.