| Date ... | Saturday, 8 August 2009 |
| Distance ... | 6.50 miles |
| Ascent ... | 1400 feet |
| Time ... | 3 hours 50 mins |
| Weather ... | 19ºc, light winds, cloudy with some sunny spells and dry |
| Summits ... | No summits climbed |
| Start ... | Elterwater village - National Trust - pay + display car park (NY327047) |
| Maps ... | Ordnance Survey - Outdoor Leisure Nº6 (1:25,000) or Landranger Nº89 (1:50,000) |
| Books ... | Pictorial Guide Nº 4 - The Southern Fells by Alfred Wainwright (ISBN 9780711224575) |
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Sheena had aggravated an old back injury earlier in the week, so our walk ended up as a really lovely low level walk around Elterwater, as it didn't have any steep up's or down's. I'd been promising Sheena a walk around the Little Langdale valley ever since I'd first walked through in January this year, when I climbed Lingmoor Fell. It's another one of the gems of the Lake District, plenty of people drive through the valley as they head over Wrynose Pass. But with the lack of any real parking areas and no access to the tarn not many seem to stop. The main aim of the walk was to pay a visit to the amazing Cathedral Cave, which is located close to Slaters Bridge in Little Langdale. I'd not been for many years so I just hoped that I could remember the way, as its signposted. It was well worth the slight detour, the cave is truly spectacular, it wasn't until I got home and looked at the photo's that I realised how stunning the colours in the rocks were. Sadly though we never saw any sign of the goldfish that are reputed to live in the pool inside the cave, we did spot a couple of small fish while we were there. From the cave we headed over to High Park farm where we joined the Cumbria Way which we followed all the way back to Elterwater. As we expected this section of the walk was really busy, but we managed to find a nice quiet spot down by the river for our lunch stop.
The bridge over Great Langdale Beck in Elterwater
Looking back at the village as we headed along the Cumbria Way towards Chapel Stile
Great Langdale Beck and Loughrigg Fell from the footbridge across the river at Chapel Stile
Lingmoor Fell from Holy Trinity church in Chapel Stile
The Wainwrights Inn in Chapel Stile, we were a bit too early for a pint!
Zooming in on when of the many quarries on Lingmoor Fell
The Langdale Pikes seen as we climbed up towards Elterwater Quarry
The path through this working quarry is well sign posted, just need to watch out for the wagons!
Stormy skies over Lingmoor Fell, it looked like it was going to pour down at times, luckily it stayed dry
The Langdale Pikes from Elterwater Quarry
The path through Sawreys Wood as we headed over the slopes of Lingmoor Fell towards Little Langdale
On the other side of Lingmoor Fell there were some great views of Wetherlam
Wet Side Edge leading to the summit of Great Carrs, we walked this route on a cold April day
Looking across the fields of Little Langdale towards Black Fell, where we walked with the OFC a couple of weeks ago
The lovely Little Langdale valley
Sheena and Tim crossing Slaters Bridge
Slaters Bridge with Lingmoor Fell behind
Looking back down the entrance tunnel into Cathedral Cave
The amazing view of the inside of Cathedral Cave
The view from the other side of the cave
This photo should give you an idea of the size of the cave
Sheena and Tim investigating the small quarry at the back of the cave
Heading back down from the cave to rejoin the track towards High Park farm
Little Langdale village with Lingmoor behind
Bowfell from Stang End
Little Langdale and Bowfell
High Park farm, where we joined the Cumbria Way
On the way to Skelwith Bridge we passed the lovely Colwith Force
Fairfield from Elterwater Park
A view of the Langdale Pikes from our lunch stop
The Langdale Pikes and Elterwater
Elterwater village and Blea Rigg as we walked back towards the car park
The route map from our walk. Click here to download the GPX file for this walk
Height profile of the walk
I hope that you have enjoyed looking at the photograph's from this walk? If you have any questions or comments regarding them or the walk in general, please either by leaving me a message below, or send me an email, and I will get back to you asap. Thanks Gary ...
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Our last walk were two short walks in Teesdale
Our next walk was at Stonethwaite in Borrowdale
Other Lake District walks 2009 walks journalOther times that we have walked from Elterwater village ...
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Friday, 9 January 2009 An ascent of Lingmoor Fell from Elterwater village 8.25 miles and 2120 feet of ascent lingmoor fell walk details |
All of the photograph's from this walk were taken using a Sony A700 camera + Sony DT 18-70 mm lens © www.mywainwrights.co.uk
(This page was last updated on 20 December 2009)
