Are you after a crowd-avoiding fell walk far from the honeypots? Bampton Fell from Burnbanks is a great short walk in a quiet part of the Lake District, giving superb views over Haweswater, and across the Lowther Valley to the distant North Pennines.
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NY5086416124 From the car park take the road up between the houses, to the right of the telephone box. Beyond the last house you'll come to a gate. Go through this and turn right, following the path up to the fell gate that leads out onto the open hillside. Go through the fell gate and follow the track to the left, keeping the woods to your left. You'll soon see Haweswater down on your left too. Keep going, westwards, to a gate through a deer fence below Four Stones Hill. Go through this, and walk to a very large tree stump on the right, by a ruined drystone wall.
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NY4892415648 Leave the main track here and follow a narrow path diagonally uphill. This turned through wet meadows to reach a deer fence. Go through the gate and turn left, following a path to the footbridge over Measand Beck.
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NY4825215731 Follow the track to the north-east, then walk up a gully to an other track that cuts across the top of the hill. Turn right and follow the track to a sheepfold beneath a mound with a cairn on its top. Grassy slopes to the east lead up to the top of Bampton Fell where superb views over Haweswater can be had, while the North Pennines fill the view to the east.
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NY4869016526 Follow the ridge north-eastwards to another cairn, then down to the south-east to three distinct knolls in a north-south line. Climb to the top of the middle one, known as Pinnacle Howe.
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NY4974416610 Heading south-east over grassland will lead you beneath the knoll of Burn Banks, where the old transmitter mast is marked on the OS map, but doesn't exist any more. Below this a path leads back to the fell gate at Burnbanks village.
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Difficulty: EasyDistance: 4.19 miles (6.75 km)
Total ascent: 273m
Time: 2 – 3 hours (Walking)
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Start/Finish:Burnbanks village, on the road to Haweswater from Bampton. There is a layby on the way into Burnbanks, just before the telephone box, NY507161
Nearest town:
Penrith
Terrain:
A good track to start, with a lot of off-path walking to finish. The terrain can be boggy, and is rough in places.
Seasonal variations:
Bracken can be a problem in the height of summer.
Weather and Hill Conditions: mwis: Lake District – Met Office: Lake District
Public transport:
There is no public transport to the start of this walk.
Guidebooks:
Complete Lakeland Fells by Bill Birkett
Maps:
OS Explorer OL5 (1:25,000), Harvey/BMC Lake District (1:40,000), OS Landranger 90 (1:50,000) Directory Listings:
Find more Listings near this route Tourist info:
Pooley Bridge (017684 86530); Ullswater (017684 82414); Rheged (01768 860 034)
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