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Harper Hills

Height: 419 metres / 1375 feet Grid reference: NY 51043 14450 Category: The Outlying Fells

Harper Hills from Scalebarrow Knott

Harper Hills from Scalebarrow Knott

The reservoir on the Swindale supply line, Harper Hills

The reservoir on the Swindale supply line, Harper Hills

The Naddle Horseshoe

Walked on 29/09/2005

Start point: Swindale (NY 526 157)

Swindale – Scalebarrow Knott (415) (OF) – Harper Hills (416) (OF) – Powley’s Hill (417) – Hare Shaw (418) (OF) – Naddle High Forest (419) – Wallow Crag (420) – Naddle Low Forest (421) – Hugh’s Laithes Pike (OF) – Swindale

Distance: 8.5 miles     Total Ascent: 717 metres     Time Taken: 3 hours 15 minutes

Weather: Mixed – sunny but cold with the odd drizzly shower. 10°C.

I continued with my Wainwright Outlying fell quest today with a walk around the Naddle Valley above Haweswater Dam and the Mardale Valley. Haweswater, of course, is a flooded valley which is used as the Manchester water supply and evidence of the aqueduct and construction paraphernalia abound, even though it was built over 80 years ago.

 

The Naddle Horseshoe

The Naddle Horseshoe route map.

The Naddle Horseshoe - 29th September 002

The approach to Scalebarrow Knott.

The Naddle Horseshoe - 29th September 009

Harper Hills from Scalebarrow Knott.

The Naddle Horseshoe - 29th September 013

The reservoir on the Swindale supply line, Harper Hills.

The Naddle Horseshoe - 29th September 015

High Street, Kidsty Pike and High Raise.

The Naddle Horseshoe - 29th September 020

Angus on the summit of Powley's Hill.

The Naddle Horseshoe - 29th September 022

The view from Hare Shaw.

The Naddle Horseshoe - panorama1

The Mardale Head skyline.

The Naddle Horseshoe - 29th September 031

Naddle High Forest catches the sun.

The Naddle Horseshoe - 29th September 033

The ridge of Naddle Forest from Naddle High Forest.

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Selside Pike and Branstree from Wallow Crag.

The Naddle Horseshoe - 29th September 038

Looking across Haweswater to Measand Beck and Bampton Common.

The Naddle Horseshoe - 29th September 040

Haweswater.

The Naddle Horseshoe - 29th September 044

Angus has a lie down on Naddle Low Forest.

The Naddle Horseshoe - 29th September 045

Hugh's Laithes Pike, looking down to Haweswater Dam.

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Fording Naddle Beck.

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