Start point: Blengdale (NY 085 053)

Blengdale – Ponsonby Fell (405) (OF) – Stone Pike (406) – Swainson Knott (407) – Blengdale

Distance: 7.3 miles     Total Ascent: 382 metres     Time Taken: 2 hours 15 minutes

Weather: Generally clear with sunny intervals. 15°C.

Today’s walk was from Blengdale on the very western edge of the Lake District at Gosforth up to Ponsonby Fell, a Wainwright Outlying fell and later we had another short walk to Cold Fell from Coldfell Gate. Wainwright said of Ponsonby Fell ‘There are no fells not worth climbing, but Ponsonby Fell is very nearly in this category…’. Personally I think he must have gone up there on a bad day because there are some good views with an interesting perspective of the Scafells. See what you think…

Ponsonby Fell route map.

The river Bleng.

Ponsonby Fell from Blengdale Forest.

The view from Ponsonby Fell.

An interesting perspective of the cleft of Mickledore between Scafell and Scafell Pike from Ponsonby Fell.

Looking across to Stone Pike and Swainson Knott.

Lank Rigg from the col between Ponsonby Fell and Swainson Knott.

The high fells from the summit of Stone Pike, which is enclosed by a wall.

Cold Fell from Stone Pike.

Angus on the summit of Swainson Knott.

Gosforth Cross standing in the churchyard at Gosforth. It is 14 feet high and thought to date from the 7th century.