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Cawdale Circuit

Walked on 27/09/2007

Start point: Moorahill Farm (NY 494 182)

Moorahill Farm – Low Kop (516) – High Kop – Red Crag (517) – Wether Hill – Loadpot Hill – Hart Hill – The Pen – Moorahill Farm

Distance: 8.5 miles     Total Ascent: 513 metres     Time Taken: 3 hours

Weather: Cloudy with drizzle. 7oC.

It was up into the clouds this morning with accompanying drizzle and a biting wind. There were no views of anything today (so not many photos) but the going was easy and I managed to complete this one in super quick time. I’m not sure there would be a lot going for this walk in good weather as the area is quite bleak, although the views from High Street Roman Road are usually pretty good.

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Cawdale looking a bit dull in early morning light with Low Kop and High Kop up on the ridge. The clouds look ominously low on Wether Hill at the head of the valley.

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Crossing Cawdale Beck on the old stone footbridge. Annoyingly, the bridge is not on the footpath so I had to follow the beck to find it. I was quickly into the murk and drizzle climbing The Hause up to Low Kop. Low Kop was totally unremarkable and I could not find any sort of marker although I wandered around in the mist for a while. I always took 'Kop' to be of South African derivation, being the word for a hill in Afrikaan (and used at many football stadiums as a name for the home terraces). Could Low Kop and High Kop be named by soldiers returning from The Boer War at the turn of the 20th century?

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The summit of Red Crag was also unmarked so Casper will have to do instead. Oddly there is a large cairn to the north of the highest point.

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Crossing a gap in the wall following the old Roman Road.

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The remains of Lowther House, an old hunting lodge, on the climb to Loadpot Hill. These ruins seem to reduce in size every time you pass.

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The trig. column on Loadpot Hill.

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The briefest glimpse of sunshine descending The Pen.

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Back to the start, cold and wet. Cawdale and Cawdale Beck.

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