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Brock Barrow

Walked on 16/04/2012

Start point: High Nibthwaite (SD 294 897)

Brock Barrow (OF) from High Nibthwaite

Distance: 1.5 miles     Total Ascent: 175 metres     Time Taken: 1 hour 15 minutes     Start Time: 12:00

Weather: Overcast. 8oC

Connie is still off school so we went for a walk to Brock Barrow above High Nibthwaite. Around the fringes of the southern Lake District it was really sunny but further in it was a little overcast.

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A busy lunchtime in High Nibthwaite.

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Climbing above the rooftops looking towards beacon Fell.

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The steep scramble to the top.

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Hands on action looking along the Crake Valley.

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The Coniston fells.

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A breather at the top of Brock Barrow for Connie, Casper and Dougal. Incidentally, that cairn was built by A H Griffin, he said 'It was the first and only summit cairn I have ever built'.

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As for the view from here, Griffin wrote: '...a magnificent viewpoint for the length of the lake and the mountains behind...'

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Looking across Allan Tarn and Nibthwaite to Black Combe across the Blawith fells.

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We are all enjoying the views today.

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Wetherlam beyond the second summit.

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Sheep spotters gather at the end of the (rock) platform.

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You look that way and I'll look this. Back down at the foot of Coniston Water...

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Dougal walks on water whilst Casper sinks (or swims).

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Caught in a trap.

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The sentinel Gormley statue guards Beacon Fell.

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Bouthrey Bridge has recently re-opened after being completely destroyed in the 2009 floods.

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This was the last bridge in Cumbria to be reconstructed after the devastation, hopefully it will never see that level of water again but at least it is wider and looks more substantial now.

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The St John's Ambulance first aid box on the wall at Water Yeat. This was completely renovated a few years ago and I believe it was the first such box anywhere in the country.

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