Start point: High Dam car park (SD 369 882)
Finsthwaite Heights (OF) and High Dam
Distance: 2 miles Total Ascent: 150 metres Time Taken: 1 hour
Weather: Dull and raining. 7°C
Another low level walk today due to the inclement weather up to Finsthwaite Heights and High Dam from Finsthwaite. Although man made to provide water power for the nearby bobbin mills (1835), the dams still manage to look beautiful and were described by Wainwright as ‘a much nicer place than the over populated Tarn Hows’.
Oddly, in the Wainwright Outlying fell chapter ‘Finsthwaite Heights’, he makes no mention of reaching the actual highest point and the chapter is just a walk around the area, so today I made the small detour to reach the top.
Following the outflow of the dams.
Upward and onward.
In a whirl through the woods.
Angus on the raised mound which marks the 'summit' of Finsthwaite Heights.
Finsthwaite Heights.
High Dam from Finsthwaite Heights.
...and a glimpse of Windermere, looking north to Belle Isle.
Looking across to Gummer's How.
Low Dam outlet.
Low Dam.
Swimming in the rain.
Dog on a mission - on the wall of High Dam.
High Dam.
Finsthwaite Church.