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Whitbarrow Scar

Walked on 16/12/2004

Start point: Mill Side (NY 449 841)

Mill Side – Whitbarrow Scar – Lord’s Seat (OF) – Bell Rake – Witherslack Hall – Beck Head – Mill Side

Weather: Sunny intervals, cold wind.

Today’s walk follows Wainwright’s Whitbarrow chapter in his book ‘The Outlying Fells of Lakeland’, page 36. Whitbarrow is an abrupt ridge of limestone, being one bank of an ancient sea inlet, the other bank being Scout Scar running parallel to it. The valley in between these two scars is the Lyth Valley.

“The walk described is the most beautiful in this book; beautiful it is every step of the way.” – AW, The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.

Whitbarrow Scar

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Whitbarrow Scar from Mill Side.

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The River Kent meandering into the estuary.

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Looking along Whitbarrow Scar to Lord's Seat.

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It gets very windy on this exposed ridge!

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The continuous limestone escarpment which runs along the ridge.

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Lord's Seat summit cairn, the summit of Whitbarrow Scar.

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Gummer's How and Birch Fell from Lord's Seat.

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Witherslack Hall, now a school.

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Chapel Head Scar.

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The final delight of the route is the remarkable resurgence at the base of a low cliff by the roadside that gives Beck Head its name." - AW

Whitbarrow Scar Elevation

Whitbarrow Scar 3D

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