Walk c114 High Street from Mardale Head

Vital Statistics:

Length:	14½mls (23km)
Ascent:	3,364ft (1,025m)
Time:	8½hrs
Grade:

Route outline for walk c114:

Mardale Head (Haweswater Reservoir)  -  Small Water  -  Nan Bield Pass  -  Mardale Ill Bell  -  High Street  -  Straits of Riggindale  -  The Knott  -  Rampsgill Head  -  Kidsty Pike  -  High Raise (Mardale)  -  Raven Howe  -  Red Crag  -  Keasgill Head  -  Wether Hill (South Top)  -  Wether Hill  -  Bampton Common  -  Low Kop  -  Measand Beck  -  Haweswater Reservoir  -  Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk  -  Bowderthwaite Bridge  -  The Rigg  -  Mardale Head

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Peaks, Summits and Tops reached on this walk:

3 English Mountains

7 Wainwrights

5 English Nuttalls

0 English Deweys

0 Wainwright Outlying Fells

1 Marilyn

1 Bridget

Peak Bagging Statistics for this walk:

The highest point of this walk is High Street at 828m (2717ft). High Street is classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt) (32nd highest in England, 61st highest in England & Wales) and a Wainwright (No. 25).

High Street is also known as an English Nuttall (38th highest in England, 70th highest in England & Wales) and an English Marilyn (11th highest in England, 345th highest in the UK).

The summit of High Street is marked by an Ordnance Survey Trig Point.

Completing this walk will also take you to the top of High Raise (Mardale) at 804m (2636ft). High Raise (Mardale) is classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt) (39th highest in England, 73rd highest in England & Wales) and a Wainwright (No. 31).

High Raise (Mardale) is also known as an English Nuttall (46th highest in England, 88th highest in England & Wales).

You will also reach the summit of Rampsgill Head at 792m (2600ft). Rampsgill Head is classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt) (46th highest in England, 84th highest in England & Wales) and a Wainwright (No. 39).

Rampsgill Head is also known as an English Nuttall (55th highest in England, 103rd highest in England & Wales).

Along the way you will also bag and tick-off:

• Kidsty Pike at 780m (2560ft). Kidsty Pike is classified as a Wainwright (No. 46) and an English Nuttall (64th highest in England, 115th highest in England & Wales)

• Mardale Ill Bell at 760m (2494ft). Mardale Ill Bell is classified as a Wainwright (No. 59)

• The Knott at 739m (2425ft). The Knott is classified as a Wainwright (No. 66)

• Wether Hill (South Top) at 674m (2212ft). Wether Hill (South Top) is known as an English Nuttall (162nd highest in England, 275th highest in England & Wales).

• Wether Hill at 670m (2199ft). Wether Hill is classified as a Wainwright (No. 103)

• Low Kop at 572m (1877ft). Low Kop is known as an English Bridget.

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National Trails & Long Paths included on this walk:

Part of this walk follows a section of Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk, a 306km (190 miles) linear footpath connecting St Bees in Cumbria, England with Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire, England. Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk is waymarked by the occasional sign. For more walks that include a section of this trail see Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk.

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Some Photos and Pictures from Walk c114 High Street from Mardale Head

In no particular order . . .

Yoke, Ill Bell and Kentmere Reservoir from Nan Bield Pass

Photo: Phillip Houlton (18)

*Hayeswater with the Fairfield and Helvellyn Ridges beyond from High Street

Photo: Andy Malcolm (25)

Small Water and Haweswater from near Mardale Ill Bell summit

Photo: Andy Malcolm (23)

Rest Dodd (far left), The Nab (left), The Ramps Gill Valley, Wether Hill, Wether Hill (South Top) Keasgill Head, Red Crag, Raven Howe and High Raise (Mardale) (right) from Rampsgill Head

Photo: Andy Malcolm (235)

Blea Water from High Street

Photo: William Ringwood (49)

Me on the summit of High Street in the snow

Photo: Tim Hope (89)

The Rigg and Haweswater Reservoir from the lower slopes of Branstree (Artlecrag Pike)

Photo: Peter Marsh (2)

Yoke, Ill Bell and Froswick from High Street

Photo: Phillip Houlton (14)

On Wether Hill (South Top)

Photo: Mark Gardner (1)

Mardale Head and Haweswater Reservoir from Rowantreethwaite Beck

Photo: Andy Malcolm (238)

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