46 walks in The Eastern Fells area of The Lake District
Forty-six easy-to-follow, hand-crafted walks including routes from Aira Force, Ambleside, Brothers Water, Dockray, Glenridding, Grasmere, Kentmere, Patterdale & Thirlmere that climb Helvellyn (the highest point), St Sunday Crag, Great Rigg, Fairfield, Raise, Watson's Dodd, Catstye Cam & High Rigg amongst many others. More details about each walk can be found below the map.
The Eastern Fells area of The Lake District National Park is enclosed by:
- Threlkeld and Pooley Bridge to the North
- Grasmere and Thirlmere to the West
- Ambleside to the South
- The Kirkstone Pass and Ullswater to the East
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Forty-six easy-to-follow, circular, walk route maps in The Eastern Fells area of The Lake District in Walk Grade Order
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 7.5 miles (12 km) |
| Ascent: | 2,519 ft (768 m) |
| Time: | 5.25 hrs |
| Grade: |  |
Route Summary:
Ambleside - Snarker Pike - Red Screes - Scandale Pass - High Sweden Bridge - Ambleside
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 8.75 miles (14 km) |
| Ascent: | 3,296 ft (1,005 m) |
| Time: | 6½ hrs |
| Grade: |  |
Route Summary:
The Swirls Car Park Thirlmere - Browncove Crags - Lower Man (Helvellyn) - Helvellyn - White Side - Raise (Helvellyn) - Sticks Pass - Sticks Gill - Stanah Gill - Legburthwaite - Thirlmere - Thirlspot - The Swirls Car Park Thirlmere.
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 10.5 miles (17 km) |
| Ascent: | 3,575 ft (1,090 m) |
| Time: | 7½ hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
The Swirls Car Park Thirlmere - Browncove Crags - Lower Man (Helvellyn) - Helvellyn - White Side - Raise (Helvellyn) - Sticks Pass - Stybarrow Dodd - Watson's Dodd - Great Dodd - Legburthwaite - Thirlmere - Thirlspot - The Swirls Car Park Thirlmere.
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 6.5 miles (10.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 643 ft (196 m) |
| Time: | 3 hrs |
| Grade: |  |
Route Summary:
Patterdale - Noran Bank Farm - Greenbank Farm - Lane Head - Deepdale Bridge - Low Wood - Cow Bridge - Brothers Water - Hartsop Hall - Sykeside - Brothers Water - Hartsop - Eden Beck - Hartsop Fold - Angletarn Beck - Beckstones - Crookabeck - Dubhow - Rooking - Patterdale
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 8.75 miles (14 km) |
| Ascent: | 2,129 ft (649 m) |
| Time: | 5½ hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Red Moss Nr Dockray - Matterdale Common - Wolf Crags - Bruts Moss - Randerside - Great Dodd - Watson's Dodd - Stybarrow Dodd - Green Side (White Stones) - Hart Side - Dowthwaitehead - Red Moss.
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 13.75 miles (22 km) |
| Ascent: | 5,501 ft (1,676 m) |
| Time: | 10½ hrs |
| Grade: |  |
Route Summary:
Cow Bridge Car Park - Brothers Water - Hartsop - Hartsop Dodd - Caudale Moor - Stony Cove Pike (Caudale Moor) - Caudale Head - Pike How - St Raven's Edge - The Kirkstone Pass - Red Screes - Smallthwaite Band - Middle Dodd - Scandale Pass - Little Hart Crag - High Hartsop Dodd - Little Hart Crag - Scandale Head - Dove Crag - Hart Crag - Blake Brow - Hartsop Above How - Hoggill Brow - Gale Crag - Bleaberry Knott - Cockley How - Cow Bridge
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 3 miles (5 km) |
| Ascent: | 1,145 ft (349 m) |
| Time: | 2½ hrs |
| Grade: | |
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 8.25 miles (13 km) |
| Ascent: | 2,011 ft (613 m) |
| Time: | 5 hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Red Moss Nr Dockray - Barbary Rigg - Matterdale Common - Mariel Bridge - White Pike (Clough Head) - Clough Head - Calfhow Pike - Little Dodd (St John's Common) - Great Dodd - Randerside - Bruts Moss - Wolf Crags - Red Moss.
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 6 miles (9.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 1,814 ft (553 m) |
| Time: | 4 hrs |
| Grade: |  |
Route Summary:
Glenridding - Glenridding Dodd - Sheffield Pike - Nick Head - Lucy's Tongue - Glenridding Beck - Glenridding
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 10 miles (16 km) |
| Ascent: | 3,979 ft (1,213 m) |
| Time: | 7½ hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Patterdale - Grisedale Bridge - Ruthwaite Lodge - The Tongue - Dollywaggon Pike - Seat Sandal - Grisedale Tarn - Deepdale Hause - St Sunday Crag - Birks - Patterdale
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 9.75 miles (15.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 3,551 ft (1,082 m) |
| Time: | 7.25 hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Ambleside - Snarker Pike - Red Screes - Scandale Pass - Little Hart Crag - Dove Crag - High Pike (Scandale) - Low Pike (Scandale) - High Sweden Bridge - Ambleside
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 13 miles (21 km) |
| Ascent: | 4,359 ft (1,329 m) |
| Time: | 9.25 hrs |
| Grade: |  |
Route Summary:
Glenridding - Glenridding Dodd - Sheffield Pike - Green Side - Stybarrow Dodd - Sticks Pass - Raise (Helvellyn) - White Side - Lower Man (Helvellyn) - Helvellyn - Nethermost Pike - High Crag (Helvellyn) - Dollywaggon Pike - Grisdale Tarn - Grisedale Beck - Brownend Plantation - Lanty's Tarn - Keldas - Glenridding
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 7.25 miles (11.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 1,752 ft (534 m) |
| Time: | 4½ hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Aira Force National Trust Car Park (nr Glenridding) - Aira Force - Riddings Beck - Waterfalls - High Force - Dockray - Aira Beck - Matterdale Common - Dowthwaitehead - Brown Hills - Swineside Knott - Glencoyne Park - Aira Force Car Park.
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 7 miles (11 km) |
| Ascent: | 1,299 ft (396 m) |
| Time: | 3.75 hrs |
| Grade: |  |
Route Summary:
Glenridding - Glenridding Pier - Ullswater Steamer - Howtown Pier - Geordie's Crag - Halinhag Wood - Sandwick - Long Crag (Ullswater) - Silver Point - Ullswater - Blowick - Rooking - Side Farm - Patterdale
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 3.75 miles (6 km) |
| Ascent: | 1,571 ft (479 m) |
| Time: | 3 hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Patterdale - Arnison Crag - Glenamara Park - Birks - Thornhow End - Grisedale Bridge - Patterdale
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 8.5 miles (13.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 3,278 ft (999 m) |
| Time: | 6½ hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Glenridding - Birkhouse Moor - Hole-in-the-Wall - Red Tarn (Helvellyn) - Bleaberry Crag - Low Spying How - High Spying How - Striding Edge (High Spying How) - Helvellyn - Swirral Edge - Catstye Cam - Hole-in-the-Wall - Brownend Plantation - Grisedale Beck - Lanty's Tarn - Keldas - Glenridding
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 7 miles (11 km) |
| Ascent: | 2,661 ft (811 m) |
| Time: | 5.25 hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Grasmere - River Rothay - Grasmere (A591) - Stone Arthur - Great Rigg - Rydal Fell (Heron Pike North Top) - Heron Pike - Butter Crag - Alcock Tarn - Brackenfell - Dove Cottage - Grasmere (A591) - Grasmere
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 10 miles (16 km) |
| Ascent: | 3,382 ft (1,031 m) |
| Time: | 7 hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Glenridding - Birkhouse Moor - Hole-in-the-Wall - Red Tarn (Helvellyn) - Bleaberry Crag - Low Spying How - High Spying How - Striding Edge (High Spying How) - Helvellyn - Nethermost Pike - High Crag (Helvellyn) - Dollywaggon Pike - Grisdale Tarn - Ruthwaite Lodge - Grisedale Beck - Brownend Plantation - Lanty's Tarn - Keldas - Glenridding
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 10.75 miles (17 km) |
| Ascent: | 3,449 ft (1,051 m) |
| Time: | 7.25 hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Glenridding - Birkhouse Moor - Hole-in-the-Wall - Red Tarn (Helvellyn) - Catstye Cam - Swirral Edge - Helvellyn - Lower Man (Helvellyn) - White Side - Raise (Helvellyn) - Sticks Pass - Lucy's Tongue - Glenridding Beck - Glenridding
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 12.5 miles (20 km) |
| Ascent: | 3,411 ft (1,040 m) |
| Time: | 8 hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Ambleside - Rydal - Nab Scar - Heron Pike - Rydal Fell (Heron Pike North Top) - Great Rigg - Fairfield - Rydal Head - Hart Crag - Dove Crag - Little Hart Crag - Scandale Pass - Red Screes - Snarker Pike - Ambleside
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 9.75 miles (15.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 3,516 ft (1,072 m) |
| Time: | 7 hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Patterdale - Arnison Crag - Birks - St Sunday Crag - Deepdale Hause - Cofa Pike - Fairfield - Rydal Head - Hart Crag - Blake Brow - Hartsop Above How - Hoggill Brow - Gale Crag - Bleaberry Knott - Cockley How - Bridgend - Patterdale
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 7 miles (11 km) |
| Ascent: | 1,273 ft (388 m) |
| Time: | 3.75 hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Patterdale - Glenamara Park - Braesteads Farm - Elmhow Farm - Grisedale Bridge - Grisedale Beck - Ruthwaite Lodge (Bothy) - Grisedale Beck - Nethermostcove Beck - Grisedale Bridge - Patterdale
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 11.25 miles (18 km) |
| Ascent: | 2,680 ft (817 m) |
| Time: | 6.75 hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Red Moss Nr Dockray - Barbary Rigg - Matterdale Common - Mariel Bridge - White Pike (Clough Head) - Clough Head - Calfhow Pike - Little Dodd (St John's Common) - Great Dodd - Watson's Dodd - Stybarrow Dodd - Green Side (White Stones) - Hart Side - Dowthwaitehead - Red Moss.
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 11 miles (17.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 3,633 ft (1,107 m) |
| Time: | 7.75 hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Ambleside - Rydal - Nab Scar - Heron Pike - Rydal Fell (Heron Pike North Top) - Great Rigg - Fairfield - Rydal Head - Hart Crag - Dove Crag - High Pike (Scandale) - Low Pike (Scandale) - High Sweden Bridge - High Sweden Coppice - Ambleside
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 10 miles (16 km) |
| Ascent: | 492 ft (150 m) |
| Time: | 4 hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
The Swirls Car Park - Thirlmere - Dalehead Hall - Thirlspot - Valve Houses - Beech Grove - Armboth - Hause Point - Dobgill Bridge - Wythburn - Stockhow Bridge - Wyth Burn - Helvellyn Screes - Highpark Wood - The Swirls Car Park - Thirlmere
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 13.25 miles (21 km) |
| Ascent: | 5,189 ft (1,581 m) |
| Time: | 10 hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Patterdale - Grisedale Bridge - Grisedale Beck - Brownend Plantation - Hole-in-the-Wall - Birkhouse Moor - Hole-in-the-Wall - Red Tarn (Helvellyn) - Bleaberry Crag - Low Spying How - High Spying How - Striding Edge (High Spying How) - Helvellyn - Nethermost Pike - High Crag (Helvellyn) - Dollywaggon Pike - Seat Sandal - Grisedale Tarn - St Sunday Crag - Birks - Arnison Crag - Patterdale
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 7.5 miles (12 km) |
| Ascent: | 3,116 ft (950 m) |
| Time: | 6 hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Grasmere - Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk - Mill Bridge - Little Tongue - Seat Sandal - Grisedale Tarn - Fairfield - Rydal Head - Great Rigg - Stone Arthur - Grasmere
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 11.5 miles (18.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 4,582 ft (1,396 m) |
| Time: | 8.75 hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Patterdale - Grisedale Bridge - Grisedale Beck - Brownends Plantation - Hole-in-the-Wall - Birkhouse Moor - Hole-in-the-Wall - Red Tarn (Helvellyn) - Bleaberry Crag - Low Spying How - High Spying How - Striding Edge (High Spying How) - Helvellyn - Nethermost Pike - High Crag (Helvellyn) - Dollywaggon Pike - Grisedale Tarn - Deepdale Hause - St Sunday Crag - Birks - Patterdale
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 11.5 miles (18.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 4,418 ft (1,346 m) |
| Time: | 8½ hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Glenridding - Glenridding Dodd - Sheffield Pike - Nick Head - Glencoyne Head - Hart Side - Green Side (White Stones) - Stybarrow Dodd - Sticks Pass - Raise (Helvellyn) - White Side - Lower Man (Helvellyn) - Helvellyn - Swirral Edge - Catstye Cam - Red Tarn Beck - Glenridding Beck - Glenridding Youth Hostel - Glenridding
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 9.75 miles (15.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 3,699 ft (1,127 m) |
| Time: | 7.25 hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Cow Bridge Car Park - Brothers Water - Hartsop Hall - Kirkstone Beck - Caiston Beck - Middle Dodd - Red Screes - Scandale Pass - Little Hart Crag - Dove Crag - Hart Crag - Blake Brow - Hartsop Above How - Hoggill Brow - Gale Crag - Bleaberry Knott - Cockley How - Cow Bridge
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 12.25 miles (19.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 3,254 ft (992 m) |
| Time: | 7½ hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Brownrigg Farm - Great Mell Fell - Greenrow Great Barn - Lowthwaite - Little Mell Fell - The Hause - Underwood - Cove Park Campsite - Watermillock - Priest's Crag - Great Meldrum - Gowbarrow Fell (Airy Crag) - Norman Crag - Ulcat Row - Matterdale End - Brownrigg Farm
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 7 miles (11 km) |
| Ascent: | 2,373 ft (723 m) |
| Time: | 5 hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Cow Bridge - Brothers Water - Hartsop Hall - Kirkstone Beck - Caiston Beck - Middle Dodd - Red Screes - Scandale Pass - Caiston Beck - Brothers Water.
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 3 miles (5 km) |
| Ascent: | 922 ft (281 m) |
| Time: | 2 hrs |
| Grade: | |
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 7.75 miles (12.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 2,800 ft (853 m) |
| Time: | 5.75 hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Cow Bridge Car Park - Brothers Water - Hartsop Hall - Kirkstone Beck - High Hartsop Dodd - Little Hart Crag - Dove Crag - Hart Crag - Blake Brow - Hartsop Above How - Hoggill Brow - Gale Crag - Bleaberry Knott - Cockley How - Cow Bridge
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 7 miles (11 km) |
| Ascent: | 2,737 ft (834 m) |
| Time: | 5.25 hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Cow Bridge - Brothers Water - Hartsop Hall - Kirkstone Beck - Caiston Beck - Middle Dodd - Red Screes - Scandale Pass - Little Hart Crag - High Hartsop Dodd - Caiston Beck - Cow Bridge - Brothers Water.
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 4.5 miles (7 km) |
| Ascent: | 1,204 ft (367 m) |
| Time: | 3 hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Aira Force National Trust Car Park (nr Glenridding) - Aira Force - Riddings Beck - Waterfalls - High Force - Gowbarrow Fell (Airy Crag) - Gowbarrow Park - Green Hill (Gowbarrow Fell) - Aira Force Car Park.
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 9.5 miles (15 km) |
| Ascent: | 3,682 ft (1,122 m) |
| Time: | 7.25 hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Grasmere - Mill Bridge - Little Tongue - Seat Sandal - Grisedale Tarn - Fairfield - Rydal Head - Great Rigg - Rydal Fell (Heron Pike North Top) - Heron Pike - Alcock Tarn - Grasmere
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 1.5 miles (2.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 705 ft (215 m) |
| Time: | 1½ hrs |
| Grade: |  |
Route Summary:
Cove Park Campsite - Watermillock - Mellfell House - Little Mell Fell - The Hause - Cove Campsite - Watermillock.
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 12.25 miles (19.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 3,984 ft (1,214 m) |
| Time: | 8½ hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Ambleside - Rydal - Nab Scar - Heron Pike - Rydal Fell (Heron Pike North Top) - Greenhead Gill Head - Stone Arthur - Great Rigg - Fairfield - Rydal Head - Hart Crag - Dove Crag - High Pike (Scandale) - Low Pike (Scandale) - High Sweden Bridge - High Sweden Coppice - Ambleside
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 10 miles (16 km) |
| Ascent: | 4,020 ft (1,225 m) |
| Time: | 8 hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Glenridding - Glenridding Dodd - Sheffield Pike - Nick Head - Sticks Pass - Raise (Helvellyn) - White Side - Lower Man (Helvellyn) - Helvellyn - Swirral Edge - Catstye Cam - Glenridding Beck - Glenridding Youth Hostel - Glenridding
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 5 miles (8 km) |
| Ascent: | 1,769 ft (539 m) |
| Time: | 3.75 hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Ambleside - Stockghyll Force - Wansfell Pike - Baystones (Wansfell) - Wansfell Pike - Stockghyll Force - Ambleside
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 8 miles (12.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 2,990 ft (911 m) |
| Time: | 6 hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Patterdale - Patterdale Church - Grisedale Bridge - Grisedale Beck - Brownend Plantation - Lanty's Tarn - Hole-in-the-Wall - Red Tarn (Helvellyn) - Bleaberry Crag - Low Spying How - High Spying How - Striding Edge (High Spying How) - Helvellyn - Swirral Edge (optional) - Hole-in-the-Wall - Grisedale Beck - Patterdale
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 1.5 miles (2.5 km) |
| Ascent: | 351 ft (107 m) |
| Time: | 1 hrs |
| Grade: |  |
Route Summary:
Pooley Bridge - Dunmallet Woods - Dunmallard Hill (Dunmallet) - River Eamont - Pooley Bridge
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 5 miles (8 km) |
| Ascent: | 2,649 ft (807 m) |
| Time: | 4½ hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
The Swirls - Helvellyn Gill - Browncove Crags - Lower Man (Helvellyn) - Helvellyn - Lower Man (Helvellyn) - Browncove Crags - Helvellyn Gill - The Swirls
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 11.25 miles (18 km) |
| Ascent: | 3,965 ft (1,208 m) |
| Time: | 8.25 hrs |
| Grade: | |
Route Summary:
Legburthwaite Car Park - A591 - Long Band - Cowrake Head - Moss Crag - High Rigg - Carlisle Diocese Youth Centre - St John's In The Vale Church - B5322 - Wanthwaite Bank - Threlkeld Knotts - Buck Castles - Clough Head - Calfhow Pike - Great Dodd - Watson's Dodd - Stybarrow Dodd - Sticks Pass - Legburthwaite Car Park
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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 3.25 miles (5 km) |
| Ascent: | 1,428 ft (435 m) |
| Time: | 2½ hrs |
| Grade: | |
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