Paths and Trails
Barkbooth Lot Nature Reserve Featured
www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.ukBarkbooth Lot is situated near the head of the Winster Valley and includes rough fell land, oak woodland and meadow. The reserve has been extended recently, doubling its size and staff have worked to repair walls and fences and add gates. Livestock a ...
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Clints Quarry Nature Reserve Featured
www.cumbriawildlifetrust.orgClints Quarry, a dramatic looking nature reserve with vertical cliff faces up to 20 metres high, was created when the area was quarried for limestone. The limestone was used for agriculture, building and the local steel industry but quarrying ended in 193 ...
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Dorothy Farrer’s Spring Wood Featured
www.cumbriawildlifetrust.Dorothy Farrer’s Spring Wood is made up of three separate areas of woodland: High Wood, Dorothy Farrer’s Spring Wood and Beddard’s Wood. All three areas have been managed as coppice woodland in the past with timber from the coppicing used for bobbins, s ...
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Dufton Ghyll Wood Featured
www.woodlandtrust.org.ukDufton Ghyll is a 25 acre area of semi natural ancient woodland near Appleby, managed by the Woodland Trust. The wood was designated as being ‘rich in geology’ due to exposures of St Bees sandstone. Mill Beck which flows through the wood is home to salmon ...
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Elterwater Riverside Walk Featured
www.lakedistrict.gov.ukMembers of Nurture Lakeland are working with the National Park and the National Trust to help save one of the Lake District’s most loved paths. The bridleway alongside Great Langdale Beck at Elterwater is a popular and scenic walk in the Langdale valle ...
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Fix the Fells Featured
www.fixthefells.co.ukFix the Fells is a £5 million scheme to repair erosion scars which have developed over the years, and to make sure that these scars are prevented in the future. The Lake District fells are enjoyed by millions of walkers every year but the high level p ...
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Friar’s Crag path Featured
www.nationaltrust.org.ukFriar’s Crag is Keswick’s beautiful lakeshore path and one of the best loved, most walked upon routes in England. Derwentwater is famed as the setting for many of the novels of Beatrix Potter, including Squirrel Nutkin. As a result many fans are inspired ...
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Great Knott Wood Featured
www.woodlandtrust.org.ukGreat Knott Wood is an ancient woodland, covering 34 hectares, on the south west shore of Lake Windermere. It has one of the highest densities of woodland cover anywhere in northern England, with oak, sycamore ash, alder, birch, beech and larch! In spring ...
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Miles Without Stiles Featured
www.lakedistrict.gov.ukThe Lake District has over 3000km of public paths, but only a fraction of this length is accessible to all. Those with more limited mobility find it harder to use paths that have an awkward surface, a steep gradient or stiles to get over. 'Miles Witho ...
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Our Man At The Top Featured
www.fixthefells.co.ukThe National Trust has four teams of upland path workers, working on fell paths throughout the Central, Eastern, Northern and Western lakes. Over a number of years the teams have evolved into an experienced and highly skilled workforce. To build a sustain ...
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Penruddock Path Featured
www.lakedistrict.gov.ukA new public footpath is being created linking Penruddock village with a housing development at Station Road near Motherby. This new path will provide a safe, off-road alternative for children from Station Road to get to school in Penruddock rather than w ...
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Staveley Riverside Walk Featured
www.lakedistrict.gov.ukThis project is part of the National Park’s Miles Without Stiles Scheme to improve access for people with limited mobility by upgrading rights of way. This includes people in wheelchairs, parents with pushchairs and visually impaired people. The project ...
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Whitehead Coppice Cycleway Featured
The Lake District National Park is creating a cycleway through Whitehead Coppice near Keswick. Currently a permitted footpath runs through whitehead Coppice. The Lake District National Park is going to improve surfaces and gateways to make this footpat ...
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