Tuesday 10^th February 2009

Start Point 1 : Finsthwaite (below High Dam Car Prk) (SD 369 882)

Distance : 4.2 miles Height Ascended : 230 metres

Route Map 1

Stott Park Bobbin Mill – this mill operated as a bobbin manufactory from 1835 until 1971.

It was purchased by English Heritage and opened as a museun in 1985, the museum features working machinery

and exhibits which relate to the story of the manufacture of wooden bobbins used in the Lancashire cotton industry.

It was in commercial operation when I visited it as a schoolboy in 1969!!

Hetty alert to the sound of running water…………

Low Dam…………………………

……………………and High Dam both still heavily frozen

High Dam

Martha attempting to get her feet wet

Looking across to Gummer's How and Staveley Fell from Finsthwaite Heights

Looking north from the environs of Finsthwaite Heights - all the distant higher fells still covered with a mantle of snow

Looking down on High Dam

The Coniston Fells from one of the many tops within Finsthwaite Heights

Again looking north to the ‘Fairfields’, Red Screes and High Street

Boretree Tarn

Finsthwaite Heights - a delightfully secluded little spot when away from High and Low Dams

Boretree Tarn

Gummer's How across the fields of Finsthwaite

Start Point 2 : Staveley-in-Cartmel (SD 380 862)

Distance : 3.0 miles Height Ascended : 250 metres

Looking over Newby Bridge towards a distant Black Combe

Martha and Hetty hit the trail

The Coniston Fells over Windermere from just below the summit of Staveley Fell

Gummer's How

Staveley Fell northerly panoramic view

Staveley Fell provides one of the better vantage points to view the foot of Windermere…………………………..

……………………………even though route-finding is not particularly easy

The cairn on the highest summit, looking north to Gummer's How

Lakeside, Finsthwaite Heights and the Coniston Fells