View into the Langdale valley from Elterwater Common.
View into the Langdale valley from Elterwater Common.
The next village .....Chapel Stile and Holy Trinity Church.Rebuilt in 1857 in the Gothic style...visited by William Wordsworth. The flanks of Silver How behind.
Wainrights Inn...formerly the Langdale Hotel....now owned by the Langdale Timeshare partnership....spent quite a few happy hours here.
Langdale Pikes.
Barn used for sheltering stock....snow covered Crinkles behind.
Millbeck Farm
Panorama from Side Pike on the left, Pike of Blisco, Great Knot, Crinkle Crags, and Dungeon Ghyll.
New Dungeon Ghyll....looking up Stickle and Dungeon Ghyll
The Band
Old Dungeon Ghyll...and the National Trust car park.
Footpath behind the Old Dungeon Ghyll Hotel leading into Mickleden
Middle Fell Farm
Pike of Blisco and the lower slopes of the Band.
Mickleden Beck and the snow topped cleft of Rossett Gill....the first serious test for walkers heading towards Scafell and Sty Head.
....looking back.
Crinkle Crags
Sign to Stool End and the Band
Stool End Farm
...a change from grass.
Farmers into heavy metal now.
The real world intrudes into this idyllic setting.
Meanwhile on the farm.....residents old....
.....and new.... soaking up the morning sun.
Oxendale.....through the farm and into Oxendale, or turn right and up the Band to Three Tarns....and on.
Mickleden and Pike of Stickle
Pike of Stickle
Famous scree slopes....I surfed down here years ago before I knew better. Neolithic man...they are still around...discovered an outcrop of Greenstone Volcanic Tuff and made stone Axe-Heads from it. One was discovered here in 1947...I found one a bit later. An industry sprang up, thousands were made and used to trade all over Britain and into Europe. A survey estimated that 30%of Neolithic axes found in Britain were from here. There are samples in local, and the British Museum.
...a closer look.
A more moody view of the Pikes from Elterwater