Bannisdale Horseshoe

The Bannisdale Horseshoe is an upland area in Cumbria, England, near the eastern boundary of the Lake District National Park, surrounding the valley of Bannisdale Beck, a tributary of the River Mint. It is described in the final chapter of Wainwright's book The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.^[1]

Cairn on Whiteside Pike

Wainwright's clockwise walk visits Whiteside Pike at 1,302 feet (397 m), Todd Fell at 1,313 feet (400 m), Capplebarrow at 1,683 feet (513 m), a nameless summit at 1,819 feet (554 m) (identified in the Database of British and Irish Hills (DoBIH) as Swinklebank Crag),^[2] a further nameless summit at 1,771 feet (540 m) (identified in DoBIH as Ancrow Brow North),^[2] Long Crag at 1,602 feet (488 m), White Howe at 1,737 feet (529 m), a further nameless summit at 1,736 feet (529 m) (identified in DoBIH as The Forest^[2]) and Lamb Pasture at 1,205 feet (367 m). Wainwright describes Whiteside Pike as "a dark pyramid of heather and bracken and outcrops of rock: much the most attractive part of the horseshoe and worth a visit even if one goes no further."

References

1. Wainwright, A. (1974). "The Bannisdale Horseshoe". The Outlying Fells of Lakeland. Kendal: Westmorland Gazette. pp. 260–269.
2. "Database of British and Irish Hills". Retrieved 17 May 2012.

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