Gentle Walks in the Wasdale valley

There are lots of books available offering information on walks within the Wasdale valley and I don't intend to try and be as comprehensive as those, but below you will find a few short taster walks which may well whet your appetite to go further afield or higher up.

Please feel free to print these out and use them but do remember that for all these walks you should have a 1:25,000 OS map of the South Western Lake District

Walk One: Fogmire and the Church

Grade: Easy

Approx time: 1 Hour

This walk can be started at either the Barn Door Shop or from the Green at Wasdale Head, and can be easily shortened if need be.

From the Green or the shop head back down the road towards the lake, after only a short way you will pass over down in the dale bridge taking you over Mosedale Beck. Once on the other side you will see a kissing gate on your right hand side, take this and follow the track alongside the beck heading back towards the Wasdale Head Inn.

Once you arrive opposite the pub, cross over the old packhorse bridge and resume your walk on the other side of the beck walking away from the pub now. The path now starts to climb gently and just before it becomes very steep you take a path which branches off to the right. This path will take you over a series of "Troll" bridges, bringing you out eventually at Burnthwaite Farm.

Head through the farm via a five bar gate and walk back along the gravel road towards the church and the Green, or back via the path in front of the church to the pub. Oh and don't forget to smile for the Webcam as you approach the church!

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Walk 2: Lingmell shoulder and Brown Tongue

Grade: Moderate with some uphill walking. Boots required

Approx Time: 1 or 2 hours

Start from either the Green or the shop at Wasdale Head and head back along the road towards the lake. After only a short while you will pass a small bricked up building on your left hand side ( the old School ) and just after this you take the stile on your left and go across the field until you cross a beck via a wooden foot bridge.

Once across the bridge you head to your right and diagonally up the flanks of Lingmell Fell, the path is steep to start with and then levels out and head down until you join another path heading back down to the valley floor. This path is the Brown Tongue route and would if you continued it would take you up towards Scafell Pike. However head away from the Pike and back down towards the valley, following the beck until you reach the National Trust campsite. Go through the camp site and follow the path which will take you over the beck and back to the Green in dry weather, or continue along the right hand side of the beck if the water is high and return via the wooden foot bridge you crossed earlier.