Hartside from North Row
Including the Birketts Common fell and Brown hills
A easy end of a moderate walk
Aha for all of you you wainwright finishers there’s another list for you 🙂
Hartside is the only Wainwright
Perhaps the best part of Hart Side is the journey to this little rounded grass and mossy bump of a fell slightly off the beaten track north of Glenridding. On the way the views overlooking Glencoyne Park to Ullswater are understated picturesque, the immediate landscape is rolling and gentle in contrast to the distant rugged fells.
The walk starts at north row where there will be a little bit of road walking, we enter Glencoyne Park, you meander amongst the trees, cross small trickling becks and brush through sometimes deep bracken. After 2.0km (1.2 miles) of gentle ascents the ground gets steeper and the views open out further. Above the valley of Glencoyne the path crosses marshy ground before climbing steeply again alongside a wall to Birkett Fell.
Birkett Fell was named only relatively recently.
From Birkett Fell it is just a short stroll to the summit of Hart Side.
Where there will be lunch then we go back on ourselves for a short distance before walking down into the valley of dowerthwaite crossing over the Aria beck the same one that feeds the water falls, and depending on how wet the ground is we are we can either walk though the field or the single track lane serving the solitary farm. (Guess which bit I wrote)
Grade Medium
Distance 7.29 mils – 11.73km
Accent 1781 feet – 543 m accent
Meet Point North Row above Dockray, car parking is free!
OS Grid Ref: NY 38006 21928
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Meet time 9:45
Start time 10:00
Finish 2:45pm
Matthew Stanton
Please msg the walkleader by 9:00pm on Friday night on number removed if you are coming. If you decide last min on Saturday morning to come msg me I just not might be able to respond as im driving and the mobile signal where the cars park.
Details of the AGM can be found here; AGM Saturday November 4th 2023 – SuMMit Good