Wild Boar Fell

Far from the Madding Crowd (The Lakes in the school holidays), in between the Howgill Fells and the Yorkshire Dales National Park you will find Wild Boar Fell. A quiet area, even in the holiday season and a fell that we can see from home. Two good reasons to head that way today.

 

 

 

We parked at The Thrang and followed the track up towards Deep Gill farm (the track you can see over the road), before cutting across the fields to the left to pass below Hazel Gill farm, under the track of the Settle Carlisle railway and start the climb up onto the Nab. That's the pointy bit at the top of this picture.

Like a scene from the wild west, horses appear on the skyline. That's right where we are heading and we don't have any bows and arrows. Don't panic, it was only a group of girls out for a hack.

Heading for The Nab, Breeze has a cool down. It was perfect fell walking weather

Oops, having managed to extricate herself from a rather thick bit of bog, she then refused to get back in any other water for a while.

Stunning views from The Nab, the Lake District Fells in the distance

Me and My Dad. If you look really closely, you will see a track on the other side of the valley which appears to almost pass through husbands head, from one ear to the other. That's our return route (and it isn't really in his head).

The Standards on Wild Boar Fell. Legend has it that these were originally built to give the impression of soldiers so that any would be attackers thought that there was a big army on the hill

Husband gives a bit of scale to the largest of the seven (plus a new one just starting) standards

From Wild Boar we head to Swarth Fell. You can't tell from here, but the top of Swarth Fell is a mile long

From Swarth Fell, we dropped down to the road and then up the other side of the valley to join the High Way, a track that precedes the road and was at one time frequented by Lady Anne Clifford of nearby Pendragon Castle. On the way we pass this sculpture. 'Water Cut', one of the 10 Eden Benchmark sculptures. I was just about to take a lovely photo of it, with a cracking view beyond as we approached when a woman with two dogs appeared and sat down on it. I grumpily put the camera away, and instead took this crap shot looking back at it after we had passed. The same woman is walking down behind us. In her defence, she had parked next to us and returned to her car shortly after us. She was very friendly,.

A really lovely walk with hardly anyone else about. 10.5 miles and one very tired dog.