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| St. Mary's Church at the start of the walk, a donation towards the upkeep of the church is requested for use of the car park |
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| A short path to the left of the old schoolhouse leads onto a narrow lane |
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| Looking over towards the valley of Moor Gill flanked by Seaness and Parsonage Breast |
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| Kirkbank at the top of the lane |
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| A walled lane passes behind Kirkbank |
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| Leave the lane for a bridleway on Fell Brow which leads up to a gate |
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| Looking over towards Parsonage Breast from the bridleway |
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| The gate gives access to the open fellside |
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| The valley of Moor Gill |
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| Looking back across the Whicham Valley |
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| Townhead Knotts at the head of the valley, the slope below them is the steepest part of the walk |
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| Looking back across the steep slopes of Seaness |
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| At the top of steep section of the bridleway below Townhead Knotts |
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| Looking back along the bridleway, the summit of Seaness, which provides a fine viewpoint, on the right |
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| The South Top of Black Combe comes into view where the gradient of the bridleway eases as it crosses the head of Moor Gill |
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| Walkers descending the bridleway to Moor Gill |
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| The bridleway begins to rise more steeply on the approach to a long rising traverse across the south western slopes of the South Top |
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| Looking down Townhead Gill |
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| The rising traverse over the south western slope of the South Top |
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| Looking back along the bridleway |
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| At the end of the rising traverse the bridleway turns to cross over the South Top's western ridge from where the summit of Black Combe will come into view |
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| The summit of Black Combe from the bridleway |
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| The bridleway avoids the summit of Black Combe, leave it where it begins to level off for a path which turns due east and climbs directly to the summit |
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| Approaching the summit of Black Combe |
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| The cairn/windshelter on the summit of Black Combe |
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| The trig column sited in the middle of the windshelter |
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| Looking north east from the summit of Black Combe |
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| Barrow-in-Furness and Walney Island from the summit of Black Combe |
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| The Furness Peninsula and the Duddon Estuary from the summit of Black Combe |
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| The Coniston Fells over White Combe and Stoupdale Head from the summit of Black Combe |
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| We vary the return by visiting the South Top, heading due south to the col between it and the summit, passing to the left of the shallow tarn |
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| The tarn on the col from the short climb to the South Top |
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| The summit of Black Combe from the South Top |
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| The viewpoint cairn on the South Top |
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| Millom , Barrow-in Furness and Walney Island from the viewpoint cairn on the South Top |
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| From the South Top we descend its gentle western slope to rejoin the bridleway |
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| As the bridleway turns to descend into the valley of Moor Gill we divert on to a path towards Seaness |
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| The viewpoint cairn on the summit of Seaness |
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| The South Top from the summit of Seaness |
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| A clear path leads down from Seaness to rejoin the bridleway back to Whicham |
